World War I

The Western Front and Gallipoli in the words of those who were there — diaries, despatches and regimental histories.

• Father Duffy’s Story Francis P. Duffy
• The Corsair in the War Zone Ralph D. Paine
• Days to Remember John Buchan and Henry Newbolt
• The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire James Bryce and Arnold Toynbee
• History of the American Negro in the Great World War W. Allison Sweeney
• Lawrence and the Arabs Robert Graves
• Australia in Arms Phillip F. E. Schuler
• The West Riding Territorials in the Great War Laurie Magnus
• The Thirteenth Hussars in the Great War H. Mortimer Durand
• Waiting for Daylight H. M. Tomlinson
• The Battle of the Marne G. H. Perris
• The Grand Fleet, 1914-1916 John Rushworth Jellicoe
• Tanks in the Great War J. F. C. Fuller
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
• How I Filmed the War Geoffrey Malins
• John Redmond’s Last Years Stephen Gwynn
• Deeds of Heroism and Bravery Elwyn Barron
• Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star Theodore Roosevelt
• The Crimes of England G. K. Chesterton
• 1914 John French
• Demobilization Benedict Crowell
• The Dardanelles Campaign Henry W. Nevinson
• The Desert Mounted Corps R. M. P. Preston
• My Reminiscences of East Africa Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
• I Was There C. Leroy Baldridge
• Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story Henry Morgenthau
• With the Turks in Palestine Alexander Aaronsohn
• The Rough Road William J. Locke
• Crescent and Iron Cross E. F. Benson
• The South African Forces in France John Buchan
• Ravished Armenia Aurora Mardiganian
• Over the Top Arthur Guy Empey
• The Red Battle Flyer Manfred von Richthofen
• My Three Years in America Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff
• The Appetite of Tyranny G. K. Chesterton
• Bullets and Billets Bruce Bairnsfather
• The Australian Victories in France in 1918 John Monash
• The Barbarism of Berlin G. K. Chesterton
• The Macedonian Campaign Luigi Villari
• Why We Are at War Oxford Faculty of Modern History
• Five Months on a German Raider Frederic George Trayes
• The History of the Twentieth (Light) Division V. E. Inglefield
• Merchantmen-at-Arms David W. Bone
• Sniping in France Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard
• Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp
• Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War Frederick A. Talbot
• Our Greatest Battle Frederick Palmer
• War and the Future H. G. Wells
• The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Sassoon
• The New Map of Europe Herbert Adams Gibbons
• Carry On Coningsby Dawson
• The Cup of Fury Rupert Hughes
• A Student in Arms: Second Series Donald Hankey
• The Secrets of a Kuttite Edward O. Mousley
• The War History of the 1st/4th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Anonymous
• Our Navy at War Josephus Daniels
• England’s Effort Mrs. Humphry Ward
• My Four Years in Germany James W. Gerard
• A Short History of the Great War A. F. Pollard
• Germany, the Next Republic? Carl W. Ackerman
• From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 Philip Gibbs
• The History of the Prince of Wales’ Own Civil Service Rifles Anonymous
• Ordeal by Battle Frederick Scott Oliver
• Secrets of the Bosphorus Henry Morgenthau
• The Major Ralph Connor
• History of the U.S.S. Leviathan U.S.S. Leviathan History Committee
• The Amateur Army Patrick MacGill
• The Army Behind the Army E. Alexander Powell
• German Problems and Personalities Charles Sarolea
• The Tenth (Irish) Division in Gallipoli Bryan Cooper
• Great Poems of the World War William Dunseath Eaton
• The Crime Against Europe Roger Casement
• The Great War As I Saw It Frederick George Scott
• Fighting France Edith Wharton
• The German Secret Service in America John Price Jones and Paul Merrick Hollister
• Good Old Anna Marie Belloc Lowndes
• The Battle of Verdun Michelin
• The Sky Pilot in No Man’s Land Ralph Connor
• Independent Bohemia Vladimir Nosek
• The Better Germany in War Time Harold W. Picton
• The New Zealanders at Gallipoli Fred Waite
• With the Indians in France James Willcocks
• Belgians Under the German Eagle Jean Massart
• The World War Logan Marshall
• Above the Battle Romain Rolland
• Letters to Helen Keith Henderson
• With the Die-Hards in Siberia John Ward
• The Next of Kin Nellie L. McClung
• The Note-Book of an Attaché Eric Fisher Wood
• The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs
• Submarine Warfare of To-day Charles W. Domville-Fife
• Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War Logan Marshall
• Six Months on the Italian Front Julius M. Price
• Letters of a Soldier Eugène Emmanuel Lemercier
• War in the Garden of Eden Kermit Roosevelt
• Fighting in Flanders E. Alexander Powell
• Verdun, Argonne-Metz, 1914-1918 Michelin
• The 56th Division C. H. Dudley Ward
• The History of the 51st (Highland) Division, 1914–1918 F. W. Bewsher
• Joy in the Morning Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
• Out to Win Coningsby Dawson
• Tales of War Lord Dunsany
• The War and Democracy R. W. Seton-Watson
• The Fleets at War Archibald Hurd
• The War Book of the German General Staff German General Staff
• Sketches of the East Africa Campaign Robert V. Dolbey
• And They Thought We Wouldn’t Fight Floyd Gibbons
• In the Claws of the German Eagle Albert Rhys Williams
• Defenders of Democracy Militia of Mercy
• Nova Scotia’s Part in the Great War M. S. Hunt
• The Anzac Book C. E. W. Bean
• Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front Anonymous
• The History of the 33rd Divisional Artillery J. V. Macartney-Filgate
• What America Did Florence Finch Kelly
• The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign Hugh Clifford
• Some Problems of the Peace Conference Charles Homer Haskins
• Through the Iron Bars Emile Cammaerts
• A Hilltop on the Marne Mildred Aldrich
• Fields of Victory Mrs. Humphry Ward
• Where the Souls of Men Are Calling Credo Fitch Harris
• Flying for France James R. McConnell
• The Sequel George A. Taylor
• A Soldier’s Sketches Under Fire Harold Harvey
• The Victory at Sea William Sowden Sims
• The War Romance of the Salvation Army Evangeline Booth
• Amiens Before and During the War Michelin
• A Yankee in the Trenches R. Derby Holmes
• Private Peat Harold R. Peat
• Death of a Hero Richard Aldington
• The Land of Deepening Shadow D. Thomas Curtin
• The Story of the American Legion George Seay Wheat
• The Last Days of Fort Vaux Henry Bordeaux
• Tommy Atkins at War James Alexander Kilpatrick
• The Red Planet William J. Locke
• The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War Anonymous
• Action Front Boyd Cable
• Verdun to the Vosges Gerald Campbell
• Our Part in the Great War Arthur Gleason
• The Road to En-Dor E. H. Jones
• With Botha in the Field Eric Moore Ritchie
• Five Months at Anzac Joseph Lievesley Beeston
• The Luck of Thirteen Jan Gordon and Cora Gordon
• Religion and the War E. Hershey Sneath
• Why We Are at War Woodrow Wilson
• At Suvla Bay John Hargrave
• England and Germany E. J. Dillon
• My War Experiences in Two Continents Sarah Macnaughtan
• Antwerp to Gallipoli Arthur Ruhl
• My Adventures as a German Secret Agent Horst von der Goltz
• Unhappy Far-Off Things Lord Dunsany
• With the Persian Expedition Martin Henry Donohoe
• My Year of the War Frederick Palmer
• The New Book of Martyrs Georges Duhamel
• The Iron Ration George Abel Schreiner
• The Battle of Saint Mihiel Michelin
• With British Guns in Italy Hugh Dalton
• With Our Army in Flanders Valentine Williams
• All In It: K(1) Carries On Ian Hay
• The Glory of the Trenches Coningsby Dawson
• Germany in War Time Mary Ethel McAuley
• Eastern Nights and Flights Alan Bott
• German Atrocities: An Official Investigation J. H. Morgan
• Rivals of the Clouds Raoul Whitfield
• Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany Edward Lyell Fox
• On the Edge of the War Zone Mildred Aldrich
• Winged Warfare William Avery Bishop
• Over There Arnold Bennett
• Turkey: A Past and a Future Arnold J. Toynbee
• The Crisis of the Naval War John Jellicoe
• The War That Will End War H. G. Wells
• Getting Together Ian Hay
• What Germany Thinks Thomas F. A. Smith
• History of the 1/4th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s Regiment P. G. Bales
• The Blocking of Zeebrugge Alfred F. B. Carpenter
• The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France Henry van Dyke
• The Russian Campaign, April to August, 1915 Stanley Washburn
• With the Doughboy in France Edward Hungerford
• My Little Bit Marie Corelli
• The Dark Forest Hugh Walpole
• Italy at War and the Allies in the West E. Alexander Powell
• With the French in France and Salonika Richard Harding Davis
• British Secret Service During the Great War Nicholas Everitt
• The German Terror in Belgium Arnold J. Toynbee
• The Log of a Noncombatant Horace Green
• Crumps Louis Keene
• How Jerusalem Was Won W. T. Massey
• Short History of the London Rifle Brigade Anonymous
• A Minstrel in France Harry Lauder
• The History of the 9th (Scottish) Division John Ewing
• Four Weeks in the Trenches Fritz Kreisler
• The Healing of Nations Edward Carpenter
• A Company of Tanks William Henry Lowe Watson
• My Second Year of the War Frederick Palmer
• The Escaping Club A. J. Evans
• Cavalry of the Clouds Alan Bott
• Gallipoli John Masefield
• The Story of the 6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry R. B. Ainsworth
• The British Campaign in France and Flanders, 1915 Arthur Conan Doyle
• The World Decision Robert Herrick
• High Adventure James Norman Hall
• Count Luckner, the Sea Devil Lowell Thomas
• The Glory of the Coming Irvin S. Cobb
• Ten Years After Philip Gibbs
• The British Navy in Battle Arthur Pollen
• A Little House in War Time Agnes and Egerton Castle
• The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry G. K. Rose
• 1914 John Oxenham
• The Seventh Manchesters S. J. Wilson
• The Yankee Mining Squadron Reginald Rowan Belknap
• With the French Flying Corps Carroll Dana Winslow
• The Soul of the Soldier Thomas Tiplady
• Throttled! Thomas J. Tunney
• A Traveller in War-Time Winston Churchill
• Yashka Maria Botchkareva
• The Attack in Trench Warfare André Laffargue
• Day by Day with the Russian Army Bernard Pares
• Paths of Glory Irvin S. Cobb
• The Diary of a French Private Gaston Riou
• Woodrow Wilson and the World War Charles Seymour
• The 116th Battalion in France E. P. S. Allen
• G.H.Q. (Montreuil-sur-Mer) Frank Fox
• Gallipoli Diary John Graham Gillam
• Joffre and His Army Charles Dawbarn
• Caught by the Turks Francis Yeats-Brown
• Wounded and a Prisoner of War Malcolm V. Hay
• America in the War Louis Raemaekers
• Combed Out F. A. Voigt
• Covered with Mud and Glory Georges Lafond
• Fighting Without a War Ralph Albertson
• The Jews in the Eastern War Zone American Jewish Committee
• Mons, Anzac and Kut Aubrey Herbert
• Sidelights on Negro Soldiers Charles H. Williams
• An Aviator’s Field Book Oswald Boelcke
• The Emma Gees Herbert W. McBride
• The Silent Watchers Bennet Copplestone
• German Barbarism Léon Maccas
• A Kut Prisoner H. C. W. Bishop
• Georges Guynemer: Knight of the Air Henry Bordeaux
• Germany Before the War Baron Beyens
• Deductions from the World War Hugo von Freytag-Loringhoven
• My Secret Service Anonymous
• Two Years’ Captivity in German East Africa E. C. Holtom
• A Visit to Three Fronts Arthur Conan Doyle
• Eighteen Months in the War Zone Kate John Finzi
• The Battle of the Falkland Islands H. E. H. Spencer-Cooper
• The Delta of the Triple Elevens William Elmer Bachman
• A General Sketch of the European War: The First Phase Hilaire Belloc
• In the Firing Line Arthur St. John Adcock
• Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces Addie W. Hunton and Kathryn M. Johnson
• In the Russian Ranks John Morse
• Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Henry Charles Mahoney
• What the Boys Did Over There Henry L. Fox
• Impressions and Experiences of a French Trooper Christian Mallet
• Six Women and the Invasion Gabrielle and Marguerite Yerta
• Soldiers’ Stories of the War Walter Wood
• Ypres and the Battles of Ypres Michelin
• America and the World War Theodore Roosevelt
• Soldiers of the Legion John Bowe
• Disenchantment C. E. Montague
• Everyman’s Land C. N. and A. M. Williamson
• A Surgeon in Belgium Henry Sessions Souttar
• Scapa and a Camera C. W. Burrows
• Adventures of a Despatch Rider W. H. L. Watson
• Over the Canadian Battlefields John W. Dafoe
• Over the Top with the Third Australian Division G. P. Cuttriss
• The Fourth Battalion, The King’s Own, and the Great War W. F. A. Wadham
• The Great War in Verse and Prose J. E. Wetherell
• Raiders of the Sarhad Reginald Dyer
• The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, 1914–1919 D. Douglas Ogilvie
• My .75 Paul Lintier
• Towards the Goal Mrs. Humphry Ward
• Paris War Days Charles Inman Barnard