Introduction / Frans Coetzee and Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee -- I. The Construction of Authority. 1. A "Latecomer" In War: The Case of Italy / Giovanna Procacci. 2. The Political Police, War, and Society in Russia, 1914-1917 / Fredric Zuckerman. 3. All Quiet on the Home Front: Popular Entertainments, Censorship and Civilian Morale in Germany, 1914-1918 / Gary Stark. 4. Restoring Moral Order on the Home Front: Compulsory Savings Plans for Young Workers in Germany, 1916-1919 / Eve Rosenhaft -- II. Shaping Identities: Religion, Nationality and Gender. 5. French Catholics: Rumeurs Infames and the Union Sacree, 1914-1918 / James F. McMillan. 6. Nationalism in Wartime: Critiquing the Conventional Wisdom / L.L. Farrar, Jr. 7. Love and Death: War and Gender in Britain, 1914-1918 / Susan Kingsley Kent. 8. Italian Widows of the First World War / Francesca Lagorio. 9. For Fatherland and Jewish People: Jewish Women in Austria During World War I / Marsha L. Rozenblit. III. Representations: Images of the Soldier. 10. Soldiers, Civilians and the Warfare of Attrition: Representations of Combat in France, 1914-1918 / John Horne. 11. Masculinity, Memory, and the French World War I Novel: Henri Barbusse and Roland Dorgeles / Leonard V. Smith. 12. Russian General Staff Training and the Approach of War / John W. Steinberg. 13. Knights of the Sky: The Rise of Military Aviation / John H. Morrow, Jr. 14. Communities in Mourning / J.M. Winter.