Books & Web Sites About: World War I

Internet Resources

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, PBS Web site created for the KCET (Los Angeles) and BBC television program http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/

The Great War Society http://www.worldwar1.com/tgws/

World War I Document Archive maintained by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L) http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/

World War I: Trenches on the Web maintained by Mike Iavarone http://www.worldwar1.com/

Almanacs, Bibliographies, and Dictionaries

Enser, A. G. S. A Subject Bibliography of the First World War: Books in English, 1914-1987. Brookfield, Vt.: Gower, 1990.

Friedl, Vicki L. Women in the United States Military, 1901-1995: A Research Guide and Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Hogg, Ian V. Historical Dictionary of World War I. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1998.

Herwig, Holger H., and Neil Heyman. Biographical Dictionary of World War I. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982.

Livesey, Anthony. The Historical Atlas of World War I. New York: H. Holt, 1994.

Livesey, Anthony. Great Battles of World War I. New York: Macmillan, 1989.

Standard Histories and Other Printed Resources

Baer, George W. One Hundred Years of Seapower: The U.S. Navy, 1890-1990. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994.

Coffman, Edward M. The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.

Ferrell, Robert H. Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1921. 1985.

Greenwald, Maurine Weiner. Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980.

Halpern, Paul G. A Naval History of World War I. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1994.

Haythornthwaite, Philip J. A Photohistory of World War I. New York: Sterling Pub., c1993.

Holm, Jeanne. Women in the Military: An Unfinished Revolution. Rev ed. Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, c1992.

Kennedy, David M. Over Here: The First World War and American Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Larabee, Benjamin et al. America and the Sea: A Maritime History. Mystic, Conn.: Mystic Seaport Publications, 1998.

Lawson, Don. The United States in World War I. New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1963.

Schaffer, Ronald. America in the Great War: The Rise of the War Welfare State. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Schneider, Dorothy and Carl J. Schneider. Into the Breach: American Women Overseas in World War I. New York: Viking, 1991.

Smith, Daniel M. The Great Departure: The United States and World War I, 1914-1920. New York: Wiley, 1965.

Trask, David F. The AEF and Coalition Warmaking, 1917-1918. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1993.

Winter, J. M. The Experience of World War I. London: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Winter, Jay and Baggett Blaine. The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century. New York: Penguin Studio, 1996.

Wynn, Neil A. From Progressivism to Prosperity: World War I and American Society. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1986.