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Recent Additions to Our WWI Collection

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

The rush of World War One books published in this centennial year of the Great War’s outbreak have kept our Librarians busy. We have added approximately one hundred WWI-related books to the collection since 2013—books that expand upon a subject collection that was being built a century ago as battles were still raging in Europe. To help our interested members keep up, we have compiled a list of these books below. While most books were published over the last year or so, we have included a handful of older titles new to the Library. The nonfiction list includes diaries, letters, histories, art, literary criticism, photography, memoirs, and more. We have also included a list of fiction titles, recent and vintage, in which the war figures prominently. For a list of Library staff WWI-related book picks, see this installment of our Staff Book Recommendations. 

The Library commemorated the centenary with an ongoing exhibition in the Peluso Family Exhibition Gallery, From the Western Front and Beyond: The Writings of World War One. If you have not seen the exhibition, please take a look during your next visit to the Library. It is open to the general public through December 31, 2014. A catalog, with essays by Adam Kirsch, Caroline Alexander, Head Librarian Mark Bartlett, and curator Harriet Shapiro, is available for sale or for circulation. You can read about the exhibit in this Wall Street Journal piece

NONFICTION & POETRY

Adie, Kate | Fighting on the Home Front: the legacy of women in World War One 

Anderson, Nels | Nels Anderson's World War I diary (edited by Allan Kent Powell; foreword by Charles S. Peterson) 

Antiwar dissent & peace activism in World War I America: a documentary history (Scott H. Bennett & Charles Howlett, eds.)

Appleton, Edith | A nurse at the front: the Great War diaries of Sister Edith Appleton (edited by Ruth Cowen) 

Art from the First World War 

Arthur, Max | The faces of World War I (compiled from the photographic archives of the Imperial War Museum and contemporary accounts) 

Asquith, Margot | Margot Asquith's Great War diary 1914-1916: the view from Downing Street (selected and edited by Michael and Elanor Brock; with the assistance of Mark Pottle)

Barthas, Louis | Poilu: the World War I notebooks of corporal Louis Barthas 1914-1918 (translated by Edward M. Strauss) 

Baxter, John | Paris at the end of the world: the City of Light during the Great War, 1914-1918

Beckett, I. F. W.  | The making of the First World War 

Blum, Howard | Dark invasion: 1915: Germany's secret war and the hunt for the first terrorist cell in America 

Blunden, Edmund Fall in Ghosts: Selected War Prose

Bostridge, Mark | The fateful year: England 1914 

Brown, Frederick | The embrace of unreason: France, 1914-1940

Butcher, Tim | The trigger: hunting the assassin who brought the world to war 

The Cambridge companion to the poetry of the First World War (edited by Santanu Das)

The Cambridge History of the First World War (edited by Jay Winter) - 3 volumes

Clark, Christopher M. | The sleepwalkers: how Europe went to war in 1914

Cuthbertson, Guy | Wilfred Owen 

David, Saul | 100 days to victory: how the Great War was fought and won 

Davidson, Andrew A Doctor in the Great War

De Groot, Gerard J. | Blighty: British society in the era of the Great War 

Egremont, Max | Some desperate glory: the First World War the poets knew 

Fletcher, Anthony | Life, death and growing up on the western front

From the Western Front and beyond: the writings of World War One (The New York Society Library; curator, Harriet Shapiro)

Hadley, Frédérick | Posters of the Great War 

Hansen, Arlen J. | Gentlemen volunteers: the story of the American ambulance drivers in the First World War (foreword by George Plimpton) 

Hart, Peter | The great war: a combat history of the First World War

Hastings, Max | Catastrophe 1914: Europe goes to war

Hull, Isabel | A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and making international law during the Great War 

Hynes, Samuel The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War 

Imperial War Museum | The Great War: a photographic narrative 

Jankowski, Paul | Verdun: the longest battle of the Great War

Jenkins, Philip | The great and holy war: how World War I became a religious crusade

King, Greg | The assassination of the archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the romance that changed the world   

King, Melanie | Secrets in a dead fish: the spying game in the First World War 

Lamin, Harry | Letters from the trenches: a soldier of the Great War (annotated and edited by Bill Lamin) 

Lloyd, Nick | Hundred days: the campaign that ended World War I  

Love letters of the Great War (edited by Mandy Kirkby)

Lunn, Joe | Memoirs of the maelstrom: a Senegalese oral history of the First World War  

Lussu, Emilio | A soldier on the southern front: the classic Italian memoir of World War I (translated from the Italian by Gregory Conti) 

MacMillan, Margaret | The war that ended peace: the road to 1914 

Mayhew, E. R.  | Wounded: from battlefield to Blighty, 1914-1918 

McAuliffe, Mary Sperling | Twilight of the Belle Epoque: the Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and their friends through the Great War 

McMeekin, Sean | July 1914: countdown to war  

Meyer, Jessica | Men of war: masculinity and the First World War in Britain 

Milton, Giles | Paradise lost: Smyrna 1922: the destruction of Islam's city of tolerance 

Neiberg, Michael S. | Dance of the furies: Europe and the outbreak of World War I  

Nelson, James Carl | Five lieutenants: the heartbreaking story of five Harvard men who led America to victory in World War I  

No man's land: writings from a world at war (chosen and introduced by Pete Ayrton) 

Nurses at the front: writing the wounds of the Great War (edited by Margaret R. Higonnet) 

Owen, David The Hidden Perspective: the Military Conversations, 1906-1914

Paxman, Jeremy | Great Britain's Great War  

Philpott, William James | War of attrition: fighting the First World War 

Poetry of the First World War: an anthology (edited by Tim Kendall) 

Reynolds, David | The long shadow: the great war and the twentieth century 

Rubin, Richard | The last of the doughboys: the forgotten generation and their forgotten world war   

Saenz, Jose De La Luz | The World War I Diary 

Sammons, Jeffrey T. | Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great War: The undaunted 369th regiment and the African-American quest for equality

Scars upon my heart: women's poetry and verse of the First World War (edited and introduced by Catherine W. Reilly, with a preface by Judith Kazantzis) 

Smith, Lorenzo | Lingo of No Man’s Land: a World War One Slang Dictionary

Soldier poets of the Great War: an exhibition at the Grolier Club 

Stevenson, Randall | Literature and the Great War, 1914-1918

Tooze, J. Adam | The deluge: the Great War and the remaking of global order 1916-1931 

Tunstall, Graydon A. | Blood on the snow: the Carpathian winter war of 1915  

Walther, Peter | The First World War in colour (autochrome photography) 

Watson, Alexander | Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I

Wawro, Geoffrey | A mad catastrophe: the outbreak of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire  

Webb, Mike | From Downing Street to the Trenches: First-hand Accounts from the Great War

White, Jerry | Zeppelin nights: London in the First World War 

White, Michael | Generation Dada: the Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War 

Williams, Kate | The Storms of War 

Wilson, Jean Moorcroft | Siegfried Sassoon: soldier, poet, lover, friend 

The winter of the world: poems of the First World War (edited by Dominic Hibberd and John Onions) 

The wipers times: the famous First World War trench newspaper (introduction by Chris Westhorp) 

Zombory-Moldovan, Bela | Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914

FICTION

Benstead, C. R. | Retreat, a story of 1918 (The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Series, originally published in 1930; new introduction by Hugh Cecil)

Chevallier, Gabriel | Fear: a novel of World War I (first published in 1930; translated from the French by Malcolm Imrie; introduction by John Berger) 

Duffy, P. S. | The cartographer of no man's land 

Echenoz, Jean | 1914 (translated from the French by Linda Coverdale) 

Giono, Jean | To the slaughterhouse (translated from the French by Norman Glass) 

Gordon-Smith, Dolores | Blood from a stone: a Jack Haldean mystery 

Grabenhorst, Georg | Zero hour (The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Series, originally published in 1929; new introduction by Robert Cowley; new afterword by Casey Clabough)

Gristwood, A. D. | The Somme, including also The Coward  (The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Series, originally published in 1927; preface by H.G. Wells; new Introduction by Hugh Cecil)

Keneally, Thomas | The daughters of Mars 

Mann, Leonard | Flesh in armour (The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War series, originally published in 1932; new introduction by Janette Turner Hospital)

McKinney, J. P. | Crucible: an Australian First World War novel 

Moyes, Jojo | The girl you left behind 

Noble, Barbara | Doreen (first published 1946) 

The Penguin book of First World War stories (edited and introduced by Barbara Korte) 

Robson, Jennifer | Somewhere in France 

Smith, April | A star for Mrs. Blake

Speller, Elizabeth | The first of July

Todd, Charles | An unwilling accomplice 

Todd, Charles | A question of honor 

Winspear, Jacqueline | The care and management of lies: a novel of the Great War

Women, men, and the Great War: an anthology of stories (edited and introduced by Trudi Tate)

Zweig, Arnold | Outside Verdun (Translated by Fiona Rintoul. First published in Amsterdam in 1935.)

 

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