Specific Topics

Cavalry

  • From Boer War to World War: Tactical Reform in the British Army, 1902-1914 by Spencer Jones
  • British Cavalry on the Western Front 1916-1918 by David Kenyon
  • Fire and the Sword: The British Army and the Arme Blanche Controversy 1871-1921 by Stephen Badsey
  • The Last Hurrah: Cavalry on the Western Front, August-September 1914 by
  • The Boer War and British Cavalry Doctrine: A Re-Evaluation by Stephen Badsey
  • Smile and Carry On - Canadian Cavalry on the Western Front 1914-1918 by Stephanie E. Potter

Spain

  • At What Cost?: Spanish Neutrality in the First World War by Carolyn S. Lowry
  • The Great War and the Crisis of Liberalism in Spain, 1916-1917 by Francisco J. Romero Salvado
  • Spain and the First World War: Neutrality and Crisis by Francisco J. Romero Salvado

Scandanavia

  • Denmark during the First World War by Bent Bludnikow
  • Between the Sea Power and the Land Power: Scandanavia and the Coming of the First World War by Patrick Salmon
  • Sweden’s Food Supply by Axel Robert Nordvall
  • The Baltic and British Diplomacy Before the First World War by David W. Sweet
  • Unity and Divergence: Scandanavian Internationalism 1914-1921 by Karen Gram-Skjoldager and Oyvind Tonnesson
  • Trade, Ships, and the Neutrality of the Netherlands in the First World War by Marc Frey

Russian Revolution

  • A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
  • Revolutionary Russia: 1891-1991 by Orlando Figes
  • The End of Tsarist Russia by Dominic Lieven
  • The Failure of Rural Policy in Russia, February-October 1917 by Graeme J. Gill
  • The Breakup of the Anglo-Russia Alliance: The Question of Supply in 1917 by Keith E. Neilson
  • The Russian Revolution and the German Social Democratic Party in 1917 by John L. Snell
  • The First Russian Revolution by William Henry Chamberlain
  • The Russian General Staff and the June 1917 Offensive by Robert S. Feldman
  • The Unanimous Revolution: Russia, February 1917 by Robert Bruce Lockhart
  • The Russian Soldier in 1917: Undisciplined, Patriotic, and Revolutionary by Marc Ferro
  • The Russians, The Allies, and the War, February-July 1917 by L. P. Morris
  • Russian Military Intelligence 1905-1917: The Untold Story behind Tsarist Russia in the First World War by Alex Marshall

America

  • French War Aims and the American Challenge, 1914-1918 by David Stevenson
  • A Counsel of Despair: British Strategy and War Aims, 1917-1918 by Brock Millman
  • The Bilateral Relationship Between Austria-Hungary and the United States from April to December 1917 by Vaclav Horcicka
  • The United States and the Rights of Neutrals, 1917-1918 by Alice C. Morissey
  • The United States Army General Staff, 1900-1917 by James Hewes
  • Great Britain in the United States, 1917-1918: The Turning Point by Kathleen Burk
  • The Zimmermann Telegram: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America’s Entry into World War I by Thomas Boghardt
  • Fruits of Victory: The Woman’s Land Army of America in the Great War by Elaine F. Weiss
  • The Deluge: The Great War, America, and the Remaking of the Global Order by Adam Tooze
  • The World Remade: America in World War I by G.J. Meyer
  • Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918 by Byron Farwell

Military Doctrine

  • French Tactical Doctrine 1870-1914 by Joseph C. Arnold
  • The Decisive Attack: A New Look at French Infantry Tactics on the Eve of World War 1 by Jonathan M. House
  • The Dynamics of Doctrine: The Changes in German Tactical Doctrine During the First World War by Timothy T. Lupfer
  • The Perfect Sturm Innovation and the Origins of Blitzkrieg in World War 1 by John F. O’Kane
  • Offensive Spending: Tactics and Procurement in the Habsburg Military, 1866-1918 by John Anthony Dredger
  • Military Adaptation in War by Williamson Murray
  • Not Glamorous, But Effective: The Canadian Corps and the Set-Piece Attack, 1917-1918 by Ian M. Brown
  • Perfecting War: The Organizational Sources of Doctrinal Optimization by Michael Allen Hunzeker
  • The Marne and After: A Reappraisal of French Strategy in the First World War by Douglas Porch
  • The Evolution of British Strategy and Tactics on the Western Front in 1918: GHQ, Manpower, and Technology by Tim Travers
  • Operational Art and the German Command System in World War I by Bradley John Meyer
  • Steel Against Fire: The Bayonet in the First World War by Rob Engen
  • The Evolution of Strategic Thinking in World War I: A Case Study of the Second Battle of the Marne by Michael S. Neiberg
  • Strategy in a microcosm: Processes of tactical learning in a WW1 German Infantry Division by Christian Stachelbeck

Railways

  • Trains to the Trenches : The Men, Locomotives and Tracks that Took the Armies to War 1914-18 by Andrew Roden
  • The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power by Seean McMeekin
  • The Great Train Race By Allan Mitchell

Tanks

  • Tank Battles of World War 1 by Bryan Cooper
  • Devil’s Chariots by John Glanfield

Artillery

  • The Infantry Cannot Do with a Gun Less: The Place of the Artillery in the BEF, 1914-1918 by William Sanders Marble
  • The Development of French Artillery for the Offensive, 1890-1914 by Robert M. Ripperger
  • Artillery in the Great War by Paul Strong and Sanders Marble
  • The British Army’s Counter-Battery Staff Office and Control of the Enemy in World War I by Albert Palazzo
  • The Monstrous Anger of the Guns: The Development of British Artillery Tactics 1914-1918

Air War

  • The Great War in the Air by John H. Morrow
  • The War in the Air: The Men and Their Machines by Jack Bruce
  • Somme Success by Peter Hart
  • “The Souls of Soldiers”: Civilians Under Fire in First World War France by Susan R. Grayzel
  • First to Fly The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille, The American Heroes Who Flew for France in World War I by Charles Bracelen Flood
  • Marked for Death The First War in the Air by James Hamilton-Patterson
  • The First Great Air War by Richard Townshend Bickers
  • The Cavalry of the Clouds? New Research in the Development and Experience of Air Power in the British Empire during the First World War by Ross Mahoney and Michael Molkentin
  • The Royal Naval Air Service and Anti-Submarine Warfare in the North Sea, 1917 – 1918 by Alexander Howlett
  • The Nervous Flyer: Nerves, Flying and the First World War by Lynsey Shaw Cobden
  • The Dominion of the Air: the Imperial dimension of Britain’s war in the air, 1914-1918 by Michael Molkentin
  • Learning to Fly: The Royal Flying Corps and the Development of Air Power by David Jordan

Medical War

  • A Grateful Heart: The History of a World War I Field Hospital by Michael Shay
  • Containing Trauma: Nursing Work in the First World War by Christine E. Hallett
  • Doctors in the Great War by Ian R Whitehead
  • Before my Helpless Sight: Suffering, Dying, and Military Medicine on the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Leo Van Bergen
  • The Medical War: British Military Medicine in the First World War by Mark Harrison
  • Medics at War: Military Medicine from Colonial Times to the 21st Century by John T. Greenwood and F. Cliften Berry Jr.

Czech Legion and Russian Civil War

  • The Allies and the Czech Revolt against the Bolsheviks in 1918 by J.F.N. Bradley
  • Seed Corn of a Future Army: The Mobilisation of the Poles and the Creation of Polish Military Formations in the First World War by Paul Latawski
  • The Czechoslovak Legion by George F. Kennan
  • The Siberian Intervention, 1918-1919 by George C. Guins
  • The Origins of the French Intervention in the Russian Civil War, January-May 1918: A Reappraisal by Michael Jabara Carley
  • The Czech and Slovak Legion in Siberia, 1917-1922 by Joan Mohr
  • Dreams of a Great Small Nation: The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe by Kevin J. MacNamara

Armistice, Versailles, and Aftermath

  • “Done My Bit” British Soldiers, the 1918 Armistice, and Understanding the First World War by Alexander Nordlund
  • The Legend of Versailles by Kenneth R. Rossman
  • The United States and Germany in the Aftermath of War: I-1918-1929 by Frank Spencer
  • Reconstructing the Countryside of the Eastern Somme after the Great War by Hugh Clout
  • Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour by Joseph E. Persico
  • The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917–21 by Prit Buttar
  • A Shattered Peace Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today by David A. Andelman
  • Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan
  • Anglo-French Negotiations over the Boundaries of Palestine, 1919-1920 by John J. McTague Jr.
  • The Boundaries of Israel-Palestine Past, Present, and Future: A Critical Geographical View by Gideon Biger
  • Britain and Airpower at Versailles, 1919-1920 by Peter V. James
  • The British Military Administration in Palestine 1917-1920 by John J. McTague Jr.
  • Broken Promises of the Mandate: A Study of the Palestine Mandate Society and its Impact on the Proliferation of Zionism within Palestine and Great Britain by Brendon L. Larimore
  • Creating Nations, Establishing States: Ethno-Religious Heterogeneity and the British Creation of Iraq in 1919–23 by Guiditta Fontana
  • On the Economic Consequences of the Peace: Trade and Borders After Versailles by Nikolaus Wolf, Max-Stephan Schulze, and Hans-Christian Heinemeyer
  • France and the Arab Middle East, 1914-1920 by Jan Karl Tanenbaum
  • Mistakes and Myths: The Allies, Germany, and the Versailles Treaty, 1918–1921 by Sally Marks
  • Political Economics and the Weimar Disaster by Roger B. Myerson
  • Russia and the Versailles Conference by George Kennan (1960)
  • Syria and Mesopotamia in British Middle Eastern Policy in 1919 by John Fisher
  • The imposed gift ofVersailles:the fiscal effects of restricting the size of Germany’s armed forces,1924–9 by Max Hantke and Mark Spoerer
  • The Myths of Reparations by Sally Marks
  • The Role of Illusion in the Making of the Versailles Treaty by Bonnie Baker
  • Unconditional Acceptance of the Treaty of Versailles by the German Government, June 22-28, 1919** by Alma Luckau
  • Wilsonian Self-Determination and the Versailles Settlement by Anthony Whelan
  • Woodrow Wilson’s Health and the Treaty Fight, 1919-1920 by Lloyd E. Ambrosius
  • The Zionist Debates on Partition (1919-1947) by Itzhak Galnoor
  • The Deluge: The Great War, America, and the Remaking of the Global Order by Adam Tooze
  • The United States and Germany in the Aftermath of War: I-1918-1929 by Frank Spencer
  • The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment after 75 Years Edited By Manfred F. Boemeke, Gerald D. Feldman, and Elisabeth Glaser

Spanish Influenza

  • The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 Edited by Howard Phillips and David Killingray
  • The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 by Paul Kupperberg
  • America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 by Alfred W. Crosby

India

  • Indians at home, Mesopotamia and France, 1914–1918: towards an intimate history by Santanu Das
  • India and World War 1 Edited by DeWitt C. Ellinwood and S.D. Pradhan
  • The Indian Army on the Western Front, 1914–1915: A Portrait of Collaboration by George Morton Jack
  • An Imperial Home-Front: Punjab and the First World War by Tan Tai-Yong
  • India and World War 1 Edited by DeWitt C. Ellinwood and S.D. Pradhan
  • Europe Through Indian Eyes: Indian Soldiers Encounter England and France, 1914-1918 by Oxford University Press
  • The Sepoy and the Raj: The Indian Army 1860-1940 by David Omissi
  • Collaboration and British Military Recruitment: Fresh perspectives from colonial Punjab, 1914–1918 by Tahir Mahmood
  • Army of Empire: The Untold Story of the Indian Army in World War 1 by George Morton-Jack
  • The influence of racial attitudes on British policy towards India during the First World War by Gregory Martin
  • Honour and Fidelity: India’s Military Contribution to the Great War 1914-1918 by Captain Amarinder Singh

Naval Evolution

  • Arms Control and the Anglo-German Naval Race before World War I: Lessons for Today? by John H. Maurer
  • A Fleet in Begin: The Rise and Fall of Italian Sea Power, 1861-1943 by Brian R. Sullivan
  • Admirals versus Generals: The WAr Airms of the Imperial German Navy, 1914-1918 by Holger H. Herwig
  • From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904-1919
  • The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command by Andrew Gordon and Paul Wilderson
  • Winning Cheaper Laurels: Borkum/Baltic, the Dardanelles, and Churchill’s Search for a Naval Offensive in the First World War, 1914-1915 by Graham Clews
  • Detente and Deterrence: Anglo-German Relations, 1911-1914 by Sean M. Lynn-Jones
  • ‘The Spirit of the Army’ at Sea: The Prussian-German Naval Officer Corps, 1847-1897 by Lawrence Sondhaus
  • The German Reaction to the Dreadnought Revolution by Holger H. Herwig
  • The German School of Naval Thought and the Origins of the Tirpitz Plan 1875-1900 by Rolf Hobson
  • Imperial Cable Communications and Strategy, 1870-1914 by P.M. Kennedy
  • The Titan Refreshed: Imperial Overstretch and the British Navy before the First World War by Phillips Payson O’Brien
  • Krupp and the Imperial German Navy, 1898-1914: A Reassessment by Michael Epkenhans
  • Left-Wing Opposition to Naval Armaments in Britain Before 1914 by Howard Weinroth
  • The Unknown Effort: Theodore Roosevelt’s Battleship Plan and International Arms Limitation Talks, 1906-1907 by Frederick C. Leiner
  • Strategy, Tactics, and Turf Wars: Tirpitz and the Oberkommando der Marine, 1892-1895 by Patrick J. Kelly
  • Tirpitz: And the Imperial German Navy by Patrick J. Kelly
  • Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie
  • The Failure of British Espionage against Germany, 1907-1914 by Nicholas P. Hiley
  • The Complexity of Strategy: “Jackie” Fisher and the Trouble with Submarines by Christopher Martin
  • Sir John Fisher and the Dreadnought: The Sources of Naval Mythology by Jon Tetsuro Sumida
  • The Force of Circumstance: Graf Spee’s Options for the East Asian Cruiser Squadron in 1914 by Peter Overlack
  • The Anglo-German Naval Rivalry and Informal Arms Control, 1912-1914 by John H. Maurer
  • Nation, Empire and Navy: Identity Politics in the United Kingdom 1887-1914 by Jan Ruger
  • Strategy and War Planning in the British Navy, 1887-1918 by Shawn T. Grimes
  • Steaming in the Dark? Rules, Rivals, and the British Navy, 1860-1913 by Richard J. Stoll
  • ‘Riches beyond the Dreams of Avarice’?: Commercial Returns on British Warship Construction, 1889-1914 by A.J. Arnold
  • Strategic Command and Control for Maneuver Warfare: Creation of the Royal Navy’s “War Room” System, 1905-1915 by Nicholas A. Lambert
  • Memories and Records Volume Two by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher
  • Germany’s High Sea Fleet in the World War by Admiral Reinhard Scheer
  • “Luxury” Fleet: The Imperial German Navy 1888-1918 by Holger H. Herwig
  • The Grand Fleet 1914-1916: Its Creation, Development and Work by Admiral Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa
  • The Great Naval Race: Anglo-German naval rivalry 1900-1914 by Peter Padfield

J.R.R. Tolkien

  • Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth
  • Frodo’s Batman by Mark T. Hooker
  • “Tricksy Lights”: Literary and Folkloric Elements in Tolkien’s Passage of the Dead Marshes by Margaret Sinex
  • J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey
  • J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
  • The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien Edited by Humphrey Carpenter

Germany After the War

  • The Anti-Russian Tide in German Socialism, 1918-1920 by William Maehl
  • The “Black Horror on the Rhine”: Race as a Factor in Post-World War I Diplomacy by Keith L. Nelson
  • Weimar Germany as Seen by an Englishwoman: British Women Writers and the Weimar Republic** by Colin Storer
  • Lord Hardinge As Ambassador to France, and the Anglo-French Dilemma over Germany and the Near East, 1920-1922 by J. Douglas Goold
  • Mussolini and the Ruhr Crisis by Sally Marks
  • Politics of Illusion: Tirpitz and Right-Wing Putschism, 1922-1924 by Raffael Scheck
  • Rapallo Reexamined: A New Look at Germany’s Secret Military Collaboration with Russia in 1922 by Gordon H. Mueller
  • The Reich Government versus Saxony, 1923: The Decision to Intervene by Donald B. Pryce
  • The Ruhr Authority and the German Problem by Amos Yoder
  • Russo-German Military Collaboration During the Weimar Republic by Hans W. Gatzke
  • The Ruhr Crisis, 1923-1924 by Conan Fischer
  • The Struggle for Upper Silesia, 1919-1922 by F. Gregory Campbell
  • Britain and the Ruhr Crisis by E. O’Riordan
  • Founding Weimar: Violence and the German Revolution of 1918-1919 by Mark Jones
  • Perspectives on Modern German Economic History
  • The German Revolution, 1917-1923 by Pierre Broue and Eric Weitz
  • The Weimar Republic by Eberhard Kolb