Bibliography of World War I

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

References

Banks, Arthur (2001). A Military Atlas of the First World War. Barnsley: Leo Cooper reprinted by Pen & Sword. ISBN 978-0-85052-791-9
Collins, Ross F. (2007). World War I: Primary Documents on Events from 1914 to 1919. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-31332-082-8
Ellis, Robert, John, and Mike Cox. The World War I Databook: The Essential Facts and Figures for All the Combatants (2002)
Encyclopaedia Britannica (12th ed. 1922) comprises the 11th edition plus three new volumes 30-31-32 that cover events since 1911 with very thorough coverage of the war as well as every country and colony. partly online in ascii, with guide to article titles
- full text of vol 30 ABBE to ENGLISH HISTORY
- scans of each page of vol 30-31-32
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
Hirschfeld, Gerhard, Gerd Krumeich and Irina Renz, eds. ( in cooperation with Markus Pöhlmann). Brill’s Encyclopedia of the First World War. (2012) ISBN 9789004207394. 1105 pgs. (2 vol.) Features International scope: showcasing the work of recognized World War I experts from 15 countries google books link
Horne, John, ed. (2012). A Companion to World War I. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-11996-870-2
March, Francis Andrew and Richard Joseph Beamish History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War (1919), popular contemporary history.
Mombauer, Annika (2013). The Origins of the First World War: Diplomatic and Military Documents. Manchester and London: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-71907-421-9
Paxson, Frederic Logan et al. War cyclopedia: a handbook for ready reference on the great war (1918) online edition
Pope, Stephen; Wheal, Elizabeth-Anne (1995). The Macmillan Dictionary of the First World War. ISBN 0-333-61822-X. OCLC 60238536.
Shevin-Coetzee, Marilyn (2010). World War I: A History in Documents. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19973-152-7
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, ed. (2014). The Cambridge History of the First World War (2 vol. Cambridge University Press, 2014)

Overviews

Beckett, Ian F. W. (2007). The Great War: 1914-1918. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-40581-252-8 A thematic and comprehensive history which provides a complete picture of the war.
Carver, Field Marshal Lord. War Lords. (1976) Includes brief bios of Hamilton, Foch, Haig, Falkenhayn
Clare, John D., First World War (1994)
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
Gilbert, Martin (2004). The First World War: A Complete History. New York: Holt Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0-80507-617-2
Halpern, Paul G. A Naval History of World War I (1995)
Hammerton, Sir John Alexander (1914–1919). Great War:The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict (13 volumes). London: The Amalgamated Press.
Hammerton, Sir John Alexander (1933). A Popular History of the Great War (6 volumes). London: The Amalgamated Press.
Hart, Peter (2013). The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19997-627-0
Herwig, Holger H. (2009). The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0340573488
Hochschild, Adam (2012). To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. Boston and New York: Mariner Books. ISBN 978-0-54775-031-6
Howard, Michael. The First World War: A Very Short Introduction (2007), by a leading historian excerpt and text search
Hubatsch, Walther. Germany and the Central Powers in the World War, 1914-1918 (1963)
Keegan, John (2001). The First World War; An Illustrated History. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-179392-0.
Keegan, John (2000). The First World War. New York: Vintage. ISBN 978-0-37570-045-3
Liddell-Hart, Basil H. (1970). History of the First World War (3rd (1973) ed.). Trowbridge: Redwood Burn Ltd.
Liddell-Hart, Basil H. (2012). World War I in Outline. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59416-161-2
Morrow Jr., John H.. The Great War: An Imperial History (2003), covers British Empire excerpt and text search
Meyer, Gerald J (2006). A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914 to 1918. Random House. ISBN 978-0-553-80354-9.
Neiberg, Michael S (2005). Fighting the Great War: A Global History. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01696-3. OCLC 56592292.
Philpott, William (2014). War of Attrition: Fighting the First World War. New York: Overlook Press. ISBN 978-1-46830-268-4
Robbins, Keith. The First World War (1993), very short overview
Simkins, Peter, Geoffrey Jukes, and Michael Hickey (2003). The First World War: The War to End All Wars. Forward by Hew Strachan. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84176-738-3
Stevenson, David. Cataclysm: The First World War As Political Tragedy (2004) major reinterpretation, 560pp
Stokesbury, James. A Short History of World War I (1981)
Storey, William K. (2010). First World War: A Concise Global History. Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 978-0-74254-146-7
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
Strohn, Matthias, ed. (2013). World War I Companion. New York and Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78200-188-1
Tucker, Spencer C. (1998). Great War, 1914–18. London: UCL Press. ISBN 978-1-85728-391-4
Winter, J. M. The Experience of World War I (2nd ed 2005), topical essays; well

Primary sources

Collins, Ross F. ed. World War I: Primary Documents on Events from 1914 to 1919 (2007) excerpt

Causes and diplomacy

Albertini, Luigi. The Origins of the War of 1914. New updated edition with an introduction by Samuel R. Williamson. 3-vol. paperback set (New York: Enigma Books, 2005) ISBN 1-929631-26-X
Aksakal, Mustafa. "The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War." (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). ISBN 0521175259
Barnes, Harry Elmer. The Genesis Of The World War (1927), revisionist; argues Germany was not guilty
Chakraborty, Kaushik. Relocating the Origins of the First World War: Imperialism, Finance, Capital, Socialism, Nationalism, Power Rivalry, War Aims and War Guilt or Kriegeschuldfrage (1870-1914) (2008)
Clark, Christopher (2014). The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. New York: Harper Books. ISBN 978-0-06114-666-4
Evans, R. J. W. and Hartmut Pogge Von Strandman, eds. The Coming of the First World War (1990), essays by scholars from both sides
Fay, Sidney. The Origins Of The World War (1929)
Fischer, Fritz; Jackson, Marian (1975). War of Illusions: German Policies From 1911 to 1914. New York: Norton. OCLC 221830012. (original German title "Krieg der Illusionen die deutsche Politik von 1911 - 1914")
Fischer, Fritz (1967). Germany's Aims in the First World War. New York: Norton. OCLC 1558559. (original German title "Griff nach der Weltmacht: Die Kriegzielpolitik des kaiserlichen Deutschland 1914/18")
Fromkin, D. Europe's Last Summer. Who started the Great War in 1914? (2004), popular
Gilpin, Robert. War and Change in World Politics (1981)
Hamilton, Richard F. and Holger H. Herwig. Decisions for War, 1914-1917 (2004)
Herrmann, David G (1996). The Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-03374-9. OCLC 32509928.
Henig, Ruth B. (1993). Origins of the First World War. Florence, KY: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-41510-233-9
Hewitson, Mark (2004). Germany and the Causes of the First World War. Oxford: Berg Publishers. ISBN 978-1-85973-865-8
Joll, James, The Origins of the First World War (1984)
Kennan, George (1984). The Fateful Alliance: France, Russia, and the Coming of the First World War. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-39453-494-7
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
McCullough, Edward E. How The First World War Began (1999)
McMeekin, Sean (2011). Russian Origins of the First World War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-67406-210-8
Mombauer, Annika (2013). The Origins of the First World War: Diplomatic and Military Documents. Manchester and London: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-71907-421-9
Mulligan, William (2010). The Origins of the First World War. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-52171-394-8
Neilson, Francis. How Diplomats Make War (1916)
Ponting, Clive. Thirteen Days: Diplomacy and Disaster - The Countdown to the Great War (2002)
Remak, Joachim (1995). The Origins of World War I, 1871-1914. San Diego: Harcourt Brace. ISBN 978-0-15501-438-1
Ross, Stewart, Causes and Consequences of the First World War (2003)
Stevenson, David, The First World War and International Politics (2005)
Tuchman, Barbara, "The Guns of August" (1962) - also published as "August 1914"

Allied Forces

Britain

French, David. British Strategy and War Aims 1914-1916 (Routledge, 2014)
Holmes, Richard. Tommy: the British soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918 (Marshall Pickering, 2004)
Messenger, Charles. Call To Arms: The British Army 1914-1918 (2005) (ISBN 0-297-84695-7), recruitment, training, supplying of officers & men
Pegler, Martin. British Tommy 1914-18 (1996) Excerpt and text search
Sheffield, Gary D. Leadership in the Trenches: Officer-Man Relations, Morale, and Discipline in the British Army in the Era of the First World War (St. Martin's Press, 2000)
Watson, Alexander. Enduring the Great War: Combat, morale and collapse in the German and British armies, 1914–1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Australia and New Zealand

Bean, C. E. W. Official History Of Australia In The War of 1914-18: Vol 1: The Story Of Anzac: From The Outbreak of War to The End Of The First Phase Of The Gallipoli Campaign May 4, 1915 (1921)
Coulthard-Clark, Christopher D (2001). The Encyclopaedia of Australia's Battles. Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin. pp. 320pp. ISBN 1-86508-634-7. OCLC 48793439.
Davison, Graeme, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre, eds. The Oxford Companion to Australian History (2001) online at OUP also excerpt and text search
Grey, Jeffrey. A military history of Australia (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
Pugsley, Christopher. The Anzac Experience: New Zealand, Australia and Empire in the First World War (2004)

Canada

Berton, Pierre. Marching As To War, Canada's Turbulent Years 1899-1953 (2001), ch 2; Popular narrative
Boyden, Joseph. "Three Day Road" (2005) novel about northern Ontario Cree, in the Canadian Second Division, on the front line.
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)
Hunter, Mark C. To Employ and Uplift Them: The Newfoundland Naval Reserve, 1899-1926 (2009)
Milner, Marc. 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)
Nicholson, G.W.L. (1962). Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War: Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914–1919 (PDF). Ottawa: Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationary. OCLC 557523890. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
Vance, Jonathan F. Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War (1997), cultural history; online edition
Wade, Mason. The French Canadians, 1760-1945 (1955), ch 12

Africa, South Africa

Buchan, John (1992). The history of the South African forces in France (Litho reprint of 1920 ed.). London: Imperial War Museum & Battery Press. ISBN 0-901627-89-5.
Digby, Peter. K. (1993). Pyramids and Poppies: The 1st SA Infantry Brigade in Libya, France and Flanders: 1915-1919. Rivonia: Ashanti. ISBN 1-874800-53-7.
Farwell, Byron (1989). The Great War in Africa, 1914–1918. W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-30564-7.
Miller, Charles. Battle for the Bundu: the First World War in East Africa. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1974. ISBN 0-02-584930-1

India

Pati, Budheswar (1996). India and the First World War. Atlantic Publishers. ISBN 978-81-7156-581-8.

France

Clayton, Anthony. Paths of glory: the French Army 1914-18 (London: Cassell, 2003)
Fogarty, Richard S. Race and war in France: Colonial subjects in the French army, 1914–1918 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)
Smith, Leonard V. et al. France and the Great War (2003) 222pp; excerpt and text search
Smith, Leonard V. Between Mutiny and Obedience: the case of the French fifth infantry division during World War I (Princeton University Press, 1994)
Smith, Leonard V. The Embattled Self: French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War (2014) Excerpt and text search
Sumner, Ian. They Shall Not Pass: The French Army on the Western Front 1914-1918 (2012)
Sumner, Ian. The French Army 1914-18 (1995) excerpt and text search

Italy

Gibelli, Antonio. La Grande Guerra degli italiani, 1915-1918, Milano, Sansoni (1998)
Page, Thomas N. Italy and the World War, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons Full Text Available Online (1920)
Thompson, Mark. The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 excerpt and text search (2009)

Russia

Cornish, Nik; Karachtchouk, Andrei (ill.) (2001). The Russian Army 1914-18. Men-at-Arms. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. p. 48. ISBN 1-84176-303-9. OCLC 248331622.
Lincoln, W. Bruce. Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution, 1914-1918 (1986)
Stone, David R (2015). The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914-1917. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-2095-1.

United States

American Battle Monuments Commission (1938). American armies and battlefields in Europe : a history, guide, and reference book. U.S.G.P.O. Selected photos available online through the Washington State Library's Classics in Washington History collection
American Battle Monuments Commission (1938). American armies and battlefields in Europe : a history, guide, and reference book. U.S.G.P.O. Maps available online through the Washington State Office of the Secretary of State's Washington History collection
Ayres, Leonard P, The War with Germany: A Statistical Summary Government Printing Office, 1919 full text online
Ball, Gregory W. They Called Them Soldier Boys: A Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I (University of North Texas Press, 2013) ISBN 9781574415001
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) ISBN 0029058201
Coffman, Edward M (1998). The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-0955-8. OCLC 38842092.
Elson, Aaron. The Armored Fist: The 712th Tank Battalion in the Second World War (Fonthill Media, 2014) ISBN 9781781550915
Hallas, James H. Doughboy War: The American Expeditionary Force in World War I (2000) ISBN 1555878555
Howarth, Stephen. To Shining Sea: A History of the United States Navy, 1775-1991 (1991) ISBN 0394576624
Kennedy, David M (1982). Over Here: The First World War and American Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-503209-8. OCLC 9906841. , covers politics & economics & society
Koistinen, Paul. Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865-1919 (1997) ISBN 0700608605
Shay, Michael E. Sky Pilots: The Yankee Division Chaplains in World War I (University of Missouri Press, 2014) ISBN 9780826220318
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) ISBN 0824070550
Woodward, David. The American Army and the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2014) ISBN 9781107011441

Central Powers

General Staff: American Expeditionary Force, ed. (1919). Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty One Divisions of the German Army Which Participated in the War (1914–1918). Chaumont, France.
Cecil, Lamar (1996). Wilhelm II: Emperor and Exile, 1900–1941 II. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. p. 176. ISBN 0-8078-2283-3. OCLC 186744003.
Herwig, Holger H (1996). The First World War: Germany and Austria–Hungary 1914–1918. London: Arnold. ISBN 0-340-57348-1. OCLC 60154404.
Hubatsch, Walther; Backus, Oswald P (1963). Germany and the Central Powers in the World War, 1914–1918. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas. OCLC 250441891.
Jung, Peter. The Austro-Hungarian Forces in World War I 2 vol 2003) Excerpt
Rauchensteiner, Manfried (2014). The First World War and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914-1918. Wien/Köln/Weimar: Böhlau Verlag. ISBN 978-3-205-79588-9.
Rogers (ed.), Duncan (2010). Landrecies to Cambrai: Case Studies of German Offensive and Defensive Operations on the Western Front 1914–17. Solihull: Helion. ISBN 978-1-906033-76-7.
Sheldon, J. (2010). The German Army at Ypres 1914 (1st ed.). Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military. ISBN 978-1-84884-113-0.
Sheldon, J. (2012). The German Army on the Western Front, 1915. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military. ISBN 978-1-84884-466-7.
Sheldon, J. (2005). The German Army on the Somme: 1914–1916. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military. ISBN 1-84415-269-3.
Sheldon, J. (2008). The German Army on Vimy Ridge 1914–1917. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military. ISBN 1-84415-680-X.
Sheldon, J. (2007). The German Army at Passchendaele. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military. ISBN 1-84415-564-1.
Schindler, J (2003). Steamrollered in Galicia: The Austro-Hungarian Army and the Brusilov Offensive, 1916. War in History 10. pp. 27–59. doi:10.1191/0968344503wh260oa.
Thomas, Nigel. The German Army in World War I (1): 1914-15 (3 vol 2003) Excerpt and text search
Watson, Alexander (2014). Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-46501-872-7.
Watson, Alexander. Enduring the Great War: Combat, morale and collapse in the German and British armies, 1914–1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Watson, Alexander. Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918 (2014), excerpt

Homefronts

Main article: Home front during World War I § Further reading

Darrow, Margaret H., French Women and the First World War (Berg, 2000) ISBN 1859733611
Grayzel, Susan, Women and the First World War (2002), worldwide coverage
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—mostly military but many on the homefront; online edition ISBN 031328850X
Horne, John N., ed. A Companion to World War I (2010), 38 essays by leading scholars covering all facets of the war excerpt and text search ISBN 9781405123860 OCLC 458582914
Horne, John N., State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War (1997, reissued in 2002) ISBN 0521522668 OCLC 166254060
Kennedy, David M.,Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980, reissued in 2004) ISBN 0195027299
Proctor, Tammy M., Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918 (2010) 410pp; global coverage excerpt and text search ISBN 9780814767153
Stevenson, David, Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy (2005) 625pp; excerpt and text search ISBN 0465081843
Stevenson, David, With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 (2011) excerpt and text search covers both the homefront and the battlefields for the major powers ISBN 9780674062269
Strachan, Hew, The First World War (vol 1, 2005) 1225pp; covers the battlefields and chief home fronts in 1914-1917 excerpt and text search ISBN 0670032956
Tucker, Spencer, ed. European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1999) excerpt and text search ISBN 0815303998
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 ISBN 1851094253
- Tucker, Spencer C., ed. World War I: A Student Encyclopedia. 4 vol. ABC-CLIO, 2006. 2454 pp.
Wilson, Trevor, The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War 1914-1918 (1989) excerpt and text search
Winter, J. M., The Experience of World War I (2006) excerpt and text search
Winter, Jay, and Jean-Louis Robert, eds. Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919 (2 vol. 1999, 2007), 30 chapters 1200pp; comprehensive coverage by scholars vol 1 excerpt; vol 2 excerpt and text search ISBN 0521571715

Economics

Main article: Economic history of World War I § Further reading

Bogart, E.L. Direct and Indirect Costs of the Great World War (2nd ed. 1920); comprehensive coverage of every major country; online free
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
Ferguson, Niall The Pity of War (1999), cultural and economic themes
Fisk, Harvey E., The Inter-Ally Debts: An Analysis of War and Post-War Public Finance, 1914-1923 (1924) online
Grayzel, Susan, Women and the First World War (2002), worldwide coverage
Hardach, Gerd, The First World War 1914-1918 (1977), economic history of major powers
Howard, N. P. "The Social and Political Consequences of the Allied Food Blockade of Germany, 1918-19," German History, April 1993, Vol. 11 Issue 2, pp 161–188
Menderhausen, Horst, The Economics of War (1940, 1943)
Osborne, Eric, Britain's Economic Blockade of Germany, 1914-1919 (2004)
Stevenson, David, With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 (2011) excerpt and text search, pp 350–438, covers major countries
Strachan, Hew, Financing the First World War (2004) ISBN 0199257272, a full study of how the War was paid for
Stubbs, Kevin D., Race to the Front: The Materiel Foundations of Coalition Strategy in the Great War (2002) ISBN 0275972992
Shotwell, James T., Economic and Social History of the World War (1924)
Thorp, William Long, Business Annals: United States, England, France, Germany, Austria, Russia, Sweden Netherlands, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, Australia, India, Japan, China (1926) capsule summary of conditions in each country for each quarter-year 1790-1925
Winter, J. M. The Experience of World War I (2nd ed 2005)

Battles and Campaigns

Western Front

Ashworth, Tony (2000) [1980]. Trench warfare, 1914-18 : the live and let live system. London: Pan. ISBN 0-330-48068-5. OCLC 247360122.
Coffman, Edward M (1998). The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-0955-8. OCLC 38842092.
Esposito, Vincent J (1997). 1900–1918. The West Point Atlas of American Wars II. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-5305-0. OCLC 39644150. despite the title covers entire war
Falls, Cyril Bentham (1959). The Great War. New York: Putnam. ISBN 0-399-50100-2. OCLC 8664179. general military history
Gilbert, Martin. The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War (2007) excerpt and text search
Harris, J. P. Douglas Haig and the First World War (2009) excerpt and text search
Herwig, Holger H. Operation Michael: The “Last Card” 2001 German Spring Offensive in 1918
Hemrick, Levi (2013), Once A Marine, Clarion Publishing, ISBN 978-0988714588
Lengel, Edward G. To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918 The Epic Battle That Ended the First World War (2009) excerpt and text search
Liddle, Peter, H. (2001). The 1916 Battle of the Somme: A Reappraisal. Hertfordshire: Wordsworth. ISBN 1-84022-240-9.
Philpott, William (2009). Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century (1st ed.). London: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-1-4087-0108-9.
Prior, Robin and Wilson, Trevor (2005). The Somme (1st ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10694-7.
Sacco, Joe (2013). The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme: An Illustrated Panorama (1st ed.). W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393088809.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August, tells of the opening diplomatic and military manoeuvres.
Uys, Ian (1983). Delville Wood. Johannesburg: Uys Publishers. ISBN 0-620-06611-3.
Wolff, Leon. In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign (1958)

Specialty military topics

Infantry and artillery

Ashworth, Tony. Trench Warfare, 1914-1918: the live and let live system (Pan Macmillan, 2000)
Bidwell, Shelford and Graham, Dominick. Firepower: British Army Weapons and Theories of War, 1904-1945 (1992)
Engen, Rob. "Steel Against Fire: The Bayonet in the First World War." Journal of Military and Strategic Studies (2006) 8#3 Online
Griffith, P (1996). Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army's Art of Attack 1916–1918. London: Yale. ISBN 0-30006-663-5.
Gudmundsson, Bruce I. Stormtroop Tactics: Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918 (1989)
Love, Albert G. War Casualties (1931) online statistics and how compiled for U.S. Army
Lewis-Stempel, John. "Six Weeks: The Short and Gallant Life of the British Officer in the First World War" (2010) (ISBN 978-0-297-86006-8)
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)
Snyder, Jack L (1984). Ideology of the Offensive. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-1657-4.
Weber, Thomas. Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War (2010)

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
Khan, David The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking (2004)
Parr, Edward. "Kingdoms Fall: The Laxenburg Message" (2013). Fact-based fictional account of Secret Intelligence Service agents during World War I, including Suvla Bay landing, Salonika landing, Battle of Verdun. First of a trilogy.
Seligmann, Matthew (2006). Spies in Uniform: British Military and Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19926-150-5
Tuchman, Barbara W. The Zimmermann Telegram (1966)

Medicine

Alberti, Samuel JMM. "The ‘Regiment of Skeletons’: A First World War Medical Collection." Social History of Medicine (2014) doi: 10.1093/shm/hku038 online
Carden-Coyne, Ana. The Politics of Wounds: Military Patients and Medical Power in the First World War (Oxford University Press, 2014), from the patients' perspective
Grant, Susan-Mary. "On the Field of Mercy: Women Medical Volunteers from the Civil War to the First World War." American Nineteenth Century History (2012) 13#2 pp: 276-278. on USA
Haller, Jr., John S. "Treatment of infected wounds during the Great War, 1914 to 1918." Southern medical journal (1992) 85#3 pp: 303-315.
Harrison, Mark. The medical war: British military medicine in the First World War (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Jones, Edgar, and Simon Wessely. Shell shock to PTSD: Military psychiatry from 1900 to the Gulf War (Psychology Press, 2005)
Jones, Edgar. "Terror weapons: the British experience of gas and its treatment in the first world war." War in History (2014) 21#3 pp: 355-375.
Kaufmann, Doris. "Science as cultural practice: psychiatry in the First World War and Weimar Germany." Journal of Contemporary History (1999): 125-144. in JSTOR
Leneman, Leah. "Medical women at war, 1914–1918." Medical history (1994) 38#2 pp: 160-177. online on Britain
Loughran, Tracey. "Shell shock, trauma, and the First World War: the making of a diagnosis and its histories." Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences (2012) 67#1 pp: 94-119.
Mitchell, Thomas John, and G. M. Smith. Medical services, casualties and medical statistics of the great war (London: HM Stationery Office, 1931)
Phillips, Howard. "The re-appearing shadow of 1918: trends in the historiography of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic." Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine (2010) 21#1: 121-134.
Yanıkdağ, Yücel. Healing the Nation: Prisoners of War, Medicine and Nationalism in Turkey, 1914–1939 (2013)

Weapons

Air War

Angelucci, Enzo, Matricardi, Paolo. World Aircraft: Origins-World War I (1979). ISBN 0-528-88165-5.
Bennett, Leon. Three Wings for the Red Baron: Von Richthofen, Strategy, Tactics, and Airplanes (2001). ISBN 1-57249-213-9. 248 pgs.
Bickers, Richard Townshend. The First Great Air War (1989). ISBN 0-340-50824-8. 277 pgs.
Boelcke,Oswald, An Aviators Field Book,1914-1916 (1991) ISBN 978-0-89839-163-3 pgs.
Chajkowsky, William E., Royal Flying Corps, Bordon to Texas to Beamsville (1979) Boston Mills Press, ISBN 0-919822-23-1.
Bowyer, Chaz. Royal Flying Corps Communiques: 1917-1918 (1998). ISBN 1-898697-79-5. 258 pgs.
Chickering, Roger, et al. eds. Great War, Total War : Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918 (Publications of the German Historical Institute) (2000). ISBN 0-521-77352-0. 584 pgs.
Clark, Alan. Aces high: The war in the air over the Western Front 1914-18 (1973). ISBN 0-297-99464-6. 191 pgs.
Cooke, James J.. The U.S. Air Service In the Great War: 1917-1919 (1996). ISBN 0-275-94862-5. 272 pgs.
Cormack, Andrew, Peter Cormack. British Air Forces (1) : 1914-1918 (Men-At-Arms Series, 341) (2000). Osprey Publishing (UK). ISBN 1-84176-001-3. 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 1-84176-226-1. 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 1-84176-069-2. 96 pgs.
Cross, Wilbur (1991). Zeppelins of World War I. ISBN 1-55778-382-9.
Cuneo, John R. Winged Mars (2 Volumes) (1942). The Military Service Publishing Company. 338 pgs.
Diggens, Barry. September Evening: The Life and Final Combat of the German World War One Ace Werner Voss (2003). Grub Street. ISBN 1-904010-47-4. 192 pgs.
Dodds, Ronald. The Brave Young Wings (1980). Canada's Wings, Inc., Stittsville, Ontario, Canada. ISBN 0-920002-08-0. 302 pgs.
Editors, Time Life, Ezra Bowen. Knights of the Air (Epic of Flight) (1980). Warner Books Inc. ISBN 0-8094-3252-8. 192 pgs.
Frandsen, Bert. Hat in the Ring: The Birth of American Air Power in the Great War (2003). Smithsonian Books. ISBN 1-58834-150-X. 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 0-948817-73-9. 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, 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, 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. 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.
Grinnel-Milne, Duncan. Wind in the Wires (1968) Doubleday Publishing (ISBN Not given). 259 pages with illus.
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.
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)
Immelmann, Franz. Immelmann,The Eagle Of Lille (1990) ISBN 978-0-947898-00-7. 240 pgs.
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.
Lewis, Cecil. "Sagittarius Rising", 1936 Greenhill Books, 332 pages, ISBN 1-85367-559-8
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, 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.
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.
Wise, S.F., Canadian Airmen and the First World War: The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Vol. 1, (1980). University of Toronto Press, ISBN 0-8020-2379-7.
Wood, Alan C. Aces and Airmen of Ww1 (2002). Brassey's Inc. ISBN 1-85753-380-1. 176 pgs.

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)
Richter, Donald. Chemical Soldiers: British Gas Warfare in World War I (1992)
Freemantle, Michael. Gas! Gas! Quick, Boys!: How Chemistry Changed the First World War (2012)

Naval war

Allard, Dean C. "Anglo-American Naval Differences During World War I." Military Affairs: Journal of Military History (1980): 75-81. in JSTOR
Bennett, Geoffrey. Naval Battles of the First World War (Pen and Sword, 2014)
Coogan, John W. The End of Neutrality: The United States, Britain and Maritime Rights, 1899-1915 (Cornell University Press, 1981)
Farquharson-Roberts, Mike. A History of the Royal Navy: World War I (IB Tauris, 2014)
Goldrick, James. The Kingś Ships Were at Sea: The War in the North Sea, August 1914-February 1915 (US Naval Institute Press, 1984)
Grimes, Shawn T. Strategy and War Planning in the British Navy, 1887-1918 (Boydell Press, 2012)
Halpern, Paul G. The War at Sea (Wiley‐Blackwell, 1998)
Halpern, Paul G. The Mediterranean naval situation, 1908-1914 (Harvard UP, 1971)
Holloway, S. M. From Trench and Turret: Royal Marines' Letters and Diaries 1914-18 (Constable, 2006), primary sources
Hough, Richard. The Great War at Sea, 1914-1918 (Oxford UP, 1987)
Kirschbaum, Joseph W. The 1916 Naval Expansion Act: Planning for a Navy Second to None (ProQuest, 2008). US Navy
London, Charles. Jutland 1916: clash of the dreadnoughts (Osprey, 2000)
MacGregor, David. "The Use, Misuse, and Non-Use of History: The Royal Navy and the Operational Lessons of the First World War." Journal of Military History (1992): 603-616. in JSTOR
Marder, Arthur Jacob. From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow (4 vol. 1961-70), covers Royal Navy 1904-1919
Osborne, Eric W. Britain's economic blockade of Germany, 1914-1919 (Routledge, 2004)
Peebles, Hugh B. Warshipbuilding on the Clyde: Naval orders and the prosperity of the Clyde shipbuilding industry, 1889-1939 (John Donald, 1987)
Sondhaus, Lawrence. The Great War at Sea: A Naval History of the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2014) 417 pp. Online review
Trask, David F. Captains & cabinets: Anglo-American naval relations, 1917-1918 (University of Missouri Press, 1972)
Woodward, Ernest Llewellyn. Great Britain and the German navy (1935)
The Royal Navy in the First World War

Naval aviation

Benbow, Tim, ed. British naval aviation: the first 100 years (Ashgate, 2013)
Ingalls, David S. Hero of the Angry Sky: The World War I Diary and Letters of David S. Ingalls, America’s First Naval Ace (Ohio University Press, 2013)
Layman, R. D. Naval Aviation in the First World War: Its Impact and Influence (Naval Institute Press, 1996)
Till, Geoffrey. Air Power and the Royal Navy, 1914-1945: a historical survey (Macdonald and Jane's, 1979)

Submarines

Abbatiello, John. Anti-Submarine Warfare in World War I: British Naval Aviation and the Defeat of the U-Boats (2005)
Compton-Hall, Richard. Submarines and the War at Sea, 1914-18 (Macmillan, 1991)
Gray, Edwyn A. The U-Boat War, 1914-1918 (1994)
Greentree, David, Ian Palmer, and Peter Dennis. Q Ship Vs U-Boat: 1914-18 (Osprey, 2014)
Hackmann, Willem Dirk. Seek & Strike: Sonar, anti-submarine warfare and the Royal Navy 1914-54 (Unipub, 1984)
Henry, Chris. Depth Charge!: Mines, Depth Charges and Underwater Weapons, 1914-1945 (Casemate Publishers, 2005)
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.
Thomas, Lowell. Raiders Of The Deep (1928, 2004)

Tanks

Elson, Aaron. The Armored Fist: The 712th Tank Battalion in the Second World War (Fonthill Media, 2014) ISBN 9781781550915
Foley, Michael. Rise of the Tank: Armoured Vehicles and their use in the First World War (Pen and Sword, 2014) ISBN 9781783463930
Fuller, J.F.C. Tanks in the Great War (1920)
Guderian, Heinz. Achtung! Panzer (1937)
Hammond, Christopher Brynley. The Theory and Practice of British Tank Warfare on the Western Front During the First World War (Ashgate, 2013) ISBN 9781409431718
Smithers, A J (1986). A New Excalibur; The Development of the Tank, 1909-1939. Leo Cooper. ISBN 978-0-436-47520-7. OCLC 246675397.
Wilson, Dale E. Treat 'Em Rough!: The Birth of American Armor, 1917-20 (1989) ISBN 9780891413547

Cultural, literary, artistic, memorials

Cruickshank, John, Variations on Catastrophe: Some French Responses to the Great War (1982) ISBN 0192125990
Eksteins, Modris, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (1989, reissued in 2000). ISBN 0395937582
Fussell, Paul (1975). The Great War and Modern Memory. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 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) ISBN 0689121288
Isenberg, Michael Thomas (1981). War on Film: The American Cinema and World War I, 1914-1941. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 0-8386-2004-3. OCLC 5726236.
James, Pearl, The New Death: American Modernism and World War I (University of Virginia Press; 2013) ISBN 9780813934075; 272 pages; responses to war by Willa Cather, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway.
Mosse, George L. Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars (1991) ISBN 0195071395
Parfitt, George, Fiction of the First World War: A Study (London: Faber 1990) ISBN 0571148964
Raitt, Suzanne and Trudi Tateeds, Women's Fiction and the Great War (Clarendon Press, 1997) ISBN 019818283X
Robb, George. British Culture And The First World War (2002) ISBN 0333715713
Roshwald, Aviel Roshwald . European Culture in the Great War : The Arts, Entertainment and Propaganda, 1914-1918 (2002) ISBN 0521570158
Silkin, Jon, ed. (1996). The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (2nd ed.). New York: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-118009-9. OCLC 37105631.
Sherry, Vincent, The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War (2005) ISBN 0521821452
Stallworthy, Jon, Great Poets of World War I: Poetry from the Great War (2002) ISBN 0786710985
Vance, Jonathan F. Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War (1997) ISBN 077480601X
Verhey, Jeffrey, The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth and Mobilization in Germany (2000) ISBN 0521771374
Viney, Nigel, Images of Wartime: British Art and Artists of World War I (1991) ISBN 0715397907
Watson, Janet S. K., Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory, and the First World War in Britain (2004) ISBN 0521831539
Winter, Jay, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1995, reissued in 1998) ISBN 0521639883

Propaganda and media

Carruth, Joseph. "World War I Propaganda and Its Effects in Arkansas." Arkansas Historical Quarterly (1997): 385-398. in JSTOR
Cole, Robert, ed. The Encyclopedia of Propaganda (3 vols. Sharpe Reference, 1998)
Collins, Ross F. Children, War and Propaganda (Peter Lang, 2011)
Creel, George. "Propaganda and Morale" American Journal of Sociology (1941) 47#3 pp. 340–351 in JSTOR, Analysis by the head of American propaganda in the First World War* Haste, Cate. Keep the home fires burning: Propaganda in the First World War (Lane, Allen, 1977), On Britain
Green, Leanne. "Advertising war: Picturing Belgium in First World War publicity." Media, War & Conflict 7.3 (2014): 309-325.
Gullace, Nicoletta F. "Allied Propaganda and World War I: Interwar Legacies, Media Studies, and the Politics of War Guilt." History Compass (2011) 9#9 pp: 686-700.
Horne, John, and Alan Kramer. "German 'Atrocities' and Franco-German Opinion, 1914: The Evidence of German Soldiers' Diaries," Journal of Modern History (1994) 66#1 pp: 1-33 in JSTOR
Johnson, Niel M. George Sylvester Viereck, German-American Propagandist (University of Illinois Press, 1972), in World War I
Kingsbury, Celia Malone. For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front (University of Nebraska Press; 2010; 308 pages). Describes propaganda directed toward the homes of the American homefront in everything from cookbooks and popular magazines to children's toys.
Lasswell, Harold D.. Propaganda Technique in the World War. (1927), A famous classic
Lutz, Ralph Haswell. "Studies of World War Propaganda, 1914-33." Journal of Modern History (1933) 5#4 pp: 496-516. in JSTOR
Marquis, Alice Goldfarb . "Words as Weapons: Propaganda in Britain and Germany during the First World War," Journal of Contemporary History (1978) 13#3 pp. 467–498 in JSTOR
Monger, David. Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain: The National War Aims Committee and Civilian Morale (2013) online edition
Paddock, Troy. A Call to Arms: Propaganda, Public Opinion, and Newspapers in the Great War (2004)
Peterson, Horace Cornelius. Propaganda for war: The campaign against American neutrality, 1914-1917 (University of Oklahoma Press, 1939), on the operations of private organizations
Roshwald, Aviel Roshwald . European Culture in the Great War : The Arts, Entertainment and Propaganda, 1914-1918 (2002)
Sanders, Michael, and Philip M. Taylor. British Propaganda During the First World War, 1914-18 (Macmillan, 1982)
Squires, James Duane. British Propaganda at Home and in the United States from 1914 to 1917 (Harvard University Press, 1935)
Thompson, J. Lee. Politicians, the Press, & Propaganda: Lord Northcliffe & the Great War, 1914-1919 (Kent State University Press, 1999)
Wood, Richard, and David Culbert, Film and Propaganda in America: A Documentary History: World War I - Vol. 1 (1990)

Poetry and songs

George Walter, The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (2006)
On Receiving News of the War, (1914) poem by Isaac Rosenberg
In Flanders Fields, (1915) poem by John McCrae
Anthem for Doomed Youth, (1917) poem by Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum Est,(1917) poem by Wilfred Owen
Disabled,(1917) poem by Wilfred Owen
Base details,(1918) poem by Siegfried Sassoon
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

Books and novels

Le Feu (Under Fire) (1916), novel by Henri Barbusse
Rilla of Ingleside (1920), novel by L.M. Montgomery, an account of the war as experienced by Canadian women of the time
Storm of Steel, autobiography of Ernst Jünger. First published 1920 and revised several times through 1961
Three Soldiers (1921), novel by John Dos Passos
The Enormous Room (1922), novel by E.E. Cummings
Pădurea Spânzuraţilor/Forest of the Hanged (1922), a novel by Romanian writer Liviu Rebreanu about the drama of the Romanian ethnics from Transylvania who were forced to fight against Romania. The author's brother, Emil Rebreanu, was hanged in 1917 by the Austro-Hungarian army for desertion.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922) by T. E. Lawrence
The Good Soldier Švejk (1923), satirical novel by Jaroslav Hašek
Parade's End (1924-1928), four-part novel (Some Do Not . . ., No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, The Last Post) by Ford Madox Ford
Private 12768: Memoir of a Tommy (1926, first published 2005), memoir by John Jackson, ISBN 9780752431840
A Farewell to Arms (1929), novel by Ernest Hemingway
All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), novel written by Erich Maria Remarque
Death of a Hero (1929), novel by Richard Aldington
Goodbye to All That (1929), autobiography of Robert Graves
The Middle Parts of Fortune (1929, 1977), a novel by Frederic Manning
A Subaltern's War (1929), a novel by Charles Edmund Carrington
The Wet Flanders Plain (1929), a novel by Henry Williamson
Her Privates We (1930, 1999), a novel by Frederic Manning
Generals Die in Bed (1930), novel by Charles Yale Harrison
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930), novel by Siegfried Sassoon
The Patriot's Progress (1930), a novel by Henry Williamson
Testament of Youth (1933), memoir by Vera Brittain
Winged Victory (1934), a novel by V.M. Yeates
God's Sparrows (1937), a novel by Philip Child
Un anno sull'altipiano (A Year on the Plateau) (1938), novel by Emilio Lussu
World's End (1940), first novel in Upton Sinclair's Pulitzer Prize winning Lanny Budd series
Chronicles of Ancient Sunlight (1951-1969), a series of novels by Henry Williamson
The Bartholomew Bandy novels (1962, 1973–76) (Three Cheers for Me!, That's Me in the Middle and It's Me Again) by Donald Jack.
The Wars (1977), novel by Timothy Findley
The Otto Prohaska Novels (1991-1994) (A Sailor of Austria, The Emperor's Coloured Coat, The Two-Headed Eagle and Tomorrow the World), novels by John Biggins
Regeneration (1991), The Eye in the Door, 1993; The Ghost Road novels by Pat Barker
Birdsong (1993), novel by Sebastian Faulks
Deafening (2003), book written by Frances Itani
No Graves As Yet (2003), first volume of a trilogy of novels by Anne Perry
A Long, Long Way (2005), novel by Sebastian Barry
To the Last Man (2005), novel by Jeff Shaara
A Young Man's War (2008), letters from the Front by Alec Ward
Kingdoms Fall: The Laxenburg Message (2013), a novel by Edward Parr

Films, plays, television series and mini-series

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), movie directed by Rex Ingram, based on a novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
The Big Parade (1925), movie directed by King Vidor, adapted by Harry Behn from the play by Joseph Farnham and the autobiographical novel Plumes by Laurence Stallings.
Mare Nostrum (1926), movie directed by Rex Ingram, based on a novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Wings (1927), directed by William A. Wellman tells the story about two fighter pilots. The film is one of only two silent movie to win the Academy Oscar for Best Picture.
Journey's End (1928), play written by R. C. Sherriff
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), movie directed by Lewis Milestone, based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque (1929).
Hell's Angels (1930), movie directed by Howard Hughes.
War Nurse (1930), movie directed by Edgar Selwyn.
Westfront 1918 (1930), German-language movie directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. Later banned under the Nazi regime.
Grand Illusion (1937), directed by Jean Renoir
Sergeant York (1941), movie directed by Howard Hawks
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), directed by Michael Curtiz
Paths of Glory (1957), movie directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb (1935)
Marš na Drinu (1964), Serbian war film about a Serbian artillery battalion in the Battle of Cer
Lawrence of Arabia (1962), movie covering events surrounding T. E. Lawrence in the pan-Arabian Theatre, starring Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, and Omar Sharif and directed by David Lean
World War I (1964), CBS News documentary narrated by Robert Ryan
The Great War (1964) TV series by Correlli Barnett and others of BBC
Doctor Zhivago (1965), movie by David Lean, based on the novel by Boris Pasternak, deals with Russia's involvement in the war and how it led to that country's Revolution.
The Blue Max (1966), movie directed by John Guillermin, titled after the Prussian military award, or Pour le Mérite
Oh! What a Lovely War(1969), film directed by Richard Attenborough, based on the stage musical Oh, What a Lovely War! (1963) by Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop.
Many Wars Ago (1970) (Italian title; Uomini Contro), set during the Isonzo campaign, where many tired Italian soldiers begin a mutiny.
Johnny Got His Gun (1971), movie directed by Dalton Trumbo
Gallipoli (1981), movie directed by Peter Weir
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, (1985), play by Frank McGuinness
The Lighthorsemen (1987), movie directed by Simon Wincer
Blackadder Goes Forth (1989), TV series by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1996), Emmy-winning miniseries coproduced by KCET & BBC, distributed in the US by PBS
Regeneration (1997), movie directed by Gillies MacKinnon, based on the novel by Pat Barker (1991)
The Lost Battalion (2001), movie and screenplay directed by Russell Mulcahy
A Very Long Engagement (2004), movie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, based on the novel by Sebastien Japrisot (1991)
Joyeux Noël (2005), Based on the 1914 Christmas truce.
Passchendaele (2006), movie directed by and starring Paul Gross
Flyboys (2006), Movie directed by Tony Bill, tells the story of American pilots who volunteered for the French military before America entered World War I.
War Horse (2011), movie directed by Steven Spielberg, adaptation of British author Michael Morpurgo's 1982 novel.

Legacy and aftermath

Agnew, Kate, and Geoff Fox (2001). Children at War: From the First World War to the Gulf. New York and London: Continuum International Publishing. ISBN 978-0-82644-848-4
Black, Jeremy (2011). The Great War and the Making of the Modern World. New York and London: Continuum International Publishing. ISBN 978-0-82644-093-8
Chickering, Roger, and Stig Forster, eds. (2003). Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939'. West Nyack, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-52181-236-8
Kuhlman, Erika (2012). Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of Nation after the Great War. New York: NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-81474-839-8
MacMillan, Margaret (2003). Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-37576-052-5
Rachamimov, Alon (2002). Legacy of the Great War, POWs and the Great War: Captivity on the Eastern Front. Oxford: Berg Publishers. ISBN 978-1-85973-573-2
Reynolds, David (2014). The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-39308-863-2
Seipp, Adam R. (2009). Ordeal of Peace: Demobilisation and the Urban Experience in Britain and Germany, 1917-1921. Abingdon: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-0-75466-749-0
Sharp, Alan (2011). Consequences of Peace: The Versailles Settlement-Aftermath and Legacy 1919-2010. New York: Haus Publishing. ISBN 978-1-90579-174-3
Tate, Trudi (2013). Modernism, History and the First World War. Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks, LLP. ISBN 978-1-84760-240-4
Winter, Jay (2009). Legacy of the Great War: Ninety Years On. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-82621-871-1

Historiography and memory

Baker, Kevin (June 2006), "Stabbed in the Back! The past and future of a right-wing myth", Harper's Magazine
Deak, John. (2014). "The Great War and the Forgotten Realm: The Habsburg Monarchy and the First World War" Journal of Modern History (2014) 86#2 pp: 336-380.
Fussell, Paul (2013). The Great War and Modern Memory. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19997-195-4
Iriye, Akira. (2014). "The Historiographic Impact of the Great War." Diplomatic History (July 2014) doi: 10.1093/dh/dhu035
Jones, Heather. (2013). "As the centenary approaches: the regeneration of First World War historiography." Historical Journal (2013) 56#3 pp: 857-878.
Jones, Heather. (2014). "Goodbye to all that?: Memory and Meaning in the Commemoration of the First World War." Juncture (2014) 20#4 pp: 287-291.
Kramer, Alan. (2014a and 2014b). "Recent Historiography of the First World War - Part I," Journal of Modern European History (Feb. 2014) 12#1 pp 5–27; "Recent Historiography of the First World War (Part II)," (May 2014) 12#2 pp 155–174
Millier, Alisa, Laura Rowe, and James Kitchen (2011). Other Combatants, Other Fronts: Competing Histories of the First World War. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-44382-737-9
Petrone, Karen (2011). Great War in Russian Memory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-25335-617-8
Mulligan, William. (2014). "The Trial Continues: New Directions in the Study of the Origins of the First World War." English Historical Review (2014) 129#538 pp: 639-666.
Sanborn, Joshua. (2013). "Russian Historiography on the Origins of the First World War Since the Fischer Controversy." Journal of Contemporary History (2013) 48#2 pp: 350-362.
Sharp, Heather. (2014). "Representing Australia's Involvement in the First World War: Discrepancies between Public Discourses and School History Textbooks from 1916 to 1936." Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society (2014) 6#1 pp: 1-23.
Trout, Steven (2010). On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919-1941. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-81731-705-8
Vance, Jonathan F. (1997). Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 978-0-77480-601-5
Winter, Jay, and Antoine Prost (2005). The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-52161-633-1
Winter, Jay (2006). Remembering War: The Great War Between Memory and History in the Twentieth Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-30011-068-5
Winter, Jay, ed. (2014). The Cambridge History of the First World War (2 vol. Cambridge University Press, 2014) ISBN 9780521763851

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World War I

Home fronts

Theatres

European	Balkans Western Front Eastern Front Italian Front

Middle Eastern	Gallipoli Sinai and Palestine Caucasus Persia Mesopotamia South Arabia

African	South-West East Kamerun Togoland North

Asian and Pacific	Tsingtao German New Guinea and Samoa

At sea	Atlantic U-boat campaign Mediterranean North Sea Baltic Southern Hemisphere Cocos & Keeling Islands Coronel Falkland Islands Más a Tierra

Principal
participants
(people)

Entente powers	Armenia Brazil China French Empire Belgium British Empire Greece Italy Japan Montenegro Portugal Romania Russia Russian Empire Russian Republic Serbia Siam United States

Central Powers	Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Bulgaria

Timeline

Pre-War conflicts	Scramble for Africa (1880–1914) Russo-Japanese War (1905) First Moroccan (Tangier) Crisis (1905–06) Agadir Crisis (1911) Italo-Turkish War (1911–12) French conquest of Morocco (1911–12) First Balkan War (1912–13) Second Balkan War (1913)

Prelude	Origins Sarajevo assassination Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo July Crisis

Autumn 1914	Battle of the Frontiers Battle of Cer First Battle of the Marne Siege of Tsingtao Battle of Tannenberg Battle of Galicia Battle of the Masurian Lakes Battle of Kolubara Battle of Sarikamish Race to the Sea First Battle of Ypres

1915	Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes Second Battle of Ypres Battle of Gallipoli Battles of the Isonzo Great Retreat Second Battle of Champagne Kosovo Offensive Siege of Kut Battle of Loos

1916	Erzurum Offensive Battle of Verdun Lake Naroch Offensive Battle of Asiago Battle of Jutland Battle of the Somme Brusilov Offensive Baranovichi Offensive Battle of Romani Monastir Offensive Battle of Transylvania

1917	Capture of Baghdad First Battle of Gaza Second Battle of Arras Kerensky Offensive Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) Battle of Mărășești Battle of Caporetto Southern Palestine Offensive Battle of Cambrai Armistice of Erzincan

1918	Operation Faustschlag Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Spring Offensive Second Battle of the Marne Battle of Baku Hundred Days Offensive Vardar Offensive Battle of Megiddo Third Transjordan attack Meuse-Argonne Offensive Battle of Vittorio Veneto Battle of Aleppo Armistice of Mudros Armistice of Villa Giusti Armistice with Germany

Other conflicts	Mexican Revolution (1910–20) Somaliland Campaign (1910–20) Libyan resistance movement (1911–43) Maritz Rebellion (1914–15) Zaian War (1914–21) Indo-German Conspiracy (1914–19) Senussi Campaign (1915–16) Volta-Bani War (1915–17) Easter Rising (1916) Anglo-Egyptian Darfur Expedition (1916) Kaocen Revolt (1916–17) Russian Revolution (1917) Finnish Civil War (1918)

Post-War conflicts	Russian Civil War (1917–21) Ukrainian–Soviet War (1917–21) Armenian–Azerbaijani War (1918–20) Georgian–Armenian War (1918) German Revolution (1918–19) Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–20) Hungarian–Romanian War (1918–19) Greater Poland Uprising (1918–19) Estonian War of Independence (1918–20) Latvian War of Independence (1918–20) Lithuanian Wars of Independence (1918–20) Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919) Egyptian Revolution (1919) Polish–Ukrainian War (1918–19) Polish–Soviet War (1919–21) Irish War of Independence (1919–21) Turkish War of Independence Greco-Turkish War (1919–23) Turkish–Armenian War (1920) Iraqi revolt (1920) Polish–Lithuanian War (1920) Vlora War (1920) Franco-Syrian War (1920) Soviet–Georgian War (1921) Irish Civil War (1922–23)

Aspects

Opposition	Pacifism Anti-war movement

Deployment	Schlieffen Plan (German) Plan XVII (French)

Warfare	Military engagements Naval warfare Convoy system Air warfare Cryptography Horse use Poison gas Railways Strategic bombing Technology Trench warfare Total war Christmas truce Last surviving veterans

Civilian impact Atrocities Prisoners	Casualties Economic history 1918 flu pandemic Destruction of Kalisz The Rape of Belgium German occupation of Belgium German occupation of Luxembourg German occupation of northeastern France Ober Ost Ottoman people (Armenian Genocide, Assyrian genocide, Pontic Greek genocide) Blockade of Germany Women (Australia) Popular culture German prisoners of war in the United States

Agreements	Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire Sykes–Picot Agreement Agreement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne French-Armenian Agreement Damascus Protocol Paris Peace Conference Venizelos–Tittoni agreement

Treaties	Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Treaty of Lausanne Treaty of London Treaty of Neuilly Treaty of St. Germain Treaty of Sèvres Treaty of Trianon Treaty of Versailles

Consequences	Aftermath "Fourteen Points" League of Nations World War I memorials Centenary (commemorations)

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History of World War I by region and country

Europe	Belgium Bulgaria Estonia Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Luxembourg Poland Ottoman Empire Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United Kingdom

Africa	Angola East Africa Liberia Morocco South-West Africa Southern Rhodesia

North America	Canada United States

South America	Brazil

Middle East	Egypt Caucasus Iran Iraq Levant Yemen

Asia	India Japan Thailand Vietnam

Oceania	Australia New Zealand

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