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The 394 pages that link to World War I, each with the reason it gives.

• Henri PirenneRelated: German occupation and Pirenne’s imprisonment interrupted his work and shaped his later scholarly experience.

• James M. CainRelated: Cain served in the U.S. Army during the war, an experience that preceded his journalism career.

• James ThurberRelated: Thurber’s wartime work in Washington followed his university years and preceded his journalism career.

• Karl SchwarzschildRelated: Schwarzschild served in the German army when he derived his relativity solution.

• Louis AragonRelated: Military service and the war’s destruction marked the generation that formed Aragon’s early outlook.

• Max BeckmannRelated: Beckmann served as a medical orderly; his wartime experience preceded a decisive change in his art.

• Paul TillichRelated: Serving as a military chaplain, Tillich experienced the war as a rupture in his earlier cultural confidence.

• Pax BritannicaRelated: Its outbreak marks the conventional end of the Pax Britannica.

• Ronald ColmanRelated: His wartime injury interrupted his early life and preceded his turn to acting.

• Taishō eraRelated: Japan’s participation brought diplomatic gains and an economic boom during the era.

• The Decline of the WestRelated: The war intensified the crisis atmosphere in which Spengler’s first volume appeared.

• Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusRelated: Wittgenstein drafted much of the work while serving in the war.

• TrentinoRelated: The war brought fighting to Trentino and ended Habsburg control there.

• Vito VolterraRelated: Wartime disruption of fishing gave Volterra an opportunity to analyze population fluctuations.

• Vittorio GassmanRelated: Gassman’s cowardly, self-preserving Oreste Jacovacci earned him the Volpi Cup for Best Actor.

• William J. DonovanRelated: Donovan’s decorated Army service in France established his military reputation.

• British Armed ForcesRelated: Mass mobilization transformed the size and organization of British forces.

• Charles PonziRelated: Postwar currency fluctuations supplied the exchange-rate premise of Ponzi’s coupon claims.

• Conrad HiltonRelated: Hilton served in the U.S. Army during the war before entering the hotel business.

• Erich MendelsohnRelated: Mendelsohn’s wartime sketches helped crystallize the dynamic forms later realized in buildings.

• Facial tissueRelated: Wartime demand for absorbent medical material helped shape the product’s industrial antecedents.

• First Red ScareRelated: Wartime loyalty campaigns and repression left a recent precedent for treating dissent as a security threat.

• George GroszRelated: Military service and wartime upheaval intensified Grosz’s hostility to nationalism and militarism.

• If—Related: The poem’s ideals of endurance and duty suited the wartime culture in which it gained prominence.

• John Dos PassosRelated: Dos Passos served as an ambulance driver, an experience reflected in his early fiction.

• Martin NiemöllerRelated: Niemöller served as a German submarine officer before entering the ministry.

• Metaphysical paintingRelated: Wartime service and hospitalization brought the movement’s central artists together in Ferrara.

• New StatesmanRelated: The magazine's early years were shaped by fierce debate over the war.

• Osbert SitwellRelated: Sitwell served in the British Army during the war, an experience later recalled in his writing.

• Otto DixRelated: Dix served as a German soldier, and the war became a lasting subject of his art.

• Robert E. SherwoodRelated: Sherwood served in the Canadian Black Watch during the war.

• Roman à clefRelated: Postwar novels often recast the writers' expatriate circles and experiences as fictional worlds.

• Rudolf KjellénRelated: The conflict intensified the strategic concerns surrounding Kjellén’s writing on states and power.

• T. E. HulmeRelated: Hulme enlisted in the British Army and was killed in action in 1917.

• The Carnival of the AnimalsRelated: Saint-Saëns withheld most of the suite from publication until after the war.

• The Man Without QualitiesRelated: The war followed the novel’s 1913 setting and ended the imperial world it portrays.

• Umberto BoccioniRelated: Boccioni volunteered for military service and died after a fall during a cavalry training exercise in 1916.

• A Study of HistoryRelated: Toynbee’s wartime and postwar experience informed his attention to civilizational crisis.

• Alternative civilian serviceRelated: Wartime disputes over objectors helped establish formal alternative-service policies.

• American Friends Service CommitteeRelated: The committee was established in 1917 amid wartime conscription and debates over conscientious objection.

• Brooks AtkinsonRelated: Atkinson served as a correspondent during the war, an early chapter in his journalism career.

• Claude RainsRelated: Rains served in the British Army and suffered a gas attack that permanently affected his voice.

• Duino ElegiesRelated: The war disrupted Rilke’s life and contributed to the long interruption in the elegies’ composition.

• Erich Maria RemarqueRelated: Remarque served in the German army during the war that became the subject of his best-known novel.

• Francis William AstonRelated: Aston’s wartime work interrupted his research before he returned to isotope studies.

• Franz Joseph IRelated: Franz Joseph approved the declaration of war against Serbia in 1914, shortly before his death.

• French Impressionist cinemaRelated: Postwar cultural change shaped the period in which French Impressionist cinema took form.

• Friedrich BergiusRelated: Wartime fuel shortages heightened interest in producing liquid fuels from domestic coal.

• Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaRelated: Lampedusa served in the Italian army, was captured, and escaped during the war.

• Giuseppe UngarettiRelated: Service on the Italian front gave his early poems their setting and mortal urgency.