This list contains a selection of books on World War I, using APA style citations.
"European Revue. Kill That Eagle" by John Henry Amschewitz, 1914; Germany is the black eagle in the center, surrounded by enemies and bystanders, with only Austria (the clown in white) helping.
De Groot, Gerard J. (2001). The First World War. Basingstoke: Palgrave. ISBN978-0333745342.
Ellis, Robert, John, and Mike Cox. The World War I Databook: The Essential Facts and Figures for All the Combatants (2002)
Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed. 1922) comprises the 11th edition plus three new volumes 30–31–32 that cover events since 1911 with very thorough coverage of the war as well as every country and colony. partly online in ascii, with guide to article titles
Herman, Gerald. The Pivotal Conflict: A Comprehensive Chronology of the First World War, 1914–1919 (1992) 824pp
Higham, Robin and Dennis E. Showalter, eds. Researching World War I: A Handbook (2003), highly detailed historiography, stressing military themes; annotates over 1000 books
Hirschfeld, Gerhard, Gerd Krumeich and Irina Renz, eds. Brill's Encyclopedia of the First World War. (2012) ISBN978-9004207394. 1105 pgs. (2 vol.) international scope: showcasing the work of recognized World War I experts from 15 countries google books link
Horne, John, ed. (2012). A Companion to World War I. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN978-1119968702
March, Francis Andrew and Richard Joseph Beamish History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War (1919), popular contemporary history.
Paxson, Frederic Logan et al. War cyclopedia: a handbook for ready reference on the great war (1918) online edition
Pope, Stephen; Wheal, Elizabeth-Anne (1995). The Macmillan Dictionary of the First World War. Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN978-0333618226. OCLC60238536.
Stevenson, David (1988). The First World War and international politics. Oxford: University Press. ISBN978-0198730491.
Tucker, Spencer, ed. The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, and Military History (5 vol 2005), online at eBook.com, the most detailed reference source; articles by specialists cover all aspects of the war
Tucker, Spencer, ed. European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia (1999)
Winter, Jay, ed. (2014). The Cambridge History of the First World War (3 vol. Cambridge University Press, 2014) online review
Atlases and maps
Banks, Arthur (2001). A Military Atlas of the First World War. Barnsley: Leo Cooper reprinted by Pen & Sword. ISBN978-0850527919
Bekers, Willem, and Ronald De Meyer. "War on scale: models for the First World War battlefront." in The intellectual response to the first world war: how the conflict impacted on ideas, methods and fields of enquiry (Sussex Academic Press, 2017) pp.185–204. online
Chasseaud, Peter. Mapping the first world war (HarperCollins UK, 2013).
Espenhorst, Jürgen. "A good map is half the battle! The military cartography of the central powers in World War I." in History of military cartography (Springer, Cham, 2016) pp.83–130.
Espenhorst, Jürgen. "The Eye of the Army: German Aircraft and Aero Cartography in World War I." in History of Military Cartography (Springer, Cham, 2016) pp.61–82.
Esposito, Vincent J. The West Point Atlas of American Wars: 1900–1918 (1997) despite the title covers entire war; online maps from this atlas
Gregory, Derek. "Gabriel's map: Cartography and corpography in modern war." in Geographies of knowledge and power (Springer, Dordrecht, 2015) pp.89–121.
Hammond's frontier atlas of the world war: containing large scale maps of all the battle fronts of Europe and Asia, together with a military map of the United States (1916) online free
Kaufmann, H. W., and J. E. Kaufmann. Verdun 1916: The Renaissance of the Fortress (Pen and Sword, 2016).
Alexandru Averescu – Marschall, Politiker, Legende, von Petre Otu. Lektor Verlag. Hainburg. 2012. ISBN978-3941866027
Durchleuchtung eines Verrats. Der Fall des Oberst Alexandru D. Sturdza, von Petre Otu und Maria Georgescu. Lektor Verlag. 2022. Hainburg. ISBN978-3941866089
Beckett, Ian F. W. (2007). The Great War: 1914–1918. New York: Routledge. ISBN978-1405812528 A thematic and comprehensive history which provides a complete picture of the war.
Evans, David. Teach yourself–the First World War. (Hodder Arnold, 2004)
Falls, Cyril. The Great War (1960), general military history
Gerwarth, Robert, and Erez Manela. "The Great War as a Global War: Imperial Conflict and the Reconfiguration of World Order, 1911–1923." Diplomatic History 38.4 (2014): 786–800. online
Gerwarth, Robert, and Erez Manela, eds. Empires at War: 1911–1923 (2014), 12 very wide-ranging essays by scholars. excerpt
Gilbert, Martin (2004). The First World War: A Complete History. New York: Holt ISBN978-0805076172
Halpern, Paul G. A Naval History of World War I (1995)
Hart, Peter (2013). The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0199976270
Herwig, Holger H. (2009). The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914–1918. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN978-0340573488
Herwig, Holger H. and Neil Heyman. Biographical Dictionary of World War I (1982), scholarly sketches of the main military and political leaders of every country.
Hochschild, Adam (2012). To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918. Boston and New York: Mariner Books. ISBN978-0547750316
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 (2000). The First World War. New York: Vintage. ISBN978-0375700453
Leonhard, Jörn (2018). Pandora's Box: A History of the First World War. London and Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN978-0786439355.
Liddell-Hart, Basil H. (1973) [1970]. History of the First World War (3rded.). Trowbridge: Redwood Burn Ltd.
Liddell-Hart, Basil H. (2012). World War I in Outline. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing. ISBN978-1594161612
Morrow Jr., John H.. The Great War: An Imperial History (2003), covers British Empire excerpt and text search
Philpott, William (2014). War of Attrition: Fighting the First World War. New York: Overlook Press. ISBN978-1468302684
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. Foreword by Hew Strachan. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN978-1841767383
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. ISBN978-0742541467
Strachan, Hew. The First World War: Volume I: To Arms (2004): a major scholarly synthesis. Thorough coverage of 1914–16; 1245pp
Strachan, Hew. The First World War (2004): a 385pp overview
Strohn, Matthias, ed. (2013). World War I Companion. Osprey Publishing. ISBN978-1782001881
Tucker, Spencer C. (1998). Great War, 1914–18. London: UCL Press. ISBN978-1857283914
Winter, J. M. The Experience of World War I (2nd ed 2005), topical essays;
Primary sources, documents and year books
Collins, Ross F. ed. World War I: Primary Documents on Events from 1914 to 1919 (Debating Historical Issues in the Media of the Time) (2007) West Port, CN; London: Greenwood Press 425pp ISBN978-0313320828, OCLC1253388980
Gooch, G. P. Recent Revelations Of European Diplomacy (1940), 475pp summarizes memoirs of major participants
Gooch, G. P. & Harold Temperley, eds. British Documents on the Origins of the War 1898–1914 Volume XI, the Outbreak of War Foreign Office Documents (1926) online
French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The French Yellow Book: Diplomatic Documents (1914)
Mombauer, Annika (2013). The Origins of the First World War: Diplomatic and Military Documents. Manchester and London: Manchester University Press. ISBN978-0719074219
Hazell's Annual for 1916 (1916), worldwide events of 1915; 640pp online; worldwide coverage of 1915 events; emphasis on Great Britain
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) ISBN192963126X
Aksakal, Mustafa. "The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War." (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). ISBN0521175259
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. ISBN978-0061146664
Evans, R. J. W. and Hartmut Pogge Von Strandman, eds. The Coming of the First World War (1990), essays by scholars from both sides
Fromkin, D. Europe's Last Summer. Who started the Great War in 1914? (2004), popular
Gilpin, Robert. War and Change in World Politics (1981)
Gooch, G.P. History of modern Europe, 1878–1919 (2nd ed. 1956) pp 386–413. online, diplomatic history
Gooch, G.P. Before the war: studies in diplomacy (2 vol 1936, 1938) online long scholarly chapters on Britain's Landsdowne; France's Théophile Delcassé; Germany's Bernhard von Bülow pp 187–284; Russia's Alexander Izvolsky 285–365; and Austria' Aehrenthal pp 366–438. vol 2: Grey, 1–133; Poincaré, 135–200; Bethmann Hollweg, 201–85; Sazonoff, 287–369; Berchtold, 371–447. vol 2 online
Hamilton, Richard F. and Holger H. Herwig, eds. Decisions for War, 1914–1917 (2004), scholarly essays on Serbia, Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, France, Britain, Japan, Ottoman Empire, Italy, the United States, Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece.
Herrmann, David G (1996). The Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN978-0691033747. OCLC32509928.
Henig, Ruth B. (1993). The Origins of the First World War. Florence, KY: Routledge. ISBN978-0415102339
Hewitson, Mark (2004). Germany and the Causes of the First World War. Oxford: Berg Publishers. ISBN978-1859738658
Horne, John, ed. A Companion to World War I (2012) 38 topics essays by scholars
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. ISBN978-0394534947
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 OrdersManchester 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. ISBN978-0674062108
Mombauer, Annika (2013). The Origins of the First World War: Diplomatic and Military Documents. Manchester and London: Manchester University Press. ISBN978-0719074219
Mulligan, William (2010). The Origins of the First World War. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN978-0521713948
Turner, Leonard Charles Frederick (1976). Origins of the First World War. London: Edward Arnold. ISBN978-0393099478.
Vyvyan, J. M. K. "The Approach of the War of 1914." in C. L. Mowat, ed. The New Cambridge Modern History: Vol. XII: The Shifting Balance of World Forces 1898–1945 (2nd ed. 1968) online pp 140–70.
Zametica, John. Folly and Malice: The Habsburg Empire, the Balkans and the Start of World War One (2017) excerpt
Early peace negotiations
Zelikow, Philip D. The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917 PublicAffairs, 2021
Britain
French, David. British Strategy and War Aims 1914–1916 (Routledge, 2014) ISBN0415749905
Holmes, Richard. Tommy: the British soldier on the Western Front, 1914–1918 (Marshall Pickering, 2004) ISBN0007137524
Messenger, Charles. Call To Arms: The British Army 1914–1918 (2005) ISBN0297846957
Pegler, Martin. British Tommy 1914–18 (1996) ISBN1855325411
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) ISBN0312226403
Watson, Alexander. Enduring the Great War: Combat, morale and collapse in the German and British armies, 1914–1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2008) ISBN978-0521123082
Australia and New Zealand
Coulthard-Clark, Christopher D (2001). The Encyclopaedia of Australia's Battles. Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin. p.320. ISBN978-1865086347. OCLC48793439.
Davison, Graeme, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre, eds. The Oxford Companion to Australian History (2001) ISBN019551503X Online at OUP
Grey, Jeffrey. A military history of Australia (Cambridge University Press, 1st ed: 1999; 3rd ed: 2008 ISBN978-0521875233)
Pugsley, Christopher. The Anzac Experience: New Zealand, Australia and Empire in the First World War (2004) ISBN978-0947506001
Canada
Berton, Pierre. Marching As To War, Canada's Turbulent Years 1899–1953 (2001), ch 2; Popular narrative
Cook, Tim. "Quill and Canon: Writing the Great War in Canada," American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 35, 2005
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. GranatsteinMarching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War 1914–1919 (1989)
Vance, Jonathan F. Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War (1997), cultural history
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 1920ed.). London: Imperial War Museum & Battery Press. ISBN978-0901627896.
Digby, Peter. K. (1993). Pyramids and Poppies: The 1st SA Infantry Brigade in Libya, France and Flanders: 1915–1919. Rivonia: Ashanti. ISBN978-1874800538.
Xingqing, Gu. Ou zhan gong zuo hui yi lu (欧战工作回忆录; Reminiscences on my work during the European War) (1937).
France
Adamthwaite, Anthony. Grandeur And Misery: France's Bid for Power in Europe, 1914–1940 (1995) pp 1–39
Bonzon, Thierry. "Consumption and Total Warfare in Paris (1914–1918)." in F. Trentmann and F. Just, eds. Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars (2006) pp.49–64. online
Bruce, Robert Bowman. A Fraternity of Arms: America and France in the Great War (UP of Kansas, 2003).
Cabanes Bruno. August 1914: France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever (2016) argues that the very first month of fighting transformed the French mind.
Clayton, Anthony. Paths of Glory: the French Army 1914–18 (London: Cassell, 2003)
Dutton, David. The Politics of Diplomacy: Britain, France and the Balkans in the First World War (1998).
Fogarty, Richard S. Race and war in France: Colonial subjects in the French army, 1914–1918 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)
Fridenson, Patrick. The French home front, 1914–1918 (Berg, 1992).
Greenhalgh, Elizabeth. Victory through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2005) 304pp
Greenhalgh, Elizabeth, The French Army and the First World War (Armies of the Great War) (Cambridge University Press, 2014), 486 p, ISBN978-1107605688
Goya, Michel. Flesh and Steel During the Great War: The Transformation of the French Army and the Invention of Modern Warfare, (Pen and Sword Military, 2018) – ISBN978-1473886964
Keiger, John. France and the Origins of the First World War (1985) online
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
Nester, Cody (2015). "France and the Great War: Belligerent Warmonger or Failed Peacekeeper? A Literature Review". History. 12: 2.
Smith, Leonard V (2007). "The 'Culture de guerre'and French Historiography of the Great War of 1914–1918". History Compass. 5 (6): 1967–1979. doi:10.1111/j.1478-0542.2007.00484.x.
Italy
Ferrari, Paolo. "The Memory And Historiography Of The First World War In Italy" Comillas Journal of International Relations (2015) #2 pp 117–126 ISSN2386-5776online
Gibelli, Antonio. La Grande Guerra degli italiani, 1915–1918, Milano, Sansoni (1998)
Gooch, John. The Italian army and the first world war (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
Acton, Edward, V. et al. eds. Critical companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914–1921 (Indiana UP, 1997).
Boterbloem, Kees (2012). "Chto delat'?: World War I in Russian Historiography after Communism". Journal of Slavic Military Studies. 25 (3): 393–408. doi:10.1080/13518046.2012.705655. S2CID143954021.
Engelstein, Laura. Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914–1921 (Oxford UP, 2018).
Gatrell, Peter. Russia's First World War: A social and economic history (Pearson Education, 2005).
Lincoln, W. Bruce. Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution, 1914–1918 (1986).
Marshall, Alex. "Russian military intelligence, 1905–1917: The untold story behind tsarist Russia in the First World War." War in History 11.4 (2004): 393–423.
Neilson, Keith. Strategy and Supply: The Anglo-Russian Alliance 1914–1917 (Routledge, 2014).
Read, Christopher. War and revolution in Russia, 1914–22: the collapse of Tsarism and the establishment of Soviet power (Macmillan International Higher Education, 2012).
Rutherford, Ward. The Tsar's War, 1914–1917: The Story of the Imperial Russian Army in the First World War (Faulkner, 1992).
Stone, David R (2015). The Russian Army in the Great War: The Eastern Front, 1914–1917. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN978-0700620951.
Elson, Aaron. The Armored Fist: The 712th Tank Battalion in the Second World War (Fonthill Media, 2014) ISBN9781781550915
Fax, G. E. (2017). With their bare hands: General Pershing, the 79th Division, and the battle for Montfaucon. Osprey Publishing. ISBN9781472819239.
Hallas, James H. Doughboy War: The American Expeditionary Force in World War I (2000) ISBN1555878555
Howarth, Stephen. To Shining Sea: A History of the United States Navy, 1775–1991 (1991) ISBN0394576624
Kennedy, David M (1982). Over Here: The First World War and American Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0195032093. OCLC9906841., covers politics & economics & society
Koistinen, Paul. Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865–1919 (1997) ISBN0700608605
Marrin, Albert (1986). The Yanks Are Coming: The United States in the First World War. New York: Atheneum Books. ISBN978-0689312090.
Mills, Bill B. (2017). Treacherous passage: Germany's secret plot against the United States in Mexico during World War I. Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press. ISBN978-1612348544.
Shay, Michael E. Sky Pilots: The Yankee Division Chaplains in World War I (University of Missouri Press, 2014) ISBN978-0826220318
Titus, James, ed. The Home Front and War in the Twentieth Century: The American Experience in Comparative Perspective (1984) essays by scholars. online free
Trask, David F. The United States in the Supreme War Council: American War Aims and Inter-Allied Strategy, 1917–1918 (1961)
Cecil, Lamar (1996). Wilhelm II: Emperor and Exile, 1900–1941. Vol.II. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. p.176. ISBN978-0807822838. OCLC186744003.
Hall, Richard C. "'The Enemy is Behind Us': The Morale Crisis in the Bulgarian Army during the Summer of 1918," War in History, (April 2004), 11#2 pp 209–219,
Herwig, Holger H (1996). The First World War: Germany and Austria–Hungary 1914–1918. London: Arnold. ISBN978-0340573488. OCLC60154404.
Hubatsch, Walther; Backus, Oswald P (1963). Germany and the Central Powers in the World War, 1914–1918. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas. OCLC250441891.
Karau, Mark D. Germany's Defeat in the First World War: The Lost Battles and Reckless Gambles That Brought Down the Second Reich (ABC-CLIO, 2015) scholarly analysis. excerpt
Rogers, Duncan, ed. (2010). Landrecies to Cambrai: Case Studies of German Offensive and Defensive Operations on the Western Front 1914–17. Solihull: Helion. ISBN978-1906033767.
Sheldon, J. (2010). The German Army at Ypres 1914. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military. ISBN978-1848841130.
Sheldon, J. (2012). The German Army on the Western Front, 1915. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military. ISBN978-1848844667.
Sheldon, J. (2005). The German Army on the Somme: 1914–1916. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military. ISBN978-1844152698.
Sheldon, J. (2008). The German Army on Vimy Ridge 1914–1917. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military. ISBN978-1844156801.
Sheldon, J. (2007). The German Army at Passchendaele. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military. ISBN978-1844155644.
Deak, John. "The Great War and the Forgotten Realm: The Habsburg Monarchy and the First World War," Journal of Modern History 86#2 (2014): 336–80. online, historiography
Herwig, Holger H (1996). The First World War: Germany and Austria–Hungary 1914–1918. London: Arnold. ISBN978-0340573488. OCLC60154404.
Hubatsch, Walther; Backus, Oswald P (1963). Germany and the Central Powers in the World War, 1914–1918. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas. OCLC250441891.
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. ISBN978-3205795889.
Schindler, J. "Steamrollered in Galicia: The Austro-Hungarian Army and the Brusilov Offensive, 1916." War in History 10#1 (2003) pp 27–59 doi=10.1191/0968344503wh260oa
Sked, Alan. "Austria-Hungary and the First World War." Histoire Politique 1 (2014): 16–49. online historiography
Tunstall, Graydon A. Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War (Cambridge UP 2021) online review
Wawro, Geoffrey A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire (Hachette, 2014).
Zametica, John. Folly and malice: the Habsburg empire, the Balkans and the start of World War One (London: Shepheard–Walwyn, 2017). 416pp.
Ottoman Empire
Akın, Yiğit. When the War Came Home: The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire. (Stanford UP, 2018).
Aksakal, Mustafa (2011). "'Holy War Made in Germany'? Ottoman Origins of the 1914 Jihad". War in History. 18 (2): 184–199. doi:10.1177/0968344510393596. S2CID159652479.
Bozarslan, Hamit. "The Ottoman Empire." in John Horne. ed. A Companion to World War I (2010): 494–507.
Erickson, Edward J. Ordered to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010).
Gingeras, Ryan. Fall of the Sultanate: The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1908–1922 (Oxford UP, 2016).
Kayalı, Hasan (2017). "The Ottoman Experience of World War I: Historiographical Problems and Trends". Journal of Modern History. 89 (4): 875–907. doi:10.1086/694391. S2CID148953435.
Macfie, A. L. The End of the Ottoman Empire, 1908–1923 (1998).
Penix, Matthew David. "The Ottoman Empire in the first world war: A rational disaster" ( MA thesis Eastern Michigan U. 2013)). online, bibliography pp 58–66
Reynolds, Michael. Shattering Empires: the Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908–1918 (Cambridge UP, 2011).
Trumpener, Ulrich (1962). "Turkey's Entry into World War I: An Assessment of Responsibilities". Journal of Modern History. 34 (4): 369–80. doi:10.1086/239180. S2CID153500703.
Abbenhuis, Maartje M. The art of staying neutral: the Netherlands in the First World War, 1914–1918 (Amsterdam University Press, 2006).
Coogan, John W. The End of Neutrality: The United States, Britain, and Maritime Rights, 1899–1915. (Cornell University Press, 1981).
Den Hertog, Johan, and Samuël Kruizinga, eds. Caught in the middle: neutrals, neutrality, and the First World War (Amsterdam University Press, 2011).
Jonas, Frank. Scandinavia and the Great Powers in the First World War (2019) online review
Koblik, Steven. Neutral Europe between war and revolution, 1917–23 (University of Virginia Press, 1988).
Rausch, Jane M. Colombia and World War I: The Experience of a Neutral Latin American Nation during the Great War and Its Aftermath, 1914–1921 (Lexington Books, 2014).
Syrett, Harold C. "The Business Press and American Neutrality, 1914–1917." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 32.2 (1945): 215–230 online.
Akın, Yiğit. When the War Came Home: The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire (Stanford University Press, 2018)
Darrow, Margaret H., French Women and the First World War (Berg, 2000) ISBN1859733611
Gearóid Barry, Enrico Dal Lago, Róisín Healy. Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I (Brill, 2016) online review
Grayzel, Susan, Women and the First World War (2002), worldwide coverage
Healy, Maureen, Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I (2004)
Higham, Robin and Dennis E. Showalter, eds., Researching World War I: A Handbook (2003), 475 pp; highly detailed historiography, stressing military themes; annotates over 1000 books–mostly military but many on the homefront; ISBN031328850X
Rietzler, Katharina (2014). "The war as history: Writing the economic and social history of the First World War". Diplomatic History. 38 (4): 826–839. doi:10.1093/dh/dhu028.
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 ISBN978-0674062269
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 ISBN1851094253
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, 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 searchISBN0521571715
Bogart, E.L. Direct and Indirect Costs of the Great World War (2nd ed. 1920); comprehensive coverage of every major country;
Broadberry, Stephen, and Mark Harrison, eds. The Economics of World War I (2005) ISBN0521852129. Covers France, Britain, United States, 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)
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
Horn, Martin. Britain, France, and the Financing of the First World War (2002)
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) online
Osborne, Eric, Britain's Economic Blockade of Germany, 1914–1919 (2004)
Strachan, Hew, Financing the First World War (2004) ISBN0199257272, 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) ISBN0275972992
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)
Esposito, Vincent J (1997). 1900–1918. The West Point Atlas of American Wars. Vol.II. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN978-0805053050. OCLC39644150. Archived from the original on 2007-01-02. despite the title covers entire war
Philpott, William (2009). Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century. London: Little, Brown. ISBN978-1408701089.
Prior, Robin and Wilson, Trevor (2005). The Somme. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN978-0300106947.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Sacco, Joe (2013). The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme: An Illustrated Panorama. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN978-0393088809.
Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August, tells of the opening diplomatic and military manoeuvres.
Uys, Ian (1983). Delville Wood. Johannesburg: Uys Publishers. ISBN978-0620066112.
Messenger, Charles. Call To Arms: The British Army 1914–1918 (2005) (ISBN0297846957), 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. ISBN978-0801416576.
Weber, Thomas. Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War (2010)
Logistics
van Creveld, Martin. "World War I and the revolution in logistics." in y Roger Chickering and Stig Förster, eds. Great War, total war: combat and mobilization on the Western Front 1918 (2006): 57–72.
Heywood, Anthony (2013). "Spark of Revolution? Railway Disorganisation, Freight Traffic and Tsarist Russia's War Effort, July 1914–March 1917". Europe-Asia Studies. 65 (4): 753–772. doi:10.1080/09668136.2013.767580. S2CID153647419.
Lloyd-Jones, Roger, and Myrddin John Lewis. Arming the Western Front: War, Business and the State in Britain 1900–1920 (Routledge, 2016).
Pratt, Edwin A. The rise of rail-power in war and conquest, 1833–1914 (1915) online
Stevenson, David (1999). "War by Timetable? The Railway Race before 1914". Past & Present (162): 163–194. doi:10.1093/past/162.1.163. JSTOR651067.
Tynan, Jane. British Army Uniform and the First World War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
Intelligence, espionage
Andrew, Christopher. For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush (1996) pp 30–70.
Barton, George. Celebrated Spies and Famous Mysteries of the Great War (1929) online
Beesly, Patrick. Room 40 London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. Covers the breaking of German codes by RN intelligence, Zimmermann telegram, and confusion at Jutland
Boghardt, Thomas. Spies of the Kaiser: German Covert Operations in Great Britain during the First World War Era (2004).
Boghardt, Thomas. The Zimmermann telegram: intelligence, diplomacy, and America's entry into World War I (2012).
Dockrill, Michael. and David French, eds. Strategy and Intelligence: British Policy During the First World War (1996).
Debruyne, Emmanuel. "Espionage" In: Ute Daniel, et al. eds. 1914–1918-online: International Encyclopedia of the First World Waronline 22 page scholarly history full text
Finnegan, Terrance. "The Origins of Modern Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance: Military Intelligence at the Front, 1914–18," Studies in Intelligence 53#4 (2009) pp.25–40.
Foley, Robert T. "Easy Target or Invincible Enemy? German Intelligence Assessments of France Before the Great War." Journal of Intelligence History 5#2 (2005): 1–24.
Khan, David. The Codebreakers (1996). Covers the breaking of Russian codes
Kahn, David. "Codebreaking in World Wars I and II: The Major Successes and Failures, Their Causes and Their Effects", Historical Journal 23#3 (1980) pp.617–39.
Khan, David. The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking (2004)
Larsen, Daniel. "Intelligence in the First World War: The state of the field." Intelligence and National Security 29.2 (2014): 282–302, comprehensive overview
Larsen, Daniel. "British codebreaking and American diplomatic telegrams, 1914–1915." Intelligence and National Security 32.2 (2017): 256–263. The British read the American secrets from late 1915 online
May, Ernest R. ed. Knowing One's Enemy: Intelligence Assessment Before the two World Wars (1984)
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.
Porch, Douglas. The French Secret Services: A History of French Intelligence from the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War (2003). excerpt; also online review, pp 49–114.
Seligmann, Matthew (2006). Spies in Uniform: British Military and Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0199261505
Trumpener, Ulrich. "War Premeditated? German Intelligence Operations in July 1914," Central European History 9#1 (1976): 58–85
Witcover, Jules. Sabotage at Black Tom: Imperial Germany's Secret War in America, 1914–1917 (1989)
Medicine
Alberti, S. J. M. M. (2015). "The 'Regiment of Skeletons': A First World War Medical Collection". Social History of Medicine. 28: 108–133. doi:10.1093/shm/hku038.
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 US
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.
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)
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). ISBN0528881655.
Bennett, Leon. Three Wings for the Red Baron: Von Richthofen, Strategy, Tactics, and Airplanes (2001). ISBN1572492139. 248 pgs.
Bickers, Richard Townshend. The First Great Air War (1989). ISBN0340508248. 277 pgs.
Boelcke, Oswald, An Aviators Field Book,1914–1916 (1991) ISBN978-0898391633 pgs.
Chajkowsky, William E., Royal Flying Corps, Bordon to Texas to Beamsville (1979) Boston Mills Press, ISBN0919822231.
Bowyer, Chaz. Royal Flying Corps Communiques: 1917–1918 (1998). ISBN1898697795. 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). ISBN0521773520. 584 pgs.
Clark, Alan. Aces high: The war in the air over the Western Front 1914–18 (1973). ISBN0297994646. 191 pgs.
Cooke, James J.. The U.S. Air Service In the Great War: 1917–1919 (1996). ISBN0275948625. 272 pgs.
Cormack, Andrew, Peter Cormack. British Air Forces (1): 1914–1918 (Men-At-Arms Series, 341) (2000). Osprey Publishing (UK). ISBN1841760013. 48 pgs.
Cowin, Hugh W. Allied Aviation of World War I: A Pictorial History of Allied Aviators and Aircraft of the Great War (2000). Osprey Aviation. ISBN1841762261. 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. ISBN1841760692. 96 pgs.
Cross, Wilbur (1991). Zeppelins of World War I. Paragon House. ISBN978-1557783820.
Cuneo, John R. Winged Mars (2 Volumes) (1942). The Military Service Publishing Company. 338 pgs.
Diggens, Barry. September Evening: The Life and Final Combat of the German World War One Ace Werner Voss (2003). Grub Street. ISBN1904010474. 192 pgs.
Dodds, Ronald. The Brave Young Wings (1980). Canada's Wings, Inc., Stittsville, Ontario, Canada. ISBN0920002080. 302 pgs.
Editors, Time Life, Ezra Bowen. Knights of the Air (Epic of Flight) (1980). Warner Books Inc. ISBN0809432528. 192 pgs.
Frandsen, Bert. Hat in the Ring: The Birth of American Air Power in the Great War (2003). Smithsonian Books. ISBN158834150X. 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 ISBN0948817739. 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 (ISBN1898697566). 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 (ISBN0948817542)
Franks, Norman L.R., Guest, Russell, Bailey, Frank W. Bloody April...Black September (1995). Grub Street (ISBN1898697086). 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 (ISBN1898697817). 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 (ISBN1904010024). 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 (ISBN1841762237). 96 pgs.
Franks, Norman. Jasta Boelcke: The History of Jasta 2, 1916–1918 (2004). Grub Street (ISBN1904010768). 224 pgs.
Franks, Norman. Sopwith Camel Aces of World War 1 (Aircraft of the Aces, 52) (2003). Osprey Publishing (UK) (ISBN1841765341). 96 pgs.
Gibbons, Floyd. Red Knight of Germany: The Story of Baron Von Richthofen, Germany's Great War Bird (1927, 1979). Arno Press (ISBN0405121679). 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 (ISBN1891268058). 544 pgs.
Guttman, Jon, Holmes, Tony. SPA124 Lafayette Escadrille: American Volunteer Airmen in World War 1 (Aviation Elite Units, 17) (2004). Osprey Publishing (UK) (ISBN1841767522). 128 pgs.
Guttman, Jon. Spad VII Aces of World War I (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 39) (2001). Osprey Aviation (ISBN1841762229). 96 pgs.
Hepplewhite, Peter. World War I: In The Air (2003). Pan Macmillan (ISBN0330410113). 144 pgs.
Herris, Jack. Pfalz Aircraft of World War I (Great War Aircraft in Profile, Volume 4) (2001). Flying Machines Press (ISBN1891268155). 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 (ISBN0815604653). 338 pgs.
Hurley, Alfred F. Billy Mitchell, Crusader for Air Power (1975)
Immelmann, Franz. Immelmann,The Eagle Of Lille (1990) ISBN978-0947898007. 240 pgs.
Jeffers, H. Paul. Ace of Aces: The Life of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker (2003). Presidio Press (ISBN0891417915). 352 pgs.
Johnson, Herbert A. Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation Through World War I (2001). University of North Carolina Press (ISBN0807826278). 298 pgs.
Kennett, Lee. First Air War, 1914–1918 (1999). Free Press (ISBN0684871203). 288 pgs.
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 (ISBN1903223288). 224 pgs.
McKee, Alexander. The Friendless Sky (1984). Academy Chicago Publishers (ISBN0586058230). 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 (ISBN1560982381). 464 pgs.
O'Connor, Martin. Air Aces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1914–1918 (1986). Flying Machines Press (ISBN1891268066). 338 pgs.
Outlet, Bernard Fitzsimons (Editor) /. Warplanes & Air Battles Of World War I (1973, 1988). Beekman House / Crescent (ISBN0517130890). 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 (ISBN1891268171). 88 pgs.
Revell, Alex. Victoria Cross WW I: WWI Airmen and Their Aircraft (1997). Flying Machines Press (ISBN1891268007). 96 pgs.
Richthofen, Manfred Von, Franks, Norman. The Red Air Fighter (1999). Stackpole Books (ISBN1853673625). 192 pgs.
Rickenbacker, Eddie V. Fighting the Flying Circus: The Greatest True Air Adventure to Come Out of World War I (2001). Doubleday Books (ISBN0385505590). 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) (ISBN1841763772). 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 (ISBN0333778987). 211 pgs.
Staff, Vigilant, Sykes, Claud W., Franks, Norman. German War Birds (1994). Greenhill Books (ISBN1853671649). 288 pgs.
Treadwell, Terry C. America's First Air War (2000). MBI Publishing (ISBN0760309868). 176 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, ISBN0802023797.
Wood, Alan C. Aces and Airmen of Ww1 (2002). Brassey's Inc. ISBN1857533801. 176 pgs.
Gas
Haber, L. F. The Poisonous Cloud: Chemical Warfare in the First World War (1986);
Palazzo, Albert. Seeking Victory on the Western Front: The British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I (2000)
Richter, Donald. Chemical Soldiers: British Gas Warfare in World War I (1992)
Freemantle, Michael. Gas! Gas! Quick, Boys!: How Chemistry Changed the First World War (2012)
Naval war
Allard, Dean C. "Anglo-American Naval Differences During World War I." Military Affairs: Journal of Military History (1980): 75–81
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
Marder, Arthur Jacob. From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow (4 vol. 1961–70), covers Royal Navy 1904–1919
O'Hara, V. P.; Heinz, L. R. (2017). Clash of fleets: Naval battles of the Great War, 1914–18. Naval Institute Press. online review
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 and summary
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)
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)
Hammond, Christopher Brynley. The Theory and Practice of British Tank Warfare on the Western Front During the First World War (Ashgate, 2013) ISBN978-1409431718
Smithers, A J (1986). A New Excalibur; The Development of the Tank, 1909–1939. Leo Cooper. ISBN978-0436475207. OCLC246675397.
Wilson, Dale E. Treat 'Em Rough!: The Birth of American Armor, 1917–20 (1989) ISBN978-0891413547
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)
James, Pearl, The New Death: American Modernism and World War I (University of Virginia Press; 2013) ISBN978-0813934075; 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) ISBN0195071395
Parfitt, George, Fiction of the First World War: A Study (London: Faber 1990) ISBN0571148964
Raitt, Suzanne and Trudi Tateeds, Women's Fiction and the Great War (Clarendon Press, 1997) ISBN019818283X
Robb, George. British Culture And The First World War (2002) ISBN0333715713
Roshwald, Aviel Roshwald . European Culture in the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment and Propaganda, 1914–1918 (2002) ISBN0521570158
Sherry, Vincent, The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War (2005) ISBN0521821452
Stallworthy, Jon, Great Poets of World War I: Poetry from the Great War (2002) ISBN0786710985
Vance, Jonathan F. Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War (1997) ISBN077480601X
Verhey, Jeffrey, The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth and Mobilization in Germany (2000) ISBN0521771374
Viney, Nigel, Images of Wartime: British Art and Artists of World War I (1991) ISBN0715397907
Watson, Janet S. K., Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory, and the First World War in Britain (2004) ISBN0521831539
Winter, Jay, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (1995, reissued in 1998) ISBN0521639883
Propaganda and media
Adams M.C.C. The Great Adventure: Male desire and the coming of World War I (1990).,
Bruntz. Allied Propaganda and the collapse of the German Empire in 1918 (1938)
Buitenhuis, P. The Great war of Words: Literature as Propaganda, 1914–18 and After (1989)
Carruth, Joseph (1997). "World War I Propaganda and Its Effects in Arkansas". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 56 (4): 385–398. doi:10.2307/40027887. JSTOR40027887.
Chambers, John Whiteclay. "'All Quiet on the Western Front' (1930): the antiwar film and the image of the First World War." Historical journal of film, radio and television 14.4 (1994): 377–411.
Cole, Robert, ed. The Encyclopedia of Propaganda (3 vols. Sharpe Reference, 1998)
Cornwall, Mark. "News, Rumour and the Control of Information in Austria-Hungary, 1914–1918." History 77#249 (1992): 50–64.
Cornwall, Mark. The undermining of Austria-Hungary: the battle for hearts and minds (2000)
Collins, Ross F. Children, War and Propaganda (Peter Lang, 2011)
Creel, George (1941). "Propaganda and Morale". American Journal of Sociology. 47 (3): 340–351. doi:10.1086/218914. JSTOR2769284. S2CID143623232. Analysis by the head of American propaganda in the First World War
Demm, Eberhard. Censorship and Propaganda in World War I: A Comprehensive History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) online review
German, Kathleen. Promises of Citizenship: Film Recruitment of African Americans in World War II (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2017).
Green, Leanne (2014). "Advertising war: Picturing Belgium in First World War publicity". Media, War & Conflict. 7 (3): 309–325. doi:10.1177/1750635214557534. S2CID144471627.
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.
Haste, Cate. Keep the home fires burning: Propaganda in the First World War (Lane, Allen, 1977), On Britain
Isenberg, Michael T. War on Film: The American Cinema and World War I, 1914–1941 (1981).
Horne, John; Kramer, Alan (1994). "German "Atrocities" and Franco-German Opinion, 1914: The Evidence of German Soldiers' Diaries". The Journal of Modern History. 66 (1): 1–33. doi:10.1086/244776. JSTOR2124390. S2CID154171062.
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
Marquis, Alice Goldfarb (1978). "Words as Weapons: Propaganda in Britain and Germany during the First World War". Journal of Contemporary History. 13 (3): 467–498. doi:10.1177/002200947801300304. JSTOR260205. S2CID159994121.
Monger, David. Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain: The National War Aims Committee and Civilian Morale (2013)
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.
Ponsonby, Arthur. Falsehood in War-Time; Containing an Assortment of Lies circulated throughout the Nations during the Great War (London: Allen & Unwin, 1928)
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)
Scott, Jonathan French. Five Weeks: The Surge of Public Opinion on the Eve of the Great War (1927)
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)
Welch, David. Germany and Propaganda in World War I: Pacifism, Mobilization and Total War (2014)
Wood, Richard, and David Culbert, Film and Propaganda in America: A Documentary History: World War I – Vol. 1 (1990)
Posters
Christopher, John, ed. British Posters of the First World War (2016)
Darracott, Joseph, and Belinda Loftus, eds. The First World War Posters (1974)
Dover. Posters of World Wars I and II CD-ROM and Book (2005) 120 American posters from WWI; ISBN978-0486996844
Rawls, Walton and Maurice Rickards, eds. Wake Up, America. World War I and the American Poster (2001) many color posters
Rickards, Maurice ed. Posters of the First World War (1968)
Stanley, Peter, ed. What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? A visual history of propaganda posters (1984)
White, Edward J. ed. World War I Posters: 100th Anniversary Collectors Edition (2014)
Poetry and songs
George Walter, The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (2006)
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
1917 (2019), movie directed by Sam Mendes, tells the story of two soldiers going to send a message during the war..
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