The Great War opened a new chapter in the history of mankind and changed the European world forever. Not only did the method and scale of the killing change to an industrial-scale massacre, relegating the rules of chivalry and the specific legal system of war to the background, but the disintegration of traditional societies also accelerated and became irreversible.
The Comparative Civilization History Research Group of Pázmány Péter Catholic University, together with the Institute of Military History, wanted to commemorate the events of that time in a conference: the battlefields as well as the hinterland; about big politics as well as about the petty or inhumanly big problems of those left behind.
In the volume focusing on the years 1914-1915, we first publish the studies discussing international relations, which are separated from the description of combat actions by the war's influence on health care. The volume closes with an overview of local history.