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

• Military doctrineBroader topic: Its battlefield stalemate drove major revisions in tactics and operational thinking.

• Total warBroader topic: Industrial armies, home-front mobilization, and blockade made it a defining total-war case.

• Historical causationBroader topic: Its outbreak is explained through both the assassination crisis and longer-term rivalries.

• WarBroader topic: Industrialized warfare and alliance escalation made this conflict a defining modern case.

• War poetryBroader topic: Its industrialized trench warfare produced a large body of soldier-poets and anti-heroic verse.

• MilitarismBroader topic: Prewar arms competition and military planning contributed to a crisis that leaders struggled to contain.

• War economyBroader topic: Its prolonged fronts forced states to coordinate industry, labor, and supplies on a new scale.

• Conventional warfareBroader topic: It exposed the severe costs of conventional attacks against modern defenses.

• Franco-Russian AllianceBroader topic: The alliance's strategic logic was tested when war began in 1914.

• Alberto SordiBroader topic: Sordi’s cowardly but humane soldier shows his range beyond farce.

• Mario MonicelliBroader topic: Monicelli turns military comedy into an unsentimental account of sacrifice.

• Military technologyBroader topic: The war accelerated the use of tanks, aircraft, chemical weapons, and modern communications.

• Biological weaponBroader topic: Covert attacks on livestock and animal feed during the war helped prompt international restrictions.

• MultipolarityBroader topic: Its outbreak is often examined for how multipolar rivalry and alliance commitments interacted.

• Aerial warfareBroader topic: Aircraft evolved from reconnaissance platforms into fighters and bombers during the war.

• Long nineteenth centuryBroader topic: Its outbreak marks the period’s conventional close.

• Offensive realismBroader topic: Its alliances and competition provide a case for examining power politics under uncertainty.

• 20th centuryBroader topic: Its devastation helped overturn empires and destabilize the postwar order.

• Causes of World War IBroader topic: It was the conflict produced by the interacting causes and the July Crisis.

• Horses in warfareBroader topic: Horses remained indispensable for transport and supply even as mechanized weapons transformed battlefields.

• Short twentieth centuryBroader topic: Its outbreak marks the opening boundary of Hobsbawm’s period.

• History of EuropeBroader topic: The war collapsed empires and redrew Europe’s political map.

• Human wave attackBroader topic: Trench warfare made mass infantry assaults a recurring, often disastrous effort to break fortified fronts.