8. The First World War
Bishop, Alan, and Mark Bostridge, eds. Letters from a Lost Generation: The First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends: Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Thurlow. Boston, Mass.: Northeastern University Press, 1998.(The four men mentioned in the title died in the war. The woman was fiancée to one of the men, sister of another. All were Britishers.) CYP, RVS: D 640 .A2 B75 1999
Boyer, John W., and Jan Goldstein, eds. Twentieth-Century Europe. (Readings in Western Civilization, No. 9.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. RVS: D 411 .T83 1987.
Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer. Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. RGC: DA 566.9 .C5 A5 1989.
Hannah,James, ed. The Great War Reader. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. (Parts Two and Three are primary sources.) NRG, RGC, RVS: D 570 .G74 2000
Horne, Charles F., and Walter T. Austin, eds. Source Records of World War I. 7 vols. Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 1998. The volumes are located at several campus LRCs. Vol. 1, How the Great War Arose , and Vol 2, 1914: The Red Dawning of “Der Tag;” both at RGC. Vol. 3, 1915: Germany’s Year of Triumph, and Vol. 4, 1916: They Shall Not Pass; both at NRG. Vol. 5, 1917: America Roused at Last; CYP. Vol. 6, 1918: The Year of Victory; and Vol. 7, 1918-1919: Reconstruction and the Peace Treaty; both at RVS. D 521 .G695 1998. (Be sure to include the volume number at the end of the call number.) .
Kirchberger, Joe. The First World War: An Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File, 1992. CYP, PIN, RVS: D 521 .K57 1992
Rowe, Josiah P. Letters from a World War I Aviator. Boston: Sinclaire Press, 1986. RGC: D 606 .R69 1986
Scott, James Brown, comp. Official Statements of War Aims and Peace Proposals, December 1916 to November 1918. (Pamphlet Series of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of International Law, No. 31.) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984. NRG: D 505 .O34 1984
Sotheby, Lionel. Lionel Sotheby’s Great War: Diaries and Letters from the Western Front. Edited by Donald C. Richter. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997. RGC: D 640
Lawrence, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph. New York: Anchor Books, 1991. (Lawrence of Arabia’s memoir of his participation in the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Turks during the First World War.) Written in the early 1920s.) NRG, RGC: D 568.4 .L4 1991. (An older edition is also at RGC. Call number ends in 1935 instead of 1991.)
Vansittart, Peter. Voices from the Great War: Contemporary Accounts of the Four Most Cataclysmic Years in Modern History. New York: Avon, 1981. (Excerpts from letters from soldiers and others, music-hall songs, poetry, political speeches, newspaper dispatches, diary entries, etc. Chronological organization. No table of contents. See index.) RGC: PN 6084 .W35 V64 1985