The contributions to this volume focus mainly on the first World War from a gender perspective, discussing the complex relationship between the front and the home front as well as experiences of violence, the visual and literary forms in which the First World War is represented, and the effects of the war on concepts of military and civilian life. The volume is supplemented by the first-hand recollections of a second-World-War US bomber pilot, provided by William D. Erhart, and an essay by Franz Karl Stanzel on the connection between Nemesis and the sinking of battle ships in the second World War.