1st Edition
Railways in the First World War, Volume 1
1. Introduction: The First World War and the Railways – A Subject to Be Rediscovered
Andrea Giuntini and Henry Jacolin
Part 1: The Centrality of Railways During World War One
2. Railways in the First World War: Introduction to the Subject
Andrea Giuntini
3. Transnationalism, Railways and World War One
Irene Anastasiadou
Part 2: Before the War
4. On the Way to War: The Role of German Railways in Military Strategic Planning, 1830 to 1914
Ralf Roth
5. Readiness, Planning, and Logistics in Germany’s July Crisis: Preparing for War?
Laurence H.J. Claussen
6 War and Military Mobility in 1914: Russia’s General Mobilisation in Logistical Perspective
Anthony J. Heywood
7. Railway Construction and Planning in Russia: An Imperial Perspective in Peace and War (1900–1917)
Reinhard Nachtigal
Part 3: Railway Networks During the War in Western Europe
8. Britain’s Railway Experts and the Perception of Industrial Warfare: Understanding the Evolution of the Western Front
Christopher Phillips
9. The French Railways During the First World War: An Essay
Henry Jacolin and Marie-Noëlle Polino
10. Between Hammer and Anvil: Railways in the Netherlands, 1914–1918
Augustus J. Veenendaal
11 The Role of Belgian State Railways from August to December 1914
Paul J.G.M.J. Van Heesvelde and Jules Van Olmen
12. Railways and Military Mobilization in Italy (1915–1918)
Stefano Maggi
13. Regulating in Wartime: An Impossible Mission — Railways in Spain (1913–1919)
Miguel Muñoz Rubio and Pedro Pablo Ortúñez-Goicolea
Part 4: Railway Networks During the War in Central and Eastern Europe
14. German and Russian Railway Networks in World War I
Henry Jacolin
15. Eisenbahnfeldzug: Railway War in East Central Europe
Maciej Górny
16. Two Special Operations of the Hungarian State Railways During the Great War
János Majdán
17. Logistics in the Hinterland of War: Railway Transport in Hungary (1914–1915)
Zsuzsa Frisnyák†
18. Beyond the Front: The Ryazan-Uralsk Railway During World War I
Egor Lykov
19. Transportation in World War I: Sirkeci Station
Nevin Coşar and Sevtap Demirci
Biography
Andrea Giuntini teaches Economic History at the Marco Biagi Department of Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy). His publications include La Grande Guerra e le ferrovie in Italia (2017). He is President of the International Railway History Association.
Henry Jacolin has served as a French diplomat throughout the world and was Ambassador in Bosnia-Herzegovina between 1993 and 1995 during the war. His publications include L'ambassadeur et le siège: Sarajevo 1993-95 (2018) and many journal articles about railways in Eastern Europe. He was President of the International Railway History Association from 2008 to 2019.
