Bibliography of World War I

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"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.

This list contains a selection of books on World War I, using APA style citations.

Reference works

Atlases and maps

Overviews

Primary sources, documents and year books

Official histories

Countries on both sides of the conflict published official histories, including the following:

Causes and diplomacy

Early peace negotiations

  • Zelikow, Philip D. The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917 PublicAffairs, 2021

Allied Forces

Britain

Australia and New Zealand

Canada

Africa, South Africa

India

China

  • 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

Historiography

Italy

Japan

  • Best, Antony, and Oliviero Frattolillo, eds. Japan and the Great War. (Palgrave, 2015). online
  • Dickinson, Frederick R. War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914–1919 (Harvard Univ Asia Center, 1999).
  • Duus, Peter, ed. The Cambridge history of Japan: The twentieth century (Cambridge University Press, 1989).
  • Saxon, Timothy D. "Anglo-Japanese Naval Cooperation, 1914–1918." Naval War College Review, 53#1 (2000): 62–92.
  • Strachan, Hew. The First World War: Volume I: To Arms (Oxford University Press, 2003) 455–94.

Russia

United States

Germany and the Central Powers

German army

Austria-Hungary

Ottoman Empire

Neutrals

Homefronts

Economics

Battles and campaigns

Western Front

Eastern Front

Specialty military topics

Infantry and artillery

Logistics

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 War online 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.
  • Pöhlmann, Markus (2005). "German Intelligence at War, 1914–1918". Journal of Intelligence History. 5 (2): 25–54.
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  • 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.
  • Trumpener, Ulrich. "War Premeditated? German Intelligence Operations in July 1914," Central European History 9#1 (1976): 58–85
  • Tuchman, Barbara W. The Zimmermann Telegram (1966)
  • Witcover, Jules. Sabotage at Black Tom: Imperial Germany's Secret War in America, 1914–1917 (1989)

Medicine

Weapons

Air War

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

Naval aviation

  • 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)
  • Henry, Chris. Depth Charge!: Mines, Depth Charges and Underwater Weapons, 1914–1945 (Casemate Publishers, 2005)
  • van der Vat, Dan. The Atlantic Campaign. (1988). 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 (1928, 2004)

Tanks

Popular histories and documentaries

Cultural, literary, artistic memorials

Propaganda and media

Posters

Poetry and songs

Fiction and autobiographical prose

Films, plays, television series and mini-series

Legacy and aftermath

Historiography and memory

See also


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