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World War I Subject Guide
The nature of the First World War
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Books
Clark, Alan.
Aces high; the war in the air over
the Western Front 1914-18. London,
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973.
940.44 CLA
Austin, Ronald J.
The White Gurkhas : the 2nd
Australian Infantry Brigade at
Krithia, Gallipoli. McCrae, Vic. : R.J.
& S.P. Austin, 1989.
940.425 AUS
Boyack, Nicholas.
Behind the lines : the lives of New Zealand
soldiers in the First World War. Wellington, N.Z. :
Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press, 1989.
940.41293 BOY
Cobby, A.H.
High adventure. Melbourne : Kookaburra Technical
Publications, 1981.
940.44994 COB
Cooper, Bryan.
Tank battles of World War I. London : Allan, 1974.
940.4144 COO
Cruttwell, C.R.M.F.
A history of the Great War 19141918. Oxford : Clarendon, 1936.
940.4 CRU
Department of Arts & Museums
Denton, Kit.
Gallipoli, one long grave. Sydney : Time-Life
Books, Australia in association with John Ferguson,
1986.
940.425 DEN
Dolden, A. Stuart.
Cannon fodder : an infantryman's
life on the western front, 1914-18.
Poole, Dorset : Blandford Press ; New
York, N.Y. : Distributed by Sterling
Pub. Co., 1980.
940.4144 DOL
Fischer, Gerhard.
Enemy aliens : internment and the homefront
experience in Australia, 1914-1920. St. Lucia, Qld.
: University of Queensland Press, 1989.
940.47294 FIS
Frame, T.R. and Swinden, G.J.
First in, last out, the Navy at Gallipoli. Kenthurst,
N.S.W. : Kangaroo Press, 1990.
940.45994 FRA
Fyfe, Albert J.
Understanding the First World War : illusions
and realities. New York : P. Lang, c1988.
940.3 FYF
Haber, L.F.
The poisonous cloud : chemical
warfare in the First World War.
Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon
Press ; New York : Oxford University
Press, 1986.
358.3409 HAB
Hartcup, Guy.
The war of invention : scientific
developments, 1914-18. London ;
Washington : Brassey's Defence
Publishers, 1988.
940.3 HAR
Vincent, C. Paul.
The politics of hunger : the allied
blockade of Germany, 1915-1919.
Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press,
c1985.
940.452 VIN
Laffin, John.
Western Front, 1916-1917 : the price of honour.
North Sydney : Time-life Books Australia in
association with John Ferguson, 1987.
940.42 LAF
Wilson, Trevor.
The myriad faces of war : Britain and the Great
War, 1914-1918. Cambridge [England] : Polity
Press, 1986.
940.341 WIL
Laffin, John.
Western Front 1917-1918 : the cost of victory.
Sydney : Time-Life Books in association with John
Ferguson, 1988.
940.43 LAF
Journal Articles
Mulligan, William.
The origins of the First World War.
Cambridge : Cambridge University
Press, 2010.
940.311 MULL
Official history of Australia in the war of 19141918. Edited by C.E.W. Bean. St. Lucia, Qld. :
University of Queensland Press in association with
the Australian War Memorial, [1981-1989] 12 vols.
940.394 OFF
Robertson, John.
ANZAC and Empire : the tragedy
& glory of Gallipoli. [Richmond,
Vic.] : Hamlyn Australia, 1990.
940.4260994 ROB
Siney, Marion C.
The Allied blockade of Germany, 1914-1916.
Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press [1973, c1957.]
940.452 SIN
Ulanoff, Stanley.
Illustrated history of world War I in the air.
Melbourne : Kookaburra, 1975, c1971.
940.44 ULA
The Upheaval of war : family, work, and welfare
in Europe, 1914-1918. Edited by Richard Wall and
Jay Winter. Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press, 1988.
940.316 UPH
Gold, Susan Dudley.
'War and Negotiated Peace', Arms Control. p.52.
US: Lerner Publishing Group History Reference
Center, 1997.
Marshall Cavendish, C.
'Home Fronts Elsewhere', History Of World War I,
vol. 3, p. 706-717, History Reference Center, 2002.
Townshend, C. & Bourne, J.
'Total War I: The Great War', Oxford History of
Modern War. p.117. UK: Oxford University Press.
History Reference Center, 2000.
The nature and consequences of the post-war treaties, and their
successes and/or failures to 1929.
Carr, E.H.
International relations between the two world
wars, 1919-1939. London : Macmillan, 1947.
327.09 CAR
Fest, Wilfried.
Peace or partition : the Habsburg monarchy and
British policy, 1914-1918. London : G. Prior, 1978.
327.43604 FES
Veblen, Thorstein.
An inquiry into the nature of peace and the terms
of its perpetuation. New York : Kelley, 1964.
330.1 VEB
Schuker, Stephen A.
The end of French predominance in Europe : the
financial crisis of 1924 and the adoption of the
Dawes. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina
Press, c1976.
332.0944 SCH
Bickerton, Ian J.
The illusion of victory : the true
costs of war. Carlton, Vic. :
Melbourne University Press, 2011.
355.027 BICK
Taylor, A.J.P.
How wars end. London : H. Hamilton, 1985.
355.028 TAY
Lentin, A.
Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson and the guilt of
Germany : an essay in the pre-history of
appeasement. Leicester : Leicester University
Press, 1984.
940.3141 LEN
Nowak, Karl Friedrich.
The collapse of central Europe. Westport, Conn.,
Greenwood Press [1970]
940.3141 NOW
Sharp, Alan.
The Versailles settlement :
peacemaking in Paris, 1919. New
York : St. Martin's Press, 1991.
940.3142 SHA
Kent, Bruce.
The spoils of war : the politics,
economics, and diplomacy of
reparations, 1918-1932. Kent.
Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ;
New York : Oxford University Press,
1989.
940.31422 KEN
Deayton, Craig.
Battle scarred : the 47th Battalion
in the first World War. Newport,
N.S.W. : Big Sky Publishing, 2011.
NTC 940.41294 DEAY
Elson, Robert T.
Prelude to war. New York : Time-Life
Books, c1976.
940.5 ELS
Likeman, Robert.
From the tropics to the desert :
German New Guinea, Egypt &
Palestine, 1914-1921. Mccrae, Vic. :
Slouch Hat Publications, 2012.
940.54759 LIKE
Macartney, C.A.
Hungary and her successors; the treaty of
Trianon and its consequences 1919-1937.
London, New York, Oxford University Press 1937.
943.905 MACA
At the eleventh hour : reflections,
hopes and anxieties at the closing
of the Great War, 1918. [Edited by
Hugh Cecil & Peter H. Liddle].
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Leo
Cooper, 1998.
Nhulunbuy Library
Journals
Allerfeldt, K.
'Rejecting the United States of the World: The
consequences of Woodrow Wilson's new
diplomacy on the 1921 Immigration Act'.
European Journal of American Culture. Vol. 26, no.3,
p.145-165, 2007.
Gold, S.
'War and Negotiated Peace', Arms Control. p.52,
1997.
Jackson, P.
'Politics, Culture, and the Security of France: A
Reinterpretation of French Foreign and Security
Policy after the First World War', French Historical
Studies, Vol.34, no.4, p. 577-610, 2011.
Kowalski, K.M.
'After Versailles.' Cobblestone. Vol, 19, no. 3, p. 34,
1998.
Kowalski, K.M.
'Writing the Treaty of Versailles.' Cobblestone.
Vol. 19, no.3, p.20, 1998.
Lentin, A.
'Germany: a New Carthage?' History Today. Vol.
62, no.1, p.20-27, 2012.
www.ntl.nt.gov.au
Mazower, M.
'Two Cheers For Versailles.' History Today. Vol.
49, no.7, p.8, 1999.
Salem, P.
'The Treaty of Versailles is Concluded.' Great
Events. p.190, 1999.
Salem, P.
'The Locarno Conference Promises Security
After World War I.' Great Events. p.241. 1999.
Sharp, A.
‘Dreamland of the Armistice.’ History Today. Vol.
58, no. 11, p.28-34, 2008.
Sharp, A.
'The 'Big Four' – Peacemaking in Paris in 1919.'
History Review. 65, p.14, 2009.
‘Chapter 11 : The Aftermath.' Everyday Life: World
War I. p.82-89, 2006.
'Versailles-Before and After.’ Foreign Affairs.
Vol.2, no. 2, p.193, 1923
Yearwood, P.
‘A Genuine and Energetic League of Nations
Policy.’ Lord Curzon and the New Diplomacy,
1918-1925.' Diplomacy & Statecraft. 21, 2, p.159174, 2010.
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