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

• SayfoNarrower topic: Ottoman entry into the war intensified insecurity and state violence.

• Soghomon TehlirianNarrower topic: The war created the setting for the Armenian genocide and the collapse of Ottoman rule.

• 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.

• Togoland campaignNarrower topic: The campaign began shortly after war opened between Britain, France, and Germany.

• Trench coatNarrower topic: The coat’s name and military associations stem from the war’s trench fighting.

• Vittorio Emanuele OrlandoNarrower topic: Italy’s war effort and 1917 crisis defined Orlando’s premiership.

• 1920sNarrower topic: Its casualties, debts, and political upheavals shaped the decade’s starting conditions.

• Allies of World War INarrower topic: The coalition’s membership and aims unfolded within this wider conflict.

• 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.

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand of AustriaNarrower topic: The crisis following Franz Ferdinand’s assassination helped begin the war.

• 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.

• B. H. Liddell HartNarrower topic: Liddell Hart served in the war and was wounded at the Battle of the Somme.

• Barbara W. TuchmanNarrower topic: The conflict became the subject of Tuchman’s best-known historical narrative.

• 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.

• Halifax ExplosionNarrower topic: Wartime shipping traffic and munitions transport brought Mont-Blanc to Halifax.

• Harold GilliesNarrower topic: Its weapons produced large numbers of severe facial injuries and drove Gillies’s work.

• 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.

• International Chamber of CommerceNarrower topic: Its disruption of trade helped spur calls for lasting international business cooperation.

• 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.

• Karl RappNarrower topic: Wartime demand for aircraft engines shaped the market in which Rapp built his company.

• 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.

• Lord Kitchener Wants YouNarrower topic: The poster emerged during the war’s early recruitment crisis.

• 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.

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

• Tracer ammunitionNarrower topic: Tracer ammunition emerged during this period to help observe machine-gun fire.

• 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.