Our view of the First World War is dominated by the twin images
of the fronts and the home fronts, yet the war also generated a
third type of front, that of military occupation. Vast areas of
Europe experienced the war under a military regime and this book
deals with the occupations by the German and Austro-Hungarian
empires. Their conquests ranged from Lille in the West to the Don
River in the East, and from Courland in the north to Friuli and
Montenegro in the south. They encompassed capital cities such as
Brussels, Warsaw, Belgrade and Bukarest, as well as areas of
crucial economic importance. Millions of people experienced
military occupation and, even though they were civilians, the war
had a deep impact on their lives. Conversely, occupied territories
influenced the states that had conquered them and the way these
states waged war.
The chapters in this book analyze military occupation in
1914-1918 both from the point of view of the occupied and from the
point of view of the occupier. They study counter-insurgency
warfare, forced labour, food regimes, underground patriotism, and
cultural policies. They demonstrate that military occupation was an
essential dimension of the Great War.
This book was originally published as a special issue of "First
World War Studies.""
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