Global War

World War I: The War to End All Wars?

Unprecedented in three aspects: scope, means and impact.

Scope: a truly global war: not just between states, but between empires
WESTERN FRONT, Atlantic Ocean, GALLIPOLI, Palestine

Battlefield and Home Front: “Total War”

Numbers: Those fighting and those who died

Means: technology, tactics and weaponry

Trench Warfare: Mud, shells and gas
U-BOATS
casualties: THE SOMME (1916)

Impact:

Political and Economic (still to come)
Social/Cultural
a literary war: WILFRED OWEN: “DULCE ET DECORUM EST”
Commemoration and Remembrance
UNKNOWN SOLDIER: John Dos Passos
KATHE KOLLWITZ