Rediscovering the Great War

<p>The Great War was a turning point of the twentieth century giving birth to a new modern and industrial approach to warfare that changed the world forever. The remembrance awareness and knowledge of the conflict and most importantly of those who participated and were affected by it altered from country to country and in some cases has been almost entirely forgotten.</p><p></p><p>New research strategies have emerged to help broaden our understanding of the First World War. Multidisciplinary approaches have been applied to material culture and conflict landscapes from archive sources analysis and aerial photography to remote sensing GIS and field research. Working within the context of a material and archival understanding of war this book combines papers from different study fields that present interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches towards researching the First World War and its legacies with particular concentration on the central and eastern European theatres of war.</p>