Bibliography of World War I
List of World War I books is a bibliography using APA style citations of a selection of books on World War I.
Overviews
- Beckett, Ian F. W.. The Great War: 1914-1918. New York: Routledge. A thematic and comprehensive history which provides a complete picture of the war.
- Carver, Field Marshal Lord. War Lords. Includes brief bios of Hamilton, Foch, Haig, Falkenhayn
- Clare, John D., First World War
- Cruttwell, C. R. M. F. A History of the Great War, 1914-1918, general military history
- Evans, David. Teach yourself— the First World War.
- Falls, Cyril. The Great War, 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 : 786-800.
- Gerwarth, Robert, and Erez Manela, eds. Empires at War: 1911-1923, 12 very wide ranging essays by scholars.
- Gilbert, Martin. The First World War: A Complete History. New York: Holt
- Halpern, Paul G. A Naval History of World War I
- Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
- Herwig, Holger H.. The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
- Herwig, Holger H. and Neil Heyman. Biographical Dictionary of World War I, scholarly sketches of the main military and political leaders of every country.
- Hochschild, Adam. To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. Boston and New York: Mariner Books.
- Howard, Michael. The First World War: A Very Short Introduction, by a leading historian
- Hubatsch, Walther. Germany and the Central Powers in the World War, 1914-1918
- Keegan, John. The First World War. New York: Vintage.
- Liddell-Hart, Basil H.. World War I in Outline. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing.
- Morrow Jr., John H.. The Great War: An Imperial History, covers British Empire
- Philpott, William. War of Attrition: Fighting the First World War. New York: Overlook Press.
- Robbins, Keith. The First World War, very short overview
- Simkins, Peter, Geoffrey Jukes, and Michael Hickey. The First World War: The War to End All Wars. Foreword by Hew Strachan. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
- Stevenson, David. Cataclysm: The First World War As Political Tragedy major reinterpretation, 560pp
- Stokesbury, James. A Short History of World War I
- Storey, William K.. First World War: A Concise Global History. Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
- Strachan, Hew. The First World War: Volume I: To Arms : a major scholarly synthesis. Thorough coverage of 1914-16; 1245pp
- Strachan, Hew. The First World War : a 385pp overview
- Strohn, Matthias, ed.. World War I Companion. Osprey Publishing.
- Tucker, Spencer C.. Great War, 1914–18. London: UCL Press.
- Winter, J. M. The Experience of World War I, topical essays;
Primary sources and year books
- Collins, Ross F. ed. World War I: Primary Documents on Events from 1914 to 1919 425pp ; also
- Gooch, G. P. Recent Revelations Of European Diplomacy, 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
- French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The French Yellow Book: Diplomatic Documents
- Hazell's Annual for 1916, worldwide events of 1915; 640pp ; worldwide coverage of 1915 events; emphasis on Great Britain
- , Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs for year 1914, 913pp
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Official histories
Causes and diplomacy
- Albertini, Luigi. The Origins of the War of 1914. New updated edition with an introduction by Samuel R. Williamson. 3-vol. paperback set
- Aksakal, Mustafa. "The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War.".
- Barnes, Harry Elmer. The Genesis Of The World War, 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
- Clark, Christopher. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. New York: Harper Books.
- Evans, R. J. W. and Hartmut Pogge Von Strandman, eds. The Coming of the First World War, essays by scholars from both sides
- Fay, Sidney. The Origins Of The World War ;
- Fromkin, D. Europe's Last Summer. Who started the Great War in 1914?, popular
- Gilpin, Robert. War and Change in World Politics
- Gooch, G.P. History of modern Europe, 1878-1919 pp 386–413. , diplomatic history
- Gooch, G.P. Before the war: studies in diplomacy 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, 281-85; Sazonoff, 287-369; Berchtold, 371-447.
- Hamilton, Richard F. and Holger H. Herwig, eds. Decisions for War, 1914-1917, scholarly essays on Serbia, Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, France, Britain, Japan, Ottoman Empire, Italy, the United States, Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece.
- Henig, Ruth B.. The Origins of the First World War. Florence, KY: Routledge.
- Hewitson, Mark. Germany and the Causes of the First World War. Oxford: Berg Publishers.
- Horne, John, ed. A Companion to World War I 38 topics essays by scholars
- Joll, James, The Origins of the First World War
- Kennan, George. The Fateful Alliance: France, Russia, and the Coming of the First World War. New York: Pantheon Books.
- Kennedy, Paul M., ed. The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914.
- Kennedy, Paul M. The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860-1914
- Knutsen, Torbjørn L. The Rise and Fall of World Orders Manchester University Press, 1999
- Lee, Dwight E. ed. The Outbreak of the First World War: Who Was Responsible?, readings from multiple points of view
- McCullough, Edward E. How The First World War Began
- McMeekin, Sean. Russian Origins of the First World War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Mombauer, Annika. The Origins of the First World War: Diplomatic and Military Documents. Manchester and London: Manchester University Press.
- Mulligan, William. The Origins of the First World War. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Neilson, Francis. How Diplomats Make War
- Nock, Albert Jay. . B.W. Huebsch, Incorporated, 1922.
- Ponting, Clive. Thirteen Days: Diplomacy and Disaster - The Countdown to the Great War
- Remak, Joachim. The Origins of World War I, 1871-1914. San Diego: Harcourt Brace.
- Ross, Stewart, Causes and Consequences of the First World War.
- Sontag, Raymond James. European Diplomatic History 1871-1932 pp 99-254.
- Spender, J.A. Fifty years of Europe: a study in pre-war documents covers 1871 to 1914, 438pp
- Stevenson, David, The First World War and International Politics
- Taylor, A.J.P. The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918
- Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August a best seller
- 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 pp 140–70.
- Zametica, John. Folly and Malice: The Habsburg Empire, the Balkans and the Start of World War One
Allied Forces
Britain
- French, David. British Strategy and War Aims 1914-1916
- Holmes, Richard. Tommy: the British soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918
- Messenger, Charles. Call To Arms: The British Army 1914-1918
- Pegler, Martin. British Tommy 1914-18
- 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
- Watson, Alexander. Enduring the Great War: Combat, morale and collapse in the German and British armies, 1914–1918
Australia and New Zealand
- Davison, Graeme, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre, eds. The Oxford Companion to Australian History Online at OUP
- Grey, Jeffrey. A military history of Australia
- Pugsley, Christopher. The Anzac Experience: New Zealand, Australia and Empire in the First World War
Canada
- Berton, Pierre. Marching As To War, Canada's Turbulent Years 1899-1953, 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
- Granatstein, Jack, and J.M. Hitsman, Broken Promises: A History of Conscription in Canada
- Hunter, Mark C. To Employ and Uplift Them: The Newfoundland Naval Reserve, 1899-1926
- Milner, Marc. Canadian Military History. Toronto: Copp Clark Putnam, 1993. Includes problems of Canadian recruiting and the 1917 draft crisis
- Morton, Desmond, and J. L. Granatstein Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War 1914-1919
- Vance, Jonathan F. Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War, cultural history;
- Wade, Mason. The French Canadians, 1760-1945, ch 12
Africa, South Africa
- Miller, Charles. Battle for the Bundu: the First World War in East Africa. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1974.
India
France
- Adamthwaite, Anthony. Grandeur And Misery: France's Bid for Power in Europe, 1914-1940 pp 1–39
- Bonzon, Thierry. "Consumption and Total Warfare in Paris." in F. Trentmann and F. Just, eds. Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars pp. 49–64.
- Bruce, Robert Bowman. A Fraternity of Arms: America and France in the Great War.
- Cabanes Bruno. August 1914: France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever argues that the very first month of fighting transformed the French mind.
- Clayton, Anthony. Paths of Glory: the French Army 1914-18
- Dutton, David. The Politics of Diplomacy: Britain, France and the Balkans in the First World War.
- Fogarty, Richard S. Race and war in France: Colonial subjects in the French army, 1914–1918
- Fridenson, Patrick. The French home front, 1914-1918.
- Greenhalgh, Elizabeth. Victory through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War 304pp
- Keiger, John. France and the Origins of the First World War
- Smith, Leonard V. Between Mutiny and Obedience: the Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division during World War I
- Smith, Leonard V. The Embattled Self: French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War
- Smith, Leonard V. et al. France and the Great War 222pp;
- Stovall, Tyler. Paris and the spirit of 1919: consumer struggles, transnationalism and revolution.
- Sumner, Ian. The French Army 1914-18
- Sumner, Ian. They Shall Not Pass: The French Army on the Western Front 1914-1918
- Winter, Jay, and Jean-Louis Robert. Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919.
Historiography
- Cox Gary. "France" in Robin Higham and Dennis E. Showalter, eds. Researching World War I: A Handbook pp 51–78.
Italy
- Ferrari, Paolo. "The Memory And Historiography Of The First World War In Italy" Comillas Journal of International Relations #2 pp 117–126 DOI: cir.i02.y2015.009
- Gibelli, Antonio. La Grande Guerra degli italiani, 1915-1918, Milano, Sansoni
- Gooch, John. The Italian army and the first world war.
- Page, Thomas N. Italy and the World War, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons
- Pergher, Roberta. "An Italian War? War and Nation in the Italian Historiography of the First World War" Journal of Modern History 90#4
- Renzi, William A. In the Shadow of the Sword: Italy's Neutrality and Entrance Into the Great War, 1914-1915.
- Thompson, Mark. The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919
Japan
- Best, Antony, and Oliviero Frattolillo, eds. Japan and the Great War..
- Dickinson, Frederick R. War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919.
- Duus, Peter, ed. The Cambridge history of Japan: The twentieth century.
- Saxon, Timothy D. Naval War College Review, 53#1 : 62–92.
- Strachan, Hew. The First World War: Volume I: To Arms 455-94.
Russia
- Acton, Edward, V. et al. eds. Critical companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914-1921.
- Lincoln, W. Bruce. Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution, 1914-1918
- Smele, Jonathan. The 'Russian' Civil Wars, 1916-1926: Ten Years That Shook the World.
- Smele, Jonathan D. Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926.
United States
- Ayres, Leonard P, The War with Germany: A Statistical Summary Government Printing Office, 1919
- Ball, Gregory W. They Called Them Soldier Boys: A Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I
- Beaver, Daniel R. Newton D. Baker and the American War Effort, 1917-1919
- Chambers, John W., II. To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America
- Elson, Aaron. The Armored Fist: The 712th Tank Battalion in the Second World War
- Hallas, James H. Doughboy War: The American Expeditionary Force in World War I
- Howarth, Stephen. To Shining Sea: A History of the United States Navy, 1775-1991
- , covers politics & economics & society
- Koistinen, Paul. Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865-1919
- Shay, Michael E. Sky Pilots: The Yankee Division Chaplains in World War I
- Trask, David F. The United States in the Supreme War Council: American War Aims and Inter-Allied Strategy, 1917-1918
- Venzon, Anne ed. The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia
- Woodward, David. The American Army and the First World War
- Woodward, David ed. America and World War I: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Sources
Germany and the Central Powers
- Hall, Richard C. "'The Enemy is Behind Us': The Morale Crisis in the Bulgarian Army during the Summer of 1918," War in History,, 11#2 pp 209–219,
- Watson, Alexander. ,
German army
- Thomas, Nigel. The German Army in World War I
- Watson, Alexander. Enduring the Great War: Combat, morale and collapse in the German and British armies, 1914–1918
Austria-Hungary
- Deak, John. "The Great War and the Forgotten Realm: The Habsburg Monarchy and the First World War,” Journal of Modern History 86#2 : 336–80. , historiography
- Jung, Peter. The Austro-Hungarian Forces in World War I 2 vol 2003)
- Schindler, J. "Steamrollered in Galicia: The Austro-Hungarian Army and the Brusilov Offensive, 1916." War in History 10#1 pp 27–59 doi=10.1191/0968344503wh260oa
- Sked, Alan. "Austria-Hungary and the First World War." Histoire Politique 1 : 16-49. historiography
- Watson, Alexander. ,
- Zametica, John. Folly and malice: the Habsburg empire, the Balkans and the start of World War One. 416pp.
Ottoman Empire
- Akın, Yiğit. When the War Came Home: The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire..
- Bozarslan, Hamit. "The Ottoman Empire." in John Horne. ed. A Companion to World War I : 494-507.
- Gingeras, Ryan. Fall of the Sultanate: The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1922.
- Macfie, A. L. The End of the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1923.
- Penix, Matthew David. "The Ottoman Empire in the first world war: A rational disaster" ). , bibliography pp 58–66
- Reynolds, Michael. Shattering Empires: the Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908-1918.
Neutrals
- Abbenhuis, Maartje M. The art of staying neutral: the Netherlands in the First World War, 1914-1918.
- Coogan, John W. The End of Neutrality: The United States, Britain, and Maritime Rights, 1899-1915..
- Den Hertog, Johan, and Samuël Kruizinga, eds. Caught in the middle: neutrals, neutrality, and the First World War.
- Jonas, Frank. Scandinavia and the Great Powers in the First World War
- Koblik, Steven. Neutral Europe between war and revolution, 1917-23.
- 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.
- Syrett, Harold C. "The Business Press and American Neutrality, 1914-1917." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 32.2 : 215-230 .
- Tucker, Robert W. Woodrow Wilson and the Great War: reconsidering America's neutrality, 1914-1917.
Homefronts
- Akın, Yiğit. When the War Came Home: The Ottomans' Great War and the Devastation of an Empire
- Darrow, Margaret H., French Women and the First World War
- Grayzel, Susan, Women and the First World War, worldwide coverage
- Healy, Maureen, Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I
- Higham, Robin and Dennis E. Showalter, eds., Researching World War I: A Handbook, 475pp; highly detailed historiography, stressing military themes; annotates over 1000 books—mostly military but many on the homefront;
- Horne, John N., ed. A Companion to World War I, 38 essays by leading scholars covering all facets of the war
- Horne, John N., State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War
- Kennedy, David M.,Over Here: The First World War and American Society
- Licursi, Kimberly J. Lamay. Remembering World War I in America
- Lutz, Ralph Haswell, ed. Fall of the German Empire, 1914–1918. 868pp , primary sources
- Proctor, Tammy M., Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918 410pp; global coverage
- Stevenson, David, Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy 625pp;
- Stevenson, David, With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 covers both the homefront and the battlefields for the major powers
- Strachan, Hew, The First World War 1225pp; covers the battlefields and chief home fronts in 1914-1917
- Swift, David. For Class and Country: the Patriotic Left and the First World War
- Tucker, Spencer, ed. European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia
- Tucker, Spencer, ed. The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social, and Military History ; 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.
- Wilson, Trevor, The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War 1914-1918
- Winter, J. M., The Experience of World War I
- Winter, Jay, and Jean-Louis Robert, eds. Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919'', 30 chapters 1200pp; comprehensive coverage by scholars ;
Economics
- Bogart, E.L. Direct and Indirect Costs of the Great World War ; comprehensive coverage of every major country;
- Broadberry, Stephen, and Mark Harrison, eds. The Economics of World War I . Covers France, Britain, USA, Russia, Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and the Netherlands, 362pp;
- Ferguson, Niall The Pity of War, cultural and economic themes
- Fisk, Harvey E., The Inter-Ally Debts: An Analysis of War and Post-War Public Finance, 1914-1923
- Grayzel, Susan, Women and the First World War, worldwide coverage
- Hardach, Gerd, The First World War 1914-1918, economic history of major powers
- 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
- Osborne, Eric, Britain's Economic Blockade of Germany, 1914-1919
- Stevenson, David, With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 , pp 350–438, covers major countries
- Strachan, Hew, Financing the First World War , 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
- Shotwell, James T., Economic and Social History of the World War
- Thorp, William Long, Business Annals: United States, England, France, Germany, Austria, Russia, Sweden Netherlands, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, Australia, India, Japan, China capsule summary of conditions in each country for each quarter-year 1790-1925
- Winter, J. M. The Experience of World War I
Battles and Campaigns
Western Front
- despite the title covers entire war
- general military history
- Gilbert, Martin. The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War
- Harris, J. P. Douglas Haig and the First World War
- German Spring Offensive in 1918
- Lengel, Edward G. To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918 The Epic Battle That Ended the First World War
- Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August, tells of the opening diplomatic and military manoeuvres.
- Wolff, Leon.
Eastern Front
Specialty military topics
Infantry and artillery
- Ashworth, Tony. Trench Warfare, 1914-1918: the live and let live system
- Bidwell, Shelford and Graham, Dominick. Firepower: British Army Weapons and Theories of War, 1904-1945
- Engen, Rob. "Steel Against Fire: The Bayonet in the First World War." Journal of Military and Strategic Studies 8#3
- Gudmundsson, Bruce I. Stormtroop Tactics: Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918
- statistics and how compiled for U.S. Army
- Lewis-Stempel, John. "Six Weeks: The Short and Gallant Life of the British Officer in the First World War"
- Messenger, Charles. Call To Arms: The British Army 1914-1918 , 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
- Smith, Leonard V. Between Mutiny and Obedience. The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division during World War I
- Weber, Thomas. Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War
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 : 57-72.
- Lloyd-Jones, Roger, and Myrddin John Lewis. Arming the Western Front: War, Business and the State in Britain 1900–1920.
- Pratt, Edwin A. The rise of rail-power in war and conquest, 1833-1914
- Tynan, Jane. British Army Uniform and the First World War.
Intelligence, espionage
- Andrew, Christopher. For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush pp 30–70.
- Barton, George. Celebrated Spies and Famous Mysteries of the Great War
- 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.
- Boghardt, Thomas. The Zimmermann telegram: intelligence, diplomacy, and America's entry into World War I.
- Dockrill, Michael. and David French, eds. Strategy and Intelligence: British Policy During the First World War.
- Debruyne, Emmanuel. "Espionage" In: Ute Daniel, et al. eds. 1914-1918-online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War 22 page scholarly history
- Finnegan, Terrance. "The Origins of Modern Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance: Military Intelligence at the Front, 1914–18," Studies in Intelligence 53#4 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 : 1-24.
- Khan, David. The Codebreakers. 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 pp. 617–39.
- Khan, David. The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking
- Larsen, Daniel. "Intelligence in the First World War: The state of the field." Intelligence and National Security 29.2 : 282-302, comprehensive overview
- Larsen, Daniel. "British codebreaking and American diplomatic telegrams, 1914–1915." Intelligence and National Security 32.2 : 256-263. The British read the American secrets from late 1915
- May, Ernest R. ed. Knowing One's Enemy: Intelligence Assessment Before the two World Wars
- Parr, Edward. "Kingdoms Fall: The Laxenburg Message". 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. ; also , pp 49–114.
- Seligmann, Matthew. Spies in Uniform: British Military and Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Trumpener, Ulrich. "War Premeditated? German Intelligence Operations in July 1914," Central European History 9#1 : 58-85
- Tuchman, Barbara W. The Zimmermann Telegram
- Witcover, Jules. Sabotage at Black Tom: Imperial Germany's Secret War in America, 1914-1917
Medicine
- Carden-Coyne, Ana. The Politics of Wounds: Military Patients and Medical Power in the First World War, 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 13#2 pp: 276-278. on USA
- Haller, Jr., John S. "Treatment of infected wounds during the Great War, 1914 to 1918." Southern medical journal 85#3 pp: 303-315.
- Harrison, Mark. The medical war: British military medicine in the First World War
- Jones, Edgar, and Simon Wessely. Shell shock to PTSD: Military psychiatry from 1900 to the Gulf War
- Jones, Edgar. "Terror weapons: the British experience of gas and its treatment in the first world war." War in History 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 67#1 pp: 94-119.
- Mitchell, Thomas John, and G. M. Smith. Medical services, casualties and medical statistics of the great war
- Rees, Peter. The Other ANZACs
- Yanıkdağ, Yücel. Healing the Nation: Prisoners of War, Medicine and Nationalism in Turkey, 1914–1939
Weapons
Air War
- Angelucci, Enzo, Matricardi, Paolo. World Aircraft: Origins-World War I..
- Bennett, Leon. Three Wings for the Red Baron: Von Richthofen, Strategy, Tactics, and Airplanes.. 248 pgs.
- Bickers, Richard Townshend. The First Great Air War.. 277 pgs.
- Boelcke,Oswald, An Aviators Field Book,1914-1916 pgs.
- Chajkowsky, William E., Royal Flying Corps, Bordon to Texas to Beamsville Boston Mills Press,.
- Bowyer, Chaz. Royal Flying Corps Communiques: 1917-1918.. 258 pgs.
- Chickering, Roger, et al. eds. Great War, Total War : Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918 .. 584 pgs.
- Clark, Alan. Aces high: The war in the air over the Western Front 1914-18.. 191 pgs.
- Cooke, James J.. The U.S. Air Service In the Great War: 1917-1919.. 272 pgs.
- Cormack, Andrew, Peter Cormack. British Air Forces : 1914-1918 . Osprey Publishing.. 48 pgs.
- Cowin, Hugh W. Allied Aviation of World War I: A Pictoral History of Allied Aviators and Aircraft of the Great War. Osprey Aviation.. 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. Osprey Pub Co.. 96 pgs.
- Cuneo, John R. Winged Mars . 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. Grub Street.. 192 pgs.
- Dodds, Ronald. The Brave Young Wings. Canada's Wings, Inc., Stittsville, Ontario, Canada.. 302 pgs.
- Editors, Time Life, Ezra Bowen. Knights of the Air . Warner Books Inc.. 192 pgs.
- Frandsen, Bert. Hat in the Ring: The Birth of American Air Power in the Great War. Smithsonian Books.. 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. Grub Street. 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. Grub Street. 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. Casemate Pub
- Franks, Norman L.R., Guest, Russell, Bailey, Frank W. Bloody April...Black September. Grub Street. 314 pgs.
- Franks, Norman, Bailey, Frank, Bailey, Frank W. The Storks: The Story of the Les Cigognes, France's Elite Fighter Group of Wwi. Grub Street. 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. Grub Street. 192 pgs.
- Franks, Norman, Wyngarden, Greg Van, Holmes, Tony. Fokker Dr I Aces of World War I . Osprey Aviation. 96 pgs.
- Franks, Norman. Jasta Boelcke: The History of Jasta 2, 1916-1918. Grub Street. 224 pgs.
- Franks, Norman. Sopwith Camel Aces of World War 1 . Osprey Publishing . 96 pgs.
- Gibbons, Floyd. Red Knight of Germany: The Story of Baron Von Richthofen, Germany's Great War Bird. Arno Press. 383 pgs.
- Grinnel-Milne, Duncan. Wind in the Wires Doubleday Publishing. 259 pages with illus.
- Grosz, Peter, Haddow, George, Schiemer, Peter. Austro-Hungarian Army Aircraft of World War I. Flying Machines Press. 544 pgs.
- Guttman, Jon, Holmes, Tony. SPA124 Lafayette Escadrille: American Volunteer Airmen in World War 1 . Osprey Publishing . 128 pgs.
- Guttman, Jon. Spad VII Aces of World War I . Osprey Aviation. 96 pgs.
- Hepplewhite, Peter. World War I: In The Air. Pan Macmillan. 144 pgs.
- Herris, Jack. Pfalz Aircraft of World War I . Flying Machines Press. 184 pgs.
- Holley, I. B. Ideas and Weapons: Exploitation of the Aerial Weapon by the United States During World War I
- Hudson, James J. Hostile Skies. Syracuse University Press. 338 pgs.
- Hurley, Alfred F. Billy Mitchell, Crusader for Air Power
- Immelmann, Franz. Immelmann,The Eagle Of Lille . 240 pgs.
- Jeffers, H. Paul. Ace of Aces: The Life of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. Presidio Press. 352 pgs.
- Johnson, Herbert A. Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation Through World War I. University of North Carolina Press. 298 pgs.
- Kennett, Lee. First Air War, 1914-1918. Free Press. 288 pgs.
- Lewis, Cecil. "Sagittarius Rising", 1936 Greenhill Books, 332 pages,
- Lawson, Eric and Jane Lawson. The First Air Campaign, August 1914-November 1918
- Leaman, Paul. Fokker Dr.I Triplane: A World War One Legend. Classic Publications. 224 pgs.
- McKee, Alexander. The Friendless Sky. Academy Chicago Publishers. 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. Smithsonian Books. 464 pgs.
- O'Connor, Martin. Air Aces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1914-1918. Flying Machines Press. 338 pgs.
- O'Connor, Mike. Airfields & Airmen: Cambrai . Pen & Sword Books. 176 pgs.
- Outlet, Bernard Fitzsimons /. Warplanes & Air Battles Of World War I. Beekman House / Crescent. 160 pgs.
- Owers, Colin. De Havilland Aircraft of World War I: Volume 1, D.H.1-D.H.4 . Flying Machines Press. 88 pgs.
- Revell, Alex. Victoria Cross WW I: WWI Airmen and Their Aircraft. Flying Machines Press. 96 pgs.
- Richthofen, Manfred Von, Franks, Norman. The Red Air Fighter. Stackpole Books. 192 pgs.
- Rickenbacker, Eddie V. Fighting the Flying Circus: The Greatest True Air Adventure to Come Out of World War I. Doubleday Books. 324 pgs.
- Shores, Christopher, Rolfe, Mark. British and Empire Aces of World War I . Osprey Publishing . 96 pgs.
- Simkins, Peter. Air Fighting 1914-1918 . Imperial War Museum. 80 pgs.
- Smith, Adrian. Mick Mannock, Fighter Pilot: Myth, Life and Politics . Palgrave MacMillan. 211 pgs.
- Staff, Vigilant, Sykes, Claud W., Franks, Norman. German War Birds. Greenhill Books. 288 pgs.
- Treadwell, Terry C. America's First Air War. MBI Publishing. 176 pgs.
- Vanwyngarden, Greg. Richthofen's Flying Circus: Jagdgeschwader Nr 1 . Osprey Publishing . 128 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,. University of Toronto Press,.
- Wood, Alan C. Aces and Airmen of Ww1''. Brassey's Inc.. 176 pgs.
Gas
- Haber, L. F. The Poisonous Cloud: Chemical Warfare in the First World War ;
- Palazzo, Albert. Seeking Victory on the Western Front: The British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I
- Richter, Donald. Chemical Soldiers: British Gas Warfare in World War I
- Freemantle, Michael. Gas! Gas! Quick, Boys!: How Chemistry Changed the First World War
Naval war
- Allard, Dean C. "Anglo-American Naval Differences During World War I." Military Affairs: Journal of Military History : 75-81. in JSTOR
- Bennett, Geoffrey. Naval Battles of the First World War
- Coogan, John W. The End of Neutrality: The United States, Britain and Maritime Rights, 1899-1915
- Farquharson-Roberts, Mike. A History of the Royal Navy: World War I
- Goldrick, James. The Kingś Ships Were at Sea: The War in the North Sea, August 1914-February 1915
- Grimes, Shawn T. Strategy and War Planning in the British Navy, 1887-1918
- Halpern, Paul G. The War at Sea
- Halpern, Paul G. The Mediterranean naval situation, 1908-1914
- Holloway, S. M. From Trench and Turret: Royal Marines' Letters and Diaries 1914-18, primary sources
- Hough, Richard. The Great War at Sea, 1914-1918
- Kirschbaum, Joseph W. The 1916 Naval Expansion Act: Planning for a Navy Second to None. US Navy
- London, Charles. Jutland 1916: clash of the dreadnoughts
- 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 : 603-616. in JSTOR
- Marder, Arthur Jacob. From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, covers Royal Navy 1904-1919
- Osborne, Eric W. Britain's economic blockade of Germany, 1914-1919
- Peebles, Hugh B. Warshipbuilding on the Clyde: Naval orders and the prosperity of the Clyde shipbuilding industry, 1889-1939
- Sondhaus, Lawrence. The Great War at Sea: A Naval History of the First World War 417 pp.
- Trask, David F. Captains & cabinets: Anglo-American naval relations, 1917-1918
- Woodward, Ernest Llewellyn. Great Britain and the German navy
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Naval aviation
- Benbow, Tim, ed. British naval aviation: the first 100 years
- Ingalls, David S. Hero of the Angry Sky: The World War I Diary and Letters of David S. Ingalls, America's First Naval Ace
- Layman, R. D. Naval Aviation in the First World War: Its Impact and Influence
- Till, Geoffrey. Air Power and the Royal Navy, 1914-1945: a historical survey
Submarines
- Abbatiello, John. Anti-Submarine Warfare in World War I: British Naval Aviation and the Defeat of the U-Boats
- Compton-Hall, Richard. Submarines and the War at Sea, 1914-18
- Gray, Edwyn A. The U-Boat War, 1914-1918
- Greentree, David, Ian Palmer, and Peter Dennis. Q Ship Vs U-Boat: 1914-18
- Hackmann, Willem Dirk. Seek & Strike: Sonar, anti-submarine warfare and the Royal Navy 1914-54
- Henry, Chris. Depth Charge!: Mines, Depth Charges and Underwater Weapons, 1914-1945
- van der Vat, Dan. The Atlantic Campaign.. Connects submarine and antisubmarine operations between wars, and suggests a continuous war.
- Price, Alfred, Dr. Aircraft versus the Submarine. Deals with technical developments, including the first dipping hydrophones.
- Thomas, Lowell. Raiders Of The Deep
Tanks
- Elson, Aaron. The Armored Fist: The 712th Tank Battalion in the Second World War
- Foley, Michael. Rise of the Tank: Armoured Vehicles and their use in the First World War
- Fuller, J.F.C. Tanks in the Great War
- Guderian, Heinz. Achtung! Panzer
- Hammond, Christopher Brynley. The Theory and Practice of British Tank Warfare on the Western Front During the First World War
- Wilson, Dale E. Treat 'Em Rough!: The Birth of American Armor, 1917-20
Popular histories and documentaries
- 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
- The Great War, television documentary by the BBC.
- The Great War, documentary film which aired on PBS as part of the series American Experience
Cultural, literary, artistic, memorials
- Cruickshank, John, Variations on Catastrophe: Some French Responses to the Great War
- Eksteins, Modris, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age.
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- Bairnsfather, Bruce, Bullets & Billets . Cartoons.
- Genno, C.N. and H. Wetzel, eds. The First World War in German Narrative Prose.
- Hynes, Samuel, A War Imagined: The First World War in English Culture
- James, Pearl, The New Death: American Modernism and World War I ; 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
- Parfitt, George, Fiction of the First World War: A Study
- Raitt, Suzanne and Trudi Tateeds, Women's Fiction and the Great War
- Robb, George. British Culture And The First World War
- Roshwald, Aviel Roshwald. European Culture in the Great War : The Arts, Entertainment and Propaganda, 1914-1918
- Sherry, Vincent, The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War
- Stallworthy, Jon, Great Poets of World War I: Poetry from the Great War
- Vance, Jonathan F. Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War
- Verhey, Jeffrey, The Spirit of 1914: Militarism, Myth and Mobilization in Germany
- Viney, Nigel, Images of Wartime: British Art and Artists of World War I
- Watson, Janet S. K., Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory, and the First World War in Britain
- Winter, Jay, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History
Propaganda and media
- Adams M.C.C. The Great Adventure: Male desire and the coming of World War I.,
- Bruntz. Allied Propaganda and the collapse of the German Empire in 1918
- Buitenhuis, P. The Great war of Words: Literature as Propaganda, 1914-18 and After
- Cole, Robert, ed. The Encyclopedia of Propaganda
- Cornwall, Mark. "News, Rumour and the Control of Information in Austria‐Hungary, 1914–1918." History 77#249 : 50–64.
- Cornwall, Mark. The undermining of Austria-Hungary: the battle for hearts and minds
- Collins, Ross F. Children, War and Propaganda
- Analysis by the head of American propaganda in the First World War
- Gullace, Nicoletta F. "Allied Propaganda and World War I: Interwar Legacies, Media Studies, and the Politics of War Guilt." History Compass 9#9 pp: 686-700.
- Haste, Cate. Keep the home fires burning: Propaganda in the First World War, On Britain
- Johnson, Niel M. George Sylvester Viereck, German-American Propagandist, in World War I
- Kingsbury, Celia Malone. For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front. 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., A famous classic
- Monger, David. Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain: The National War Aims Committee and Civilian Morale
- Paddock, Troy. A Call to Arms: Propaganda, Public Opinion, and Newspapers in the Great War
- Peterson, Horace Cornelius. Propaganda for war: The campaign against American neutrality, 1914-1917, 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
- Roshwald, Aviel Roshwald. European Culture in the Great War : The Arts, Entertainment and Propaganda, 1914-1918
- Sanders, Michael, and Philip M. Taylor. British Propaganda During the First World War, 1914-18
- Scott, Jonathan French. Five Weeks: The Surge of Public Opinion on the Eve of the Great War
- Squires, James Duane. British Propaganda at Home and in the United States from 1914 to 1917
- Thompson, J. Lee. Politicians, the Press, & Propaganda: Lord Northcliffe & the Great War, 1914-1919
- Welch, David. Germany and Propaganda in World War I: Pacifism, Mobilization and Total War
- Wood, Richard, and David Culbert, Film and Propaganda in America: A Documentary History: World War I - Vol. 1
Posters
- Christopher, John, ed. British Posters of the First World War
- Darracott, Joseph, and Belinda Loftus, eds. The First World War Posters
- Dover. Posters of World Wars I and II CD-ROM and Book 120 American posters from WWI;
- Rawls, Walton and Maurice Rickards, eds. Wake Up, America. World War I and the American Poster many color posters
- Rickards, Maurice ed. Posters of the First World War
- Stanley, Peter, ed. What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? A visual history of propaganda posters
- White, Edward J. ed. World War I Posters: 100th Anniversary Collectors Edition
Poetry and songs
- George Walter, The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
- On Receiving News of the War, poem by Isaac Rosenberg
- In Flanders Fields, poem by John McCrae
- Anthem for Doomed Youth, poem by Wilfred Owen
- Dulce et Decorum Est, poem by Wilfred Owen
- Disabled, poem by Wilfred Owen
- Base details, poem by Siegfried Sassoon
- They, poem by Siegfried Sassoon
- And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda, song by Eric Bogle
- Over There, theme song of the war by George M. Cohan
Books and novels
- Le Feu , novel by Henri Barbusse
- Mr. Britling Sees It Through, novel by H.G. Wells
- The Worn Doorstep, novel by Margaret Sherwood
- Told in a French Garden, August 1914, novel by Mildred Aldrich
- The Marne, novel by Edith Wharton
- Home Fires in France, fictional sketches by Dorothy Canfield
- The Return of the Soldier, novel by Rebecca West
- Rilla of Ingleside, novel by L.M. Montgomery, an account of the war as experienced by Canadian women of the time
- Storm of Steel, autobiography of Ernst Jünger. First published 1920 and revised several times through 1961
- A World to Mend, novel by Margaret Sherwood
- Three Soldiers, novel by John Dos Passos
- The Enormous Room, novel by E.E. Cummings
- Pădurea Spânzuraţilor/Forest of the Hanged, 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.
- One of Ours, novel by Willa Cather
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence
- The Good Soldier Švejk, satirical novel by Jaroslav Hašek
- A Son at the Front, novel by Edith Wharton
- Parade's End, four-part novel by Ford Madox Ford
- Private 12768: Memoir of a Tommy, memoir by John Jackson,
- A Farewell to Arms, novel by Ernest Hemingway
- All Quiet on the Western Front, novel written by Erich Maria Remarque
- Death of a Hero, novel by Richard Aldington
- Goodbye to All That, autobiography of Robert Graves
- The Middle Parts of Fortune, a novel by Frederic Manning
- A Subaltern's War, a novel by Charles Edmund Carrington
- The Wet Flanders Plain, a novel by Henry Williamson
- Her Privates We, a novel by Frederic Manning
- Generals Die in Bed, novel by Charles Yale Harrison
- Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, novel by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Patriot's Progress, a novel by Henry Williamson
- Testament of Youth, memoir by Vera Brittain
- Winged Victory, a novel by V.M. Yeates
- God's Sparrows, a novel by Philip Child
- Un anno sull'altipiano , novel by Emilio Lussu
- World's End, first novel in Upton Sinclair's Pulitzer Prize winning Lanny Budd series
- Chronicles of Ancient Sunlight, a series of novels by Henry Williamson
- The Bartholomew Bandy novels by Donald Jack.
- The Wars, novel by Timothy Findley
- The Otto Prohaska Novels , novels by John Biggins
- Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, 1993; The Ghost Road novels by Pat Barker
- Birdsong, novel by Sebastian Faulks
- Deafening, book written by Frances Itani
- No Graves As Yet, first volume of a trilogy of novels by Anne Perry
- A Long, Long Way, novel by Sebastian Barry
- Three Day Road novel by Joseph Boyden about northern Ontario Cree, in the Canadian Second Division, on the front line.
- To the Last Man, novel by Jeff Shaara
- A Young Man's War, letters from the Front by Alec Ward
- Kingdoms Fall: The Laxenburg Message , a novel by Edward Parr
Films, plays, television series and mini-series
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, movie directed by Rex Ingram, based on a novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
- The Big Parade, movie directed by King Vidor, adapted by Harry Behn from the play by Joseph Farnham and the autobiographical novel Plumes by Laurence Stallings.
- Mare Nostrum, movie directed by Rex Ingram, based on a novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
- Wings, 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.
- Journey's End, play written by R. C. Sherriff
- All Quiet on the Western Front, movie directed by Lewis Milestone, based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque.
- Hell's Angels, movie directed by Howard Hughes.
- War Nurse, movie directed by Edgar Selwyn.
- Westfront 1918, German-language movie directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. Later banned under the Nazi regime.
- Grand Illusion, directed by Jean Renoir
- Sergeant York, movie directed by Howard Hawks
- Yankee Doodle Dandy, directed by Michael Curtiz
- Paths of Glory, movie directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb
- Marš na Drinu, Serbian war film about a Serbian artillery battalion in the Battle of Cer
- Lawrence of Arabia, movie covering events surrounding T. E. Lawrence in the pan-Arabian Theatre, starring Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, and Omar Sharif and directed by David Lean
- , CBS News documentary narrated by Robert Ryan
- TV series by Correlli Barnett and others of
- Doctor Zhivago, 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.
- The Blue Max, movie directed by John Guillermin, titled after the Prussian military award, or Pour le Mérite
- Oh! What a Lovely War, film directed by Richard Attenborough, based on the stage musical Oh, What a Lovely War! by Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop.
- Many Wars Ago , set during the Isonzo campaign, where many tired Italian soldiers begin a mutiny.
- Johnny Got His Gun, movie directed by Dalton Trumbo
- Gallipoli, movie directed by Peter Weir
- Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme,, play by Frank McGuinness
- The Lighthorsemen, movie directed by Simon Wincer
- Blackadder Goes Forth, TV series by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton
- The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, Emmy-winning miniseries coproduced by KCET & BBC, distributed in the US by PBS
- Regeneration, movie directed by Gillies MacKinnon, based on the novel by Pat Barker
- The Lost Battalion, movie and screenplay directed by Russell Mulcahy
- A Very Long Engagement, movie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, based on the novel by Sebastien Japrisot
- Joyeux Noël, Based on the 1914 Christmas truce.
- Passchendaele, movie directed by and starring Paul Gross
- Flyboys, Movie directed by Tony Bill, tells the story of American pilots who volunteered for the French military before America entered World War I.
- War Horse, movie directed by Steven Spielberg, adaptation of British author Michael Morpurgo's 1982 novel.
- 1917, movie directed by Sam Mendes, tells the story of two soldiers going to send a message during the war..
Legacy and aftermath
- Agnew, Kate, and Geoff Fox. Children at War: From the First World War to the Gulf. New York and London: Continuum International Publishing.
- Black, Jeremy. The Great War and the Making of the Modern World. New York and London: Continuum International Publishing.
- Chickering, Roger, and Stig Forster, eds.. Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939'. West Nyack, NY: Cambridge University Press.
- Kuhlman, Erika. Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of Nation after the Great War. New York: NYU Press.
- MacMillan, Margaret. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World. New York: Random House.
- Rachamimov, Alon. Legacy of the Great War, POWs and the Great War: Captivity on the Eastern Front. Oxford: Berg Publishers.
- Reynolds, David. The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company.
- Seipp, Adam R.. Ordeal of Peace: Demobilisation and the Urban Experience in Britain and Germany, 1917-1921. Abingdon: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
- Sharp, Alan. Consequences of Peace: The Versailles Settlement-Aftermath and Legacy 1919-2010. New York: Haus Publishing.
- Tate, Trudi. Modernism, History and the First World War. Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks, LLP.
- Winter, Jay. Legacy of the Great War: Ninety Years On. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press.
Historiography and memory
- Deak, John.. "The Great War and the Forgotten Realm: The Habsburg Monarchy and the First World War" Journal of Modern History 86#2 pp: 336-380.
- Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Jones, Heather.. "As the centenary approaches: the regeneration of First World War historiography." Historical Journal 56#3 pp: 857-878.
- Jones, Heather.. "Goodbye to all that?: Memory and Meaning in the Commemoration of the First World War." Juncture 20#4 pp: 287-291.
- Kramer, Alan.. "Recent Historiography of the First World War - Part I," Journal of Modern European History 12#1 pp 5–27; "Recent Historiography of the First World War," 12#2 pp 155–174
- Millier, Alisa, Laura Rowe, and James Kitchen. Other Combatants, Other Fronts: Competing Histories of the First World War. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Petrone, Karen. Great War in Russian Memory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- Mulligan, William.. "The Trial Continues: New Directions in the Study of the Origins of the First World War." English Historical Review 129#538 pp: 639-666.
- Sanborn, Joshua.. "Russian Historiography on the Origins of the First World War Since the Fischer Controversy." Journal of Contemporary History 48#2 pp: 350-362.
- Sharp, Heather.. "Representing Australia's Involvement in the First World War: Discrepancies between Public Discourses and School History Textbooks from 1916 to 1936." Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society 6#1 pp: 1-23.
- Sked, Alan. "Austria-Hungary and the First World War." Histoire Politique 1 : 16-49.
- Trout, Steven. On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919-1941. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
- Vance, Jonathan F.. Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press.
- Winter, Jay, and Antoine Prost. The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Winter, Jay. Remembering War: The Great War Between Memory and History in the Twentieth Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
- Winter, Jay, ed.. The Cambridge History of the First World War
- Woodward, David ed. America and World War I: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Sources