Edited by Robert Gerwarth, Professor of Modern History, University College Dublin, and John Horne, Professor of Modern European History, Trinity College Dublin

Robert Gerwarth was born in Berlin and educated at Oxford where he also held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. He has been Professor of Modern History at University College Dublin and Director of UCD's Centre for War Studies since 2009. He is the author of several monographs and edited books on modern European history, most recently of a biography on Reinhard Heydrich.

John Horne was educated in Australia and Britain, and has taught modern European history for many years at Trinity College Dublin. He has published extensively on French history and on the comparative and transnational history of the Great War. He is a member of the board of the Centre for Research at the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne, a founder member of EurohistXX, the research consortium in contemporary European history, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Tomas Balkelis, UCD Centre for War Studies
Anne Dolan, Trinity College Dublin
Julia Eichenberg, Humboldt University Berlin
Emilio Gentile, Sapienza University of Rome
Robert Gerwarth, University College Dublin
Pertty Haapala, University of Tampere
John Horne, Trinity College Dublin
John Paul Newman, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
William Rosenberg, University of Michigan
Marko Tikka, University of Tampere
Ugur Ümit Üngör, Utrecht University and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam
Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria

"The quality of the individual essays is for the most part high, and a majority of the essays engages productively with each other, particularly those by the editors, and those on Russia, Italy, the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire." - Pieter M. Judson, Slavonic and East European Review

"essential reading for anyone interested in the way violence at the end of the Great War led into the post-war period with profound and devastating effects. This innovative collection of essays helps shift the centre of gravity of twentieth-century European studies to the east, and does so through illuminating studies of the breakdown of the state's monopoly on violence from Ireland to Turkey and beyond." - Jay Winter, Yale University

"a volume that not only eases the inherent difficulty in understanding post-war themes of societal disillusionment, and political and ethnic struggle, but is committed to advancing the discourse on the social, cultural, and psychological impact of the Great War." - Justin Dolan Stover, War in History

"this collection is undoubtedly a major contribution to the debate. It brings together an impressive selection of concise yet substantial introductions to complex cases, many of which Western scholars often overlook. Indeed, the book eloquently demonstrates the inadequacy of other histories of Europe that concentrate on West European experiences in that it shows how events in Central and Eastern Europe are integral parts of the continent's past, not aberrations to a Western norm." - Christopher Gilley, Europe-Asia Studies

"War in Peace offers a valuable look not only at the 'war after the war' but also on the nature of paramilitary conflict, and the origins of fascism and collaborationism." - The NYMAS Review

"War in Peace is a thorough, incisive read for any scholar and enthusiast of 20th century European history ... an ideal book for understanding more about the internecine politics that led to both world wars." - Farisa Khalid, PopMatters