List of World War I books

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List of World War I books is an annotated bibliography using APA style citations of a selection of the most useful books on World War I as selected by the editors.

Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August won a Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction.
Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August won a Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction.

Contents

[edit] Reference books

  • 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
  • Higham, Robin and Dennis E. Showalter, eds. Researching World War I: A Handbook (2003), highly detailed historiography, stressing military themes; annotates over 1000 books
  • 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), online at eBook.com, the most detailed reference source; articles by specialists cover all aspects of the war
  • Tucker, Spencer, ed. European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1999)
  • Winter, Jay, and Antoine Prost. The Great War in History (2005), historiography, stress on social and economic themes

[edit] Overviews

  • Carver, Michael, Field Marshal Sir. War Lords. (1976) Includes brief bios of Hamilton, Foch, Haig, von Falkenhayn
  • Cruttwell, C. R. M. F. A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 (1934), general military history
  • Evans, David. Teach yourself— the First World War. (Hodder Arnold, 2004)
  • 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 (2002), short (175 pp) general military history
  • Hubatsch, Walther. Germany and the Central Powers in the World War, 1914-1918 (1963)
  • Keegan, John. The First World War (1999). general military history
  • Lincoln, W. Bruce. Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution, 1914-1918 (1986)
  • Lyons, Michael J. World War I: A Short History (2nd Edition), Prentice Hall, 1999.
  • Morrow Jr., John H.. The Great War: An Imperial History (2003), covers British Empire
  • Robbins, Keith. The First World War (1993), short overview
  • Stevenson, David. Cataclysm: The First World War As Political Tragedy (2004) major reinterpretation, 560pp
  • Stokesbury, James. A Short History of World War I (1981)
  • Strachan, Hew. The First World War: Volume I: To Arms (2004): the major scholarly synthesis. Thorough coverage of 1914; Also: 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

[edit] Causes and diplomacy

  • Evans, R. J. W., and Hartmut Pogge Von Strandman, eds. The Coming of the First World War (1990), essays by scholars from both sides
  • Gilpin, Robert. War and Change in World Politics Cambridge University Press, New York: 1981
  • Hamilton, Richard F. and Holger H. Herwig. Decisions for War, 1914-1917 (2004)
  • Henig, Ruth The Origins of the First World War (2002)
  • Joll, James. The Origins of the First World War (1984)
  • 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)
  • Knutsen, Torbjørn L. The Rise and Fall of World Orders Manchester University Press, 1999
  • Lee, Dwight E. ed. The Outbreak of the First World War: Who Was Responsible? (1958), readings from multiple points of view
  • Ponting, Clive. Thirteen Days: Diplomacy and Disaster - The Countdown to the Great War (2002)
  • Stevenson, David. The First World War and International Politics (2005)

[edit] Intelligence

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

[edit] USA and Canada at war

  • 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)
  • Hallas, James H. Doughboy War: The American Expeditionary Force in World War I (2000)
  • Howarth, Stephen. To Shining Sea: A History of the United States Navy, 1775-1991 (1991)
  • Kennedy, David M. Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1982), covers politics & economics & society
  • Koistinen, Paul. Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865-1919
  • Slosson, Preston William. The Great Crusade and after, 1914-1928 (1930). U.S. social history
  • 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)
  • Milner, Marc, Prof. Canadian Military History. Toronto: Copp Clark Putnam, 1993. Includes problems of Canadian recruiting and the 1917 draft crisis (with its problems over Quebec)
  • Morton, Desmond, and J. L. Granatstein Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War 1914-1919 (1989)
  • Wade, Mason. The French Canadians, 1760-1945 (1955), ch 12

[edit] Europe, economic and social

  • Broadberry, Stephen and Mark Harrison, eds. The Economics of World War I (2005) ISBN 0-521-85212-9. Covers France, UK, USA, Russia, Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and the Netherlands
  • Ferguson, Niall The Pity of War (1999), cultural and economic themes
  • Hardach, Gerd. The First World War 1914-1918 (1977), economics
  • Eric Osborne. Britain's Economic Blockade of Germany, 1914-1919 (2004)
  • 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)
  • Turner, John, ed. Britain and the First World War (1988)
  • 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)

[edit] Infantry and specialty military topics

  • Bidwell, Shelford, and Dominick Graham. Firepower: British Army Weapons and Theories of War, 1904-1945 (1992)
  • Dupuy, Trevor N., Evolution of Weapons and Warfare.
  • Dupuy, Trevor N., Numbers, Predictions, and War.
  • Dyer, Gwynn. War.
  • Gudmundsson, Bruce I. Stormtroop Tactics: Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918 (1989)
  • Herwig, Holger H. Operation Michael: The “Last Card” 2001 German Spring Offensive in 1918
  • Albert G. Love, War Casualties (1931) online statistics and how compiled for U.S. Army
  • Messenger, Charles. Call To Arms: The British Army 1914-1918 (2005) (ISBN 0-297-84695-7), recruitment, training, supplying of officers & men
  • 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)
  • Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August, tells of the opening diplomatic and military manoeuvres

[edit] New weapons, air, tank, gas, submarine

[edit] Air War

  • Angelucci, Enzo, Matricardi, Paolo. World Aircraft: Origins-World War I (1979). ISBN 0528881655.
  • Bennett, Leon. Three Wings for the Red Baron: Von Richthofen, Strategy, Tactics, and Airplanes (2001). ISBN 1572492139. 248 pgs.
  • Bickers, Richard Townshend. The First Great Air War (1989). ISBN 0340508248. 277 pgs.
  • Bowyer, Chaz. Royal Flying Corps Communiques: 1917-1918 (1998). ISBN 1898697795. 258 pgs.
  • Chickering, Roger (Ed.), Förster, Roger Stig (Ed.), Mauch, Christof (Editor), Lazar, David (Editor). Great War, Total War : Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918 (Publications of the German Historical Institute) (2000). ISBN 0521773520. 584 pgs.
  • Clark, Alan. Aces high: The war in the air over the Western Front 1914-18 (1973). ISBN 0297994646. 191 pgs.
  • Cooke, James J.. The U.S. Air Service In the Great War: 1917-1919 (1996). ISBN 0275948625. 272 pgs.
  • Cormack, Andrew, Peter Cormack. British Air Forces (1) : 1914-1918 (Men-At-Arms Series, 341) (2000). Osprey Publishing (UK). ISBN 1841760013. 48 pgs.
  • Cowin, Hugh W. Allied Aviation of World War I: A Pictoral History of Allied Aviators and Aircraft of the Great War (2000). Osprey Aviation. ISBN 1841762261. 112 pgs.
  • Cowin, Hugh W. German and Austrian Aviation of World War I: A Pictorial Chronicle of the Airmen and Aircraft That Forged German Airpower (2000). Osprey Pub Co. ISBN 1841760692. 96 pgs.
  • Cuneo, John R. Winged Mars (2 Volumes) (1942). The Military Service Publishing Company. 338 pgs. [1]
  • Diggens, Barry. September Evening: The Life and Final Combat of the German World War One Ace Werner Voss (2003). Grub Street. ISBN 1904010474. 192 pgs.
  • Dodds, Ronald. The Brave Young Wings (1980). Canada's Wings, Inc., Stittsville, Ontario, Canada. ISBN 0920002080. 302 pgs.
  • Editors, Time Life, Ezra Bowen. Knights of the Air (Epic of Flight) (1980). Warner Books Inc. ISBN 0809432528. 192 pgs.
  • Frandsen, Bert. Hat in the Ring: The Birth of American Air Power in the Great War (2003). Smithsonian Books. ISBN 158834150X. 320 pgs.
  • Franks, Norman L. R., Frank W. Bailey, and Russell Guest. Above the Lines: The Aces and Fighter Units of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps 1914-1918 (1994). Grub Street ISBN 0948817739. 259 pgs.
  • Franks, Norman L. R., Guest, Russell, and Alegi, Gregory. Above the War Fronts: The British Two-Seater Bomber Pilot and Observer Aces, the British Two-Seater Fighter Observer Aces, and the Belgian, Italian, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Fighter Aces 1914-1918 (1997). Grub Street (ISBN 1898697566). 218 pgs.
  • Franks, Norman L.R., Bailey, Frank W. Over the Front: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the United States and French Air Services, 1914-1918 (1992). Casemate Pub (ISBN 0948817542)
  • Franks, Norman L.R., Guest, Russell, Bailey, Frank W. Bloody April...Black September (1995). Grub Street (ISBN 1898697086). 314 pgs.
  • Franks, Norman, Bailey, Frank, Bailey, Frank W. The Storks: The Story of the Les Cigognes, France's Elite Fighter Group of Wwi (1998). Grub Street (ISBN 1898697817). 160 pgs.
  • Franks, Norman, Bailey, Frank, Duiven, Rick. Casualties of the German Air Service 1914-20: As Complete a List Possible Arranged Alphabetically and Chronologically (1999). Grub Street (ISBN 1902304330). 362 pgs.
  • Franks, Norman, Giblin, Hal and McCrery, Nigel. Under the Guns of the Red Baron - The Complete Record of Von Richthofen's Victories and Victims Fully Illustrated (1999). Barnes & Noble (ISBN 0760712093). 224 pgs.
  • Franks, Norman, Giblin, Hal. Under the Guns of the Kaiser's Aces: Bohme, Muller, Von Tutschek, Wolff : The Complete Record of Their Victories and Victims (2003). Grub Street (ISBN 1904010024). 192 pgs.
  • Franks, Norman, Holmes, Tony. Albatros Aces of World War I (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 32) (2000). Motorbooks International (ISBN 1855329603). 96 pgs.
  • Franks, Norman, Holmes, Tony. Sopwith Triplanes Aces of World War 1 (Aircraft of the Aces, 62) (2004). Osprey Publishing (UK) (ISBN 184176728X). 96 pgs.
  • Franks, Norman, Wyngarden, Greg Van, Holmes, Tony. Fokker Dr I Aces of World War I (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 40) (2001). Osprey Aviation (ISBN 1841762237). 96 pgs.
  • Franks, Norman. Jasta Boelcke: The History of Jasta 2, 1916-1918 (2004). Grub Street (ISBN 1904010768). 224 pgs.
  • Franks, Norman. Nieuport Aces of World War I (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 33) (2000). Motorbooks International (ISBN 1855329611). 96 pgs.
  • Franks, Norman. Sopwith Camel Aces of World War 1 (Aircraft of the Aces, 52) (2003). Osprey Publishing (UK) (ISBN 1841765341). 96 pgs.
  • Gibbons, Floyd. Red Knight of Germany: The Story of Baron Von Richthofen, Germany's Great War Bird (1927, 1979). Arno Press (ISBN 0405121679). 383 pgs.
  • Grosz, Peter, Haddow, George, Schiemer, Peter. Austro-Hungarian Army Aircraft of World War I (2002). Flying Machines Press (ISBN 1891268058). 544 pgs.
  • Guttman, Jon, Holmes, Tony. SPA124 Lafayette Escadrille: American Volunteer Airmen in World War 1 (Aviation Elite Units, 17) (2004). Osprey Publishing (UK) (ISBN 1841767522). 128 pgs.
  • Guttman, Jon. Spad VII Aces of World War I (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 39) (2001). Osprey Aviation (ISBN 1841762229). 96 pgs.
  • Henshaw, Trevor. The Sky Their Battlefield: Air Fighting and the Complete List of Allied Air Casualties from Enemy Action in the First War (1995). Grub Street (ISBN 1898697302). 618 pgs.
  • Hepplewhite, Peter. World War I: In The Air (2003). Pan Macmillan (ISBN 0330410113). 144 pgs.
  • Herris, Jack. Pfalz Aircraft of World War I (Great War Aircraft in Profile, Volume 4) (2001). Flying Machines Press (ISBN 1891268155). 184 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). Syracuse University Press (ISBN 0815604653). 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). Presidio Press (ISBN 0891417915). 352 pgs.
  • Johnson, Herbert A. Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation Through World War I (2001). University of North Carolina Press (ISBN 0807826278). 298 pgs.
  • Kennett, Lee. First Air War, 1914-1918 (1999). Free Press (ISBN 0684871203). 288 pgs.
  • Kilduff, Peter, Richthofen, Manfred von. Talking With the Red Baron: 'Interviews' With Manfred Von Richthofen (2003). Brassey's UK Ltd (ISBN 185753381X). 248 pgs.
  • Lawson, Eric and Jane Lawson. The First Air Campaign, August 1914-November 1918 (1996)
  • Leaman, Paul. Fokker Dr.I Triplane: A World War One Legend (2003). Classic Publications (ISBN 1903223288). 224 pgs.
  • McKee, Alexander. The Friendless Sky (1984). Academy Chicago Publishers (ISBN 0586058230). 256 pgs.
  • Morrow, John. German Air Power in World War I. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982. Contains design and production figures, as well as economic influences.
  • Morrow, John H., Jr. The Great War in the Air (1993). Smithsonian Books (ISBN 1560982381). 464 pgs.
  • O'Connor, Martin. Air Aces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1914-1918 (1986). Flying Machines Press (ISBN 1891268066). 338 pgs.
  • O'Connor, Mike. Airfields & Airmen: Cambrai (Battleground Europe) (2003). Pen & Sword Books (ISBN 0850529581). 176 pgs.
  • Outlet, Bernard Fitzsimons (Editor) /. Warplanes & Air Battles Of World War I (1973, 1988). Beekman House / Crescent (ISBN 0517130890). 160 pgs.
  • Owers, Colin. De Havilland Aircraft of World War I: Volume 1, D.H.1-D.H.4 (Great War Aircraft in Profile, Volume 5) (2001). Flying Machines Press (ISBN 1891268171). 88 pgs.
  • Revell, Alex. Victoria Cross WW I: WWI Airmen and Their Aircraft (1997). Flying Machines Press (ISBN 1891268007). 96 pgs.
  • Richthofen, Manfred Von, Franks, Norman. The Red Air Fighter (1999). Stackpole Books (ISBN 1853673625). 192 pgs.
  • Rickenbacker, Eddie V. Fighting the Flying Circus: The Greatest True Air Adventure to Come Out of World War I (2001). Doubleday Books (ISBN 0385505590). 324 pgs.
  • Shores, Christopher, Franks, Norman, and Guest, Russell. Above the Trenches Supplement: A complete record of the fighter aces and units of the British Empire air forces, 1915-1920 (1996). Grub Street (ISBN 1898697396). 112 pgs.
  • Shores, Christopher, Franks, Norman, and Guest, Russell. Above the trenches: A complete record of the fighter aces and units of the British Empire air forces, 1915-1920 (1990). Fortress Publications (ISBN 0919195113). 392 pgs.
  • Shores, Christopher, Rolfe, Mark. British and Empire Aces of World War I (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 45) (2001). Osprey Publishing (UK) (ISBN 1841763772). 96 pgs.
  • Simkins, Peter. Air Fighting 1914-1918 (The Struggle for Air Superiority over the Western Front) (1978). Imperial War Museum. 80 pgs.
  • Smith, Adrian. Mick Mannock, Fighter Pilot: Myth, Life and Politics (Studies in Military and Strategic History) (2001). Palgrave MacMillan (ISBN 0333778987). 211 pgs.
  • Staff, Vigilant, Sykes, Claud W., Franks, Norman. German War Birds (1994). Greenhill Books (ISBN 1853671649). 288 pgs.
  • Thayer, Lucien H. America's First Eagles (1984). R James Bender Pub (ISBN 0912138246). 360 pgs.
  • Treadwell, Terry C. America's First Air War (2000). MBI Publishing (ISBN 0760309868). 176 pgs.
  • Vanwyngarden, Greg. Richthofen's Flying Circus: Jagdgeschwader Nr 1 (Aviation Elite Units, 16) (2004). Osprey Publishing (UK) (ISBN 1841767263). 128 pgs.
  • Winter, Denis. First of the Few. London: Allen Lane/Penguin, 1982. Coverage of the British air war, with extensive bibliographical notes.
  • Wood, Alan C. Aces and Airmen of Ww1 (2002). Brassey's Inc. ISBN 1857533801. 176 pgs.
  • Woolley, Charles, Crawford, Bill. Echoes of Eagles: A Son's Search for His Father and the Legacy of America's First Fighter Pilots (2003). Dutton Books (ISBN 0525947574). 336 pgs.

[edit] Gas

  • Haber, L. F. The Poisonous Cloud: Chemical Warfare in the First World War (1986);
  • Palazzo, Albert. Seeking Victory on the Western Front: The British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I (2000)

[edit] Submarines

  • 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.

[edit] Tanks

  • Fuller, J.F.C. Tanks in the Great War 1920.
  • Guderian, Heinz. Achtung! Panzer (1937)
  • Wilson, Dale E. Treat'Em Rough!: The Birth of American Armor, 1917-20 (1989)

[edit] Popular histories and documentaries

  • Keegan, John. The First World War (1999)
  • Taylor, A. J. P. The First World War: An Illustrated History, Hamish Hamilton, 1963
  • Editors of American Heritage. History of WWI. Simon & Schuster, 1964. popular
  • Strachan, Hew ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War, a collection of chapters from various scholars
  • Toland, John. No Man's Land. 1918 - The Last Year of the Great War (1980)
  • The Great War, television documentary by the BBC.
  • Aces: A Story of the First Air War, written by George Pearson, historical advice by Brereton Greenhous and Philip Markham, NFB, 1993. Argues aircraft created trench stalemate

[edit] Cultural, literary, artistic, memorial

  • 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).
  • Fussell, Paul (November 6, 1975). The Great War and Modern Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 363 p.. ISBN 0-19-501918-0. , classic study of WWI literature
  • Bairnsfather, Bruce Bullets & Billets (1916) . Cartoons.
  • 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 (London: Faber 1990).
  • Raitt, Suzanne and Trudi Tateeds. Women's Fiction and the Great War (1997)
  • Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet On the Western Front
  • 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)
  • Silkin, Jon. ed. The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (2nd ed. 1997)
  • 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)
  • Watson, Janet S. K. Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory, and the First World War in Britain (2004).
  • Winter, Jay. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1995),
  • Wood, Richard and David Culbert. Film and Propaganda in America: A Documentary History: World War I - Vol. 1 (1990)

[edit] Poetry and songs

[edit] Books and novels

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

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