List III First World War Professor Alan Kramer
Reference Bibliography 2012-13
Reference works Hirschfeld, Gerhard, Enzyklopädie Erster Weltkrieg, Paderborn, etc., 2003. Gerd Krumeich, reliable, modern reference collection with useful essays on the belligerent states, and Irina Renz, eds., 943.084 P41. This has just been published in English as:
Hirschfeld, Gerhard, Brill’s Encyclopedia of the First World War. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012. A Gerd Krumeich, vitally important, reliable, reference collection with useful essays on the and Irina Renz, eds., belligerent states and on thematic questions (e.g. propaganda, war economy, etc.), as well as the encyclopedia entries. Berkeley Library Basement: REF 940.3 R21.1
Horne, John, ed. A Companion to World War I, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Berkeley LEN 940.3 R01;1 and 940.3 R01;1. This is an up-to-date synthesis of the best research by international experts, attractive and accessible. Paperback ed. about £24
Pope, Stephen, Elizabeth- The Macmillan Dictionary of the First World War. London: Macmillan, 1995. Anne Wheal, Keith Robbins REF 940.3 N5
Neiberg, Michael S. ‘Revisiting the myths. New approaches to the Great War’, in Contemporary European History 13, 4 (2004), pp. 505-15. Good review article.
Surveys and multi-nation works
Strachan, Hew The First World War, vol. 1: To Arms, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 940.3 P1.1;1 and reserve. Excellent, detailed book from an international perspective, well-researched in several languages.
Herwig, Holger The First World War. Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918, London: Arnold, 1997. Counter Reserve No.517 (HL-305-61)
Kramer, Alan Dynamic of Destruction. Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 (paperback 2008). Five copies at Berkeley, 940.4 P81 and P7, one at Counter Reserve.
Neiberg, Michael S. Fighting the Great War: A Global History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. 940.4 P53;1
Strachan, Hew, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (Oxford, 1998). Berkeley: 2 copies at 940.3 N8;2 and a third at Santry SHL-70-541
Halpern, Paul G. A Naval History of World War I, London: UCL Press, 1994. Santry HL-176-622
Hardach, Gerd The First World War, 1914-1918. Translated by Peter and Betty Ross. (The Pelican history of world economy in the twentieth century.) London: Allen Lane, 1977. Several copies at 940.31 L7 and Lecky LEN 330.9 L7;1
Broadberry, Stephen The Economics of World War I. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. and Mark Harrison, eds. Basement HL-289-565. Useful chapters on Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and on the war economy in general.
Keegan, John The First World War. London: Hutchinson, 1998. Santry HL-213-131 and stacks PL-344-45. Not entirely reliable (e.g. on Italy).
Chickering, Roger, and Stig Great War, Total War. Combat and Mobiblization on the Western Front, 1914- Förster, eds 1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Good collection of essays. 940.414 P02 2
Jones, Heather, Jennifer Untold War. New Perspectives in First World War Studies. Leiden and Boston: O’Brien and Christoph Brill, 2008. Collection of specialized essays by (mainly) younger scholars, based Schmidt-Supprian, eds, on a conference held at Trinity College Dublin in 2005. 940.3 P8
Ferguson, Niall The Pity of War. London: Allen Lane, 1998. 940.31 N8 and PB-195-839. Best on financial and economic history; his love of debate and provocation sometimes leads to dubious conclusions.
Horne, John, ed. State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Reserve 940.31 N7 and 2 lending copies.
Winter, Jay and Jean-Louis Capital Cities at War. Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919. Vol. 1: Cambridge: Robert, eds., Cambridge University Press, 1997. 909 N71
Winter, Jay and Jean-Louis Capital Cities at War. Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919. Vol. 2: A Cultural Robert, eds., History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 909 N71.2
Wall, Richard and The Upheaval of War. Family, Work and Welfare in Europe, 1914-1918. Jay Winter, eds Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, 2005.
Proctor, Tammy Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918. New York: New York University Press, 2010. 940.31 R0. See my review in the Journal of Military History, October 2011.
Cork, Richard A Bitter Truth: Avant-garde Art and the Great War. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994. Santry HX- 33-943. Lavishly illustrated and well documented.
Haber, Ludwig F. The Poisonous Cloud: Chemical Warfare in the First World War. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986. Santry HL- 80-939
Müller, Rolf-Dieter ‘Total War as a result of new weapons? The use of chemical agents in World War I’, in Chickering and Förster, eds., Great War, Total War, pp. 95-112
Hamilton, Robert F. A Photographic History of World War I. Bath: Paragon, 2005. Santry HX-83-190
Neiberg, Michael, ed., World War I , Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. (The international library of essays in military history). 940.4 P51
Sources - Germany Geiss, Imanuel, ed., July 1914. The Outbreak of the First World War: Selected Documents, London: Batsford, 1967. 940.31 K7
Wolff, Theodor The Eve of 1914. London: Gollancz, 1935. Santry 97.f.136
A selection from the German official document collection is also available in translation: German diplomatic documents, 1871-1914. New York: Barnes & Noble; London: Methuen, 1969. Based upon Die Grosse Politik der Europaischen Kabinette. 943.08 F8 and Santry 75.pp.117-120
This is the original: Lepsius, Johannes, Die grosse Politik der europäischen Kabinette, 1871-1914: Sammlung der A. Mendelssohn Bartholdy, diplomatischen Akten des Auswärtigen Amtes. 40 vols. in 54 parts. Berlin: Deutsche F. Thimme, eds., on behalf Verlagsgesellschaft für Politik und Geschichte, 1922-27. RESEARCH AREA Stall 87. of the German Foreign Ministry
Ulrich, Bernd and Benjamin Frontalltag im Ersten Weltkrieg. Wahn und Wirklichkeit. Frankfurt: S. Fischer, Ziemann, eds 1994. 943.084 N41 3
Cartarius, Ulrich, ed. Deutschland im Ersten Weltkrieg: Texte und Dokumente, 1914-1918. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1982. Ussher LEN 830.8 M22
Deist, Wilhelm, ed. Militär und Innenpolitik im Weltkrieg 1914-1918, 2 vols. Düsseldorf: Droste, 1970. Berkeley Open Access 943.084 L0.1 & 2
Falkenhayn, Erich von General Headquarters 1914-1916 and its Critical Decisions. Nashville, Tenn.: Battery Press; Fleet: War and Peace Books, 2000. Santry HL-243-366
Groener, Wilhelm Der Feldherr wider Willen: operative Studien über den Weltkrieg. Berlin: Mittler, 1931. Santry SHL-45-820
Hoffmann, Max The war of lost opportunities. London: K. Paul, French, Trubner, 1924. Translated by A. E. Chamot. Santry 89.o.51. Critique of Ludendorff and Hindenburg by a talented and highly placed general staff member.
Hoffmann, Max War Diaries and Other Papers. Translated from the German by Eric Sutton, original title Aufzeichnungen des Generalmajors Max Hoffmann. London: M. Secker, [1929]. Santry 89.p.131
Kaiser Wilhelm II. als Oberster Kriegsherr im Ersten Weltkrieg. Quellen aus der militärischen Umgebung des Kaisers 1914-1918, ed. by Holger Afflerbach. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2005. Basement HL-281-76
Kautsky, Karl Outbreak of the World War: German Documents Collected by Karl Kautsky, edited by Max Montgelas and Walther Schücking; translated by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division of International Law. New York, London: Oxford University Press, 1924. 940.3 F4 and Santry 48.a.151
Kuhl, Hermann von Der deutsche Generalstab in Vorbereitung und Durchführung des Weltkrieges. Berlin: E.S. Mittler, 1920. Santry 89.b.101
Ludendorff, Erich My War Memories 1914-1918. 2 vols. London: Hutchinson, [1919]. 940.482 E9.1
Luckau, Alma The German Delegation at the Paris Peace Conference. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941. 940.314 M1. History and documents.
Riezler, Kurt Tagebücher, Aufsätze, Dokumente. Ed. and introduced by Karl Dietrich Erdmann. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1972. This is the closest you will get to the mind of Germany’s chancellor Theodor von Bethmann Hollweg. It is a fascinating record, particularly of the July crisis, but also of the entire period of Bethmann Hollweg’s rule until 1917. 943.084 P8
Toller, Ernst I was a German. The Autobiography of Ernst Toller. London & New York, 1934. This is the English translation of his Eine Jugend in Deutschland. Toller was a young intellectual who was at first an enthusiastic volunteer and a keen soldier. By 1916 he had begun to oppose the war and became a radical pacifist and revolutionary. See, among other things, his experience at Verdun. 943.085 G41 and Santry SHB- 48-927
Whitlock, Brand, Belgium under the German Occupation. A Personal Narrative, vol. 1. London: Heinemann, 1919. Santry 89.c.21 Vol.1
Jünger, Ernst Storm of Steel. Translated by Michael Hofmann Santry HL-260-814. A novel based on the author’s war diary, but much re-worked. A classic statement of ‘soldierly nationalism’, glorifying war.
Köppen, Edlef Higher Command. (Original title Heeresbericht), London: Faber & Faber, 1931 (German ed. 1930). Santry (EPB only): 42.pp.57. A magnificent novel, more honest and direct than Jünger’s more famous book, less sentimental than 4
Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front. A novel, but in fact almost entirely autobiographical.
Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front, London, various editions. (German ed., 1929). Santry PB- 83-753 & HL-183-107 & PB-140-686. Open access: 940.4 F91 & 940.4 F9. World-famous war novel, made also into a Hollywood film; a good read, but it is really fiction.
Sources: Austria-Hungary
Bittner, Ludwig, Österreich-Ungarns Außenpolitik von der bosnischen Krise 1908 bis zum Alfred Francis Pribram, Kriegsausbruch 1914. Diplomatische Aktenstücke des österreichisch-ungarischen Heinrich Srbik, and Ministeriums des Äußern, 8 vols., Vienna and Leipzig: Österreichischer Hans Uebersberger., eds Bundesverlag für Unterricht, Wissenschaft und Kunst, 1930. Research Area. This is the Austro-Hungarian counterpart to the German collection of pre-war diplomatic documents.
Burián von Rajecz, Stephan, Austria in dissolution: being the personal recollections of Stephan, Count Burián Count London: E. Benn, 1925. Santry 89.b.81
Conrad von Hötzendorf, Aus meiner Dienstzeit, 1906-1918. 5 vols, Vienna: Rikola, 1921-25. 943.604 F1 Franz
Eisenmenger, Anna Blockade: The Diary of an Austrian Middle-class Woman, 1914-1924. London: Constable, 1924. Santry: 76.t.56
Schneider, Constantin Die Kriegserinnerungen 1914-1919. Ed. by Oskar Dohle. Vienna: Böhlau, 2003. Stacks PL-456-286. (Schneider was an young Austrian general staff officer who served first on the eastern front, and from 1915 on the Italian front until he was taken prisoner by the Italians.)
Krauss, General Alfred Die Ursachen unserer Niederlage; Erinnerungen und Urteile aus dem Weltkrieg. München: Lehmann, 1920. Santry 58.ff.36. (Memoirs of a leading Austrian general)
Jaroslav Hašek The Good Soldier Švejk and his Fortunes in the World War. London: Penguin and Heinemann, 2000 (1973; transl. from the Czech, original ed. 1923. Santry PB-190-566 and several other copies.
Gerard, Dorothea The Austrian Officer at Work and at Play, London, Smith, Elder, 1913 Santry 77.q.36. ‘Dorothea Gerard (1855–1915) was a British novelist specialising in romances. A prolific writer, she often dealt with controversial and unconventional topics. In 1886, while living with her sister in the Austrian province of Galicia, she married the Austrian military officer Julius Longard de Longgarde, and remained a resident of the Austrian Empire for the rest of her life. This book contains Gerard's study of the officer class of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Army. She indicates the historical background of the development of the Austrian army, together with a detailed description of the life of contemporary Imperial officers. The book provides fascinating insights into how the myriad constituent nationalities of the Austrian Empire became a cohesive military force and distinct social class within the Empire.’ From the Cambridge University Press history catalogue, 2010.
Sources – Italy [Italy] Relazioni della Reale Commissione D’Inchiesta sulle Violazioni del Diritto delle Genti Commesse dal Nemico. 8 vols., Milan and Rome: Bestetti & Tumminelli n.D. [1919 et seq.]. TCD Early Printed Books has acquired the first 7 vols: OLS L-9-255-261
Allen, Herbert Warner Our Italian Front, painted by Martin Hardie, described by Warner Allen. London: A. & C. Black, Ltd, 1920. Includes 50 colour plates. Santry 89.d.126
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Bollati, Ambrogio How the Italian infantry fought on the Isonzo front, 1915 (as told in the Austrian official report). Rome, 1935. Santry 93.d.145
Dalton, Hugh With British guns in Italy: A Tribute to Italian achievement. London: Methuen, [1919]. Santry 91.g.1
Gladden, Norman Across the Piave: A Personal Account of the British forces in Italy, 1917-1919. London: H.M.S.O., 1971. Santry OPUB 157.r.35 A5
Lussu, Emilio Un anno sull’Altipiano, Turin: Einaudi, 2000 (first published in exile in Paris, 1938; Turin, 1945). One of the finest works of war literature, based authentically on the author’s war experience. Lussu was a highly decorated officer in the Sassari Brigade and later a member of the anti-fascist resistance. Those of you who read Italian should buy and read the paperback (about €8). It is translated into English as: Lussu Sardinian Brigade. London: Prion, 2000. PB-180-636
Capacci, Giuseppe Diario di guerra di un contadino toscano. Ed. by Dante Priore, Mario Isnenghi, and Pietro Clemente. Florence: Cultura Editrice, 1982. 940.482 M2
The pre-war period and the origins of the war
Herrmann, David The Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996. Berkeley and Lecky, 940.31 N61
Fischer, Fritz Griff nach der Weltmacht. Die Kriegszielpolitik des kaiserlichen Deutschland 1914/18. Düsseldorf: Droste, 1961; English trans. Germany’s Aims in the First World War. London, 1969
Fischer, Fritz Krieg der Illusionen. Die deutsche Politik von 1911 bis 1914. Düsseldorf: Droste, 1969; English trans. War of Illusions. German Policies from 1911 to 1914. London, 1975.
Joll, James The Origins of the First World War, 3rd ed. 2007 (or earlier editions), Harlow: Longman, 2007. Counter reserve 940.31 M4*2
Paul W. Schroeder ‘World War I as Galloping Gertie’, in Holger W. Herwig, ed., The Outbreak of World War I, 5th ed., Lexington, Mass., 1991, pp. 116-125; full article in Journal of Modern History, 44 (1972), pp. 319-345. Presents opposing view to Joll.
Hamilton, Richard F. and Decisions for war, 1914-1917. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004 Holger Herwig, eds. Berkeley, 940.31 P3-1
Mombauer, Annika The Origins of the First World War: Controversies and Consensus, London: Longman, 2002. Counter Reserve No.163
Mombauer, Annika Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 940.31 P1
Kramer, Alan Dynamic of Destruction. Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 (paperback 2008), chapter 3
Stevenson, David Armaments and the Coming of War in Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. 940.31 N6
Dedijer, Vladimir, The Road to Sarajevo. London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1967; 1966. Santry: SHL- 22- 841. Unsurpassed study of Serbian-Habsburg relations and the assassination plot.
Stone, Norman ‘Army and society in the Habsburg Monarchy 1900-1914’, Past and Present 33, 1966, pp. 95-111
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Williamson, Samuel R., Austria-Hungary and the Origins of the First World War, London, 1991
Afflerbach, Holger Der Dreibund: europäische Grossmacht- und Allianzpolitik vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Vienna: Böhlau, 2002. 943.083 P2. Valuable study, especially on the relations between Italy and Germany and Austria-Hungary.
Bosworth, Richard Italy and the approach of the First World War. London: Macmillan, 1983. Santry HL- 55-345
Bosworth, Richard Italy, the least of the Great Powers: Italian foreign policy before the First World War. Santry HL- 35-284
War plans
Ritter, Gerhard The Schlieffen Plan: Critique of a Myth. Translated by Andrew and Eva Wilson. London: Wolff, 1958. 940.3 J8 (Includes documents.)
Ehlert, Hans; Michael Der Schlieffenplan. Analysen und Dokumente. Published by the Epkenhans and G. Groß, eds. Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt and the Otto von Bismarck Foundation. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh 2006. Basement HL-294-856
Bucholz, Arden Moltke, Schlieffen, and Prussian War Planning. Providence and Oxford: Berg, 1991. Santry HL-145-709
Germany Weber, Thomas Our Friend “The Enemy”: Elite Education in Britain and Germany before World War I. Standford, Cal.: Stanford UP, 2008. 378.42 P8
Seligmann, Matthew S. Spies in Uniform. British Military and Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Basement HL-291-513
Herwig, Holger ‘Luxury’ Fleet: The Imperial German Navy 1888-1918. London: 1980 and 1987, Santry HL-36-646 and PL-145-906
Winter and Robert, eds Capital Cities
Chickering, Roger: Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918. Cambridge University Press, 1998, 943.084 N8
Reichsarchiv, ed., Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918. Die militärischen Operationen zu Lande, 14 vols. Berlin: Mittler, 1925-44. The German official history of the land war.
Afflerbach, Holger Falkenhayn. Politisches Denken und Handeln im Kaiserreich. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1994. Stacks PL-337-563
Rohkrämer, Thomas A Single Communal Faith? The German Right from Conservatism to National Socialism. New York etc: Berghahn Books 2007.
Hoffmann, Christhard ‘Between integration and rejection: the Jewish community in Germany, 1914- 1918’, in Horne, ed., State, Society and Mobilization, pp. 89-104
Pulzer, Peter Jews and the German State. The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933, Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. Santry HL-148-208
Pulzer, Peter The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria. London: Halban, 1988, (1st ed. 1964), Santry PL-188-650
Matthäus, Jürgen ‘German Judenpolitik in Lithuania during the First World War’, in Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 43 (1998), pp. 155-74
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Mosse, George L. ‘The Jews and the German War Experience’. The Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture 21, Leo Baeck Institute, New York, 1977. Copy available from me.
Trude Maurer, ed. Kollegen - Kommilitonen – Kaempfer: Europaeische Universitaeten im Ersten Weltkrieg. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. Basement HL-295-155
Tuchman, Barbara The Guns of August, London: Robinson, 2000 (originally published as August 1914, London 1962). Santry HL-164-961, PB-198-161, PL-127-513, PL-229-270
Deist, Wilhelm ‘Verdeckter Militärstreik im Kriegsjahr 1918?’, in Wolfram Wette, ed., Der Krieg des kleinen Mannes. Eine Militärgeschichte von unten. Munich: Piper, 1992, pp. 146-67. 940.24 N5
Watson, Alexander Enduring the Great War: Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British armies, 1914-1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 940.31 P8. Thoroughly researched and convincing book.
Wilke, Jürgen Presseanweisungen im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert. Erster Weltkrieg - Drittes Reich - DDR. Cologne: Böhlau, 2007. Stacks PL-467-233
Germany – economic and social aspects
Feldman, Gerald D. Army, Industry, and Labor in Germany 1914-1918. Providence, R.I: Berg, 1992. 943.084 K6;2. Original ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966. 943.084 K6;1 and lending copy.
Kocka, Jürgen Facing Total War. German Society, 1914-1918. Translated by Barbara Weinberger. 943.084 M42
Bessel, Richard ‘Mobilizing German society for war’, in Chickering and Förster, eds., Great War, Total War, pp. 437-51
Bessel, Richard ‘Mobilization and demobilization in Germany, 1916-1919’, in Horne, ed., State, Society and Mobilization, pp. 212-222
Offer, Avner The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation. Oxford: Clarendon, 1989. 940.31 M9, Santry PL-172-282 and stacks PL-287-347
Daniel, Ute The War from Within: German Working-class Women in the First World War. Translated by Margaret Ries. Oxford: Berg, 1997. 943.084 N7
Davis, Belinda J. Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday life in World War I Berlin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. 943.155 P0
Donson, Andrew Youth in the Fatherless Land. War Pedagogy, Nationalism, and Authority in Germany, 1914–1918. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2010. Berkeley, 940.3 R0
Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Ina, Rachel Duffett and Alain Food and War in Twentieth Century Europe, Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. See Drouard, eds especially: Peter Lummel, ‘Food provisioning in the German army of the First World War’; Steven Schouten, ‘Fighting a Kosher war: German Jews and Kashrut in the First World War’; Hans-Jürgen Teuteberg, ‘Food provisioning on the German home front, 1914–1918’; Martin Franc, ‘Bread from wood: natural food substitutes in the Czech lands during the First World War’.
Chickering, Roger The Great War and Urban Life in Germany. Freiburg, 1914-1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 943.4 P7. A great book on a small town. Almost every conceivable aspect of everyday life is there. See my positive review 8
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Szöllösi-Janze, Margit Fritz Haber, 1868-1934: Eine Biographie. Munich: Beck, 1998. 943 N8
Battles and theatres of war
Keegan, John Opening Moves. London: Pan, 1973 (originally entitled Opening Moves: August 1914, New York, 1971) Santry P 32315
Herwig, Holger H. The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle that Changed the World, New York: Random House, 2009. Berkeley LEN 940.4 P9
Keegan, John The Face of Battle. A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1988 (1976). Santry HL-134-588, PL-194-451, HL- 3-930 etc. The chapter in this classic book on the Somme is good, but it is written almost exclusively from the British perspective. The Germans might as well not have been there. For something more balanced see Hirschfeld et al.:
Hirschfeld, Gerhard, Gerd Die Deutschen an der Somme 1914-1918. Krieg, Besatzung, Verbrannte Erde. Krumeich, Irina Renz, eds., Essen: Klartext, 2006. Stacks PL-439-971
Sheldon, Jack The German Army on the Somme, 1914-1916. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2005. HL-291-41
Foley, Robert T. German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 940.4 P5
Afflerbach, Holger Falkenhayn. Politisches Denken und Handeln im Kaiserreich. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1994. Stacks PL-337-563 (especially good on Verdun)
Afflerbach, Holger ‘Planning Total War? Falkenhayn and the battle of Verdun’, in Chickering and Förster, eds., Great War, Total War, pp. 113-133
Isnenghi and Rochat La grande guerra: 1914-1918, pp. 367-400 (good synthesis on Caporetto)
Schulte-Varendorff, Uwe Kolonialheld für Kaiser und Führer. General Lettow-Vorbeck - Eine Biographie. Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag 2006
Gross, Gerhard P. and Jörg Kriegsende 1918: Ereignis, Wirkung, Nachwirkung. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1999 Duppler, eds. 940.45 N9
Schuster, Frank M. Zwischen allen Fronten. Osteuropäische Juden während des Ersten Weltkrieges (1914-1919). Köln: Böhlau, 2004. PL-456-449
A good discussion of the fighting in East Africa from the South African perspective is in: Nasson, Bill Springboks on the Somme. South Africa in the Great War, 1914-1918. Johannesburg, New York: Penguin, 2007. 968.05 P7
Excellent in general on the war in Africa is the long section in: Strachan, Hew The First World War, vol. 1: To Arms, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 940.3 P1.1;1 and reserve.
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Pioneering collection of essays in the cultural history of the war: Hirschfeld, Gerhard, Gerd Krumeich and Irina Renz, eds., Keiner fühlt sich hier mehr als Mensch… Erlebnis und Wirkung des Ersten Weltkriegs Essen: Klartext, 1993
Horne, John, and Alan German Atrocities 1914. A History of Denial. London and New Haven, Conn.: Kramer Yale University Press, 2001. Reserve 940.4 P1 and lending copy; Santry HL-246- 584; stacks PL-420-80
Hull, Isabel V. Absolute Destruction. Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany (Ithaca and London, 2005. Stacks PL-439-395. Interesting argument for a continuity of military culture from colonial warfare in South-West Africa to the First World War.
Hagemann, Karen, and Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Oxford: Berg, 2002. Santry HL-270-296 and stacks PL-407-325. Collection of eds. essays with six contributions on the First World War.
Ziemann, Benjamin War Experiences in Rural Germany, 1914-1923, Oxford and New York: Berg, 2007. 943.3 N7;1. The original German edition is more complete; see my review in German History 17 (2) 1999, pp. 303-4. Front und Heimat. Ländliche Kriegserfahrungen im südlichen Bayern 1914-1923. Essen: Klartext, 1997. 943.3 N7 and Santry HL-210-862.
Mommsen, Wolfgang J. ‘German artists, writers and intellectuals and the meaning of the war, 1914-1918, in Horne, ed., State, Society and Mobilization, pp. 21-38
Mommsen, Wolfgang J., with Kultur und Krieg: Die Rolle der Intellektuellen, Künstler und Schriftsteller im E. Müller-Luckner, eds. Ersten Weltkrieg, Munich: Oldenbourg, 1996. Santry HL-199-142 and HL-202- 372
Raithel, Thomas Das “Wunder” der inneren Einheit: Studien zur deutschen und französischen Öffentlichkeit bei Beginn des Ersten Weltkrieges. Bonn: Bouvier, 1996. Santry HL-201-334
Verhey, Jeffrey The Spirit of 1914. Militarism, Myth and Mobilization in Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 943.084 P0
Eksteins, Modris Rites of Spring. The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age. London, New York, etc.: Bantam, 1989. 909.82 M91 and Santry HL-123-573, PB- 91-413, PL-329-255. Ostensibly a comparative cultural history of the war, it is in effect mainly on Germany. Stimulating ideas, good to read, but sometimes hard to see where the argument is going.
Eckart, Wolfgang U. ‘“The most extensive experiment that the imagination can conceive”. War, emotional stress, and German medicine, 1914-1918’, in Chickering and Förster, eds., Great War, Total War, pp. 133-49
Kaufmann, Doris ‘Science as Cultural Practice: Psychiatry in the First World War and Weimar Germany’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34, No. 1 (1999), pp. 125-144
Lerner, Paul Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890– 1930. (Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry.) Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2003. 943.084 P3
Austria-Hungary Zeman, Zbynek The Break-up of the Habsburg empire, 1914-1918: A Study in National and Social Revolution. London: Oxford University Press, 1961. 943.604 K1
Adam Wandruszka and Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848-1918, 8 vols. Vienna: Österreichische Akademie 10
Peter Urbanitsch eds. der Wissenschaften, 1973-1980), vol. 5: Die bewaffnete Macht. LEN 943.604 L33.5
Hanisch, Ernst, Der lange Schatten des Staates. Österreichische Gesellschaftsgeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert.Vienna: Ueberreuter, 1994. Santry HL-209-797
Glaise-Horstenau, Edmund v. The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Translated by Ian F.D. Morrow. London, etc.: J.M. Dent [1930]; originally published in German in 1929. Santry 75.qq.143
Amann, Klaus and Hubert Österreich und der Grosse Krieg, 1914-1918: Die andere Seite der Geschichte Lengauer, eds. Vienna: Brandstätter, 1989. Ussher ARTS 830.9 M94
Gratz, Gustav and R. Schüller The Economic Policy of Austria-Hungary During the War in its External Relations. New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Division of Economics and History, 1928. Santry 36.a.90 and 119.e.72.
Redlich, Josef Österreichische Regierung und Verwaltung im Weltkriege, Vienna: Hölder- Pichler-Tempsky and New Haven: Yale UP, 1925. Santry 119.e.159
Redlich, Josef Austrian War Government. London and New Haven: Yale UP, 1929 (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Economics and History. Economic and social history of the world war). Santry 119.e.75 (translated and abridged version of Österreichische Regierung)
Berend, Iván T. and ‘Ungarns wirtschaftliche Entwicklung 1848-1918’, in Adam Wandruszka and György Ránki, Peter Urbanitsch eds., Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848-1918, 8 vols. (Vienna, 1973-2006), vol. 1, Alois Brusatti, ed., Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung (Vienna, 1973), pp. 462-527. Lecky LEN 943.604 L33.1
Cornwall, Mark The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000. Santry HL-239-446
Healy, Maureen Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 943.6 P4
Konrad, Helmut, ed. Krieg, Medizin und Politik: der Erste Weltkrieg und die österreichische Moderne. Vienna: Passagen, 2000. Ussher LEN 830.9 P0993
Exner, Franz Krieg und Kriminalität in Österreich. Mit einem Beitrag über die Kriminalität der Militärpersonen. Vienna: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky; New Haven, Yale University Press, 1927 (Carnegie endowment for international peace. Division of economics and history) Santry: 119.e.157 and 119.e.171
Károlyi, Count Michael Fighting the world: The Struggle for Peace. Translated by E. W. Dickes. London: K. Paul, 1924. Santry: 89.b.77
Müller, Martin Vernichtungsgedanke und Koalitionskriegsführung. Das Deutsche Reich und Österreich-Ungarn in der Offensive 1917/18. Eine Clausewitz-Studie, Graz: Leopold-Stocker Verlag 2003. Stacks PL-461-176
Ehrenpreis, Petronilla Kriegs- und Friedensziele im Diskurs: Regierung und deutschsprachige Öffentlichkeit Österreich-Ungarns während des Ersten Weltkriegs. Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2005.
Vermeiren, Jan ‘The “Rebirth of Greater Germany”: The Austro-German Alliance and the Outbreak of War”, in Jones, O’Brien and Schmidt-Supprian eds., Untold War, pp. 209-30
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Italy
Whittam, John The Politics of the Italian Army 1861-1918, London: Croom Helm, 1977
Gooch, John Army, State and Society in Italy, 1870-1915, London: Macmillan, 1989
Thompson, Mark The White War. Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919. London: Faber, 2008/2009. Berkeley Basement HL-305-699 and Santry PB-294-353. A lively account and a good introduction to the topic.
Isnenghi, Mario and La grande guerra: 1914-1918. Florence: Scandicci (La nuova Italia), 2000. Giorgio Rochat 945.09 P01 (Excellent survey, both on military and civilian aspects)
Hürter, Johannes and Der Kriegseintritt Italiens im Mai 1915. München: R. Oldenbourg, 2007. Gian Enrico Rusconi, eds. Stacks PL-467-225
[Italy] Office of the chief of staff of the Royal Italian navy (Historical section): The Italian navy in the world war 1915-1918. Facts & figures. Rome: Provveditorato generale dello stato, Libreria, 1927. Santry: 93.e.37
Baldini, General Alberto Diaz. Translated by W. J. Monson. London: Toulmin, [1935]. Santry 97.g.71
Edmonds, James E. Military operations, Italy, 1915-1919. London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1949. and H. R. Davies Research Area Stall 81. (From the British Official History of the War)
Schindler, John R. Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War. Westport, Conn., London : Praeger, 2001. 940.414 P11
Procacci, Giovanna ‘Popular protest and labour conflict in Italy, 1915-1918’, in Social History 14, 1989, pp. 31-58
Procacci, Giovanna Soldati e prigionieri italiani nella Grande guerra. Con una raccolta di lettere inedite. Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 2000; 1993. Stacks: PL-332-784
Procacci, Giovanna ‘A “Latecomer” in war. The case of Italy’, in Frans Coetzee and Marilyn Shevin- Coetzee, eds., Authority, Identity and the Social History of the Great War. Oxford and Providence: Berg, 1995, pp. 3-27. Santry HL-188-438
Corner, Paul and G. Procacci ‘The Italian experience of “total” mobilization, 1915-1920’, in Horne, ed., State, Society and Mobilization, pp. 223-40
Gibelli, Antonio L’officina della guerra: la grande guerra e le trasformazioni del mondo mentale. Torino : Bollati Boringhieri, 1998. 940.3 N81
Isnenghi, Mario Il mito della grande guerra. Bologna: Il Mulino, 1997; 1970. 945.09 N7
Rochat, Giorgio Ufficiali e soldati: l'esercito italiano dalla prima alla seconda guerra mondiale. Udine : P. Gaspari, 2000. Stacks PL-352-693
Martinelli, Vittorio La guerra di D'Annunzio: da poeta a dandy a eroe di guerra e "comandante". Udine: P. Gaspari, 2001. Ussher 858.8 DANg P1
Ventrone, Angelo La seduzione totalitaria: guerra, modernità, violenza politica (1914-1918). Rome: Donzelli, 2003. Santry HB-74-865
Ceschin, Daniele Gli esuli di Caporetto. I Profughi in Italia durante la Grande Guerra. Roma, Bari: Laterza, 2006. Santry PB-265-23
Ermacora, Matteo Cantieri di guerra: il lavoro dei civili nelle retrovie del fronte italiano 1915- 1918. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2005. Stacks PL-456-127
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Marchioni, Nadia, ed. La Grande Guerra degli artisti: propaganda e iconografia bellica in Italia negli anni della prima guerra mondiale. Firenze: Pagliai Polistampa, 2005. Santry: PX- 220-489
O'Brien, Paul Mussolini in the First World War. The Journalist, the Soldier, the Fascist. Oxford, New York: Berg, 2005. 945.091 P52 (Based on the author’s PhD, Trinity College Dublin, 2003)
Wilks, John and Eileen Wilks The British Army in Italy 1917-1918. Barnsley: Leo Cooper 1998. Santry HL-217- 76
Wilks, John and Eileen Wilks Rommel and Caporetto. Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 2001. Santry HL-257-98
Serpieri, Arrigo La guerra e le classi rurali italiane. Bari and New Haven: Laterza and Yale University Press, 1930. (Carnegie Endowment for International peace. Division of Economics and History. Storia economica e sociale della guerra mondiale. Serie italiana.) Santry 119.e.173
Einaudi, Luigi La condotta economica e gli effetti sociali della guerra italiana. Bari and New Haven: Laterza and Yale University Press, 1933. (Carnegie Endowment for International peace. Division of Economics and History. Storia economica e sociale della guerra mondiale. Serie italiana.) Santry 119.e.174
Occupations Liulevicius, Vejas War Land on the Eastern Front. Culture, National Identity, and German Occupation in World War I, Cambridge 2000. Provocative, pioneering study on the little-known Eastern Front. 940.414 P01 de Schaepdrijver, Sophie La Belgique et la Première Guerre mondiale. Brussels and Oxford: Peter Lang, 2004. 949.304 P41 and Stacks PL-438-816
Mayerhofer Lisa ‘Making Friends and Foes: Occupiers and occupied in First World War Romania, 1916-1918’, in: Heather Jones, Jennifer O'Brien and Christoph Schmidt-Supprian, eds., Untold War. New Perspectives in First World War Studies, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2008, pp. 119-49. Counter reserve 940.3 P8; Berkeley Basement HL-311-70
Becker, Annette Oubliés de la Grande Guerre: Humanitaire et culture de guerre, 1914-1948: populations occupées, déportés civils, prisonniers de guerre. Paris: Hachette, 1998. Santry PB-249-472
McPhail, Helen The Long Silence: Civilian Life under the German Occupation of Northern France, 1914-1918, London: I.B. Tauris, 2001. Berkeley, 944.0814 P1
Gumz, Jonathan E. The Resurrection and Collapse of Empire in Habsburg Serbia, 1914-1918, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Berkeley basement HL-320-274
The end of the war, the peace treaties, and the post-war crises
Wheeler-Bennett, John Brest-Litovsk: The Forgotten Peace, March 1918. London: St.Martin’s Press, 1963. Santry Stacks (use call slip) 110.f.107
Stevenson, David With Our Backs to the Wall. Victory and Defeat in 1918. London: Allen Lane, 2011. A superlative book that comprehensively analyses practically every important aspect of the last year of the war, including the armistice and the end of the war. See my review in the English Historical Journal, forthcoming December 2011/January 2012. Berkeley basement HL-327-949
Three chapters in a new book represent state-of-the-art research on the end of the war: Afflerbach, Holger, and How Fighting Ends: A History of Surrender. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012 Hew Strachan eds. Should be in library in October. See therein: Kramer, Alan ‘Surrender of soldiers in World War I’, pp. 265-78 13
Showalter, Dennis ‘By the book? Commanders surrendering in World War I’, pp. 279-98 Winter, Jay ‘The breaking point: Surrender 1918’, pp. 199-312
Geyer, Michael ‘Insurrectionary Warfare: The German Debate about a Levee en Masse in October 1918’, Journal of Modern History, 73, 3 (September 2001), pp. 459-527
Gross, Gerhard P. and Jörg Kriegsende 1918: Ereignis, Wirkung, Nachwirkung. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1999 Duppler, eds. 940.45 N9
Occleshaw, M.E. ‘The “Stab in the Back” – Myth or reality?’, Journal of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies 130 (1985), pp. 49-54. (Research floor Alcove 18 ) This ‘emphasises the role of British Military Intelligence propaganda in the collapse of German civilian morale in 1918.’ (John Bourne, Britain and the Great War, p. 202, fn. 14. Examine this article in the light of what you know about Germany; does Occleshaw use German evidence?
Steiner, Zara The Lights that Failed: European International History, 1919–1933. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 940.51 P5 (2 + reserve)
Kolb, Eberhard Der Frieden von Versailles. München: C.H. Beck Verlag 2005. Santry PB-264-47
Boemeke, Manfred F., Feldman, Gerald & The Treaty of Versailles. A Reassessment after 75 years. Cambridge Glaser, Elisabeth (eds) University Press, 1998. Excellent collection of essays. 940.314 N8;2 + 2 copies on reserve
Klein, Fritz ‘Between Compiègne and Versailles: the Germans on the way from a misunderstood defeat to an unwanted peace’, in Boemeke et al., The Treaty of Versailles, pp. 203-20
Baravelli, Andrea La vittoria smarrita: legittimità e rappresentazioni della Grande Guerra nella crisi del sistema liberale (1919-1924). Roma : Carocci, 2006. Stacks PL-456-671
Kramer, Alan ‘The First World War and German Memory’, in Jones, O’Brien and Schmidt- Supprian, eds., Untold War, pp. 385-415
Winter, Jay Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning.The Great War in European Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 940.3 N52;3