Includes accounts of civilians' roles and experiences through wars in twentieth-century Europe.

Expert contributors write on the experiences of civilians who lived through occupation and bloodshed in the First World War; the Russians who lived or died duri

Describes the day-to-day experiences of civilians living in Europe from 1618 to 1900, focusing on the challenges and sacrifices men, women, and children faced i

Long a topic of historical interest, wartime captivity has over the past decade taken on new urgency as an object of study. Transnational by its very nature, ca

Americans are greatly concerned about the number of our troops killed in battle--33,000 in the Korean War; 58,000 in Vietnam; 4,500 in Iraq--and rightly so. But