Site Information - References, Sources and Further Reading
Many sources have been used during the preparation of articles for this website. Many of these have been listed below.
These also form the basis for further reading for those interested in expanding their own knowledge of the war: the many personal memoirs which sprang out of the conflict are especially recommended.
Arthur Banks, A Military Atlas of the First World War, Leo Cooper 2001
Alexander Barrie, War Underground: The Tunnellers of the Great War, Tom Donovan 1988
Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin 1982
J.M. Bourne, Who's Who in World War One, Routledge 2001
Ross Burns, The World War I Album, Saturn Books 1991
Ginger Byrne, I Survived Didn't I?, Leo Cooper 1993
Canadian War Poster Collection, McGill University Libraries, Montreal, Quebec, https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/warposters/ (Canadian propaganda poster collection)
Nigel Cave, Battleground Europe: Hill 60, Leo Cooper 1998
Nigel Cave, Battleground Europe: Sanctuary Wood & Hooge, Leo Cooper 1995
Guy Chapman, A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments of Autobiography, Ivor Nicholson & Watson 1933
Norman D. Cliff, To Hell and Back with the Guards, Merlin Books 1988
Rose E.B. Coombs, Before Endeavours Fade, After the Battle 1994
George Coppard, With a Machine Gun to Cambrai, Cassell 1999
W.P. Crozier, A Brass Hat in No Man's Land, Jonathan Cape 1930
J.C. Dunn, The War the Infantry Knew 1914-1919, Abacus 1987
Charles Edmonds, A Subaltern's War, Anthony Mott 1984
Martin Matrix Evans, The Battles of the Somme, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1996
Simon Forty (ed.), World War I: A Visual Encyclopedia, GE 2002
Robert Giddings, The War Poets: The Lives and Writings of the 1914-18 War Poets, Bloomsbury 1988
Martin Gilbert, First World War,
HarperCollins 1994
Gerald Gliddon, The Battle of the Somme:
A Topographical History, Sutton Publishing 1987
Judith S. Graham, "Out Here at the
Front": The World War I Letters of Nora Saltonstall, Boston:
Northeastern University Press, 2004
Robert Graves, Goodbye to all That,
Jonathan Cape 1929
Captain W. Grant Grieve & Bernard Newman,
Tunnellers: The Story of the Tunnelling Companies, Royal Engineers,
During the World War, Herbert Jenkins 1936
Philip J. Haythornthwaite, The World War
One Source Book, Brockhampton Press 1992
Major H Hesketh-Prichard, Sniping in
France, Leo Cooper 1994
Captain F.C. Hitchcock, Stand To: A
Diary of the Trenches 1915-1918, Naval & Military Press 1936
Major & Mrs Holt, Battlefield Guide to
Ypres Salient, Leo Cooper 1999
Major & Mrs Holt, Battlefield Guide to
the Somme, Leo Cooper 2000
Charles F. Horne (ed.), Source Records
of the Great War (Volumes 1 to 7), National Alumni 1923
Ernst Junger, The Storm of Steel,
Chatto & Windus 1929
John Keegan, The First World War,
Hutchinson 1998
John Laffin, Panorama of the Western
Front, Sutton Publishing 1993
John Laffin, A Western Front Companion
1914-1918, Sutton Publishing 1994
John Laffin, The Western Front
Illustrated, Sutton Publishing 1991
Cecil Lewis, Sagittarius Rising,
Peter Davies 1936
Stephen Longstreet, The Canvas Falcons,
Leo Cooper 1995
Lyn Macdonald, Somme, Michael Joseph
1983
Geoffrey Malins, How I Filmed the War,
Imperial War Museum/Battery Press 1993
Frederick Manning, The Middle Parts of
Fortune, Plume 1979
Mark VII, A Subaltern on the Somme,
Imperial War Museum/Battery Press 1996
Martin & Mary Middlebrook, The Somme
Battlefields, Viking 1991
Peter Oldham, Battleground Europe:
Messines Ridge, Leo Cooper 1998
Stephen O'Shea, Back to the Front: An
Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I, Walker and
Company 1996
Ian Passingham, Pillars of Fire: The
Battle of Messine Ridge June 1917, Sutton Publishing 1998
Stephen Pope & Elizabeth-Anne Wheal,
Macmillan Dictionary of the First World War, Macmillan 1995
I.L. Read, Of Those We Loved,
Pentland Press 1994
Paul Reed, Battleground Europe: Walking
the Salient, Leo Cooper 1999
Frank Richards, Old Soldiers Never Die,
London 1993
Rifleman, Four Years on the Western
Front, Odhams Press 1922
Anne Roze, Fields of Memory: A Testimony
to the Great War, Seven Dials 2000
Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a
Fox-hunting Man, Faber & Gwyer 1928
Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an
Infantry Officer, Faber & Faber 1930
Siegfried Sassoon, Sherston's Progress,
Faber & Faber 1936
Peter Simkins, Chronicles of the Great
War: The Western Front 1914-1918, Bramley Books 1997
Herbert Sulzbach, With the German Guns:
Four Years on the Western Front, Leo Cooper 1998
R.B. Talbot Kelly, A Subaltern's
Odyssey: A Memoir of the Great War 1915-1917, William Kimber 1980
Spencer C. Tucker, Who's Who in
Twentieth-Century Warfare, Routledge 2001
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