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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 1914-1918 (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

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




 * 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