List of World War I books

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

Reference works

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* 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
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full text of vol 30 Abbe to English History
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scans of each page of vol 30–31–32
* 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) . 1105 pgs. (2 vol.) international scope: showcasing the work of recognized World War I experts from 15 countrie
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* Horne, John, ed. (2012). ''A Companion to World War I''. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.
* 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
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* 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)
* Jay Winter, Winter, Jay, ed. (2014). ''The Cambridge History of the First World War'' (3 vol. Cambridge University Press, 2014
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Atlases and maps

* Banks, Arthur (2001). ''A Military Atlas of the First World War''. Barnsley: Leo Cooper reprinted by Pen & Sword.
* 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
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* 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

* 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
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* 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.
* Durchleuchtung eines Verrats. Der Fall des Oberst Alexandru D. Sturdza, von Petre Otu und Maria Georgescu. Lektor Verlag. 2022. Hainburg.

Overviews

* Beckett, Ian F. W. (2007). ''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''. (1976) Includes brief bios of Hamilton, Foch, Haig, Falkenhayn
* Clare, John D., ''First World War'' (1994)
* Cruttwell, C. R. M. F. ''A History of the Great War, 1914–1918'' (1934), general military histor
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* Evans, David. ''Teach yourselfthe 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
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* Gerwarth, Robert, and Erez Manela, eds. ''Empires at War: 1911–1923'' (2014), 12 very wide-ranging essays by scholars
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* Gilbert, Martin (2004). ''The First World War: A Complete History''. New York: Holt
* Halpern, Paul G. ''A Naval History of World War I'' (1995)
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* Hart, Peter (2013). ''The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War''. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
* Herwig, Holger H. (2009). ''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'' (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.
* Howard, Michael. ''The First World War: A Very Short Introduction'' (2007), by a leading historia
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* Hubatsch, Walther. ''Germany and the Central Powers in the World War, 1914–1918'' (1963)
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* Keegan, John (2000). ''The First World War''. New York: Vintage.
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* Liddell-Hart, Basil H. (2012). ''World War I in Outline''. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing.
* Morrow Jr., John H.. ''The Great War: An Imperial History'' (2003), covers British Empir
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* Philpott, William (2014). ''War of Attrition: Fighting the First World War''. New York: Overlook Press.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Tucker, Spencer C. (1998). ''Great War, 1914–18''. London: UCL Press.
* 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 ,
* 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
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* 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.
* ''Hazell's Annual for 1916'' (1916), worldwide events of 1915; 640p
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worldwide coverage of 1915 events; emphasis on Great Britain

''New International Year Book 1914'' (1915)
Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs for year 1914, 913pp

''New International Year Book 1915'' (1916)
Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 791pp

''New International Year Book 1916'' (1917)
Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 938pp

''New International Year Book 1917'' (1918)
Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 904 pp

''New International Year Book 1918'' (1919)
Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 904 pp

''New International Year Book 1919'' (1920)
Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 744pp

''New International Year Book 1920'' (1921)
Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 844 pp

''New International Year Book 1921'' (1922)
Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 848 pp
* Shevin-Coetzee, Marilyn (2010). ''World War I: A History in Documents''. (Oxford University Press).

Official histories

Countries on both sides of the conflict published official histories, including the following:
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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 (New York: Enigma Books, 2005)
** Albertini, Luigi. ''The Origins of the War of 1914'' (vol 2 1952)
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* Aksakal, Mustafa. "The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War." (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
* 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.
* Evans, R. J. W. and Hartmut Pogge Von Strandman, eds. ''The Coming of the First World War'' (1990), essays by scholars from both sides
* Fay, Sidney. ''The Origins Of The World War'' (2nd ed 1930
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* 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
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* Gooch, G.P. ''Before the war: studies in diplomacy'' (2 vol 1936, 1938
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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
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* 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.
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* Henig, Ruth B. (1993). ''The Origins of the First World War''. Florence, KY: Routledge.
* Hewitson, Mark (2004). ''Germany and the Causes of the First World War''. Oxford: Berg Publishers.
* 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.
* 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 Orders'' Manchester 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.
* Mombauer, Annika (2013). ''The Origins of the First World War: Diplomatic and Military Documents''. Manchester and London: Manchester University Press.
* Mulligan, William (2010). ''The Origins of the First World War''. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
* Neilson, Francis. ''How Diplomats Make War'' (1916)
* Nock, Albert Jay
The Myth of a Guilty Nation
B.W. Huebsch, Incorporated, 1922.
* Ponting, Clive. ''Thirteen Days: Diplomacy and Disaster – The Countdown to the Great War'' (2002)
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* Remak, Joachim (1995). ''The Origins of World War I, 1871–1914''. San Diego: Harcourt Brace.
* Ross, Stewart, ''Causes and Consequences of the First World War'' (2003).
* Sontag, Raymond James. ''European Diplomatic History 1871–1932'' (1933
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* Spender, J.A. ''Fifty years of Europe: a study in pre-war documents'' (1933) covers 1871 to 1914, 438pp
* Stevenson, David, ''The First World War and International Politics'' (2005)
* Taylor, A.J.P. ''The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918'' (1954
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* Tuchman, Barbara. ''The Guns of August'' (1962) a best seller
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* 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
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* Zametica, John. ''Folly and Malice: The Habsburg Empire, the Balkans and the Start of World War One'' (2017
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Allied Forces

Britain

* French, David. ''British Strategy and War Aims 1914–1916'' (Routledge, 2014)
* Holmes, Richard. ''Tommy: the British soldier on the Western Front, 1914–1918'' (Marshall Pickering, 2004)
* Messenger, Charles. ''Call To Arms: The British Army 1914–1918'' (2005)
* Pegler, Martin. ''British Tommy 1914–18'' (1996)
* 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)
* Watson, Alexander. ''Enduring the Great War: Combat, morale and collapse in the German and British armies, 1914–1918'' (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Australia and New Zealand

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* Davison, Graeme, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre, eds. ''The Oxford Companion to Australian History'' (2001) Online at OUP
* Grey, Jeffrey. ''A military history of Australia'' (Cambridge University Press, 1st ed: 1999; 3rd ed: 2008 )
* Pugsley, Christopher. ''The Anzac Experience: New Zealand, Australia and Empire in the First World War'' (2004)

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
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* 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. Granatstein ''Marching 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

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* Miller, Charles. ''Battle for the Bundu: the First World War in East Africa''. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1974.

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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

* 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
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* 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,
* 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) –
* Keiger, John. ''France and the Origins of the First World War'' (1985

* 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
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* Smith, Leonard V. et al. ''France and the Great War'' (2003) 222pp
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* Stovall, Tyler. ''Paris and the spirit of 1919: consumer struggles, transnationalism and revolution'' (2012).
* Sumner, Ian. ''The French Army 1914–18'' (1995
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* Sumner, Ian. ''They Shall Not Pass: The French Army on the Western Front 1914–1918'' (2012)
* Winter, Jay, and Jean-Louis Robert. ''Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914–1919'' (2 vol Cambridge UP, 1997, 2007)
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* Cox Gary. "France" in Robin Higham and Dennis E. Showalter, eds. ''Researching World War I: A Handbook'' (2003) pp 51–78.
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Italy

* Ferrari, Paolo. "The Memory And Historiography Of The First World War In Italy" ''Comillas Journal of International Relations'' (2015) #2 pp 117–126
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* 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).
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* Page, Thomas N. ''Italy and the World War'', New York, Charles Scribner's Son

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* Pergher, Roberta. "An Italian War? War and Nation in the Italian Historiography of the First World War" ''Journal of Modern History'' (Dec 2018) 90#4
* Renzi, William A. ''In the Shadow of the Sword: Italy's Neutrality and Entrance Into the Great War, 1914–1915'' (1987).
* Thompson, Mark. ''The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915–1919'
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Japan

* Best, Antony, and Oliviero Frattolillo, eds. ''Japan and the Great War''. (Palgrave, 2015)
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* 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

* Acton, Edward, V. et al. eds. ''Critical companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914–1921'' (Indiana UP, 1997).
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* 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).
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United States

Selected photos available online through the Washington State Library's Classics in Washington History collection

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* Ayres, Leonard P, ''The War with Germany: A Statistical Summary'' Government Printing Office, 191
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* Ball, Gregory W. ''They Called Them Soldier Boys: A Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I'' (University of North Texas Press, 2013)
* Beaver, Daniel R. ''Newton D. Baker and the American War Effort, 1917–1919'' (1966)
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* Chambers, John W., II. ''To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America'' (1987)
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* Elson, Aaron. ''The Armored Fist: The 712th Tank Battalion in the Second World War'' (Fonthill Media, 2014)
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* Hallas, James H. ''Doughboy War: The American Expeditionary Force in World War I'' (2000)
* Howarth, Stephen. ''To Shining Sea: A History of the United States Navy, 1775–1991'' (1991)
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* Koistinen, Paul. ''Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865–1919'' (1997)
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* Shay, Michael E. ''Sky Pilots: The Yankee Division Chaplains in World War I'' (University of Missouri Press, 2014)
* Titus, James, ed. ''The Home Front and War in the Twentieth Century: The American Experience in Comparative Perspective'' (1984) essays by scholars
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* Trask, David F. ''The United States in the Supreme War Council: American War Aims and Inter-Allied Strategy, 1917–1918'' (1961)
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* Venzon, Anne ed. ''The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia'' (1995)
* Woodward, David. ''The American Army and the First World War'' (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
* Woodward, David ed. ''America and World War I: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Sources'' (2nd ed. 2007
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Germany and the Central Powers

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* 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,
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* 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
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* Watson, Alexander. '' Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914–1918'' (2014)
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German army

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* Thomas, Nigel. ''The German Army in World War I'' (3 vol 2003
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* Watson, Alexander. ''Enduring the Great War: Combat, morale and collapse in the German and British armies, 1914–1918'' (Cambridge UP, 2008)

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 (2014): 336–80
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* Jung, Peter. ''The Austro-Hungarian Forces in World War I'' 2 vol 2003
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* 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

historiography
* Tunstall, Graydon A. ''Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World War'' (Cambridge UP 2021
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* Watson, Alexander. '' Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914–1918'' (2014)
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* 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).
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* Bozarslan, Hamit. "The Ottoman Empire." in John Horne. ed. ''A Companion to World War I'' (2010): 494–507.
* Gingeras, Ryan. ''Fall of the Sultanate: The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1908–1922'' (Oxford UP, 2016).
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* Reynolds, Michael. ''Shattering Empires: the Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908–1918'' (Cambridge UP, 2011).
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Neutrals

* 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).
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* Jonas, Frank. ''Scandinavia and the Great Powers in the First World War'' (2019
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* 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): 215–23
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Homefronts

* 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)
* Gearóid Barry, Enrico Dal Lago, Róisín Healy. ''Small Nations and Colonial Peripheries in World War I'' (Brill, 2016
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* 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 booksmostly military but many on the homefront;
* Horne, John N., ed. ''A Companion to World War I'' (2010), 38 essays by leading scholars covering all facets of the wa
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* Horne, John N., ''State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War'' (1997, reissued in 2002)
* Kennedy, David M.,''Over Here: The First World War and American Society'' (1980, reissued in 2004)
* Licursi, Kimberly J. Lamay. ''Remembering World War I in America'' (2018)
* Lutz, Ralph Haswell, ed. ''Fall of the German Empire, 1914–1918'' (2 vol 1932). 868p
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* Proctor, Tammy M., ''Civilians in a World at War, 1914–1918'' (2010) 410pp; global coverag
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* Stevenson, David, ''Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy'' (2005) 625 pp
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* Stevenson, David, ''With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918'' (2011
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* Strachan, Hew, ''The First World War'' (vol 1, 2005) 1225pp; covers the battlefields and chief home fronts in 1914–191
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* Swift, David. ''For Class and Country: the Patriotic Left and the First World War'' (2017)
* Tucker, Spencer, ed. ''European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia'' (1999
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* 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.
* Wilson, Trevor, '' The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War 1914–1918'' (1989
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* Winter, J. M., ''The Experience of World War I'' (2006
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* 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 scholar
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Economics

* 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) . Covers France, Britain, United States, Russia, Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and the Netherlands, 362pp
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* 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
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* Osborne, Eric, ''Britain's Economic Blockade of Germany, 1914–1919'' (2004)
* Stevenson, David, ''With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918'' (2011
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pp 350–438, covers major countries
* Strachan, Hew, ''Financing the First World War'' (2004) , 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)
* 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)

Battles and campaigns

Western Front

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* Gilbert, Martin. ''The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War'' (2007
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* Harris, J. P. ''Douglas Haig and the First World War'' (2009
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* Horne, Alistair. ''The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916'' (1994)
* Lengel, Edward G. ''To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918 The Epic Battle That Ended the First World War'' (2009
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* Wolff, Leon. '' In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign'' (1958)

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Specialty military topics

Infantry and artillery

* Ashworth, Tony. ''Trench Warfare, 1914–1918: the live and let live system'' (Pan Macmillan, 2000)
* Bidwell, Shelford and Graham, Dominick. ''Firepower: British Army Weapons and Theories of War, 1904–1945'' (1992)
* Engen, Rob. "Steel Against Fire: The Bayonet in the First World War." ''Journal of Military and Strategic Studies'' (2006) 8#
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* Gudmundsson, Bruce I. ''Stormtroop Tactics: Innovation in the German Army, 1914–1918'' (1989)


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" (2010) ()
* Messenger, Charles. ''Call To Arms: The British Army 1914–1918'' (2005) (), 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)
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* 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.
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* 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
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* 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
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* 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'
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* 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 191
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* 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.
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* Porch, Douglas. ''The French Secret Services: A History of French Intelligence from the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War'' (2003)
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* 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

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* 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.
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* 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)
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* Rees, Peter. ''The Other ANZACs'' (2008)
* Yanıkdağ, Yücel. ''Healing the Nation: Prisoners of War, Medicine and Nationalism in Turkey, 1914–1939'' (2013)

Weapons

Air War

* Angelucci, Enzo, Matricardi, Paolo. ''World Aircraft: Origins – World War I'' (1979). .
* Bennett, Leon. ''Three Wings for the Red Baron: Von Richthofen, Strategy, Tactics, and Airplanes'' (2001). . 248 pgs.
* Bickers, Richard Townshend. ''The First Great Air War'' (1989). . 277 pgs.
* Boelcke, Oswald, ''An Aviators Field Book,1914–1916'' (1991) pgs.
* Chajkowsky, William E., ''Royal Flying Corps, Bordon to Texas to Beamsville'' (1979) Boston Mills Press, .
* Bowyer, Chaz. ''Royal Flying Corps Communiques: 1917–1918'' (1998). . 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). . 584 pgs.
* Clark, Alan. ''Aces high: The war in the air over the Western Front 1914–18'' (1973). . 191 pgs.
* Cooke, James J.. ''The U.S. Air Service In the Great War: 1917–1919'' (1996). . 272 pgs.
* Cormack, Andrew, Peter Cormack. ''British Air Forces (1) : 1914–1918 (Men-At-Arms Series, 341)'' (2000). Osprey Publishing (UK). . 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. . 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. . 96 pgs.
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* 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. . 192 pgs.
* Dodds, Ronald. ''The Brave Young Wings'' (1980). Canada's Wings, Inc., Stittsville, Ontario, Canada. . 302 pgs.
* Editors, Time Life, Ezra Bowen. ''Knights of the Air (Epic of Flight)'' (1980). Warner Books Inc. . 192 pgs.
* Frandsen, Bert. ''Hat in the Ring: The Birth of American Air Power in the Great War'' (2003). 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'' (1994). 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'' (1997). 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'' (1992). Casemate Pub ()
* Franks, Norman L.R., Guest, Russell, Bailey, Frank W. ''Bloody April...Black September'' (1995). 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'' (1998). 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'' (2003). Grub Street (). 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 (). 96 pgs.
* Franks, Norman. ''Jasta Boelcke: The History of Jasta 2, 1916–1918'' (2004). Grub Street (). 224 pgs.
* Franks, Norman. ''Sopwith Camel Aces of World War 1 (Aircraft of the Aces, 52)'' (2003). Osprey Publishing (UK) (). 96 pgs.
* Gibbons, Floyd. ''Red Knight of Germany: The Story of Baron Von Richthofen, Germany's Great War Bird'' (1927, 1979). Arno Press (). 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 (). 544 pgs.
* Guttman, Jon, Holmes, Tony. ''SPA124 Lafayette Escadrille: American Volunteer Airmen in World War 1 (Aviation Elite Units, 17)'' (2004). Osprey Publishing (UK) (). 128 pgs.
* Guttman, Jon. ''Spad VII Aces of World War I (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 39)'' (2001). Osprey Aviation (). 96 pgs.
* Hepplewhite, Peter. ''World War I: In The Air'' (2003). Pan Macmillan (). 144 pgs.
* Herris, Jack. ''Pfalz Aircraft of World War I (Great War Aircraft in Profile, Volume 4)'' (2001). Flying Machines Press (). 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 (). 338 pgs.
* Hurley, Alfred F. ''Billy Mitchell, Crusader for Air Power'' (1975)
* Immelmann, Franz. ''Immelmann,The Eagle Of Lille'' (1990) . 240 pgs.
* Jeffers, H. Paul. ''Ace of Aces: The Life of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker'' (2003). Presidio Press (). 352 pgs.
* Johnson, Herbert A. ''Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation Through World War I'' (2001). University of North Carolina Press (). 298 pgs.
* Kennett, Lee. ''First Air War, 1914–1918'' (1999). 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'' (1996)
* Leaman, Paul. ''Fokker Dr.I Triplane: A World War One Legend'' (2003). Classic Publications (). 224 pgs.
* McKee, Alexander. ''The Friendless Sky'' (1984). 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'' (1993). Smithsonian Books (). 464 pgs.
* O'Connor, Martin. ''Air Aces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1914–1918'' (1986). Flying Machines Press (). 338 pgs.
* O'Connor, Mike. ''Airfields & Airmen: Cambrai (Battleground Europe)'' (2003). Pen & Sword Books (). 176 pgs.
* Outlet, Bernard Fitzsimons (Editor) /. ''Warplanes & Air Battles Of World War I'' (1973, 1988). Beekman House / Crescent (). 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 (). 88 pgs.
* Revell, Alex. ''Victoria Cross WW I: WWI Airmen and Their Aircraft'' (1997). Flying Machines Press (). 96 pgs.
* Richthofen, Manfred Von, Franks, Norman. ''The Red Air Fighter'' (1999). Stackpole Books (). 192 pgs.
* Rickenbacker, Eddie V. ''Fighting the Flying Circus: The Greatest True Air Adventure to Come Out of World War I'' (2001). Doubleday Books (). 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) (). 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 (). 211 pgs.
* Staff, Vigilant, Sykes, Claud W., Franks, Norman. ''German War Birds'' (1994). Greenhill Books (). 288 pgs.
* Treadwell, Terry C. ''America's First Air War'' (2000). MBI Publishing (). 176 pgs.
* Vanwyngarden, Greg. ''Richthofen's Flying Circus: Jagdgeschwader Nr 1 (Aviation Elite Units, 16)'' (2004). Osprey Publishing (UK) (). 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'', (1980). University of Toronto Press, .
* Wood, Alan C. ''Aces and Airmen of Ww1'' (2002). Brassey's Inc. . 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. in JSTOR
* 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. in JSTOR
* Marder, Arthur Jacob. ''From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow'' (4 vol. 1961–70), covers Royal Navy 1904–1919
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* 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)

The Royal Navy in the First World 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

* Elson, Aaron. ''The Armored Fist: The 712th Tank Battalion in the Second World War'' (Fonthill Media, 2014)
* Foley, Michael. ''Rise of the Tank: Armoured Vehicles and their use in the First World War'' (Pen and Sword, 2014)
* Fuller, J.F.C. ''Tanks in the Great War'' (1920)
* Guderian, Heinz. ''Achtung! Panzer'' (1937)
* Hammond, Christopher Brynley. ''The Theory and Practice of British Tank Warfare on the Western Front During the First World War'' (Ashgate, 2013)
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* Wilson, Dale E. ''Treat 'Em Rough!: The Birth of American Armor, 1917–20'' (1989)

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'' (1980)
* ''The Great War'', television documentary by the BBC
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