WW1 History Book List
General
Beckett, Ian FW, The Great War (Longman, 2001)
Brown, Malcolm, The Imperial War Museum Book of the First World War (Sidgwick &
Jackson, 1991)
Cruttwell, C R M F, A History of the Great War 1914-18 (Clarendon Press, 1934, reprinted
Granada, 1982)
Falls, Captain Cyril, The First World War (Longmans Green, 1960)
Howard, Michael, The First World War: a very short introduction (OUP, 2007)
Stevenson, David, 1914–1918: the history of the First World War (Allen Lane, 2004)
Strachan, Hew, The First World War: a new illustrated history (Simon & Schuster Ltd,
2003)
Todman, Dan, The Great War: myth and memory (Hambledon, 2006)
Wilson, Trevor, The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War, 1914–1918 (Polity
Press, 1986)
Western Front: Autobiographies and biographies:
Baynes, John, Far From A Donkey: The Life of General Sir Ivor Maxse (Brassey's, 1995)
Beckett, Ian F W, and Simpson, Keith, (Editors) A Nation In Arms (Manchester University
Press, 1985)
Beckett, Ian F W, and Corvi, Stephen J (editors), Haig’s Generals (Pen & Sword, 2006)
Bond, Brian, and Cave, Nigel (editors), Haig: A Reappraisal 70 Years On (Leo Cooper,
1999)
Dancocks, Daniel G, Sir Arthur Currie: A Biography (Methuen, Ontario, 1985)
De Groot, Gerard J, Douglas Haig, 1861-1928 (Unwin Hyman, 1988)
De Groot, Gerard J (editor), The Reverend George S. Duncan at GHQ, 1916-1918 (Military
Miscellany I, Army Records Society, Volume 12, 1997)
Duncan, G.S, Douglas Haig As I Knew Him (George Allen & Unwin, 1966)
Farr, Don, The Silent General: Horne of the First Army, A Biography of Haig’s Trusted
Great War Comrade-in-Arms (Helion, 2007)
Farrar-Hockley, Anthony, Goughie: The Life of General Sir Hubert Gough (Hart-Davis,
MacGibbon, 1975)
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Grundy, Michael, A Fiery Glow in the Darkness: Woodbine Willie [Reverend Geoffrey
Studdert Kennedy] - Padre and Poet (Osborne Books Ltd, 1997)
Guinness, Walter (Edited by Brian Bond and Simon Robbins), Staff Officer: The Diaries of
Walter Guinness (Lord Moyne), 1914-1918 (Leo Cooper, 1987)
Harris, J P, Douglas Haig and the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Holman, Bob, Woodbine Willie [Reverend Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy]: An Unsung Hero of
World War One (Lion Books, 2013)
Holmes, Richard, The Little Field-Marshal: Sir John French (Jonathon Cape, 1981)
Hughes, Matthew, and Seligman, Matthew, Leadership in Conflict, 1914-1918 (Leo
Cooper, 2000)
Hyatt, A M J, General Sir Arthur Currie (University of Toronto Press, 1987)
James, Lawrence, Imperial Warrior: The Life and Times of Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby,
1861-1936 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993)
Jeffery, Keith (editor), The Military Correspondence of Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson,
1918-1922 (Army Records Society, 1985)
Jeffrey, Keith, Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: A Political Soldier (Oxford University Press,
Oxford, 2006)
Jones, Spencer (editor), Stemming the Tide: Officers and Leadership in the British
Expeditionary Force 1914 (Helion, 2013)
Marshall-Cornwall, General Sir James, Haig as Military Commander (Batsford, 1973)
Mead, Gary, The Good Soldier: The Biography of Douglas Haig (Atlantic Books, 2007)
Monash, Lieutenant-General Sir John, The Australian Victories in France in 1918
(Hutchinson, 1920)
Monash, Lieutenant-General Sir John (Edited by F.M. Cutlack), War Letters of General
Monash (Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1935)
Pedersen, P.A., Monash As Military Commander (Melbourne University Press, 1985)
Powell, Geoffrey, Plumer: The Soldier's General (Leo Cooper, 1990)
Prior, Robin, and Wilson, Trevor, Command on the Western Front: The Military Career of
Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1914-18 (Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1992)
Raw, David, ‘It's Only Me’: A Life of The Reverend Theodore Bayley Hardy VC, DSO, MC,
1863-1918 (Frank Peters Publishing, Gatebeck, near Kendal, Cumbria, 1988)
Reid, Walter, Architect of Victory: Douglas Haig (Birlinn Limited, Edinburgh, 2006)
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Robbins Simon, British Generalship on the Western Front, 1914-18: Defeat into Victory
(Frank Cass, 2005)
Robbins Simon (edited), Letters of General Lord Horne, 1914-1918 (Army Record Society,
2009)
Robbins, Simon, British Generalship during the Great War: The Military Career of Sir Henry
Horne (1861-1929) (Ashgate Publishing, 2010)
Serle, A.G., John Monash: A Biography (Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1982)
Sheffield, Gary and Bourne, John (editors), Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters, 19141918 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005)
Sheffield, Gary, The Chief: Douglas Haig and the British Army (Aurum Press, 2011)
Sixsmith, Major-General E K G, Douglas Haig (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976)
Smithers, A.J., The Man Who Disobeyed: Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien and his Enemies (Leo
Cooper, 1970)
Smithers, A.J., Sir John Monash (Leo Cooper, 1973)
Terraine, John, Douglas Haig: The Educated Soldier (Hutchinson, 1963)
Urquhart, Hugh M, Arthur Currie: The Biography of a Great Canadian (J M Dent, Toronto,
1950)
Williams, Jeffrey, Byng of Vimy (Leo Cooper, 1983)
Zabecki, David T, Steel Wind: Colonel Georg Bruchmüller and the Birth of Modern Artillery
(Praeger, Westport, Connecticut, 1994)
Western Front: Campaign and Official Histories:
Ashworth, Tony, Trench Warfare, 1914-1918: The Live and Let Live System (Macmillan,
1980)
Babington, Anthony, For the Sake of Example: Capital Courts Martial, 1914-20 (Leo
Cooper, 1983)
Bidwell, Brigadier [R G] Shelford, Gunners at War: A Tactical Study of the Royal Artillery in
the Twentieth Century (Arms & Armour Press, 1970)
Bidwell, Brigadier [R G] Shelford, and Graham, Dominick, Fire-power: British Army
Weapons and Theories of War 1904-1945 (George Allen & Unwin, 1982)
Bond, Brian (editor), The First World War and British Military History (Clarendon Press,
1991)
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Brown, Malcolm, The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front (Sidgwick &
Jackson, 1993)
Charlton, Peter, Australians on the Somme: Pozieres, 1916 (Leo Cooper, 1986)
Dallas, Gloden, and Gill, Douglas, The Unknown Army: Mutinies in the British Army in
World War I (Verso, 1985)
Dancocks, Daniel G, Spearhead to Victory: Canada and the Great War (Hurtig Publishers,
Edmonton, 1987)
Davies, Frank, and Maddocks, Graham, Bloody Red Tabs: General Officer Casualties of
the Great War, 1914-1918 (Leo Cooper, 1995)
Edmonds, Brigadier-General Sir J E (editor), History of the Great War: Military Operations,
France and Belgium, 1914-1918 (14 Volumes, HMSO and Macmillan, 1922-49)
Farndale, General Sir M, History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: Western Front, 19141918 (The Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich, 1986)
Gardiner, Nikolas, Trial by Fire: Command and the British Expeditionary Force in 1914
(Praeger, 2003)
Griffith, Paddy, Forward into Battle: Fighting Tactics from Waterloo to Vietnam (Antony
Bird, 1981)
Griffith, Paddy, Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The British Army's Art of Attack, 191618 (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1994)
Griffith, Paddy, British Fighting Methods in the Great War (Cass, 1996)
Gudmundsson, Bruce I, Stormtroop Tactics: Innovation in the German Army, 1914-1918
(Praeger, New York, 1989)
Hammond, Bryn, Cambrai 1917: The Myth of the First Great Tank Battle (Weidenfeld &
Nicolson, 2008)
Harris, J P, and Barr, Niall, Amiens to the Armistice: The BEF in the Hundred Days’
Campaign, 8 August - 11 November 1918 (Brassey’s, 1998)
Hayes, Geoffrey, Iarocci, Andrew, and Bechthold, Mike (editors), Vimy Ridge: A Canadian
Reassessment (Wilfred Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2007)
Holmes, Richard, Tommy: the British soldier on the Western Front, 1914–1918 (Harper
Collins, 2004)
Howson, Peter, Muddling Through. The Organisation of British Army Chaplaincy in World
War One (Helion, 2013)
Lloyd, Nick, Loos, 1915 (Tempus, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 2006)
Lupfer, Timothy T, The Dynamics of Doctrine: The Changes in German
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Tactical Doctrine during the First World War (U.S. Army Command and General Staff
College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 1981)
Madigan, Edward, Faith Under Fire: Anglican Army Chaplains and the Great War (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2011)
Middlebrook, Martin, The First Day on the Somme, 1 July 1916 (Allen Lane, 1971)
Middlebrook, Martin, The Kaiser's Battle, 21 March 1918: The First Day of the German
Spring Offensive (Allen Lane, 1978)
Nichols, Jonathon, Cheerful Sacrifice: The Battle of Arras 1917 (Leo Cooper, 1990)
Nicholson, Colonel G W L, Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War,
Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 (Queen's Printer, Ottawa, 1964)
Occleshaw, Michael, Armour Against Fate: British Military Intelligence in the First World
War (Columbus Books, 1989)
Parker, Linda, The Whole Armour of God: Anglican Army Chaplains in the Great War
(Helion, 2013)
Passingham, Ian, Pillars of Fire: The Battle of Messines Ridge, June 1917 (Sutton, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, 1998)
Philpott, William, Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the
Twentieth Century: The Battle, the Myth, the Legacy (Little, Brown, 2009)
Prior, Robin, and Wilson, Trevor, Passchendaele: the untold story (Yale University Press,
1996)
Prior, Robin, and Wilson, Trevor, The Somme (Yale University Press, 2005)
Rawling, Bill, Surviving Trench Warfare: Technology and the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918
(University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1992)
Sanders, Marble, British Artillery on the Western Front in the First World War: ‘The Infantry
cannot do with a gun less’ (Ashgate Publishing, 2013)
Schreiber, Shane B, Shock Army of the British Empire: The Canadian Corps in the Last
100 Days of the Great War (Praeger, Westport, Connecticut, 1997)
Sheffield, Gary, Forgotten Victory: the First World War, myth and realities (Headline Book
Publishing, 2001
Sheffield, Gary, The Somme (Cassell, 2003)
Sheffield, Gary, and Todman, Dan, Command and Control on the Western Front: The
British Army’s Experience, 1914-18 (Spellmount, 2004)
Simkins, Peter, Kitchener's Army: The Raising of the New Armies, 1914-16 (Manchester
University Press, 1988)
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Sixsmith, Major-General E K G, British Generalship in the Twentieth Century (Arms &
Armour Press, 1970)
Snape, Michael, God and the British Soldier: Religion and the British Army in the First and
Second World Wars (Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, 2005)
Snape, Michael, The Royal Army Chaplains' Department, 1796-1953: Clergy under Fire
(Boydell Press, 2007)
Snape, Michael and Madigan, Edward (editors), The Clergy in Khaki: New Perspectives on
British Army Chaplaincy in the First World War (Ashgate Publishing, 2013)
Strong, Paul and Sanders, Marble, Artillery in the Great War (Pen & Sword Military, 2011)
Terraine, John, To Win a War, 1918: The Year of Victory (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1978)
Travers, Tim, The Killing Ground: The British Army, the Western Front and the Emergence
of Modern Warfare, 1900-1918 (Allen & Unwin, 1987)
Travers, Tim, How the War Was Won: Command and Technology in the British Army on
the Western Front, 1917-1918 (Routledge, 1992)
Walker, Jonathon, The Blood Tub: General Gough and the Battle of Bullecourt, 1917
(Spellmount, Staplehurst, Kent, 1998)
Woodward, David R, Lloyd George and the Generals (University of Delaware Press,
Newark, 1983)
Woodward, David R (editor), The Military Correspondence of Field-Marshal Sir William
Robertson, 1915-1918 (Army Records Society, 1989)
Zabecki, David T, The German 1918 Offensives: A Case Study in the Operational Level of
War (Routledge, 2006)
Western Front: Articles, chapters and pamphlets:
Bailey, Jonathon, The First World War and the Birth of the Modern Style of Warfare (The
Occasional, Number 22, Strategic and Combat Studies Institute, 1996)
Hammond, Bryn, General Harper and the failure of 51st (Highland) Division at Cambrai, 20
November 1917 (Imperial War Museum Review No 10, 1995)
Hughes, Matthew, ‘Edmund Allenby’ in Ian F W Beckett and Steven J Corvi (editors),
Haig’s Generals (Pen & Sword Military, 2006)
Robbins, Simon, The Ethos of the British Army during the First World War (Imperial War
Museum Review No 5, 1991)
Robbins, Simon, ‘Henry Horne’ in Ian F W Beckett and Stephen J Corvi (editors), Haig’s
Generals (Pen & Sword, 2006)
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Other Campaigns
Bruce, Anthony, The Last Crusade: The Palestine Campaign in the First World War (John
Murray, 2002)
Wakefield, Alan and Moody, Simon (editors), Under the Devil's Eye: Britain's Forgotten
Army at Salonika 1915-1918 (The History Press, 2004)
Woodward, David R, Hell in the Holy Land: World War I in the Middle East (University
Press of Kentucky, 2006)
Simon Robbins
Imperial War Museums
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