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Prelude
Remak, Joachim.
The Origins of World War I, 1871-1914.
2nd ed. 1993.
Emmerson, Charles. 1913: in search of the world before the Great War.
Hastings, Max. Catastrophe 1914: Europe goes to war.
McMeekin, Sean. July 1914: countdown to war.
Neiburg, Michael S.Dance of the Furies: Europe and the outbreak of World War I. 2011
Beatty. Jack. The Lost History of 1914: reconsidering the year the Great War began.
Albertini, Luigi. The Origins of the War of 1914.
Fischer, Fritz. Germany's Aim's in the First World War. 1967.
War
Barton, Peter. Beneath Flanders Fields: the tunneller's war, 1914-1918
Hart, Peter. Gallipoli.
Howard, Michael. The First World War: a very short introduction.
Also available as a paper copy (D 521 .H69 2007)
McMeekin, Sean, The Berlin-Baghdad Express: the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power.
Also available in print edition (D 520 .T8 M36 2010)
Persico, Joseph. Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day. Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, World War I and its violent climax.
Prior, Robin. The Somme. 2006
Terraine, John. The U-boat Wars, 1916-1945. 1990.
MacDonald, Lyn. They Called it Passchendaele: the story of the Third Battle of Ypres and of the men who fought it. 1989.
Horne, Alistair. The Price of Glory:Verdun 1916. 1962.
Knox, Alfred. With the Russian Army, 1914-1917. 1921
Woodward, David. Hell in the Holy Land: World War I in the Middle East. 2006.
Middlebrooke, Martin. First Day on the Somme, 1 July 1916. 1972
Burnett, Correlli. The Swordbearers: supreme command in the First World War. 1975
Home Fronts
Kennedy, David. Over There: the First World War and American Society. 1982
Proctor, Tammy. Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918. 2010.
Stevenson, David. With Our Backs to the Wall: victory and defeat in 1918. 2011.
Also available as a print copy (D531 .S73 2011)
Eksteins, Modris. Rites of Spring: the Great War and the birth of the modern age. 1989.
Kocka, Jurgen. Facing Total War: German society, 1914-1918. 1984
Englund, Peter. The Beauty and the Sorrow: an intimate history of the First World War.
Aftermath
Of Little Comfort: war widows, fallen soldiers. and the remaking of nation after the Great War.
Britain, France and Germany and the Treaty of Versailles: how the allies built a flawed peace.
Sharp, Alan. Consequences of Peace: the Versailles Settlement: aftermath and legacy, 1919-2010.
Andelman, David. Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the price we pay today.
Mee, Charles. The end of Order Versailles, 1919.
Stone, Ralph. The Irreconcilables: the fight against the League of Nations. 1970
Fromkin, David. A Peace to End All Peace: creating the modern Middle East, 1914-1922. 1989.
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