The Great War and Versailles/Further Reading
This is a list of books with information on selected subjects. If the book name is a link, you can use it to go to a searchable version at Google Print or Amazon.com.
General overviews of the entire war
[edit | edit source]John Keegan, The First World War: an Illustrated History
- London: Hutchinson, 1998, ISBN 0091801788
- New York: A. Knopf/Random House, 1999, ISBN 0375400524 (hardcover)
- Vintage, May 16, 2000, ISBN 0375700455
- London: Hutchinson, 2001, ISBN 0091793920
- Random House Large Print, May 1, 1999, ISBN 0375706844 (Large Print)
- Random House Audio, May 11, 1999, ISBN 0375406662 (Audio Cassette, Abridged edition)
- Random House Audio, May 4, 2004, ISBN 0739312499 (Audio CD, Abridged edition)
David Stevenson, 1914-1918: The History of the First World War
- London: Allen Lane/Harmondsworth, 2004, ISBN 0713992085 (hardcover)
T. Wilson, The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War, 1914-1918.
- Oxford/Blackwell Pub, September 1, 1986, ISBN 074560093X (hardcover)
- Polity Press/Cambridge, 1988/1989 (reprint), ISBN 0745606458 (Paperback)
Jay M. Winter, The Experience of World War I
- London/Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988, ISBN 0333446135
Trench Warfare
[edit | edit source]- Ashworth, Tony, Trench Warfare, 1914-1918 : The Live and Let Live system. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1980 (ISBN 0841906157)
Enthusiasm and Alienation
[edit | edit source]- Fuller, J.G., Troop Morale and Popular Culture in the British and Dominion Armies 1914-1918. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990 (ISBN 0198201788)
How far did cultural and intellectual trends provoke the outbreak of the Great War c.1870-1914?
[edit | edit source]P. Attridge, Nationalism Imperialism and Identity in Late Victorian Britain.
- Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2002, ISBN 0333802519.
Michael D. Bidiss, The Age of the Masses : Ideas and Society in Europe Since 1870.
- Hassocks: Harvester Press, 1977, ISBN 0855277904.
K. Bracher, The Age of Ideologies: A History of Political Thought in the Twentieth Century.
- London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984, ISBN 029778434X.
- New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984, ISBN 0312012292.
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1985, ISBN 0312012306.
I.D. Forbes, "Social Imperialism and Wilhelmine Germany" in Historical Journal #22
- Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979, pp. 331-350, ISSN 0018-246X 0440-9302.
D. Feldman, "Nationality and Ethnicity" in P. Johnson (ed.), Twentieth-Century Britain: Economic, Social and Cultural Change
- Longman, 1994, ISBN 0582228174.
P. Gay & R.K. Webb, Modern Europe Since 1815
- Harpercollins College Div, 1973, ISBN 0060422831.
Robert Gildea, Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914.
- Oxford University Press, 1986, ISBN 0198730284.
- Oxford University Press, 1987, ISBN 0198730292.
- Oxford University Press, 1996 (2nd ed.), ISBN 0198206240.
- Oxford University Press, 2003 (3rd ed.), ISBN 0199253005.
M. Howard, "Empire, Race and War in Pre-1914 Britain", History Today, December 1981.
J. Joll, Europe Since 1870: An International History.
- New York: Harper & Row, 1973, ISBN 0060434155.
- London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973, ISBN 0297765248.
- London: Penguin, 1990, ISBN 0140138439.
A. Summers, "Militarism in Britain before World War I" in History Workshop Journal, Autumn, 1976.
Michael Sturmer, The German Empire, 1870-1918.
- New York: Modern Library, 2000, ISBN 0679640908.
Hans-Ulrich Wehler, The German Empire, 1871-1918.
- Leamington Spa: Berg, 1985, ISBN 090758232X (paperback)
- Leamington Spa: Berg, 1985, ISBN 0907582222 (cased)
Paul Weindling, Health, Race, And German Politics Between National Unification And Nazism, 1870-1945 (Amazon.com Search Inside)
- Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989, ISBN 0521363810
- Cambridge University Press, July 22, 1993, ISBN 052142397X
What effect did the Great War have on the British Empire c.1918-1939?
[edit | edit source]Michael Adas, Peter N. Stearns and Stuart B. Schwartz, Turbulent Passage: a Global History of the Twentieth Century.
- Longman Publishing Group, December 1, 1993 / New York: HarperCollins, 1994, ISBN 0065010396
- Harpercollins College Div, October 1, 1995 (reissue), ISBN 1886746494
- Longman, September 17, 2002 (2nd ed.), ISBN 0321097696
- Longman, July 7, 2005 (3rd ed.), ISBN 0321338901
Neville Bennett, "White Discrimination against Japan: Britain, the Dominions and the United States, 1908-28", New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 3, 2, 2001, pp.91-105.
Patrick French, Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division (Amazon.com Look Inside)
- London: HarperCollins, 1997, ISBN 0002557711
- London: Flamingo, October 1, 1998, ISBN 0006550452
David McIntyre, The Significance of the Commonwealth, 1965-90.
- Basingstoke: Macmillan Academic and Professional, 1991 / Palgrave Macmillan, December, 1991, ISBN 0333553160
Paul Rich, Race and Empire in British Politics.
- Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986, ISBN 0521320178
- Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989, ISBN 0521389585
Lt.-Col. Sir Arnold T. Wilson, Loyalties: Mesopotamia, 1914-1917: a personal and historical record.
- London: Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1930, (pre-ISBN)
- London: Oxford University Press, 1936, (pre-ISBN)
- Greenwood Press (1969), ASIN: B0006BYJGO (pre-ISBN)
To what extent did the Great War provoke the 'birth of the Modern' in relation to the arts?
[edit | edit source]Bernard Bergonzi, Heroes' Twilight: a Study of the Literature of the Great War.
- Coward-McCann, 1966, ASIN B0006BNPOG
- Macmillan Press; 1980 (2nd ed.), ISBN 0333281578
- Macmillan Press, January 1, 1981 (2nd ed.), ISBN 0333281268
- Carcanet Pr, August 1, 1996 (3rd ed.), ISBN 1857541359
M. Eksteins, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (Amazon.com Search Inside)
- Transworld, 1989, (ISBN unknown)
- London: Bantam, 1989, ISBN 0593018621
- Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1989 (1st ed.), ISBN 0886192005
- Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, February 1, 1989, ISBN 0395498562
- New York, London: Doubleday, 1990; Anchor, March 1, 1990 (reprint), ISBN 0385412029
- Houghton Mifflin Books, September 1, 2000, ISBN 0395937582
John Ferguson, The Arts in Britain in World War I.
- London: Stainer and Bell, 1980, ISBN 085249548X
Samual Hynes, A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture.
- London: Bodley Head, 1990, ISBN 0370304519
- New York: Atheneum/Maxwell Macmillan International, 1991, ISBN 0689121288
George Robb, British Culture and the First World War.
- Houndmills (Hampshire), Basingstoke, New York: Palgrave, 2002, ISBN 0333715713 (hardcover), ISBN 0333715721 (pbk.)