ABSTRACT

The Great War was a turning point of the twentieth century, giving birth to a new, modern, and industrial approach to warfare that changed the world forever. The remembrance, awareness, and knowledge of the conflict and, most importantly, of those who participated and were affected by it, altered from country to country, and in some cases has been almost entirely forgotten.

New research strategies have emerged to help broaden our understanding of the First World War. Multidisciplinary approaches have been applied to material culture and conflict landscapes, from archive sources analysis and aerial photography to remote sensing, GIS and field research. Working within the context of a material and archival understanding of war, this book combines papers from different study fields that present interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches towards researching the First World War and its legacies, with particular concentration on the central and eastern European theatres of war.

chapter 1|18 pages

The Italian Front on the Soča (Isonzo)

A British officers’ military tour in 1923

chapter 2|16 pages

Aerial photography in the Great War

Development in the Austro-Hungarian airforce

chapter 3|20 pages

Digitising the Great War in 3D

The remains of the Soča Front, Slovenia

chapter 4|14 pages

On the border

Perspectives on memory landscapes between Slovenia and Italy

chapter 5|13 pages

Constructing the Italian border

The First World War in the east of the country

chapter 6|19 pages

Between tourism and oblivion

Rombon and Kolovrat – conflict landscapes on the Soča Front, 1915–2017

chapter 7|13 pages

Fortifying the Carpathians

Austro-Hungarian defences in contemporary eastern Slovakia

chapter 8|18 pages

An archaeology of ‘No Man’s Land’

The Great War in central Poland

chapter 9|12 pages

Archaeologies of memory – archaeologies of oblivion

The Great War in south-eastern Poland

chapter 10|29 pages

First World War exhumations at Zdziary (south-east Poland)

An anthropological perspective on soldiers’ mass graves

chapter 12|15 pages

Immovable cultural heritage of the Soča Front

Legal protection and conservation

chapter 14|12 pages

Heroes and little people

Modern museological approaches in interpreting subjects of war – a perspective from the East