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

• History of TogoRelated: British and French forces occupied German Togoland during the war.

• M1911 pistolRelated: The M1911 saw its first large-scale U.S. military use during this war.

• René CassinRelated: Cassin served as a French soldier and was seriously wounded in the conflict.

• Richard von Coudenhove-KalergiRelated: The war’s destruction helped shape his argument that European states needed to unite.

• Romain RollandRelated: The war prompted Rolland’s most prominent essays on nationalism and intellectual responsibility.

• Stanisław Ignacy WitkiewiczRelated: Witkacy served in the Russian army during the war and witnessed revolutionary upheaval.

• The Good Soldier ŠvejkRelated: The novel places Švejk’s military misadventures amid the war’s mobilization and violence.

• Amsterdam Airport SchipholRelated: The Dutch military established Schiphol as an airfield during the war’s final year.

• Anti-nationalismRelated: Its mass mobilization and national rivalries strengthened critiques of nationalism.

• August MackeRelated: Macke was killed in action in September 1914, shortly after the war began.

• B. C. ForbesRelated: Forbes magazine began in 1917, amid wartime economic change and industrial expansion.

• Beat the Whites with the Red WedgeRelated: Its mass-media posters provide a wartime propaganda context distinct from the lithograph’s abstract allegory.

• Cyanogen chlorideRelated: Cyanogen chloride was among the toxic chemicals used during the war.

• E. Phillips OppenheimRelated: The war intensified public interest in espionage, a subject central to his fiction.

• Emily Greene BalchRelated: The war prompted Balch to intensify her opposition to militarism and organize for mediation.

• Franz WerfelRelated: Military service and the war’s upheavals marked Werfel’s early adulthood.

• Gene TunneyRelated: Tunney’s Marine service during the war preceded his professional boxing career.

• Hermann HesseRelated: Hesse’s pacifist public stance during the war brought him hostility and a deepening personal crisis.

• History of AustriaRelated: The war brought down the Habsburg Empire and transformed Austria’s borders.

• Hugh LoftingRelated: Lofting began writing animal tales in letters home while serving in the war.

• Idealism in international relationsRelated: Its devastation strengthened calls for a more cooperative system of international order.

• Jaroslav HašekRelated: Military service and wartime upheaval supplied the setting and subject matter of Švejk.

• Jean GiraudouxRelated: Military service and wartime experience preceded his major success as a playwright.

• Joseph RothRelated: Military service and the empire’s defeat shaped Roth’s later writing about loss and political rupture.

• King C. GilletteRelated: A large military order for razors and blades introduced many American servicemen to Gillette products.

• Koos de la ReyRelated: The Union government’s decision to support Britain in the war fueled De la Rey’s opposition.

• Marcus SamuelRelated: Samuel’s business and political influence belonged to the generation whose oil networks gained strategic importance during the war.

• Max LinderRelated: Military service and wartime disruption interrupted Linder’s film career.

• Roger Martin du GardRelated: The war interrupted his writing and became the historical rupture approached in The Thibaults.

• Troilus and CressidaRelated: The play’s anti-heroic treatment of war gained renewed attention amid modern mass warfare.

• Vera KholodnayaRelated: Wartime upheaval disrupted the film industry during the peak of her career.

• Walter BrennanRelated: Brennan served in the United States Army during the war before pursuing acting.

• Zeno's ConscienceRelated: Wartime disruption separates Zeno from his family and changes the conditions of his business life.

• 1910sRelated: The decade’s defining conflict began in 1914 and altered borders, societies, and politics.

• Albert FaceyRelated: Facey served with Australian forces in the war, an experience recounted in his autobiography.

• Alexander ArchipenkoRelated: The war prompted Archipenko to leave Paris for Switzerland before later settling in the United States.

• Alsace Soviet RepublicRelated: Military defeat and exhaustion hastened the imperial breakdown that made the Strasbourg revolt possible.

• Anti-patriotismRelated: Wartime mobilization made patriotic loyalty a point of intense political dispute.

• António Egas MonizRelated: Moniz served as Portugal’s ambassador to Spain during the war.

• Archibald HillRelated: Hill served in wartime research on ballistics and helped organize scientific work for the British military.

• Caresse CrosbyRelated: The war shaped the generation and transatlantic cultural world in which Crosby later worked.

• Contemporary eraRelated: Some historians mark its aftermath as the start of contemporary history.

• David MaloufRelated: The war and its aftermath shape the lives and historical perspective of Fly Away Peter.

• Edith Anne StoneyRelated: Wartime medical needs shaped Stoney’s radiological service and equipment work.

• Egon KischRelated: Military service and wartime upheaval marked Kisch’s early adulthood.

• Ernest SachsRelated: Wartime neurological injuries accelerated demand for specialized brain and nerve surgery during Sachs’s early career.

• Ernesto Teodoro MonetaRelated: Moneta supported Italy’s intervention, exposing limits in his opposition to war.

• Hiram Wesley EvansRelated: Postwar nativism and social conflict contributed to the climate in which the 1920s Klan expanded.

• History of the petroleum industryRelated: The war demonstrated petroleum’s strategic value to mechanized armies and navies.

• Ida RubinsteinRelated: The war interrupted the European cultural world in which Rubinstein had built her early career.