The Upheaval of War; & The Experience of World War I

• The Upheaval of War: Family, Work and Welfare in Europe 1914-1918
  Edited by Richard Wall and Jay Winter (Cambridge University Press, 1988, 497 pp.)
• The Experience of World War I
  J.M. Winter (Macmillan, 1988, 1989, 256 pp.)

Few people have had such an impact on the study of war and society as J.M. Winter. In the past ten years or so he has given us a stream of books and articles that have brought a new precision to the measurement of war-related change and enlarged our understanding of the nature of mass industrialised warfare. His previous book, The Great War and the British People, was something of a landmark. Its distinctive feature lay in the attempt to unite the biological and the social, the home front and the fighting front, in an attempt to overcome the mutual incomprehension between historians who know how to count and historians who know how to read, and between military history on the one hand, and social and demographic history on the other.