Modern Conflict and the Senses

Foreword: David Howes.

Introduction: Paul Cornish, Nicholas J Saunders, Mark Smith

Part 1: Sensual Landscapes

1: Sensing War: Concept and Space in the Imperial War Museum's First World War Galleries. Paul Cornish.

2: Materiality, Space, and Distance in the First World War. Nicholas J. Saunders.

3: Assaulting the Senses: Life and Landscape beneath the Western Front. Matthew Leonard.

4: The scent of snow at Punta Linke: First World War sites as sensecapes, Trentino, Italy'. Franco Nicolis.

5: Sensorial engagement in tourism experiences on the Western Front. Stephen Miles.

6: 'Dead Air': The acoustic of war and peace - creative interpretations of the sounds of conflict and remembrance. Paul Gough and Katie Davies.

7: Moaning Minnie and the Doodlebugs: Soundscapes of Air Warfare in
Second World War Britain. Gabriel Moshenska.

8: 'The Cave Mouth: Listening to sound and voice in Okinawan war
memory. Rupert Cox and Angus Carlyle.

9: Emplacing the Italian Resistance: the dystopian fight against Fascism
and Nazism (1943-1945). Sarah De Nardi.

Part 2: Sensing Bodies

10: Odour and Ethnicity: Americans and Japanese in the Second World War. Susannah Callow.

11: Ingestion and Digestion on the Western Front. Rachel Duffett.

12: Trench Crap: Excremental aspects of the First World War. Dominiek Dendooven.

13: Sense and Sensibility: the power of print in post-war recuperation. Jeffrey S. Reznick.

14: The 'White Death': Thirst and Water in the Chaco War. Esther Breithoff.

15: Jan Karski: From Eye Witness to Moral Witness. What to do with your senses. Annette Becker.

16: The Sensory Signature of being an airman in a Second World War Lancaster Bomber. Melanie Winterton.

17: Sounds of Horror: Sensorial experiences of a Gestapo prison, Begunje (Slovenia). Uros Kosir.

18: The uninvited guests who outstayed their welcome: the ghosts of war in the Channel Islands. Gilly Carr.

19: Sensory deprivation during the Irish Civil War (1923-1924): Female political prisoners at Kilmainhan Gaol, Dublin. Laura McAtackney.

Part 3: Sensorial Objects

20: Sensing the Sepoy: Objects, letters and songs of Indian Soldiers, 1914-1918. Santanu Das.

21: War with Flowers: The paintings of Albert Heim and the German sensory experience of the Somme, 1914-1916. Alastair H. Fraser.

22: The Senses: Battlefield exploration, drawing and sculpture. Steve Hurst.

23: War, memory and the senses in the Imperial War Museum London, 1920-2014. Alys Cundy.

Afterword: Joanna Bourke.