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World War I, 1914-1918 -- Personal Narratives | |
The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is the personal narratives of World War I. |
· Lengel, Edward G. World War I Memories: An Annotated Bibliography of Personal Accounts Published in English Since 1919. Scarecrow Press, 2004.
· Blunden, Edmund Blunden. Undertones of War. Richard Cobden-Sanderson, 1928.
· Carrington, Charles. A Subaltern's War. Minton, Balch, 1930.
· Junger, Ernst. Storm of Steel. Translated from German. Chatto and Windus, 1929.
· Lucy, John F. There's a Devil in the Drum. Faber and Faber, 1938.
· Sassoon, Siegfried. The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston. Faber and Faber, 1937.
· World War I Document Archive http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page
-- AMERICAN --
· Bowerman, Jr., Guy Emerson. The Compensations of War: The Diary of an Ambulance Driver during the Great War (1983).
· Brannen, Carl Andrew. Over There: A Marine in the Great War (1996).
· Campbell, Jack. Jack Campbell's War Diary, 1918-1919 (1982).
· Genet, Edmond Charles Clinton. An American for Lafayette: The Diaries of E.C.C. Genet, Lafayette Escadrille (1981).
· Greeman, Edward. Grandpa's War: The French Adventures of a World War I Ambulance Driver (1992).
· Lawrence, Joseph Douglas. Fighting Soldier: The AEF in 1918 (1985).
· Rickenbacker, Eddie. Fighting the Flying Circus (1967).
· Wilder, Amos. Armageddon Revisited: A World War I Journal (1994).
-- AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND --
· Bean, C.E.W. Gallipoli Correspondent: The Frontline Diary of C.E.W. Bean (1983).
· Lawrence, Cyril. The Gallipoli Diary of Sergeant Lawrence (1981).
· Lawrence, Cyril. Sergeant Lawrence Goes to France (1987).
· Nott, Lewis Windermere. Somewhere in France: The Collected Letters of Lewis Windermere Nott, January-December 1916 (1996).
-- AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN --
· Ackermann, Wolfgang. And We Are Civilized. (1936).
· Imrey, Ferenc. Through Blood and Ice (1930).
-- ENGLISH AND WELSH --
· Baring, Maurice. Flying Corps Headquarters, 1914-1918 (1920).
· Bell, Henry Douglas. A Soldier's Diary of the Great War (1929).
· Brittain, Vera. Testament of Youth (1933).
· Bruckshaw, Horace. The Diaries of Private Horace Bruckshaw, 1915-1916, edited by Martin Middlebrook (1979).
· Chapman, Guy. A Passionate Prodigality (1933).
· Corbett, Elsie. Red Cross in Serbia, 1915-1919: A Personal Diary of Experiences (1964).
· Dunham, Frank. The Long Carry: The Journal of Stretcher Bearer Frank Dunham, 1916-18 (1970).
· Dunn, James Churchill. The War the Infantry Knew, 1914-1919: A Chronicle of Service in France and Belgium with the Second Battalion, His Majesty's Twenty-third Foot, the Royal Welch Fusiliers; Founded on Personal Records, Recollections and Reflections (1938).
· Farmborough, Florence. Nurse at the Russian Front (1974).
· Gibbs, A. Hamilton. Gun Fodder: The Diary of Four Years of War (1919).
· Gibbs, Philip. Now it Can Be Told (1920).
· Glubb, John. Into Battle: A Soldier's Diary of the Great War (1978).
· Graves, Robert. Good-bye to All That (1929).
· Griffith, Wyn. Up to Mametz (1931).
· Jerrold, Douglas. The Lie About the War (1930).
· Kelly, R.B. Talbot. A Subaltern's Odyssey: Memoirs of the Great War, 1915-1917 (1980).
· Knox, Alfred William Fortescue. With the Russian Army, 1914-1917 (1971).
· Lawrence, T.E. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a Triumph (1926).
· Liddell Hart, Basil Henry. The Memoirs of Captain Liddell Hart (1965)
· Macmillan, Harold. Winds of Change, 1914-1939 (1966).
· Mottram, R.H. Through the Menin Gate (1932).
· Needham, E.J. The First Three Months: The Impressions of an Amateur Infantry Subaltern (1936).
· Osburn, Arthur. Unwilling Passenger (1932).
· Plowman, Max (pseud. Mark VII). A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916 (1928).
· Vaughan, Edwin Campion. Some Desperate Glory: The World War I Diary of a British Officer, 1917 (1988).
· Williamson, Henry. The Wet Flanders Plain (1929).
-- FRENCH --
· Bloch, Marc. Memoirs of War, 1914-15 (1980).
· Desagneaux, Henri. A French Soldier's War Diary, 1914-1918 (1975).
· Lécluse, Henri de. Comrades-in-arms: The World War I memoir of Captain Henri de Lécluse, comte de Trévoëdal (1998).
-- GERMAN --
· Binding, Rudolf. A Fatalist at War (1929).
· Bloem, Walter. The Advance from Mons, 1914 (1930).
· Carossa, Hans. A Roumanian Diary (1930).
· Carossa, Hans. Copse 125 (1930).
· Rommel, Erwin. Infantry Attacks (1937).
· Sulzbach, Herbert. With the German Guns: Four Years on the Western Front (1981).
-- IRISH (SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN) --
· Burgoyne, Gerald Achilles. The Burgoyne Diaries (1985).
· Crozier, F.P. A Brass Hat in No Man's Land (1930).
· Hitchcock, F.C. Stand To! A Diary of the Trenches, 1915-18(1937).
-- ITALIAN --
· Lusso, Emilio. Sardinian Brigade (1970).
-- RUSSIAN --
· Boleslavsky, Richard. Way of the Lancer (1932).
· Botchkareva, Maria. Yashka: My Life as Peasant, Officer and Exile (1918).
-- SCOTTISH --
· Fraser, William. In Good Company: The First World War Letters and Diaries of William Fraser (1990).
· Hay, Ian. The First Hundred Thousand (1915).
· MacKenzie, Compton. Gallipoli Memories (1930).
-- TURKISH --
· Ölçen, Mehmet Arif. Vetluga Memoir: A Turkish Prisoner of War in Russia, 1916-18 (1995).
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