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READING MATERIALS AND SOURCES
VIDEO MUSEUMS, REPLICAS AND MEMORABILIA ORGANIZATIONS, SOCIETIES AND REENACTMENTS WEB SITES AND E-MAIL ADDRESSES
Fiction
Nonfiction: Personal Accounts of World War I
Nonfiction: References for Teachers or Advanced Students
Book Stores Specializing in World War I Reference Materials
Journals and Subscription Information
READING MATERIALS AND SOURCES
Lewis, C. Day, ed. Selected War Poems of Wilfred Owen. London: Chatto & Windus, 1963.
Massie, Robert K. Nicholas and Alexandra. New York: Atheneum, 1967.
Pasternak, Boris. Dr. Zhivago. New York: 1957.
Remarque, Erich M. All Quiet on the Western Front. Reprint, New York: Fawcett, 1987.
Sassoon, Siegfried. The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon. London: Faber & Faber, 1983.
Stallworthy, Jon, ed. The Poems of Wilfred Owen. London: Hogarth Press, 1985.
Wolff, Leon. In Flanders Field: The 1917 Campaign. New York: Viking Press, 1958.
Nonfiction: Personal Accounts of World War I
Bean, C.E.W. Gallipoli Correspondent: The Frontline Diary of C.E.W. Bean. Selected and edited by Kevin Fewster. Boston: George Allen & Unwin, 1983.
Brittain, Vera. Testament to Youth. London: Gollancz, 1933.
Catlin, A.W. With the Help of God and a
Few Marines. New York: Doubleday Page, 1919.
Chronicler. Archangel: The American War With Russia. Chicago: A.C. McClury, 1924.
Davis, Leslie. The Slaughterhouse District:
An American Diplomat's Report on the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Aristide D. Caratzas, 1989.
Freidel, Frank. Over There: The Story of America's First Great Overseas Crusade, rev. ed. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.
Halpern, Paul G. A Naval History of World War I. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1994.
Hart-Davies, Rupert, ed. Siegfried Sassoon Diaries: 1915-1918. London: Faber and Faber, 1983.
Junker, Ernst. The Storm of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm Troop Officer on the Western Front. New York: Howard Fertag, 1975.
Junker, Ernst. A Chronicle from the Trench Warfare of 1918. New York: Howard Fertag, 1930/1988.
Keay, Julia. The Spy Who Never Was: The Life and Loves of Mata Hari. London: Michael Joseph, 1987.
Keegan, John. The Face of Battle. London: Penguin Books, 1976.
Kirchberger, Joe H. The First World War: An Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File, 1992.
Lawrence, T.E. Revolt in the Desert. New York: George H. Doran, 1927.
Lucy, John F. There's a Devil in the Drum. London: Faber & Faber, 1938.
Niemoller, Martin. From U-boat to Concentration Camp. London: William Hodge, 1939.
Sassoon, Siegfried. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. London: Folio Society, 1974.
Stumpf, Richard. War, Mutiny and Revolution in the German Navy: The World War I Diary of Seaman Richard Stumpf. Edited and translated by Daniel Horn. Reprint, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1967.
Vaughan, Edwin Campion. Some Desperate Glory: The Diary of a Young Officer--1917. London: Frederick Warne, 1982.
Weintraub, Stanley. A Stillness Heard Round the World: The End of the Great War--November 1918. New York: Dutton-Truman Talley, 1985.
Witkep, Philipp. German Student's War Letters. Translated by A.F. Wedd. London: Methuen, 1929.
Nonfiction: References for Teachers or Advanced Students
Adams, R.J.Q., ed. The Great War, 1914-1918: Essays on the Military, Political and Social History of the First World War. London: King's College and Macmillan, 1990.
Brown, Malcolm. The Imperial War Museum Book of the First World War. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1991.
Brown, Malcolm, and Shirley Seaton. Christmas Truce. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1984.
Campbell, Craig W. Reel American and World War I: A Comprehensive Filmography and History of Motion Pictures in the United States 1914-1920. Jefferson, NC.: McFarland & Company, 1985.
Crawford, Suzanne. A Paper Army that Helped Pull America into World War I. Smithsonian, Nov. 1981:122-127.
Compton-Hall, Richard. Submarines and the War at Sea, 1914-18. London: Macmillan, 1991.
Eksteins, Modris. Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age. New York: Bantam Books, 1989.
Enser, A.G.S. A Subject Bibliography of the First World War: Books in English 1914-1987. Brookfield, VT: Gower, 1991.
Fischer, Fritz. Germany's Aims in the First World War. (English Version). New York: W. W. Norton, 1967
Fromkin, David. How the Modern Middle East Map Came to Be Drawn. Smithsonian, May 1991:132-148.
Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1975.
Garnett, David, ed. The Essential T.E. Lawrence. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Garrett, Richard. Final Betrayal: The Armistice of 1918 ...And Afterwards. Southampton, England: Buchan & Enright, 1989.
Gilbert, Martin. The First World War: A Complete History. New York: Henry Holt, 1994.
Graves, Robert. Goodbye to All That. London: Penguin, 1988.
Graves, William S. The American Siberian Adventure. New York: Jonathon Cape and Harrison Smith, 1926
Gray, Randall and Chistopher Argyle. Chronicles of the First World War. (2 Vol.). New York: Facts on File, 1990.
Haber, L.F. The Poisonous Cloud: Chemical Warfare in the First World War. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986.
Heller, Jonathan. War and Conflict: Selected Images From the National Archives--1765-1970. Washington, D.C.: National Ar-chives and Records Administration, 1990.
Herwig, Holger H., ed. The Outbreak of World War I, 5th ed. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1991.
Horne, Alistair. The Price of Glory: Verdun, 1916. London: Penguin, 1962.
Hovennisian, R.G., ed. The Armenian Genocide: History, Politics, Ethics. London: Macmillan, 1992.
Howe, Russell Warren. The Mournful Fate of Mata Hari, the Spy Who Wasn't Guilty. Smithsonian, May 1986:132-159.
Hynes, Samuel. The War Imagined. London: Bodley Head, 1990.
Isenberg, Michael T. War on Film: The American Cinema and World War I--1914-1941. East Brunswick, N.J.: Associated Univer-sities Presses, 1981.
Kennett, Lee. The First Air War: 1914-1918. New York: Free Press, 1991.
Lawrence, T.E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph. New York: Doubleday, 1926/1991.
Leed, Eric. No Man's Land: Combat and Identity in World War I. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
MacDonald, Lyn. They Called It Passchendaele: The Story of the Third Battle of Ypres and the Men Who Lived Through It. London: Joseph, 1978
MacDonald, Lyn. 1914-1918: Voices and Images of the Great War. London: Penguin, 1988.
MacDonald, Lyn. The Roses of No Man's Land. New York: Atheneum, 1989.
MacDonald, Lyn. 1915: The Death of Innocence. New York: Henry Holt, 1995.
Martin, Gilbert. First World War. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994.
Massie, Robert K. Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War. New York: Random House, 1991.
Massie, Robert K. The Romanovs: The Final Chapter. New York: Random House, 1995.
McWilliams, James L. and Steel, R. James. Gas! The Battle for Ypres, 1915. St. Catherines, Ontario: Vanwell, 1985.
Middlebrook, Martin. The First Day on the Somme. London: Allen Lane, 1971.
Miller, Steven E., Sean M. Lynn-Jones, and Stephen Van Evera, eds. Military Strategy and the Origins of the First World War. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Millett, Allan R., and Williamson Murray, eds. The First World War, Vol. 1 of Military Effec-tiveness. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1988.
Morrow, Jr., John H. The Great War in the Air: Military Aviation from 1909-1921. Wash-ington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1993.
Robinson, Douglas. The Zeppelins in Combat. Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press, 1988.
Scheiber, Jane Lang, and Harry N. Scheiber. The Wilson administration and the wartime mobilization of Black Americans. Labor History, Vol X, No.3, Summer, 433-458, 1969.
Schneider, Dorothy, and Carl J. Schneider. Into the Breach: American Women Overseas in World War I. New York: Viking-Penguin, 1991.
Scott, Emmett J. Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War. New York: Arno Press, 1919/1969.
Snyder, Louis L., ed. Historic Documents of World War I. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977.
Steel, Nigel and Hart, Peter. Defeat at Gallipoli. London: Macmillan, 1994.
Terraine, John, ed. The Western Front: 1914-1918. London: Arrow, 1970.
Travers, Tim. The Killing Ground: The British Army, the Western Front, and the Emergence of Modern Warfare--1900-1918. London: Allen & Unwin, 1987.
Tuchman, Barbara W. The Zimmermann Telegram. New York: Viking Press, 1958.
Tuchman, Barbara W. The Guns of August. New York: Macmillan, 1962.
Tuchman, Barbara W. The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914. New York: Macmillan, 1965.
Warner, Philip. Passchendaele: The Story Behind the Tragic Victory of 1917. London: Sidwick & Jackson, 1987.
Wilson, Trevor. The Myrid Faces of War: Britain and the Great War, 1914-1918. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1986
Winter, Dennis. Death's Men: [Canadian] Soldiers of the Great War. London: Lane, 1978
Winter, Jay M. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Winter, Jay M., M. Haybeck, and G. Parker, eds. The First World War: 80 Years After. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996.
Young, Peter. The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia of World War I, (12 vols.). New York: Marshall Cavendish Publishers, 1984.
Book Stores Specializing in World War I Reference Materials
Argonne Books. P.O. Box 516; Cortland, OH 44410. 216-637-9355. Call or write for catalog.
The Brass Hat. RR2, Box 197A; Pike, NH 03780. 603-989-5697. Books and videos on the war, mostly by and about the Marines. Call or write for catalog.Tommy's Books. 17403 1st Place SW; Seattle, WA 98166. 206-241-2615. Call or write for catalog or with specific requests.
Journals and Subscription InformationOver the Top: The Air War 1914-1918. The League of World War I Aviation Historians; P.O. Box 260327; Plano, TX 75026-0327. Four issues a year. Back issues available.
Over There: The Illustrated Journal of the First World War. 7451 Warner Avenue, #E-108; Huntington Beach, CA 92647. 714-375-2105; fax, 714-375-2107. Four issues a year. Back issues available. Only journal in North America dedicated to all aspects of World War I.
VIDEOAll Quiet on the Western Front. Movie based on novel of same name; provides a German perspective of the Great War and details of life on the battlefields through the eyes of individual soldiers.
Das Boot [The Boat]. Movie based on a U-boat crew in the World War II; an excellent portrayal of the thoughts and feelings of submariners in the context of serving their country and completing their missions; in German with subtitles.
Dr. Zhivago. Movie based on Pasternak's novel of the same name; provides background to the Russian Revolution and the many ways Russian society was affected by the revolution and the civil wars; excellent re-creations of the mass desertion of soldiers from the eastern front.
Gallipoli. Movie based on the Australian and New Zealand armies' engagement at Gallipoli in 1915; excellent portrayal of the thoughts and feelings of the foot soldiers during this disastrous campaign.
The Great War: 1918. From the PBS video series "American Experience"; concentrates on the story of the U.S. military in the Great War in 1918; includes personal ac-counts of the front-line action of the Amer-ican forces along the western front. May be ordered directly from PBS Video; 1320 Braddock Place; Alexandria,VA 22314.
Lawrence of Arabia. Movie based on the life of T.E. Lawrence; an excellent portrayal of the violence and slaughter in the Middle East, with insight into the political intrigue between the Arab leaders and the British during the war.
Ft. Sill Artillery Museum. 436 Quanah Road; Ft. Sill, OK 73503. 405-442-5123. A special collection of artillery pieces, along with other artifacts and resources on the war.
Great War Militaria. P.O. Box 552; Chambersburg, PA 17201. 717-264-6834. An extensive collection of memorabilia, artifacts and authentic reproductions from World War I, including a small-scale battlefield with trenches. Visit the shop and museum or send for a catalog of items for sale.
Hayes Otoupalik. Route 2, Evaro Road; 14000 Highway 93 North; Missoula, MT 59802. 406-549-4817. Has thousands of items of American militaria from 1845 to 1945. Call or write for quarterly catalog. Liberty Memorial Museum. 100 West 26th Street; Kansas City, MO 64108. 816-221-1918; fax, 816-842-2602. The oldest and largest museum in North America dedicated exclusively to World War I.
Miscellaneous Man. Box 1776; New Freedom, PA 17349. 717-235-4766. Tremendous collection of thousands of vintage posters and graphics. Catalog with over 1,200 photos.
National Infantry Museum. Building 396, Baltzell Avenue; Fort Benning, GA 31905. 706-545-2958. Displays over 5,000 authentic items from its 25,000-item collection from all of America's wars. Open seven days a week.
Patton Cavalry and Armor Museum. P.O. Box 208; Ft. Knox, KY 40121. 502-624-3812. A special collection of excellent quality World War I tanks and armored vehicles, along with other equipment and weapons of the war.
Thomas Militaria Auction Service. P.O. Box 1792; Santa Ana, CA 92702-1792. 714-558-0328; fax, 714-558-1536. Call or write for catalog.
U.S. Army Art Collection. 1099 14th Street, NW; Washington, DC 20005-3402. 202-761-5396. An outstanding collection of period art items, including battlefield scenes.
U.S. Army Museum Division. 1099 14th Street, NW; Washington, DC 20005-3402. 202-761-5373. A number of small items associated with the infantry during the Great War; an excellent source of additional information and on-site references. Can provide references to numerous other museums that contain World War I items.
U.S. Army Nurse Corps History. 1099 14th Street, NW; Washington, DC 20005-3402. 202-761-5430. A major source of information on the Corps and related topics.
U.S. Army Ordnance Museum; ATSLA-M, Building 2611; Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD 21005-5201. 410-278-3602. A large number of World War I tanks and armored vehicles, as well other items from this and most of America's wars.
West Point Museum. U.S. Military Academy; Building 2110; West Point, NY 10996. 914-938-2203. A wide variety of items related to the war, focusing on the army in France.
World War One Collector's Handbooks. GOS, Inc.; P.O. Box 3912; Missoula, MT 59806. Write for information on how to order the handbooks.
The Great War Society. P.O. Box 4585; Stanford, CA 94309. Publishes a newsletter and a journal; holds seminars; sponsors tours; operates a web site. 408-426-7646; fax, 408-469-0593; e-mail, frcarroll@aol.com.
Smoke and Fire. P.O. Box 166; Grand Rapids, OH 43522. 800-766-5334. Monthly newsletter about "living history" events, such as reenactments, pow-wows, rendezvous and exhibits.
Western Front Association. 2714 Hunters Way; Bloomfield Hills, MI 48013. 313-642-8436. A London-based World War I group that publishes a journal and a newsletter.
WEB SITES AND E-MAIL ADDRESSES
http://www.lib.byu.edu/rdh/wwi/
A web site for the World War I Primary Documents Archives. Nearly all items are free of copyright restrictions.
http://www.mcs.net/mikei/tgus/
A web site coordinated and operated under the auspices of The Great War Society.
http://www.worldwar1.com/
A web site on all aspects of World War I, managed by a real enthusiast.
E-mail address for web master: mikei@mcs.com
cd078@xroads.com
Provides information on various web sites, in particular the National Archives web site.
listproc@ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu
Access to thousands of documents from across the world, most of which are free of copyright restrictions.
wwi-l@ raven.cc.ukans.edu
Access to thousands of documents from across the world, most of which are free of copyright restrictions.
This list of references was prepared by Dr. Robert J. Stahl.
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