World War I, the Great War of 1914 to 1918, changed the map of Europe in four years. These free World War 1 books follow it from the July Crisis to the Treaty of Versailles.
Read clear histories of the war and follow the battles of the Western Front, from the Somme to Verdun. Then open the letters and memoirs soldiers wrote in the trenches.
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World War I History Books
Start here for the whole story of the Great War, and why the Allied Powers and the Central Powers went to war. A. F. Pollard, John Maynard Keynes, and other writers explain the fighting and the peace of 1919.
Scholars examine the causes, the fighting, and the long aftermath of the Great War, from the July Crisis to its impact on Europe, the Middle East, and the rest of the world.
A compact history of the whole war written in 1919 by an Oxford historian, from the German invasion of Belgium to the Allied victory and the peace of Versailles.
Speeches, letters, diaries, and war reports written by Americans who lived through World War I, from the 1914 outbreak to the fight over the League of Nations.
True stories of Britain's home front during the Great War, gathered by BBC journalists with the Imperial War Museums. Full of photos and firsthand accounts of families, workers, and towns at war.
A classroom resource that explains the main causes of World War I: alliances, imperialism, militarism, nationalism, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Includes maps and activities.
Keynes's famous attack on the Treaty of Versailles, written after he quit the peace conference in 1919. It explains why a harsh peace on Germany would ruin Europe's economy.
Leading historians compare what each power hoped to win in the Great War, from Germany and Britain to Russia, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire, and how those aims shaped strategy.
These World War 1 books cover trench warfare and the great offensives, from Gallipoli and the Somme to Verdun and the Meuse-Argonne. Many come from the U.S. Army Center of Military History, with maps of every front.
An illustrated essay on how the First World War was mapped, from trench maps to propaganda maps, with a list of select maps held by the Library of Congress.
The poet John Masefield tells the story of the 1915 Gallipoli campaign, from the landings on the Dardanelles beaches to the evacuation. Includes maps and photographs.
A walk along the British front line of the Battle of the Somme in 1916, describing each trench, ridge, and village where the first day of the battle was fought.
A 1919 battlefield guide to Verdun with the history of the battle, detailed maps, and hundreds of photographs of the forts, trenches, and ruined villages.
The first American battles of the war, at Cantigny, Château-Thierry, and Belleau Wood, told by the U.S. Army Center of Military History with maps and period photos.
The largest battle in American history up to that time, fought in the forests of the Meuse-Argonne until the Armistice. Includes campaign maps and photographs.
The First World War told by the soldiers and nurses who lived it. These letters, diaries, and memoirs were written at the front, many of them published while the guns were still firing.
Letters from railway clerks who enlisted in 1915, written from the trenches of the Western Front. Each letter comes with its original scan and a full transcript.
An American who joined the British Army in 1915 describes life in the trenches, raids, gas attacks, and machine-gun fire. Ends with a dictionary of trench slang.
A war correspondent writes the truth that censorship kept out of his reports: the waste, the fear, and the courage he saw on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918.
Letters a young French painter wrote to his mother from the trenches until he went missing in 1915. A quiet, moving record of one soldier's thoughts at the front.
The diary of a British army nurse who served on hospital trains and in field hospitals in France from 1914 to 1915, caring for the wounded from Mons to Ypres.
A Canadian private's account of enlisting in 1914, fighting at the Second Battle of Ypres, and being badly wounded. Illustrated with photographs taken at the front.
From the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo to the Armistice of 1918, these World War I books cover the whole conflict. Pick one and start reading today.
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