Prologue - combative sports and combative societies, J.A. Mangan; from the battlefield to the arena - gladiators, militarism and the Roman republic, Donald G. Kyle; lasting legacy? spartan life as a Germanic educational ideal - Karl Otfried Muller and Die Dorier, Orestis Kustrin and J.A. Mangan; ball games, from the Roman gentleman to the Renaissance warrior, John McClelland; military drill - rather more than brief and basic - English elementary schools and English militarism, J.A. Mangan and Callum McKenzie; wartime opportunities - ladies' football and the First World War factories, Ali Melling; antidote to war - the Balkan games, Penelope Kissoudi; children into soldiers - sport and fascist Italy, Roberta Vescovi; confronting George Orwell - Philip Noel-Baker on international sport, particularly the Olympic movement, as peacemaker, Peter J. Beck; compromise and confrontation - Danish sport under the swastika, Hans Bonde; Cold War diplomats in tracksuits - the Frauleinwunder of East German sport, Gertrud Pfister; fitness wars - purpose and politics in communist state-building, Vassil Girginov; epilogue - many mansions and many architectural styles, J.A. Mangan.
