Week 3: Experience of War

Tuesday: The Experience of War

Prepare for Class

Read:

• Secondary Sources:
  • Robert T. Foley, “What’s in a Name?: The Development of Strategies of Attrition on the Western Front, 1914-1918,” The Historian 68, no. 4 (2006): 722–46.
• Primary Sources:
  • “A Canadian Soldier at Gallipoli (1915),” Alpha History
  • “Belgium’s Albert I Urges His People to Resist (1914),” Alpha History
  • Memoir of a Western Front soldier (1917)
  • An American report on gas at Ypres (1915)

Thursday: Civilians and War

Prepare for Class

Read:

• Secondary Sources:
  • Isabel V. Hull, “Civilians as the Objects of Military Necessity” in Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005), 226-263. (on Zotero).
• Primary Sources:
  • An eyewitness account of anti-German riots in Liverpool (1915)
  • US memorandum to Germany on the sinking of the Lusitania (1915)
  • Bethmann-Hollweg and German war aims (1914)