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

• 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.

• Karl RennerNarrower topic: The war’s end created the political crisis in which Renner helped establish a republic.

• LewisiteNarrower topic: Lewisite was developed near the war’s end but did not reach the battlefield in time.

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

• Richard AldingtonNarrower topic: Aldington served in the British Army, and the war shaped his writing and outlook.

• 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.

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

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

• Alexander WoollcottNarrower topic: Woollcott’s military reporting began during this war and shaped his public career.

• 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.

• Battle of Vimy RidgeNarrower topic: The battle was one episode in the war’s Western Front campaigns.

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

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

• 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.

• Fighter-bomberNarrower topic: Early aircraft attacked ground targets, establishing a role that later fighter-bombers combined with air combat.

• 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.

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

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

• John McCraeNarrower topic: McCrae’s military service and best-known poem emerged from this conflict.

• Kamerun campaignNarrower topic: The outbreak of war turned Kamerun’s colonial borders into military fronts.

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

• Manfred von RichthofenNarrower topic: The conflict created the military setting for Richthofen’s flying career.

• 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.

• Robert Ritter von GreimNarrower topic: Greim’s early combat flying took place in this war.

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