World War I/Bibliography

Please sort and annotate in a user-friendly manner. For formatting, consider using automated reference wikification.

World War I, Bibliography is an annotated bibliography of the most important and useful English language books and articles on World War I. as selected by the editors.

Popular histories

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

TV documentaries

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

US Navy recruiting poster 1917

Reference books

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

Overviews

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

Western Front

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

Infantry and specialty military topics

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

Eastern front

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

New weapons

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

Air War

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

Poison Gas

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

Submarines

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

Tanks

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

Medical, casualties, nursing

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

Intelligence

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

Causes and diplomacy

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

USA and Canada

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

online edition

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

Canada

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

Europe, homefront

see World War I, Homefront

Primary sources

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

Memoirs

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

Online secondary and primary sources

• Web Sources for Military History by Richard Jensen
• diplomatic primary documents, from Mt. Holyoke College
• primary documents from 1914
• Eastern Front, by War Times Journal
• "The World War I Document Archive," from Brigham Young U Library
• H-German, "G-Text Primary Source Archives, Kaiserreich, 1871–1918"
• Paul Halsall, ed., "Internet Modern History Sourcebook: World War I"
• The July Crisis, 1914
• U Wisconsin Collection: 92 primary sources in original languages

Poison gas and chemical warfare

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

saved from the World War I, Homefront/Bibliography before deleting that stub

Reference

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

Europe

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

U.S.

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

Canada

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

Primary sources

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

Cultural, literary, artistic, memorial

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

Poetry and songs

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

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

Novels, memoirs

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

Ernest Hemingway Sept 1918, planning A Farewell to Arms

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

Films, plays, television series and mini-series

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