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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.

Contents

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"

    • 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

  • 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

  • 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)

    • 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)

    • 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)

    • 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. [2]
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.

    • 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 [3]
  • 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

    • References

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