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This page is for co-ordinating my article work and other work on the topic of the First World War (and some Second World War topics as well).

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Articles created
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Templates (navboxes) created
Other resources
Library

Range of books and other publications (including tourist guides and museum books), can be broadly divided into nine groups. Examples are given below. This is not a comprehensive list, other books may also be available for consultation, please ask.

  • Overview histories
    • The Great War (Ian F. W. Beckett, 2007, second edition)
  • Battles and campaigns
    • The Marne, 1914 (Holger H. Herwig, 2009)
    • 1918 - A Very British Victory (Peter Hart, 2008)
    • Somme (Martin Gilbert, 2006)
    • Passchendaele (Nigel Steel and Peter Hart, 2000)
    • Forgotten Battlefronts of the First World War (Marix Evans, [2003], 2009)
  • Biographical
    • The Chief - Douglas Haig and the British Army (Gary Sheffield, 2011)
    • Haig's Generals (2006)
    • The Last Fighting Tommy (2007)
    • Hero of the Fleet (2009)
    • The Last of the Last (2010)
  • WWI in literature
    • British and French Writers of the First World War (Frank Field, 1991)
    • The Great War and Modern Memory (Paul Fussell, 2000 edition)
    • Anthem for Doomed Youth (Jon Stallworthy, 2005 edition)
    • Poets of the Great War (Tonie and Valmai Holt, 1999 edition)
    • A Corner of a Foreign Field - The Illustrated Poetry of the First World War (selected by Fiona Waters)
  • Battlefield tourism guides
    • The Middlebrook Guide to the Somme Battlefields
    • The Western Front - North and The Western Front - South (Holt's Concise Illustrated Battlefield Guide)
    • Before Endeavours Fade - A Guide to the Battlefields of the First World War
  • Memorials and cemeteries
    • The Immortal Heritage
    • Remembered - The History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
    • Courage Remembered
    • The Unending Vigil
    • Empires of the Dead
  • National narratives
    • Springboks on the Somme
    • Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment
    • The Fighting Newfoundlander
    • Australians in Britain - Two World Wars
    • Gallipoli Revisited - In the Footsteps of Charles Bean and the Australian Historical Mission
    • All the Kaiser's Men - The Life and Death of the German Soldier on the Western Front
  • Commemoration and memory
    • Race, Empire and First World War Writing (Das)
    • Altered Memories of the Great War (Sheftall)
    • The Great War in History (Winter and Prost)
    • The Great War - Myth and Memory (Todman)
    • The Great War and Medieval Memory (Goebel)
    • Commemorations - The Politics of National Identity (Gillis)
    • Battlefield Tourism (Lloyd)
    • Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning (Winter)
  • Other
    • World War I - Five Continents in Flanders
    • The Battle Book of Ypres
    • The Beauty and the Sorrow
    • The First World War in 100 Objects
    • The Quick and the Dead (van Emden)
    • Tommy's Ark (van Emden)
    • A Peace to End All Peace (Fromkin)
    • The Long Shadow (Reynolds)
    • Catastrophe (Hastings)
    • The Sleepwalkers (Clark)
Reviews
Centenary sources
Other sources
Images
Other
  • DONE - Contact Wernervc (Dutch Wikipedia), and see also the photo collection. Possible photo requests?
  • Interesting memorial plaque
  • Yokohama War Cemetery has at least three Crosses of Sacrifice, plus a Memorial Cross in the post-war section and an obelisk in the Indian section.
  • Phaleron War Cemetery (Athens) has a shelter inscription: "We who to clothe Hellas in freedom fought, Lie here at rest in praise that fadeth not" (image).
  • Rome War Cemetery has a similar shelter inscription: "These soldiers of the British Commonwealth gave their lives to preserve liberty and by their sacrifice restored the freedom of Italy and the ancient friendship of the Italian and British peoples. 1939-1945" (image). The Latin inscription is: "Nos Britannico nomini adscripti communis salutis usque ad mortem vindices ut Italiae libertas et ambobus populis vetus amicitia redintegrata sit sepulti iacemus." ([10]).
  • Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, has a memorial seat with a Welsh inscription and quote from a poem by Hedd Wyn.
  • The church at Mametz has a memorial wall plaque to the 38th (Welsh) Division, with trilingual inscriptions in English, French and Welsh, including the phrase "committed to the pious care of the sons of France in whose land they repose in everlasting alliance".
  • Excellent overview of memorials to the missing is here: [11].
  • Delville Memorial Wall
  • Names on memorial panels: 1, 2, 3, 4.
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Directory
Other articles

Articles that have caught my interest:

Television

Many, many BBC programmes.

National Archives
Bell-ringers
IWM Bawtree collection
Fascinating collection (hundreds of photos) of early graves registration unit and IWGC work. Many photos showing the variety of original grave markers used, and some close-up shots of individual grave markers.
Stained glass WWI memorials
  • Could easily be drawn into this: Busbridge (among other places).
Great War Epitaphs
Memorial tours
Iraq problems
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