Discussion

Popular histories[edit]

Editors of American Heritage. History of WWI. 1964.
Evans, David. Teach yourself— the First World War. (2004)
Keegan, John. An Illustrated History of the First World War (1999). by a leading British scholar excerpt and text search
Taylor, A. J. P. The First World War: An Illustrated History, 1963
Lyons, Michael J. World War I: A Short History (2nd Edition), 1999.
Stone, Norman. World War One: A Short History (2008), 208pp
Stokesbury, James L. A Short History of World War I (1981) excerpt and text search
Strachan, Hew, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (2001) excerpt and text search
Strachan, Hew. The First World War (2004): a 385pp version of his multivolume history excerpt and text search
Taylor, A. J. P. The First World War: An Illustrated History, (1963) excerpt and text search
Toland, John. No Man's Land. 1918 - The Last Year of the Great War (1980)
Tucker, Spencer, ed. The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, and Military History (5 vol 2005); the most detailed reference source; articles by specialists cover all aspects of the war
Tucker, Spencer. The Great War 1914-18 (1998) excerpt and text search

TV documentaries[edit]

World War I (1964), CBS News documentary narrated by Robert Ryan
The Great War (1964) TV series by Correlli Barnett and others of BBC
The Great War, television documentary by the BBC.
Aces: A Story of the First Air War, television documentary written by George Pearson, historical advice by Brereton Greenhous and Philip Markham, NFB, 1993. Argues aircraft created trench stalemate

Reference books[edit]

Burg, David F. and L. Edward Purcell. Almanac of World War I (1998)
Ellis, John and Mike Cox. The World War I Databook: The Essential Facts and Figures for All the Combatants (2002)
Esposito, Vincent J. The West Point Atlas of American Wars: 1900-1918 (1997) despite the title covers entire war; online maps from this atlas
Gilbert, Martin. Atlas of World War I (1995), very clear schematic maps
Gilbert, Martin. The Routledge Atlas of the First World War: The Complete History (2002)
Higham, Robin and Dennis E. Showalter, eds. Researching World War I: A Handbook (2003), 475pp; highly detailed historiography, stressing military themes; annotates over 1000 books; online edition
Livesey, Anthony, and H. P. Willmott. The Historical Atlas of World War I (1994)
Pope, Stephen and Wheal, Elizabeth-Anne, eds. The Macmillan Dictionary of the First World War (1995)
Tucker, Spencer, ed. The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, and Military History (5 vol 2005); the most detailed reference source; articles by specialists cover all aspects of the war
- Tucker, Spencer C., ed. World War I: A Student Encyclopedia. 4 vol. ABC-CLIO, 2006. 2454 pp.
Tucker, Spencer, ed. European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1999)
Venzon, Anne ed. The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1995)
Winter, Jay, and Antoine Prost. The Great War in History (2005), historiography, stress on social and economic themes

Overviews[edit]

Barnett, Correlli. The Great War, (2003), 224pp, illustrated
Carver, Michael, Field Marshal Sir. War Lords. (1976) Includes brief bios of Hamilton, Foch, Haig, von Falkenhayn
Cawood, Ian, and David Mckinnon-Bell. The First World War. (2001), 174pp online edition
Cowley, Robert (ed). The Great War. Perspectives on the First World War. (2003), 509 p.
Cruttwell, C. R. M. F. A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 (1934), general military history
Falls, Cyril. The Great War (1960), general military history
Halpern, Paul G. A Naval History of World War I(1995)
Herwig, Holger H. The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918 (1996)
Howard, Michael. The First World War. Oxford:Oxford University Press (2002), short (175 pp) general military history
Hubatsch, Walther. Germany and the Central Powers in the World War, 1914-1918 (1963)
Liddle, P., and H. Cecil (eds). Facing Armageddon (1996), essays by scholars
Morrow Jr., John H.. The Great War: An Imperial History (2003), covers British Empire online edition
Neiberg, Michael S. Fighting the Great War: A Global History. (2005). 416 pp. excerpt and text search
Robbins, Keith. The First World War (1993), short overview online edition
Simkins, Peter, et al. The First World War: The War to End All Wars (2003), 384pp; combat-oriented excerpt and text search
Stevenson, David. Cataclysm: The First World War As Political Tragedy (2004) major reinterpretation, 560pp excerpt and text search
Strachan, Hew. The First World War: Volume I: To Arms (2004): the major scholarly synthesis. Thorough coverage of 1914 in 1248 pp excerpt online
Strachan, Hew. The First World War (2004): a 385pp version of his multivolume history
Winter, J. M. The Experience of World War I (2nd ed 2005), topical essays; well illustrated excerpt and text search

Western Front[edit]

Beckett, Ian F.W. Ypres: The First Battle 1914, (2006) 336pp
Chickering, Roger et al eds. Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918 (2000). 584 pgs.
Cruttwell, C. R. M. F. A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 (1934), general military history
Doughty, Robert A. Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War,. Cambridge:Harvard university Press (2005) 592pp, prize-winning analysis
Falls, Cyril. The Great War (1960), general military history
Gilbert, Martin. The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War (2006) 352pp
Hart, Peter. The Somme, (2nd ed 2007), 608pp
Herwig, Holger H. Operation Michael: The “Last Card” 2001, German spring offensive in 1918
Horne, Alistair. The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 (2nd ed 1994)
Passingham, Ian. All the Kaiser's Men: The Life & Death of the German Army on the Western Front 1914-1918, (2nd ed 2006) 288pp
Prior, Robin, and Trevor Wilson. The Somme, (2005), 368pp
Prior, Robin, Passchendaele: The Untold Story, (2nd ed. 2002), 272pp
Sheldon, Jack. German Army on the Somme, 1914-1916, (2005) 352pp
Tooley, Hunt. The Western Front: Battle Ground and Home Front in the First World War. (2003), 305pp, social history, does not emphasize battles
Travers, Tim. How the War Was Won: Command and Technology in the British Army on the Western Front, 1917-1918,. London: Routledge (1992) online edition
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August, best-seller and Pulitzer Prize book tells of the opening diplomatic and military manoeuvres in August 1914 excerpt and text search

Infantry and specialty military topics[edit]

Bidwell, Shelford, and Dominick Graham. Firepower: British Army Weapons and Theories of War, 1904-1945. Boston:Allen & Unwin (1992), chaps. 4-8.
Dupuy, Trevor N., A Genius for War. The German Army and general Staff, 1807-1945. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall (1977), chaps. 10-11, 128-180.
Dupuy, Trevor N., Evolution of Weapons and Warfare, New York:Da Capo Press (1984), esp. 212-229.
Dupuy, Trevor N., Numbers, Predictions, and War.
Griffith, Paddy, Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army's Art of Attack, 1916-18, New Haven:Yale univ. Press (1994).
Gudmundsson, Bruce I. Stormtroop Tactics: Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918. Westport: Praeger (1989).
Messenger, Charles. Call To Arms: The British Army 1914-1918 (2005) (ISBN 0-297-84695-7), recruitment, training, supplying of officers & men.
Samuels, Martin. Doctrine and Dogma: German and British Infantry Tactics in the First World War,. Westport:Greenwood (1992), 228 pgs. online edition
Sheffield, G. D. Leadership in the Trenches: Officer-Man Relations, Morale and Discipline in the British Army in the Era of the First World War (2000)
Smith, Leonard V. Between Mutiny and Obedience. The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division during World War I (1994)

Eastern front[edit]

Dubeski, Norman, "Victory myths and the battle of Tannenberg," Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Winter 2001 online edition
Jukes, Geoffrey. The First World War: The Eastern Front 1914-1918 (Essential Histories) (2002) excerpt and text search
Rutherford, Ward. The Russian Army in World War I, 1975
Showalter, Dennis. Tannenberg: Clash of Empires, 1991
Stone, Norman. The Eastern Front, 1914–1917. 1975.

New weapons[edit]

Bond, A. Russell. Inventions of the Great War (1919) online edition

Air War[edit]

Cooke, James J.. The U.S. Air Service In the Great War: 1917-1919 (1996). 272 pgs.
Frandsen, Bert. Hat in the Ring: The Birth of American Air Power in the Great War (2003). Smithsonian Books. 320 pgs.
Holley, I. B. Ideas and Weapons: Exploitation of the Aerial Weapon by the United States During World War I(1983)
Hudson, James J. Hostile Skies (1997). 338 pgs.
Hurley, Alfred F. Billy Mitchell, Crusader for Air Power (1975)
Jeffers, H. Paul. Ace of Aces: The Life of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker (2003). 352 pgs.
Johnson, Herbert A. Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation Through World War I (2001). 298 pgs.
Kennett, Lee. First Air War, 1914-1918 (1999). 288 pp.
Lawson, Eric and Jane Lawson. The First Air Campaign, August 1914-November 1918 (1996)
Morrow, John. German Air Power in World War I. 1982. Contains design and production figures, as well as economic influences.
Morrow, John H., Jr. The Great War in the Air (1993). 464 pgs.
Winter, Denis. First of the Few. 1982. Coverage of the British air war, with extensive bibliographical notes.

Poison Gas[edit]

Cook, Tim. No Place To Run: The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War (1999)
Haber, L. F. The Poisonous Cloud: Chemical Warfare in the First World War (1986); the standard history
Palazzo, Albert. Seeking Victory on the Western Front: The British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I (2000) online edition
Slotten, Hugh R. "Humane Chemistry or Scientific Barbarism? American Responses to World War I Poison Gas, 1915-1930." Journal Of American History, 1990 77(2): 476-498. Issn: 0021-8723 Fulltext: in Jstor and Ebsco
Trumpener, Ulrich. "The Road to Ypres: The Beginnings of Gas Warfare in World War I." Journal Of Modern History (1975) 47(3): 460-480. Issn: 0022-2801 Fulltext in Jstor

Submarines[edit]

John Abbatiello. Anti-Submarine Warfare in World War I: British Naval Aviation and the Defeat of the U-Boats (2005)
Gray, Edwyn A. The U-Boat War, 1914-1918 (1994)
van der Vat, Dan. The Atlantic Campaign. (1988). Connects submarine and antisubmarine operations between wars, and suggests a continuous war.
Price, Alfred, Dr. Aircraft versus the Submarine. Deals with technical developments, including the first dipping hydrophones.

Tanks[edit]

Childs, David J. A Peripheral Weapon?: The Production and Employment of British Tanks in the First World War (1999)
Fletcher, David. Landships: British Tanks in the First World War (1996)
Fuller, J.F.C. Tanks in the Great War 1920.
Greenhalgh, Elizabeth. "Technology Development in Coalition: the Case of the First World War Tank." International History Review 2000 22(4): 806-836. Issn: 0707-5332
Guderian, Heinz. Achtung! Panzer (1937)
Tate, Trudi. "The Culture of the Tank, 1916-1918." Modernism-Modernity 1997 4(1): 69-87. Issn: 1071-6068. on British public images of tank warfare
Travers, Tim. "Could the Tanks of 1918 Have Been War-winners for the British Expeditionary Force?" Journal of Contemporary History 1992 27(3): 389-406. Issn: 0022-0094 Fulltext: in Jstor and Ebsco
Tucker, Spencer C. Tanks: An Illustrated History of Their Impact. ABC-CLIO, 2004. 379 pp.
Wilson, Dale E. Treat'Em Rough!: The Birth of American Armor, 1917-20 (1989)

Medical, casualties, nursing[edit]

Ferguson, Niall The Pity of War (1999), 563pp; much on death and casualties online edition
Love, Albert G. War Casualties (1931) online] statistics and how compiled for U.S. Army online
Pottle, Frederick A. Stretchers; the Story of a Hospital Unit on the Western Front, 1929 online edition
Sarnecky, Mary T. A History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps (1999) ch 3 pp 80-132

Intelligence[edit]

Beesly, Patrick. Room 40, 1982. Covers the breaking of German codes by RN intelligence, Zimmermann telegram, and confusion at Jutland
Kahn, David. The Codebreakers, 1996. Covers the breaking of Russian codes and the victory at Tannenberg
Kahn, David. The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking (2004)
Tuchman, Barbara W. The Zimmermann Telegram (1966)

Causes and diplomacy[edit]

Bakeless, John Edwin. The Economic Causes of Modern War: A Study of the Period: 1878-1918 (1919) online edition
Cramer, Kevin. "A World of Enemies: New Perspectives on German Military Culture and the Origins of the First World War," Central European History (2006), 39#2 pp 270-298 online at CJO
Evans, R. J. W., and Hartmut Pogge Von Strandman, eds. The Coming of the First World War (1990), essays by scholars from both sides online edition
Fay, Sidney. The Origins of the World War (1930); classic scholarly study; argues every nation shared guilt for starting the war online edition
Fromkin, David. Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?, (2004), ISBN 0375411569.
Gilpin, Robert. War and Change in World Politics (1981) excerpt and text search
Hamilton, Richard F. and Holger H. Herwig, eds. The Origins of World War I, (2003) 553pp; 15 long essays by leading scholars; excerpt and text search
- Hamilton, Richard F. and Holger H. Herwig, eds. Decisions for War, 1914-1917 (2004) ' a condensed version in 282pp
Henig, Ruth The Origins of the First World War (2002) 76pp online edition
Hewitson, Mark. Germany and the Causes of the First World War (2004)
Joll, James. The Origins of the First World War. (3rd ed 2006).
Kennedy, Paul M. (ed.). The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914. (1979)
Kennedy, Paul M. The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860-1914 (1981)
Lee, Dwight E. ed. The Outbreak of the First World War: Who Was Responsible? (1958), readings from multiple points of view
Maier, Charles S. "Wargames: 1914-1919" in Rabb T. and Rotberg R. (eds.), The Origins and Prevention of Major Wars, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1989), 249-279
Miller, Steven E. (ed.) Military Strategy and the Origins of the First World War: an International Security Reader, (1985)
Page, Thomas Nelson. Italy and the World War (1920) online edition
Ponting, Clive. Thirteen Days: Diplomacy and Disaster - The Countdown to the Great War (2002)
Snyder, Jack L. The Ideology of the Offensive. Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914. (1984), 267 pp. excerpt and text search
Stevenson, David. The First World War and International Politics (2005)
Van Evera, Stephen. Causes of War. Power and the Roots of Conflict. (1998), chap.7, 193-239.
Williamson, Samuel R. Jr. "The Origins of World War I" in Rabb T. and Rotberg R. (eds.), The Origins and Prevention of Major Wars, (1989), 225-248.
Williamson, Samuel R. The politics of grand strategy: Britain and France prepare for war, 1904-1914 (1990) online at ACLS e-books
Williamson Jr. Samuel R. and Ernest R. May. "An Identity of Opinion: Historians and July 1914," Journal of Modern History(2007) Volume 79, Number 2, 335-87, historiography

USA and Canada[edit]

Bassett, John Spencer. Our War with Germany: A History (1919) online edition
Beaver, Daniel R. Newton D. Baker and the American War Effort, 1917-1919 (1966)
Chambers, John W., II. To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America (1987)
Coffman, Edward M. The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I (1998) excerpt and text search
Esposito, David M. The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson: American War Aims in World War I. (1996) 159pp online edition
Farwell, Byron. Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918 (2000) - 336 pp; popular
Feuer, A. B. The U.S. Navy in World War I: Combat at Sea and in the Air, (1999) online edition
Hallas, James H. Doughboy War: The American Expeditionary Force in World War I (2000) online edition
Love, Robert W. History of the US Navy: 1775-1941 (1992) excerpt and text search
May, Ernest R. The World War and American isolation, 1914-1917 (1959online at ACLS e-books
Scott, Emmett Jay. Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War (1919) 511 pages online edition

online edition

Trask, David F. The United States in the Supreme War Council: American War Aims and Inter-Allied Strategy, 1917-1918 (1961)
Venzon, Anne ed. The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1995)
Young, Ernest William. The Wilson Administration and the Great War (1922) online edition
Zieger, Robert H. America's Great War: World War I and the American Experience. 2000. 272 pp.

Canada[edit]

Hayes, Geoffrey, et al, eds. Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment (Wilfrid Laurier University Press; 2007, 353 pp.)
Milner, Marc. Canadian Military History. (1993). Includes problems of Canadian recruiting and the 1917 draft crisis (with its problems over Quebec)
Morton, Desmond, and Jack Granatstein. Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War 1914-1919 (1989)

Europe, homefront[edit]

see World War I, Homefront

Primary sources[edit]

Abbot, Willis J. Pictorial History of the World War (1918) online edition
Halsey, Francis Whiting, ed. The Literary Digest History of the World War: vol 4: 1917-1918 (1919) online edition
Lloyd George, David. The Great Crusade: Extracts from Speeches Delivered During the War (1918) 307 pages online edition
Marwick, Arthur, and W. Simpson (eds). War, Peace and Social Change - Europe 1900-1955 - Documents I: 1900-1929 (1990)
M. Shevin-Coetzee and F. Coetzee (eds). World War One and European Society (1995).

Memoirs[edit]

Lloyd George, David, War Memoirs of David Lloyd George. 2 vols. (1933). An unusually long, detailed and candid record.
Ludendorff, Eric Von. Ludendorff's Own Story, August 1914- November 1918 (1919) online from books.google.com

Online secondary and primary sources[edit]

Poison gas and chemical warfare[edit]

Cook, Tim. "Creating the Faith: the Canadian Gas Services in the First World War." Journal of Military History 1998 62(4): 755-786. Issn: 0899-3718 in Jstor
Cook, Tim. "'Against God-inspired Conscience': The Perception of Gas Warfare as a Weapon of Mass Destruction, 1915-1939." War & Society 2000 18(1): 47-69. Issn: 0729-2473
Cook, Tim. "Through Clouded Eyes: Gas Masks and the Canadian Corps in the First World War." Material History Review1998 (47): 4-20. Issn: 1183-1073
Farrow, Edward Samuel. Gas Warfare (1920), 253 pages online edition
Fries, Amos Alfred, and Clarence Jay West. Chemical Warfare (1921) 445 pages online edition
Girard, Marion Leslie. "Confronting Total War: British Responses to Poison Gas, 1914-1918." PhD dissertation Yale U. 2002. 310 pp. DAI 2003 63(10): 3680-A. DA3068281 Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Haber, L. F. The Poisonous Cloud: Chemical Warfare in the First World War (1986), the standard history
LeFebure, Victor. The Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and War (1923)
Palazzo, Albert P. "Tradition, Innovation, and the Pursuit of the Decisive Battle: Poison Gas and the British Army on the Western Front, 1915-1918." PhD dissertation. Ohio State U. 1996. 522 pp. DAI 1996 57(2): 822-A. DA9620054 Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Richter, Donald. Chemical Soldiers: British Gas Warfare in World War I (1992) excerpt and online search
Slotten, Hugh R. "Humane Chemistry or Scientific Barbarism? American Responses to World War I Poison Gas, 1915-1930." Journal of American History 1990 77(2): 476-498. Issn: 0021-8723 Fulltext: in Jstor
Spiers, Edward. Chemical Warfare (1986)
Trumpener, Ulrich. "The Road to Ypres: the Beginnings of Gas Warfare in World War I." Journal of Modern History 1975 47(3): 460-480. Issn: 0022-2801 Fulltext: in Jstor
Whittemore, Gilbert F., Jr. "World War I, Poison Gas Research, and the Ideals of American Chemists." Social Studies of Science 1975 5(2): 135-163. Issn: 0306-3127 Fulltext: in Jstor

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Reference[edit]

Higham, Robin and Dennis E. Showalter, eds. Researching World War I: A Handbook (2003), 475pp; highly detailed historiography, stressing military themes; annotates over 1000 books; online edition
Tucker, Spencer, ed. The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, and Military History (5 vol 2005); the most detailed reference source; articles by specialists cover all aspects of the war
- Tucker, Spencer C., ed. World War I: A Student Encyclopedia. 4 vol. ABC-CLIO, 2006. 2454 pp.

Europe[edit]

Baron, Nick and Gatrell, Peter, ed. Homelands: War, Population and Statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918-1924. 2004. 267 pp.
Broadberry, Stephen, and Mark Harrison, eds. The Economics of World War I (2005) ISBN 0-521-85212-9. Covers France, Britain, USA, Russia, Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and the Netherlands, 362pp; excerpt and text search
Fairlie, John A. British War Administration (1919) online edition
Chickering, R. Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918 (1998)
Craig, Gordon. Germany, 1866-1945 (1999) pp 339=95 online at ACLS e-books
Davis, Belinda Joy. Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin (2000) excerpt and text search
Ferguson, Niall The Pity of War (1999), 563pp; cultural and economic themes online edition
Gatrell, Peter. Russia's First World War: A Social and Economic History. 2005. 318 pp.
Hardach, Gerd. The First World War I914-1918 (1977), economic history of major power
Kocka, Jürgen. Facing total war: German society, 1914-1918 (1984). online at ACLS e-books
Lincoln, W. Bruce. Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution, 1914-1918 (1986)
Osborne, Eric. Britain's Economic Blockade of Germany, 1914-1919 (2004)
Silbey, David. The British Working Class and Enthusiasm for War, 1914-1916 (2005) online edition
Stubbs, Kevin D. Race to the Front: The Materiel Foundations of Coalition Strategy in the Great War (2002)
Shotwell, James T. Economic and Social History of the World War (1924)
Tucker, Spencer, ed. European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1999)
Turner, John, ed. Britain and the First World War (1988)
Welch, David. Germany, Propaganda and Total War, 1914-1918 (2003)
Winter, J. M. The Experience of World War I (2nd ed 2005)
Winter, J. M. Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914-1919 (1999)
Woodward, Sir Llewellyn. Great Britain and the War of 1914-1918. 1967.
see also David Lloyd George

U.S.[edit]

Bassett, John Spencer. Our War with Germany: A History (1919) online edition
Beaver, Daniel R. Newton D. Baker and the American War Effort, 1917-1919 (1966)
Chambers, John W., II. To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America (1987)
Esposito, David M. The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson: American War Aims in World War I. (1996) 159pp online edition
Kennedy, David M. Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1982), covers politics & economics & society online edition
Koistinen, Paul. Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865-1919
May, Ernest R. The World War and American isolation, 1914-1917 (1959online at ACLS e-books
Scott, Emmett Jay. Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War (1919) 511 pages online edition
Slosson, Preston William. The Great Crusade and after, 1914-1928 (1930). American social history online edition
Venzon, Anne ed. The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1995)
Young, Ernest William. The Wilson Administration and the Great War (1922) online edition
Zieger, Robert H. America's Great War: World War I and the American Experience. 2000. 272 pp.

Canada[edit]

Brown R. C., and Ramsay Cook. Canada, 1896-1921 A Nation Transformed. (1974). the standard survey
Cook, Tim. "Quill and Canon: Writing the Great War in Canada," American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 35, 2005 online edition
Dickson, Paul Douglas. A Thoroughly Canadian General: A Biography of General H.D.G. Crerar (2007) excerpt and text search
Granatstein, Jack, and J.M. Hitsman, Broken Promises: A History of Conscription in Canada (1977)
Jensen, Richard. "Nationalism and Civic Duty in Wartime: Comparing World Wars in Canada and America." Canadian Issues 2004 (Wint): 6-10. Issn: 0318-8442
MacKenzie, David, ed. Canada and the First World War (2005) 16 essays by leading scholars excerpt and text search
Milner, Marc. Canadian Military History. (1993). Includes problems of Canadian recruiting and the 1917 draft crisis (with its problems over Quebec)
Morton, Desmond, and Jack Granatstein. Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War 1914-1919 (1989)
Wade, Mason. The French Canadians, 1760-1945 (1955), ch 12 online edition

Primary sources[edit]

Marwick, Arthur, and W. Simpson (eds). War, Peace and Social Change - Europe 1900-1955 - Documents I: 1900-1929 (1990)
M. Shevin-Coetzee and F. Coetzee (eds). World War One and European Society (1995).

Cultural, literary, artistic, memorial[edit]

Bairnsfather, Bruce. Bullets & Billets (1916) . Cartoons.
Cruickshank, John. Variations on Catastrophe: Some French Responses to the Great War (1982)
Ekstein, Modris, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (1989).
Frantzen, Allen J. Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War (2003) excerpt and text search
Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory (1975), classic study of WWI literature
Hurcombe, Martin. Novelists in Conflict: Ideology and the Absurd in the French Combat Novel of the Great War (2003) excerpt and text search
Hynes, Samuel. A War Imagined: The First World War in English Culture (1987)
Mosse, George L. Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars (1991)
Parfitt, George. Fiction of the First World War: A Study (1990).
Potter, Jane. Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War, 1914-1918. (2005). 257 pp.
Raitt, Suzanne and Trudi Tateeds. Women's Fiction and the Great War (1997)
Robb, George. British Culture And The First World War (2002)
Roshwald, Aviel. European Culture in the Great War : The Arts, Entertainment and Propaganda, 1914-1918 (2002)
Sherry, Vincent. The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War (2005) excerpt and text search
Silkin, Jon. ed. The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (2nd ed. 1997) excerpt and text search
Stallworthy Jon. Great Poets of World War I: Poetry from the Great War (2002), brief
Vance, Jonathan F. Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War (1997)
Verhey, Jeffrey. The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth and Mobilization in Germany (2000)
Viney, Nigel. Images of Wartime: British Art and Artists of World War I (1991)
Walter, George. The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (2007) excerpt and text search
Watson, Janet S. K. Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory, and the First World War in Britain (2004). excerpt and text search
Winter, Jay. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1995), excerpt and text search
Winter, Jay. America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 (2005) excerpt and text search
Winter, Jay, and Emmanuel Sivan. War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century (2000) excerpt and text search
Wood, Richard and David Culbert. Film and Propaganda in America: A Documentary History: World War I - Vol. 1 (1990)
Zehfuss, Maja. Wounds of Memory: The Politics of War in Germany (2007) excerpt and text search

Poetry and songs[edit]

Clarke, George Herbert. A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War, 1914-1919 (1919) 361 pages online edition
On Receiving News of the War, (1914) poem by Isaac Rosenberg
In Flanders Fields, (1915) poem by John McCrae full text^[1]

Anthem for Doomed Youth, (1917) poem by Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum Est,(1917) poem by Wilfred Owen
Disabled (poem)|Disabled,(1917) poem by Wilfred Owen
Base details,(1918) poem by Siegfried Sassoon
They (poem)|They, (1918) poem by Siegfried Sassoon
And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, (1972) song by Eric Bogle
Over There, (1917) theme song of the war by George M. Cohan

Novels, memoirs[edit]

Le Feu (Under Fire), (1916) novel by Henri Barbusse
The Storm of Steel', autobiography of Ernst Jünger. First published 1920 and revised several times through 1961
Rilla of Ingleside (1920), novel by L.M. Montgomery, an account of the war as experienced by Canadian women of the time.
Three Soldiers (1921) novel by John Dos Passos
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922) by T. E. Lawrence
The Good Soldier Švejk (1923) satirical novel by Jaroslav Hašek
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), highly influential novel by Erich Maria Remarque ^[2]
Death of a Hero (1929) novel by Richard Aldington

A Farewell to Arms, (1929) influential novel by Ernest Hemingway^[3]
Goodbye to All That, (1929) autobiography of Robert Graves
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) novel by Siegfried Sassoon
Testament of Youth, (1933) memoir by Vera Brittain
Un anno sull'altipiano (A Year on the Plateau), (1938) novel by Emilio Lussu
Joe's War: Memoirs of a Doughboy (1983), autobiography by Joseph N. Rizzi
Regeneration, (1991), The Eye in the Door, 1993; The Ghost Road novels by Pat Barker
Birdsong (1993), novel by Sebastian Faulks excerpts
No Graves As Yet, (2003), first volume of a trilogy of novels by Anne Perry
Deafening (2003), book written by Francis Itani
A Long, Long Way (2005), novel by Sebastian Barry
To the Last Man (2005), novel by Jeffrey Shaara|Jeff Shaara
Turn Right at Istanbul novel by Tony Wright
A World Undone (2006), novel by G. J. Meyer

Films, plays, television series and mini-series[edit]

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), film directed by Rex Ingram, based on a novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Mare Nostrum (1926), film directed by Rex Ingram, based on a novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Wings (1927), film directed by William A. Wellman tells the story about two fighter pilots, Oscar winner
Journey's End (1928), play written by R. C. Sherriff
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), film directed by Lewis Milestone, based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
Hell's Angels (1930), film directed by Howard Hughes
Grand Illusion (1937), film directed by Jean Renoir
Sergeant York (1941), film directed by Howard Hawks
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), film directed by Michael Curtiz
Paths of Glory (1957), film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb (1935)
Marš na Drinu (1961), Serbian film about a Serbian artillery battalion in the Battle of Cer
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) film directed by David Lean
Doctor Zhivago (1965), film by David Lean, based on the novel by Boris Pasternak about Russia
The Blue Max (1966), film directed by John Guillermin
Oh! What a Lovely War(1969), film directed by Richard Attenborough, from the 1963 musical play by Joan Littlewood
Johnny Got His Gun (1971), film directed by Dalton Trumbo
Gallipoli (1981), film directed by Peter Weir
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, (1985), play by Frank McGuinness
The Lighthorsemen (1987), film directed by Simon Wincer
Blackadder Goes Forth (1989), TV series by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton
Regeneration (1997), film directed by Gillies MacKinnon, based on the novel by Pat Barker (1991)
The Lost Battalion (2001), film and screenplay directed by Russell Mulcahy
A Very Long Engagement (2004), film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, based on the novel by Sebastien Japrisot (1991)
Joyeux Noël (2005), film about the 1914 Christmas truce.
Passchendaele (2006), film directed by and starring Paul Gross
Flyboys (2006), film directed by Tony Bill, about American pilots

Notes[edit]

↑ See Nancy Holmes, "'In Flanders Fields' - Canada's Official Poem: Breaking Faith." Studies in Canadian Literature 2005 30(1): 11-33. Issn: 0380-6995
↑ See Spark Notes at [1]
↑ See Spark Notes at [2]

[1] See Nancy Holmes, "'In Flanders Fields' - Canada's Official Poem: Breaking Faith." Studies in Canadian Literature 2005 30(1): 11-33. Issn: 0380-6995

[2] See Spark Notes at [1]

[3] See Spark Notes at [2]

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