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

• Arthur HarrisRelated: Harris served as a pilot, gaining early experience in military aviation.

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

• Black HandNarrower topic: The crisis following the assassination escalated into a war that transformed Europe.

• Carrier pigeonRelated: Armies used pigeons to carry battlefield reports when other communications failed.

• Charles I of AustriaNarrower topic: The war defined Charles’s reign and accelerated the empire’s disintegration.

• Ernst Ludwig KirchnerRelated: Kirchner’s military service and wartime crisis preceded a severe psychological and physical breakdown.

• Hiram MaximRelated: The Maxim gun’s design lineage helped define the machine guns that dominated trench warfare.

• In Flanders FieldsNarrower topic: The poem’s speakers are soldiers killed in this war.

• Jean PaulhanRelated: Paulhan served in the French army and was wounded during the war.

• King VidorRelated: Its aftermath provided the historical setting and emotional force for The Big Parade.

• Los Angeles Memorial ColiseumRelated: The Coliseum was dedicated as a memorial to Los Angeles residents who served in the war.

• Max von LaueRelated: The war began in the year Laue received the Nobel Prize and disrupted European scientific life.

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

• Raymond PoincaréNarrower topic: Poincaré’s presidency encompassed France’s wartime mobilization and conduct of the conflict.

• Robert MusilRelated: The war ended the imperial world whose impending collapse dominates Musil’s major novel.

• Theodore von KármánRelated: His early aeronautical work took place amid wartime efforts to improve aircraft performance.

• Wyndham LewisRelated: The war interrupted Vorticism and transformed Lewis’s artistic and political circumstances.

• Abel GanceRelated: The war shaped Gance’s service, losses, and the antiwar vision of J’accuse.

• Armistice DayNarrower topic: Armistice Day commemorates the end of fighting in this war.

• Aster RevolutionRelated: Defeat accelerated the collapse that opened the way for Hungary’s October uprising.

• Battle of KolubaraNarrower topic: Kolubara was an early, consequential campaign on the war's Balkan front.

• ChloropicrinRelated: Chloropicrin was deployed as a chemical irritant during the war.

• Frances MarionRelated: Marion worked as a war correspondent before establishing herself in the American film industry.

• Greek genocideRelated: Wartime mobilization and security fears accompanied the persecution of Ottoman Greeks.

• Grigori RasputinRelated: Wartime losses and shortages intensified opposition to the court, including accusations linked to Rasputin.

• 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 DönitzNarrower topic: Dönitz served as a naval officer and submarine commander in the war.

• 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.

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

• Armoured personnel carrierNarrower topic: Its battlefield conditions exposed the danger of moving infantry across open ground.

• Battle of TangaNarrower topic: The battle began after Britain and Germany became wartime enemies.

• 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.

• Edmund AllenbyNarrower topic: Allenby’s career and command in the Middle East unfolded within this global conflict.

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