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Expeditionary Forces in the First World War

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Editors:
  1. Alan Beyerchen

    1. Portland, USA

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  2. Emre Sencer

    1. Knox College, Galesburg, USA

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  • Features an unusual range of case studies on the expeditionary experience in World War I, including attention to overlooked German and Ottoman experiences

  • Offers insight on the complexities embedded in the term “expeditionary forces”

  • Appeals to scholars of World War I, war and society, and military history

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Concept and Themes

    • Alan Beyerchen
    Pages 1-26

  3. A Tale of Two Expeditionary Forces: Religion and Race in the Dardanelles and France

    • Richard S. Fogarty
    Pages 27-55

  4. Far from Home? Perceptions and Experiences of First World War Nurses and Their Patients

    • Alison S. Fell
    Pages 57-78

  5. The Enemy Lurking Behind the Front: Controlling Sex in the German Forces Sent to Eastern and Western Europe, 1914–1918

    • Lisa M. Todd
    Pages 79-109

  6. Vietnamese Contingents to the Western Front, 1915–1919

    • Kimloan Vu-Hill
    Pages 111-148

  7. Expeditionary Forces in the Shatterzone: German, British and French Soldiers on the Macedonian Front, 1915–1918

    • Justin Fantauzzo, Robert L. Nelson
    Pages 149-176

  8. An Alliance of Competing Identities: Stereotypes and Hierarchies Among Entente Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front

    • Chris Kempshall
    Pages 177-203

  9. Empire, Oil, and Bavarians: The German Expeditionary Force in the Caucasus, 1918–1919

    • Gavin Wiens
    Pages 205-233

  10. Freikorps in the Baltics: German Expeditionary Forces in Eastern Europe, 1918–1919

    • Victoria Bucholtz
    Pages 235-260

  11. From Galicia to Galilee: The Ottoman and German Expeditionary Experiences in the First World War in Comparison

    • Emre Sencer
    Pages 261-288

  12. “Some Corner of a Foreign Field That Is Forever England”: The Western Front as the British Soldiers’ Sacred Land

    • Natasha Silk
    Pages 289-311

  13. Conclusion

    • Alan Beyerchen, Emre Sencer
    Pages 313-328

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 329-349
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About this book

When war engulfed Europe in 1914, the conflict quickly took on global dimensions. Although fighting erupted in Africa and Asia, the Great War primarily pulled troops from around the world into Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Amid the fighting were large numbers of expeditionary forces—and yet they have remained largely unstudied as a collective phenomenon, along with the term “expeditionary force” itself. 


This collection examines the expeditionary experience through a wide range of case studies. They cover major themes such as the recruitment, transport, and supply of far-flung troops; the cultural and linguistic dissonance, as well as gender relations, navigated by soldiers in foreign lands; the political challenge of providing a rationale to justify their dislocation and sacrifice; and the role of memory and memorialization. Together, these essays open up new avenues for understanding the experiences of soldiers who fought the First World War far from home.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Portland, USA

    Alan Beyerchen

  • Knox College, Galesburg, USA

    Emre Sencer

About the editors

Alan Beyerchen is an emeritus faculty member of the History Department at Ohio State University, USA. He lives in Portland, Oregon.


Emre Sencer is Associate Professor of History at Knox College, USA. He is the author of Order and Insecurity in Germany and Turkey: Military Cultures of the 1930s (2017).


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Expeditionary Forces in the First World War

  • Editors: Alan Beyerchen, Emre Sencer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25030-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25029-4Published: 20 September 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25032-4Published: 20 September 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25030-0Published: 03 September 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 349

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of Military, World History, Global and Transnational History, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Britain and Ireland, US History

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