This book, the first in a two-volume work resulting from a 2018 conference organized by the International Railway History Association (IRHA), examines the relationship between the railways and the First World War from a global theoretical, methodological and geographical perspective.
This book, the first in a two-volume work resulting from a 2018 conference organized by the International Railway History Association (IRHA), examines the relationship between the railways and the First World War from a global theoretical, methodological and geographical perspective.
Although World War I (1914–1918) has been studied extensively from virtually every angle, the question of the railways has not been the subject of robust historical interest, despite their crucial role in every respect and at every stage. The war forced the railways to adopt more efficient techniques more quickly than they would have done in peacetime, to the extent where military operations would not have been possible without their massive and multifaceted help. This collection of essays brings together specialists in the field from a broad range of disciplines and backgrounds to demonstrate how this topic is integral to understanding the developments of European and world history throughout the 1910s and 1920s.
Railways in the First World War will be a useful tool for students, scholars and non-specialist readers interested in the history of transport, the history of the First World War and World history.
1. Introduction: The First World War and the Railways A Subject to Be
Rediscovered Part 1: The Centrality of Railways During World War One
2.
Railways in the First World War: Introduction to the Subject
3.
Transnationalism, Railways and World War One Part 2: Before the War
4. On the
Way to War: The Role of German Railways in Military Strategic Planning, 1830
to 1914
5. Readiness, Planning, and Logistics in Germanys July Crisis:
Preparing for War? 6 War and Military Mobility in 1914: Russias General
Mobilisation in Logistical Perspective
7. Railway Construction and Planning
in Russia: An Imperial Perspective in Peace and War (19001917) Part 3:
Railway Networks During the War in Western Europe
8. Britains Railway
Experts and the Perception of Industrial Warfare: Understanding the Evolution
of the Western Front
9. The French Railways During the First World War: An
Essay
10. Between Hammer and Anvil: Railways in the Netherlands, 19141918 11
The Role of Belgian State Railways from August to December 1914
12. Railways
and Military Mobilization in Italy (19151918)
13. Regulating in Wartime: An
Impossible Mission Railways in Spain (19131919) Part 4: Railway Networks
During the War in Central and Eastern Europe
14. German and Russian Railway
Networks in World War I
15. Eisenbahnfeldzug: Railway War in East Central
Europe
16. Two Special Operations of the Hungarian State Railways During the
Great War
17. Logistics in the Hinterland of War: Railway Transport in
Hungary (19141915)
18. Beyond the Front: The Ryazan-Uralsk Railway During
World War I
19. Transportation in World War I: Sirkeci Station
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.
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