Capital cities at war: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914-1919

Abstract

Jay Winter, perhaps the most prolific scholarly writer in English working today in the First World War, has, with Jean-Louis Robert and others, produced a dense, complex, and fascinating comparative portrait of three of Europe's capital cities as they each coped with he crisis of war.The book is the third in the Studies in the Social and Cultural History of the Modern Wars series that Winter edits for Cambridge (the others are Winter's own Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History published in 1995, and State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War edited by John Horne and published in 1997).In addition, Winter has written, co-written, or edited five oth-If there is additional discussion of this review, you may access it through the network, at https://networks.h-net.org/h-urban

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