Introduction: mobilizing for 'total war', 1914-1918 / John Horne -- German artists, writers and intellectuals and the meaning of war, 1914-1918 / Wolfgang J. Mommsen -- Children and the primary schools of France, 1914-1918 / Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau -- War, 'national education' and the Italian primary school, 1915-1918 / Andrea Fava -- Mobilizing labour and socialist militants in Paris during the Great War / Jean-Louis Robert -- Between integration and rejection: the Jewish community in Germany, 1914-1918 / Christhard Hoffmann -- Wackes at war: Alsace-Lorraine and the failure of German national mobilization, 1914-1918 / Alan Kramer -- Discipline and morale in the British army, 1917-1918 / David Englander -- Remobilizing the citizen-soldier through the French army mutinies of 1917 / Leonard V. Smith -- The German army, the authoritarian nation-state and total war / Wilhelm Deist -- Morale and patriotism in the Austro-Hungarian army, 1914-1918 / Mark Cornwall -- Remobilizing for 'total war': France and Britain, 1917-1918 / John Horne -- Mobilization and demobilization in Germany, 1916-1919 / Richard Bessel -- The Italian experience of 'total' mobilization, 1915-1920 / Paul Corner and Giovanna Procacci.