Both the old and new scientific workshops and books that have been multiplying in this period of centennial celebrations rather hint at the still growing amount of public and private sources available in Europe, the Americas and Asia 5. Recently, similar work has begun for Ottoman history as well 4. For the history of Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq, oral narratives, published and unpublished memoirs and literary sources are increasingly used to recover the experiences of people during World War I 3. 2 Elsewhere, such sources have been the subject of several official publications by national institutions. On a European level, these materials are being collected, digitalised and made available on databases.

They may even include genres such as folk songs remembering the suffering of people.

They may be written or oral, range from newspapers to photographs, or from petitions to diaries. Even more (.)ģFurthermore, new sources relating to manifold aspects of the war, from soldiers' experiences to developments on the various home fronts, and from socio-economic developments to gender relations have been included. 4 A good example is Yi̭ğit Akin, 'War, Women, and the State: The Politics of Sacrifice in the Ottoma (.).

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