World War I Bibliography
There are thousands of books and articles about the Great War. The books listed below may be useful for beginning your research. The books can be found in the SMU, TESC and/or WSL libraries, others can be ordered through SUMMIT.
Title Author-Library
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Remarque—SMU, TESC
Angel of Mons, The David Clarke
Armageddon Revisited Amos N. Wilder
Battle of the Somme Gerald Glidden
Battle Tactics of the Western Front Paddy Griffith
Bitter Truth, A Richard Cork-TESC
Castle of Steel Robert K. Massie
Company K (N) William March
Concise History of World War 1, A Esposito, Vincent, ed.
Dare Call It Treason Edward Watt-WSL
Death’s Men: Soldiers of the Great War Denis Winter
Donkeys, The Alan Clark-WSL
Doughboys, The Laurence Stallings—TESC, WSL
Dreadnough Robert K. Massie
Experience of WWI, The J. M. Winter—SMU, WSL
Face of Battle, The John Keegan-WSL, TESC
First Day at the Somme Martin Middlebrook
First World War, The John Keegan
First World War as Political Tragedy, The Stevenson, David
For the Sake of Example: Capital Court Martial Anthony Babington
Gallipoli Robert Rhodes James—SMU
German High Command at War Robert Asprey—TESC
Good Soldier Svejk, The Jaroslav Hasek-TESC
Goodbye to all That, Robert Graves--SMU
Great Departure, The Daniel M. Smith
Great War, The Cyril Falls
Great War: 1914-1918, The Marc Ferro
Great War: An Imperial History John H. Morrow, Jr.
Great War in Africa, The Byron Farwell
Great War and Modern Memory, The Paul Fussell—SMU
Great War and the British People J.M. Winters – TESC
Great War Reader James Hannah
Great War at Sea, The 1914-1918 Richard Hough-WSL
Guns of August, The Barbara Tuchman—SMU
How the First World War Began Edmond McCullough
Illusion of Victory, The Thomas Fleming
In Flanders Fields Leon Wolff—SMU, TESC
Imperial Germany and the Great War: 1914-18 Roger Chickering
Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice John R. Schindler.
Johnny Got his Gun Dalton Trumbo
Jutland Costello and Hughes-WSL
Jutland: 1916 Nigel Steel, et. al.
Knights of the Air Ezra Bowen—WSL
Laws of War, The Ed. Howard, et all—TESC
Lusitania, The Patrick Osullivan
Lusitania Disaster, The Bailey and Ryan-WSL, TESC
Memoirs of George Sherston, The Siegfried Sassoon
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer Siegfried Sassoon-TESC
Naval Battles of the First World War Geoffrey Bennett
Origins of the First World War James Joll—TESC,WSL
Origins of the World War, 2 volumes Sidney B. Fay-SMU
Over There Byron Farwell
Over There Frank Friedel—TESC, WSL
Paris 1919 Margaret MacMillan
Passchendaele: The Untold Story Robin Prior & Trevor Wilson
Paths of Glory Humphrey Cobb-SMU
Peace to End All Peace David Fromkin-WSL, TESC
Penguin Poetry of the First World War John Silkin--SMU
Price of Glory, The Alistair Horne—TESC
Real War, The 1914-1918 Hart Liddell-WSL
Regeneration, Eye in the Door and the Ghost
Road, a trilogy about World War 1 Pat Barker
Rites of Spring Modris Eksteins—SMU, WSL
Road to Verdun Ian Ousby
Roses of No Mans Land Lyn MacDonald
Siegfried Sassoon Diaries ed. Rupert Hart-Davis, TESC, WSL
Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning J. M. Winter - SMU, TESC
Silent Night Stanley Weintraub
Soldier’s Notebook, A 1914-1918 A. A. Brusilov-WSL
Somme, The G. D. Sheffield
Somme, The Lyn MacDonald-WSL
Somme, The Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson
Storm in Flanders Winston Groom
Storms of Steel Ernst Junger-WSL
Tannenberg Geoffrey Evans-WSL
Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain—WSL, TESC
Three Soldiers John dos Passos
Tolkien and the Great War John Garth
Under Fire-The Story of a Squad Henri Barbusse-TESC
Understanding the Great War Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau
Undertones of War Edmunc Bluinden
Voices from the Great War Peter Vansittart—TESC
War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon ed. Rupert Hart-Davis - TESC, WSL
With the Armies of the Tsar Florence Farmborough
World Crisis, The Winston Churchill—WSL
Showing posts with label The Great War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Great War. Show all posts
01 February 2012
17 January 2012
Literature of the Great War Spring 2012
ENG373/HST395 20th Century Fiction
Mead Spring 2012
January
18 W Introduction and a really quick trip through No Man’s Land
20 F The Great War and Modern Memory, Preface & Chapter 1
23 M TGWAMM, Chapter 2
25 W TGWAMM, Chapter 3
27 F TGWAMM, Chapter 4
30 M TGWAMM, Chapter 5
February
1 W TGWAMM, Chapter 6
3 F TGWAMM, Chapter 7
6 M TGWAMM, Chapter 8
8 W TGWAMM, Chapter 9
10 F Prof off-Campus. NO CLASS
13 M Student’s Choice. Brief paper on one short story or one poem.
15 W All Quiet on the Western Front,
17 M All Quiet on the Western Front
20 M NO CLASS
22 W All Quiet on the Western Front
24 F Short Stories
27 M Short Stories
29 W Short Stories
March
2 F Poetry
5 M Poetry
7 W Poetry
9 F Return of the Soldier
12 M Return of the Soldier
14 W Return of the Soldier
16 F Catch-up Day
19 M NO CLASS
21 W NO CLASS
23 F NO CLASS
26 M Paper #2 Due. Work with one poem or story and either novel.
28 W Journey’s End
30 F Journey’s End
April
2 M Journey’s End
4 W How does genre matter?
6 F NO CLASS
9 M NO CLASS
11 W Good-bye To All That
13 F Good-bye To All That
16 M Good-bye To All That
18 W Good-bye To All That
20 F Thesis Workshop
23 M Library Day
25 W Conferences
27 F Edit Session
30 M Conferences
May
2 W 15-page research paper due. Evaluations
Class Policies
Please see my blog http://stephenxmead.blogspot.com/ for policies regarding attendance, plagiarism, process writing, and useful links.
Also, be aware that there are useful, legitimate sites that I strongly encourage you to pursue for a better understanding of the issues, events, and implications of The Great War. An excellent place to start is the PBS site: www.pbs.org/greatwar. Be sure to check out the menu sitting at the bottom of the pages for fun things like maps. The site contains good bibliographical suggestions for student who might have to write, I don’t know, a fifteen-page research paper on the subject. There is also Trenches on the Web at http://www.worldwar1.com/. This site is not exactly scholarly; it is more of the “Great War Buff” site, but it is filled with great images, songs, papers, etc. You might also want to check out http://www.firstworldwar.com/; http://www.worldwar-1.net/; http://www.worldwar1.nl/; http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/; http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/; http://www.richthofen.com/ww1sum/ is worth looking at if only for the flash animated maps. All this without having to go to Wikipedia once.
Course goals and structure: Literature of the Great War is cross-listed as HST395, ENG373, and IDS301. Originally, this was to have been a team-taught class with myself and a professor in the social sciences. Due to the enrollment numbers, we were unable to offer the class as team-taught. I have therefore pruned the purely historical works and added literature relevant to the Great War. Perhaps most significantly, I have made Paul Fussell’s monumental work, The Great War and Modern Memory, central to the class. We will work through this text first, for it will become the lens through which we shall read and interpret the novels, poems, short stories, and plays to follow. The main idea, then, is to study not so much the historical events as how those events became understood in the public memory by their appearances in literature.
Needless to say, this is an unusual class and something of an experiment. The syllabus is subject to change. There are, however, some things you can count on: bring expected to speak in class every day unprompted; having read the material thoroughly before class; it being assumed that you are taking serious, cogent notes of the readings, class discussions, and out-of-class conversations about the course work. You are also expected to be familiar with first-year-level writing standards (thesis, secondary sources, research, paragraphing, works cited, methodology, etc.) At present, there are two short papers and one research paper required, but we may as a group decide to change the assignments, especially if students have creative ideas that are challenging and innovative.
Required Texts:
The Great War and Modern Memory, The Illustrated Edition. Paul Fussell. Sterling, 2009
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque. Ballentine 1982.
The Penguin Book of First World War Stories, 2007
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, 2006
The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West. Broadview, 2010
Journey’s End, R.C. Sherriff. Penguin 2000.
Good-bye To All That, Robert Graves. Anchor Books, 1998.
Recommended Text:
The First World War, Hew Strachan. Penguin, 2005.
Office Hours: Old Main 312B tel. 4336
smead@stmartin.edu You may leave me a voice or electronic message, but I cannot promise to respond before the next class meeting.
TR 9:30-11:00 And By Appointment
Students with special needs must declare them as soon as possible and the instructor will make all reasonable accommodations.
Grades: A= distinguished; B= clearly above average; C= acceptable, in the middle of the pack; D= passing, with reservations. F= not acceptable.
Paper #1 20%
Paper #2 20%
Participation 20%
Research Paper 40%
Mead Spring 2012
January
18 W Introduction and a really quick trip through No Man’s Land
20 F The Great War and Modern Memory, Preface & Chapter 1
23 M TGWAMM, Chapter 2
25 W TGWAMM, Chapter 3
27 F TGWAMM, Chapter 4
30 M TGWAMM, Chapter 5
February
1 W TGWAMM, Chapter 6
3 F TGWAMM, Chapter 7
6 M TGWAMM, Chapter 8
8 W TGWAMM, Chapter 9
10 F Prof off-Campus. NO CLASS
13 M Student’s Choice. Brief paper on one short story or one poem.
15 W All Quiet on the Western Front,
17 M All Quiet on the Western Front
20 M NO CLASS
22 W All Quiet on the Western Front
24 F Short Stories
27 M Short Stories
29 W Short Stories
March
2 F Poetry
5 M Poetry
7 W Poetry
9 F Return of the Soldier
12 M Return of the Soldier
14 W Return of the Soldier
16 F Catch-up Day
19 M NO CLASS
21 W NO CLASS
23 F NO CLASS
26 M Paper #2 Due. Work with one poem or story and either novel.
28 W Journey’s End
30 F Journey’s End
April
2 M Journey’s End
4 W How does genre matter?
6 F NO CLASS
9 M NO CLASS
11 W Good-bye To All That
13 F Good-bye To All That
16 M Good-bye To All That
18 W Good-bye To All That
20 F Thesis Workshop
23 M Library Day
25 W Conferences
27 F Edit Session
30 M Conferences
May
2 W 15-page research paper due. Evaluations
Class Policies
Please see my blog http://stephenxmead.blogspot.com/ for policies regarding attendance, plagiarism, process writing, and useful links.
Also, be aware that there are useful, legitimate sites that I strongly encourage you to pursue for a better understanding of the issues, events, and implications of The Great War. An excellent place to start is the PBS site: www.pbs.org/greatwar. Be sure to check out the menu sitting at the bottom of the pages for fun things like maps. The site contains good bibliographical suggestions for student who might have to write, I don’t know, a fifteen-page research paper on the subject. There is also Trenches on the Web at http://www.worldwar1.com/. This site is not exactly scholarly; it is more of the “Great War Buff” site, but it is filled with great images, songs, papers, etc. You might also want to check out http://www.firstworldwar.com/; http://www.worldwar-1.net/; http://www.worldwar1.nl/; http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/; http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/; http://www.richthofen.com/ww1sum/ is worth looking at if only for the flash animated maps. All this without having to go to Wikipedia once.
Course goals and structure: Literature of the Great War is cross-listed as HST395, ENG373, and IDS301. Originally, this was to have been a team-taught class with myself and a professor in the social sciences. Due to the enrollment numbers, we were unable to offer the class as team-taught. I have therefore pruned the purely historical works and added literature relevant to the Great War. Perhaps most significantly, I have made Paul Fussell’s monumental work, The Great War and Modern Memory, central to the class. We will work through this text first, for it will become the lens through which we shall read and interpret the novels, poems, short stories, and plays to follow. The main idea, then, is to study not so much the historical events as how those events became understood in the public memory by their appearances in literature.
Needless to say, this is an unusual class and something of an experiment. The syllabus is subject to change. There are, however, some things you can count on: bring expected to speak in class every day unprompted; having read the material thoroughly before class; it being assumed that you are taking serious, cogent notes of the readings, class discussions, and out-of-class conversations about the course work. You are also expected to be familiar with first-year-level writing standards (thesis, secondary sources, research, paragraphing, works cited, methodology, etc.) At present, there are two short papers and one research paper required, but we may as a group decide to change the assignments, especially if students have creative ideas that are challenging and innovative.
Required Texts:
The Great War and Modern Memory, The Illustrated Edition. Paul Fussell. Sterling, 2009
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque. Ballentine 1982.
The Penguin Book of First World War Stories, 2007
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, 2006
The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West. Broadview, 2010
Journey’s End, R.C. Sherriff. Penguin 2000.
Good-bye To All That, Robert Graves. Anchor Books, 1998.
Recommended Text:
The First World War, Hew Strachan. Penguin, 2005.
Office Hours: Old Main 312B tel. 4336
smead@stmartin.edu You may leave me a voice or electronic message, but I cannot promise to respond before the next class meeting.
TR 9:30-11:00 And By Appointment
Students with special needs must declare them as soon as possible and the instructor will make all reasonable accommodations.
Grades: A= distinguished; B= clearly above average; C= acceptable, in the middle of the pack; D= passing, with reservations. F= not acceptable.
Paper #1 20%
Paper #2 20%
Participation 20%
Research Paper 40%
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