Article: Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914-1919.(Review)

By Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert (New York: Cambridge, 1997. xvii plus 622pp. $90.00).

In the great metropolitan centers of wartime Europe, few things were more important in the lives of contemporaries than food, heating, housing, health, finances, and employment. Managing the essentials of everyday life under the unprecedented conditions of total war is the concern of this work, the first in a two-volume series on the history of the First World War in London, Paris, and Berlin. By examining the experience of three metropolitan communities at war, the contributors aim to shed light on two historiographical problems: the impact of total war on civilian ...

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