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Uncovered Fields: Perspectives in First World War Studies. Edited by Jenny Macleod and Pierre Purseigle. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2004. ISBN 90-04-132264-3. Illustrations. Figures. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. Pp. ix, 302. 5133.00.
This handsomely produced publication offers fifteen essays from a range of exceptionally erudite First World War scholars representing universities in seven different countries. Uncovered Fields, a truly international collaboration, emanates from a conference held in Lyon, France, in 2001, where rising historians, considered to have "recently entered the fray," presented their research. Like the event that prompted the book's creation, the ambition here is to impart the current vitality that abounds for World War I studies under the banner of the "new cultural history of the war" (p. 2).
The range and depth of this transnational collection offers abundant material for compelling analysis of new, seldom-addressed areas, which may ultimately contribute to...