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Après de longs mois de travail, "il" est paru. Un panorama collectif - merci aux auteurs pour leur contribution et leur patience - sur les polices en Europe (ou en lien avec l'Europe) durant et après la Première Guerre mondiale...  Quelques points forts de l'ouvrage: considérer la pluralité des polices et les clivages qui construisent les systèmes policiers; un effort pour "faire bouger les lignes" en matière de géographie et de jeux d'échelles par rapport au conflit; un intérêt pour des "petits" pays; un intérêt pour les pratiques, les structures et les hommes; une logique de temps long allant de la fin du 19e siècle à la veille de la Seconde Guerre dans certaines contributions!Une manière de terminer un cycle donc,Campion Jonas, López Laurent, Payen Guillaume (eds), European Police Forces and Law Enforcement in the First World War, Palgrave Macmillan, col. World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence, 2019, 371p., ISBN 978-3-030-26102-3.Les informations sont disponibles en ligne.Pour faire bref, je mets ici le texte de présentation de l'éditeur:"This book offers a global history of civilian, military and gendarmerie-style policing around the First World War. Whilst many aspects of the Great War have been revisited in light of the centenary, and in spite of the recent growth of modern policing history, the role and fate of police forces in the conflict has been largely forgotten. Yet the war affected all European and extra-European police forces. Despite their diversity, all were confronted with transnational factors and forms of disorder, and suffered generally from mass-conscription. During the conflict, societies and states were faced with a crisis situation of unprecedented magnitude with mass mechanised killing on the battle field, and starvation, occupation, destruction, and in some cases even revolution, on the home front. Based on a wide geographical and chronological scope – from the late nineteenth century to the interwar years – this collection of essays explores the policing of European belligerent countries, alongside their empires, and neutral countries. The book’s approach crosses traditional boundaries between neutral and belligerent nations, centres and peripheries, and frontline and rear areas. It focuses on the involvement and wartime transformations of these law-enforcement forces, thus highlighting underlying changes in police organisation, identity and practices across this period".