Personal Narratives, Peripheral Theatres: Essays on the Great War (1914–18)

Chapter 1 Leisure and Free Time in the Trenches of Flanders: Américo Olavo’s Account

Chapter 2 Opening the Eyes of Memory: War Painting in Adriano Sousa Lopes and Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso

Chapter 3 Remembering the War, Imagining the Nation: The First World War Memoirs of the “Portuguese Renaissance”

Chapter 4 An Original Example of Exploring the Inner Self Through the Archives of a Diary: André Fontaine, Jean Corentin Carré, The Youngest Hero of the Great War (1900–1915 – 1918)

Chapter 5 Speeches and Letters From Enlisting Children (France, 1914–1918)

Chapter 6 Ambivalence and Opportunism Concerning the Great War in Céline’s Novel Casse - Pipe

Chapter 7 Louis-Ferdinand Destouches’ Medical Writing: An Apologia for Industrial and Social Modernization

Chapter 8 Sharing Grief: Local and Peripheral Dimensions of the Great War in Contemporary French, British and Canadian Literature

Chapter 9 William, an Englishman (1919) and the Collapse of Cicely Hamilton’s Pre-war Meliorism

Chapter 10 Of Body and Mind, of Matter and Spirit: War and Melancholia in Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun (1938 and 1971)

Chapter 11 The Pogrom of Jews During and After World War I: The Destruction of the Jewish Idea of Galicia

Chapter 12 Franz Rosenzweig’s Mitteleuropa as a New Levante

Chapter 13 Indian Nationalists’ Cooperation with Soviet Russia in Central Asia: The Case of M.P.T. Acharya

Chapter 14 The Population Exchange Between Turkey and Greece After the First World War and the Subsequent Problems

Chapter 15 African Queens and Ice-Cream Wars: Fictional and Filmic Versions of the East African Conflict of 1914–18

Chapter 16 “An Impossible Thing”: Danish Neutrality in the First World War, Its Causes and Consequences

Chapter 17 A Bestiary of War: Humanimalities in the Trenches

Chapter 18 The Phrase “The Great War” in British Discourse During World War One