World War I

The World War I CD includes 187 books of history, fiction, and poetry, covering all aspects of the war. The major sections deal with:

• Causes and events leading to the war
• US perspective
• British perspective
• Australian perspective
• Canadian perspective
• French perspective
• Belgian perspective
• German perspective
• Austro-Hungarian perspective
• Western Front
• Gallipoli/Dardanelles
• Near East
• Africa
• Russia (including the Russian Revolution)
• Medicine, health, food, and hygiene
• Overview of the war
• The peace process and aftermath of the war
• Fiction
• Poetry

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Table of Contents

History

Causes and Events Leading to the War

• The Balkan Wars, 1912-13 by Jacob Gould Schurman
• The Balkans by Nevil Forbes
• Before the War [WW I] by Viscount Haldane
• Germany and the Next War by Friedrich von Berhnhard, 1912
• A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict [First World War] by Logan Marshall
• The New York Times Current History, a Monthly Magazine. Who Began the War and Why?
• Peace Theories and the Balkan War by Norman Angell
• Selected Speeches on British Foreign Policy 1738-1914 edited by Edgar Jones, 1914
• Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle by M. Edith Durham
• Why We are at War: Great Britain's Case by members of the Oxford faculty of modern history, 1914
• The World War and What was Behind It by L.P. Benezet

US perspective

• America's War for Humanity by Thomas Russell
• The Defenders of Democracy:  Contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country (President's Edition), Edited by The Gift Book Committee of The Militia of Mercy
• History of the American Negro in the Great War by M. Allision Sweeney
• The Letters of Franklin K. Lane: Personal and Political, edited by Anne Wintermute Lane and Louise Herrick Wall
• The Log of a Noncombatant by Horace Green
• Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Infantry fo the Army of the United States, 1917
• Military Instructors Manual by Captain James Cole and Major Oliver Schoonmaker
• My Year of the War by Frederick Palmer
• Paths of Glory by Irvin Cobb
• The Soul of Democracy: the Philosophy of the World War in Relation to Human Liberty by Edward Howard Griggs, 1918
• A Traveller in Wartime by Winston Churchill (American, not the British Prime Minister)
• With the Allies by Richard Harding Davis
• Women and War Work by Helen Fraser, 1918

British perspective

• The Amateur Army [WW I] by Partrick MacGill, 1915
• Britain at Bay by Spenser Wilkinson
• Bullets and Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather
• England and the War by Walter Raleigh
• Fife and Forfar Yeomanry
• The Fifth Leicestershire [WW I] by Captain J.D. Hills, 1919
• The First Hundred Thousand, being the unofficial chronicle of a unit of K(1) by Ian Hay
• The Glory of the Trenches by Coningsby Dawson
• Kitchener's Mob by James Norman Hall
• Letters from France by Isaac Alexander March
• Letters to Helen by Keith Hendersen
• Letters to the Times upon War and Neutrality 1881-1920
• Mobilizing Woman-Power by Harriot Stanton Blatch
• Mr. Punch's History of the Great War
• On the King's Service: Inward Glimpses of Men at Arms by Rev. Innes Logan, 1917 [WW I]
• Over There by Arnold Bennett
• The Seventh Manchester 1916 to 1919 by Captain S.J. Wilson
• The Story of the Guides by Col. G.J. Younghusband
• The Story of the Sixth Battalion, the Denham Ligh Iinfantry, France April 1915-Nov. 1918 by Captain R.B. Ainsworth, 1919
• The Story of the Ninth King's in France by Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts, 1922
• A Visit to Three Fronts, June 1916, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• War-Time Financial Problems by Hartly Withers
• Why We are at War: Great Britain's Case, 1914

Australian Perspective

• Five Months at Anzac by Joseph Beeston, 1916
• Letters from France by C.E.W. Bean
• "Over There" with the Australians by Captain R. Hugh Knyvett, 1918
• Over the Top with the Third Australin Division by G.P. Curtiss

Canadian Perspective

• The Great War as I Saw It by Frederick George Scott
• One Young Man, edited by Sir John Ernest Hodder-Williams

French Perspective

• Bulletin de Lille, Jan. 2, 1916, by l'Authorite Allemande
• The Children of France by Ruth Royce
• La Derniere Lettre ecrite par des soldats francais tombes au champ d'honneur 1914-18, in French
• Fiat Money Inflation in France by Andrew Dickinson White
• Fighting France by Stephanie Lauzanne
• Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belport by Edith Wharton
• Foch the Man by Clara Laughlin
• Georges Guynemer: Knight of the Air [WW I] by Henry Bordeaux
• In the Field 1914-1915 by Marcel Dupont
• The White Road to Verdun by Kathleen Burke

Belgian Perspective

• A Journal from our Legation in Belgium by Hugh Gibson
• La Presse Clandestine dans la Belgique Occupee by Jean Massart
• Through Iron Bars: Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium [WW I] by Emile Cammaerts

German Perspective

• The Land of Deepening Shadow: Germany-at-War by Thomas Curtin
• The Schemes of the Kaiser by Juliette Adam
• Secrets of the German War Office by Armgaard Graves
• What Germany Thinks by Thomas Smith, 1915
• William of Germany by Stanley Shaw, 1913

Austro-Hungarian Perspective

• Four Weeks in the Trenches by Fritz Kreisler
• In the World War by Count Ottocar Czernin
• Independent Bohemia: an Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty by Vladimir Nosek, 1918

Western Front

• At Ypres with Best-Dunkley by Thomas Hope Floyd
• Fighting in Flanders by E. Alexander Powell
• A Hilltop on the Marne by Mildred Aldrich
• On the Edge of the War Zone by Mildred Aldrich

Gallipoli/Dardanelles

• Antwerp to Gallipoli: a Year of the War on Many Fronts -- and Behind Them by Arthur Ruhl
• At Sulva Bay, being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles Campaign, made by John Hargrave, while serving with the 32nd Field Ambulance, X Division, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, during the Great War
• Gallipoli Diary by General Sir Ian Hamlton
• On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles by T.C. Bridges

Near East

• Crescent and Iron Cross by E.F. Benson
• A Dweller in Mesopotamia by Donald Maxwell
• How Jerusalem was Won -- Allenby's Campaign by W.T. Massey
• The Leicestershires Beyond Baghdad by Edward Thompson
• Letters from Mesopotamia [1915-1916] by Robert Palmer
• Turkish Prisoners in Egypt, 1917
• War in the Garden of Eden by Kermit Roosevelt
• With the Turks in Palestine by Alexander Aaronsohn, 1916

Africa

• Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Captain Robert Dobey, 1918

Russia (including the Russian Revolution)

• The Bullitt Mision to Russia by William C. Bullitt
• The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome
• From October to Brest-Litovsk by Leon Trotsky
• Rescuing the Czar by James Smythe
• The Russian Revolution by Alexander Petrunkevitch, Sumuel Northrup, and Harper Golden
• Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed

Medicine, Health, Food, and Hygiene

• Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front
• Essays in War-Time: Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis
• Everyday Foods in War Time by Mary Swartz Rose
• Fanny Goes to War by Pat Beauchamp
• Food Guide for War Service at Home
• Foods that Will Win the War and How to Cook Them by C. Houston and Alberta Goudiss
• War Romance of the Salvation Army by Evangeline Booth

Overview of the War

• The Crime Against Europe by Sir Roger Casement, 1915
• The European Anarchy by G. Lowes Dickinson
• Great Events by Famous Historians: Recent Days volume 21, 1910-1914 by Charles Horne
• A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict by Logan Marshall
• History of the World War by Francis March [WW I]
• volume 1
• volume 3
• Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller
• The New York Times Current History, a Monthly Magazine.
• The European War, volume 1 from the beginning to March 1915
• January 9, 1915
• January 23, 1915
• February 1915
• April 1915
• May 1915
• June 1915
• School History of the Graet War by Albert McKinley et al.
• Sea-Power and Other Studies by Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge
• A Short History of the Great War by A.F. Pollard
• The Story of the Great War, volume 3 (of 12)
• World's War Events volume 3 by Francis Reynolds and Allen Churchill

The Peace Process and Aftermath of the War

• The Crime Against Europe, a possible outcome of the War of 1914 by Sir Roger Casement
• Germany, the Next Republic? by Carl Ackerman, 1917
• Inside of the Peace Conference by E.J. Dillon
• The New Frontiers of Freedom [aftermath of WWI] by Alexander Powell
• Peace Negotiations by Robert Lansing
• Rebuilding Britain by Sir Alfred Hopkinson, 1918
• The Riddle of the Rhine Chemical Strategy in Peace and War
• Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome
• The Story of Versailles by Francis Payne, 1919
• Towards the Great Peace by Ralph Adams Cram, by 1922
• The War after the War by Isaac Marcossen

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Fiction

• The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart
• The Army Boys series
• The Army Boys in the French Trenches or Hand To Hand Fighting with the Enemy, 1919, by Homer Randall
• The Army Boys on German Soil: Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs by Homer Randall
• The Boy Allies series
• Boy Allies at Jutland by Robert Drake
• Boy Allies at Verdun by Clair Hayes
• The Boy Allies at Liege by Clair Hayes, 1915
• Boy Allies in Great Peril
• Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign by Clair Hayes, 1916
• The Boy Allies in the Trenches by Clair Hayes, 1915
• Boy Allies on the Firing Line by Clair Hayes, 1915
• Boy Allies Under the Sea by Robert Drake, 1916
• The Boy Allies under Two Flags by Robert Drake
• The Boy Allies with Haig in Flanders by Clair Hayes
• Boy Allies with Victorious Fleets by Robert Drake, 1919
• The Boy Allies with Uncle Sam's Cruisers by Robert Drake
• The Boy Scouts series
• The Boy Scouts on a Submarine by John Blaine
• The Boy Scout Aviators by George Durston
• Boy Scouts in Front of Warsaw by George Durston
• The Boy Scouts in Russia by Captain John Blaine
• Boy Scouts in an Airship by S. Harvey Ralphson
• The Boy Scouts in a Submarine by Harvey Ralphson
• The Boy Scouts on Picket Duty by Robert Shaler
• The Boy Scouts of the Flying Squadron by Robert Shaler
• Brighton Boys series
• The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps by Lieutenant James Driscoll
• The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet by Lieutenant James Driscoll
• Don Strong Patrol Leader, 1918, by William Heyliger
• The Firefly of France by by Marion Polk Angellotti
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Los Cuatro Jinettes del Apocalipsis) by Vicente Blasco Ibanez, translated by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
• France at War by Rudyard Kipling
• The French Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins
• Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause by Gertrude Morrison
• I Spy by Natalie Sumner Lincoln, 1916
• The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte M. Yonge
• Marching Men by Sherwood Anderson
• Moving Picture Boys on the War Front
• Rilla of Ingleside by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Sea Warfare by Rudyard Kipling
• The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land by Ralph Connor
• Somewhere in France and Other Stories by Richard Harding Davis
• Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos
• Tom Slade with the Boys over There by Percy Fitzhugh
• Tom Swift series
• Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship
• Tom Swift and His Air Glider
• Tom Swift and His Air Scout
• Tom Swift and His Airship
• Tom Swift and His War Tank
• War-Time Silhouettes by Stephen Hudson
• The White Morning: a Novel of the Power of the German Women in Wartime by Gertrude Atherton

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Poetry

• Collected Poems by Rupert Brooke
• In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
• Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Thomas Hardy
• Poems by Wilfred Owen
• A Treasury of War Poetry, 1914-1917, edited by Geore Herbert Clarke