A Companion to World War IA Companion to the First World War brings together a team of distinguished historians from 10 countries who contribute 38 substantial and thought provoking chapters. The volume opens with a section on the state of the world before 1914, as it prepared for war without anticipating its true nature, and concludes with an examination of the conflict's military, diplomatic, and cultural legacies. In addition to covering the military history of the war and