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A special issue of First World War Studies, the journal of the International Society for First World War Studies.Vol. 5, Iss. 1, 2014http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfww20/current#• An explosion of new endeavours: global humanitarian responses to industrialized warfare in the First World War eraBranden Little• The disaster of war: American understandings of catastrophe, conflict and reliefJulia F. Irwin• An American enterprise? British participation in US food relief programmes (1914–1923)Tammy M. Proctor• Touring occupied Belgium: American humanitarians at ‘work’ and ‘leisure’ (1914–1917)Thomas D. Westerman• Waging relief: the politics and logistics of American Jewish war relief in Europe and the Near East (1914–1918)Jaclyn Granick• Politics of wartime relief in Ottoman Beirut (1914–1918)Melanie Tanielian• The American Red Cross and the International Committee of the Red Cross' humanitarian politics and policies in Asia Minor and Greece (1922–1923)Davide Rodogno• ‘A highly successful experiment in international partnership?’ The limited resonance of the American Committee for Devastated France MichaelE. McGuire• The alchemy of humanitarianism: the First World War, the Japanese Red Cross and the creation of an international public health order Yoshiya Makita  Book reviews: • British popular culture and the First World WarAlisa Miller• Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists between authenticity and performanceGary Roth• Men of Mont St Quentin: between victory and deathGlyn Harper• Of little comfort: war widows, fallen soldiers, and the remaking of the nation after the Great WarIngrid Sharp• ‘Boredom is the enemy’: the intellectual and imaginative lives of Australian soldiers in the Great War and beyondJohn Connor• Kult und Krieg. Herz Jesu – Sacré Cœur – Christus Rex im deutsch-französischen Vergleich, 1914–1925Patrick J. Houlihan• Woodrow Wilson: a biographyOleksa Drachewych• The German–Jewish soldiers of the First World War in history and memoryJeff Koerber• Planning Armageddon: British economic warfare and the First World WarSamuël Kruizinga&#160;