"This volume presents a series of chapters about the Great War and memory in Central and South-Eastern Europe which will widen the insufficient and spotty representations of the Great War in that region. The contributors deliver an important addition to present-day scholarship on the more or less unknown war in the Balkans and at the Italian fronts. Although it might not completely fill the striking gap in the historical representations of the situation between the Slovene-Italian Soča-Isonzo river in the North-West and the Greek-Macedonian border mountains around Mount Kajmakčalan in the South-East, it will add significantly to the scholarship on the Balkan theatre of war and provide a much-needed account of the suffering of civilians, ideas, loyalties and cultural hegemonies, as well as memories and the post-war memorial landscape. The contributors are Vera Gubac Dodić, Silviu Hariton, Vijoleta Herman Kaurić, Oto Luthar, Olga Manojlović Pintar, Ahmed Pašić, Ignác Romsics, Daniela Schanes, Fabio Todero, Nikolai Vukov and Katharina Wesener"--Provided by publisher
Introduction: Beyond a Western-centric historical interpretation of the Great War / Oto Luthar and Nikolai Vukov -- The man who marched away : WWI in the reflections of Slovenian soldiers / Oto Luthar -- War in Puszta : the Great War and the Hungarian peasantry / Ignac Romsics -- A different war : changing memories of the Serbian theatre of war / Daniela Schanes -- "An ugly black night" : remembering the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Serbia, 1915-1918 / Olga Manojlovic Pintar and Vera Gudac Dodic -- Bosniaks in WWI : loyal, obedient, different / Ahmed Pasic -- Caring for the wounded : Zagreb military hospitals in WWI / Vijoleta Hermna Kauric -- Internment in WWI : the case of Thalerhof / Katharina Wesener -- War and memory : the fascist instrumentalization of the Italian Front / Fabio Todero -- War commemorations in inter-war Romania : cultural politics and social context / Silviu Hariton -- Commemorating the dead and the dynamics of forgetting : post-mortem interpretations of WWI in Bulgaria / Nikolai Vukov
