World War One,
"The War To End All Wars"
Bibliography

Adult Non-Fiction

Prelude To War

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime... Sir Edward Grey

940.311 Bro Royal Sunset: The Dynasties and the Great War. Brook-Shepherd, Gordon

943.604 Cas The Archduke and the Assassin: Sarajevo, June 28th, 1914. Cassells, Lavender

944.36 Cro Paris on the Eve, 1900-1914. Cronin, Vincent

940.311 Her The Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War. Hermann, David G.

940.31 Jan The Lions of July: Prelude to War, 1914. Jannen, William

940.311 Mas Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War. Massie, Robert K.

943.613 Mor Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913-1914. Morton, Frederic

940.311 Tuc The Zimmermann Telegram. Tuchman, Barbara

082 Voi Voices, 1870-1914. Vansittart, Peter, editor.

The War - Overviews

940.302 Bur Almanac of World War I. Burg, David F.

940.3 Chu The World Crisis (5 vols.). Churchill, Winston

940.322 Fer The Pity of War: Explaining World War I. Ferguson, Niall

940.4 Her The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1918. Herwig, Holger H.

940.3 Kee The First World War. Keegan, John

940.3 Mar American Heritage History of World War One. Marshall, S.L.A.

940.3 Tuc The Guns of August. Tuchman, Barbara

940.3 War World War One: A Chronological Narrative. Warner, Philip

940.3 Win The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century. Winter, J.M.

__________. The Experience of World War I. Winter, J.M.

Ground Campaigns

The battered earth bore nothing but groaning wounded who couldn't be helped, distended bodies that your foot sank into, among broken guns, punctured helmets, scattered equipment. -- Jacques Meyer, writing of the Battle of Verdun

940.42 Dav The 1914 Campaign, August - October, 1914. David, Daniel

940.486 Hop Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire: On Secret Service East of Constantinople. Hopkirk, Peter

940.42 Joh Breakthrough!: Tactics, Technology, and the Search for Victory on the Western Front in World War I. Johnson, Hubert C.

940.414 Joh Stalemate!: the Great Trench Warfare Battles. Johnson, J.H.

940.4 Liv Great Battles of World War I. Livesey, Anthony

940.41 Liv The Historical Atlas of World War I. Livesey, Anthony

940.427 Mac Somme. Macdonald, Lyn

940.425 Moo Gallipoli. Moorehead, Alan

Y940.434 Ric The Battle of Belleau Wood. Rice, Earle

Naval Operations

At sea as well as in the trenches, strategy withered into attrition; and the last military chances of avoiding a long war and utter mutual exhaustion had gone. -- Corelli Barnett

940.451 Bey Q-Ships Versus U-Boats: America's Secret Project. Beyer, Kenneth M.

940.456 Cos Jutland, 1916. Costello, John

940.451 Gra The Killing Time; the U-Boat War, 1914-1918. Gray, Edwyn

359.009 Had Tin-pots and Pirate Ships: Canadian Naval Forces and German Sea R aiders, 1880-1918. Hadley, Michael L.

940.451 Ter The U-boat Wars: 1916-1945. Terraine, John

Aerial Operations

So stand by your glasses steady,
The world is a web of lies
Then here's to the dead already,
And hurrah for the next man who dies.

--Lafayette Escadrille Mess Song

940.44 Bow Knights of the Air. Bowen, Ezra

940.44 Cam Aces and Aircraft of World War I. Campbell, Christopher

940.499 Fra The Red Baron's Last Flight: A Mystery Investigated. Franks, Norman L. R.

629.133 Jan Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War I.

940.449 Mas The Lafayette Escadrille. Mason, Herbert

940.44 Mor The Great War in the Air: Military Aviation from 1909 - 1921. Morrow, John Howard

940.44 Pis Legend, Memory, and the Great War in the Air. Pisano, Dominick

Autobiographies/Biographies/Personal Narratives

And suddenly, as I remembered all the dear afternoons and evenings when I had followed him on the piano as he played his violin, the sad, searching eyes of the portrait where more than I could bear, and falling on my knees before it I began to cry "Edward! Oh Edward!" in dazed repetition, as though my persistent crying and calling would somehow bring him back. --Vera Brittain

355.009 Lee Sergeant York: An American Hero. Lee, David D.

355.009 Mam The Mammoth Book of War Diaries and Letters: Life on the Battlefield in the Words of the Ordinary Soldier, 1775-1991. Lewis, Jon E., editor

808.8 Voi Voices from the Great War. Vansittart, Peter, editor

813.52 Von Hemingway in Love and War: the Lost Diary of Agnes Von Kurowsky, her letters and Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway. Von Kurowsky, Agnes .

828.912 Mas John Masefield's Letters from the Front, 1915-1917. Masefield, John

973.913 Axs Brother Woodrow: A Memoir of Woodrow Wilson. Axson, Stockton

940.475 Bow The Compensations of War, the Diary of an Ambulance Driver During the Great War. Bowerman, Guy Emerson

[On Order 9/99] Letters from a Lost Generation: First World War Letters of Vera Brittain. Vera Brittain and Four Friends.

940.481 Cum The Enormous Room. cummings, e.e.

940.409 Dol Cannon Fodder: An Infantryman's Life on the Western Front, 1914-1918. Dolden, A. Stuart

940.481 Gal World Wars Through the Female Gaze. Gallagher, Jean

940.44 Gre Great Battles of World War I: In the Air. Platt, Frank Cheney, ed.

940.449 Gri War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator. Grider, John MacGavock

940.487 How Mata Hari, the True Story. Howe, Russell

940.449 Kil Richthofen: Beyond the Legend of the Red Baron. Kilduff, Peter

940.3 Kir The First World War: An Eyewitness History. Kirchberger, Joe H.

940.4 Law Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph. Lawrence, T.E.

940.415 Law The Letters of T.E. Lawrence. Lawrence, T.E.

940.414 Mac Suddenly, We Didn't Want To Die: Memoirs of a World War I Marine. Mackin, Elton E.

Y940.48 Pro A Prose Anthology of the First World War. Hull, Robert, editor.

940.449 Ric Fighting the Flying Circus. Rickenbacker, Eddie

973.913 Sch Woodrow Wilson: A Life for World Peace. Schulte Nordholt, J.W.

940.08 Tyl The Last Kaiser: A Biography of Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia. Tyler-Whittle, Michael S.

92 Graves Goodbye to All That. Graves, Robert

92 Law The Golden Warrior: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia. James, Lawrence

92 Ric Rickenbacker. Rickenbacker, Edward V.

92 Von The Red Baron (translation of The Red Battle Flyer). Von Richthofen, Manfred

92 Wil Woodrow Wilson. Heckscher, August

Poetry/Songs/Music

What passing bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns... --Wilfred Owen

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
between the crosses, row on row... -- John McCrae

[On Order 9/99] World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others.

821.912 Blu War Poets, 1914-1918. Blunden, Edmund

821.912 Gid The War Poets. Giddings, Robert

J811.52 Gra In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae. Granfield, Linda

821.912 Graves Poems About War. Graves, Robert

821.912 Owe The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen. Owen, Wilfred

821.912 Pen Penguin Book of First World War Poetry. Silkin, John, editor.

821.912 Poe Poetry of the First World War. Hudson, Edward, editor.

R782.421 Vog World War I Songs: A History and Dictionary of Popular Selections from the Time of World War I. Vogel, Frederick G.

Armenian Massacre

811.54 Bal Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir. Balakian, Peter

Y956.62 Bed Some of Us Survived. Bedoukian, Kerop

956.62 Gra Caravans To Oblivion: The Armenian Genocide, 1915. Graber, G.S.

92 Khe Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl. Khedian, David

Local Interest

940.547 Pow Splinters of a Nation: German Prisoners of War in Utah. Powell, Allan Kent

979.2 War Utah in the World War. Warrum, Noble

Armistice

This is not peace, it is an Armistice for twenty years. --Ferdinand Foch commenting on the Treaty of Versailles

940.439 Low Armistice, 1916. Lowry, Bullitt

940.439 Wei A Stillness Heard Round the World: The End of The Great War, November 1918. Weintraub, Stanley

Influenza Epidemic, 1918

[On Order 9/99] Influenza 1918: The Worst Epidemic in American History

[Video: 9/99] Influenza 1918.

Aftermath

Subconsciously we are yearning for a man, a powerful man. --Gerhardt Hauptmann

909.82 Eks Rites of Spring: the Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age. Eksteins, Modris

92 Hitler Mein Kampf. Hitler, Adolph

940.3141 Mee The End of Order, Versailles, 1919. Mee, Charles

944.081 Tow Towards the Holocaust: the Social and Economic Collapse of the Weimar Republic. Dobkowski, Michael N.

944.081 Web The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s. Weber, Eugen Joseph

Ephemera/Maps/Posters

Oversized 769.499 Dar The First World War in Posters, from the Imperial War Museum London. Darracott, Joseph .

940.302 Bat Battlelines: World War I Posters from the Bowman Gray Collection. Chenault, Libby, editor.

940.31 First The First World War: Ephemera, Mementoes, Documents. Rickards, Maurice, editor.

940.302 Raw Wake Up, America! World War I and the American Poster. Rawls, Walton H.

Sources/Resources

940.341 Imp Imperial War Museum Book of the First World War.

940.3 Sch The Great War: A guide to the Service Records of All the World's Fighting Men and Volunteers.

Retrospectives

940.414 O'Sh Back to the Front: An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I. O'Shea, Stephen

Fiction/Literature

(All Genres)

We have become wild beasts. We do not fight, we defend ourselves against annihilation. --Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

We had a lovely time that summer. When I could go out we rode in a carriage in the park. I remember the carriage, the horse going slowly, and up ahead the back of the driver with his varnished high hat, and Catherine Barkley sitting beside me. --Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms

F Anthony Flanders. Anthony, Patricia

F Barker Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road; Regeneration . Barker, Pat

F Biggins A Sailor of Austria. Biggins, John

F Blasco The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Blasco Ibanez, Vicente

F Buchan Greenmantle; The Thirty-Nine Steps. Buchan, John

F Cookson The Cinder Path. Cookson, Catherine

F Dos Passos Three Soldiers. Dos Passos, John

F Faulkner Soldiers' Pay. Faulkner, William

F Faulks Birdsong. Faulks, Sebastian

F Fisher The Bedquilt and Other Stories. Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

F Ford Parade's End. Ford, Ford Madox

F Freud Summer at Gaglow. Freud, Esther

F Grey The Desert of Wheat. Grey, Zane

F Helprin A Soldier of the Great War. Helprin, Mark

F Hemingway A Farewell To Arms. Hemingway, Ernest

F Newman The Bloody Red Baron. Newman, Kim

F Plain The Golden Cup. Plain, Belva

F Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front. Remarque, Erich Maria

F Saroyan The Human Comedy. Saroyan, William

F Sassoon Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. Sassoon, Siegfried

F Turtledove The Great War: American Front; The Great War: Walk in Hell. Turtledove, Harry

F Wharton A Son at the Front. Wharton, Edith

SC Wom Women, Men and the Great War: An Anthology of Stories.

Non-Fiction Videos

Video 973.913 Ame America Over There.

Video 940.54 Cen The Century of Warfare. Aces High.

Video 940.54 Cen The Century of Warfare. War of the Eagles: Eastern Front 1914 - 1918.

Video 940.3 Gre The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century. (8 video set: 1 episode per tape) or (4 video set: 2 episodes per tape).

Video 940.3 Gun Guns of August.

Video 940.45 Last Last Voyage of the Lusitania.

Video 629.13 Red The Red Baron.

Video 92 Richthofen The Red Baron: Master of the Air.

Video 910.45 Tit Titanic's Lost Sister.

Entertainment Videos

Video DRAMAS All All Quiet on the Western Front

Video DRAMAS Big The Big Parade

Video DRAMAS Blue The Blue Max

Video DRAMAS Cinder The Cinder Path

Video DRAMAS Dawn The Dawn Patrol.

Video DRAMAS Dangerous A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia

Video DRAMAS Farewell A Farewell To Arms

Video DRAMAS Gal Gallipolli

Video DRAMAS Grand Grand Illusion

Video DRAMAS In In Love and War

Video DRAMAS Law Lawrence of Arabia

Video DRAMAS Paths Paths of Glory

Video DRAMAS Sergeant Sergeant York

Video DRAMAS Tes Testament of Youth (4 video set)

Video DRAMAS Unknown The Unknown Soldier

Video DRAMAS Wings Wings

Books on Cassette (Non-Fiction and Fiction)

BT 940.311 Mas Dreadnought: Brittain, Germany and the Coming of the Coming of the Great War. Massie, Robert K.

BT 940.3 Tuc The Zimmermann Telegram. Tuchman, Barbara

BT 940.3 Tuc Guns of August. Tuchman, Barbara

BT 940.486 Hop Like Hidden Fire: the Plot to Bring Down the British Empire: Secret Service East of Constantinople. Hopkirk, Peter

BT F Barber Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road; Regeneration. Barber, Pat

BT F Buchan Mr. Standfast. Buchan, John

BT F Chaikin Arabian Winds. Chaikin, L.L.

BT F Dos Passos Three Soldiers. Dos Passos, John

BT F Faulkner Soldiers' Pay. Faulkner, William

BT F Faulks Birdsong. Faulks, Sebastian

BT F Hemingway A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway, Ernest

BT F Hunter The Blue Max. Hunter, Jack

BT F Irving Promise the Earth. Irving, Clive

BT F Plain The Gold Cup. Plain, Belva

BT F Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front. Remarque, Erich Maria

Juvenile Non-Fiction/Poetry

J811.52 Gra In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae. Granfield, Linda

J940.403 Coo Hell Fighters: African American Soldiers in World War I. Cooper, Michael

J940.3 Cob The Treaty of Versailles, 1919. Cobblestone

J940.44 May The Aces. Maynard, Christopher

J940.427 Ree The Western Front. Rees, Rosemary

J940.414 Ros War in the Trenches. Ross, Stewart

J940.311 Ros Causes and Consequences of World War I. Ross, Stewart

J940.409 Usc A Multicultural Portrait of World War I. Uscham, Michael V.

Juvenile Fiction Picture Books

JP Rabin Casey Over There. Rabin, Staton

JP Wells The Language of Doves. Wells, Rosemary

JP Wells Waiting for the Evening Star. Wells, Rosemary

Juvenile Chapter Books

JF Anderson Gracie's Angel. Anderson, Launi K.

JF Bro Courage Mountain: the Further Adventures of Heidi. Brogger, Fred Note: Also Available in Video (Video CHILDRENS Courage)

JF Corcoran The Private War of Lillian Adams. Corcoran, Barbara

JF Ingold Pictures, 1918. Ingold, Jeanette

JF Kinsey- Warnock The Night the Bells Rang. Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie

JF Lindquist Summer Soldiers. Lindquist, Susan Hart

JF Little His Banner Over Me. Little, Jean

JF Martin Field of Death (Young Indiana Jones) Martin, Les

JF Martin Prisoner of War (Young Indiana Jones) Martin, Les

JF Martin The Secret Peace (Young Indiana Jones) Martin, Les

JF McCay Young Indiana Jones and the Mountain of Fire. McCay, William

JF Morpurgo War Horse. Morpurgo, Michael

JF Oneal A Long Way To Go. Oneal, Zibby

JF Seredy The Singing Tree. Seredy, Kate

JF Skurzynski Goodbye, Billy Radish. Skurzynski, Gloria

Young Adult Fiction

YF Rostkowski After the Dancing Days. Rostkowski, Margaret I.

There had been 10 million European and Asiatic deaths, 30 million missing or wounded. Another 10 million died of influenza, 1918-1919. America lost 800,000.

Have you forgotten yet? Look up...and swear by the green of the spring that you'll never forget. --Siegfried Sassoon

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