Busse Library provides these resources and book titles for students and faculty seeking information on World War I (The Great War). The Busse Virtual History Library is also a valuable resource for this topic. Books listed here are a sampling available in the library and elsewhere.

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Gateways to Resources -- Military and World History -- Associations and Organizations -- War Documents -- Museums -- The Arts -- Publications -- Busse Library Resources

Gateways to Resources

• About.com: World War I
• About.com: Military History : World War I
• Old Comtemptible's Great War Website
• The Great War : 80 Years On : BBC News Online
• The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century : PBS
• Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia : British History, 1700-1950: First World War
• World War I Biographical Dictionary
• World War I: Trenches on the Web

Military and World History

• About.com: The Russian Revolution
• The Aerodrome : Aces and Aircraft of World War I
• The Battle of the Somme, 1916 -- worst day in British military history
• The Battle of Verdun, 1916 -- the war's costliest battle
• Canada and the First World War : Department of Veterans Affairs, Canada
• Doughboy Center : The Story of the American Expeditionary Forces
• The Eastern Front : 1914-1916
• Hellfire Corner: The British Army in the Great War
• History of the Western Front, 1914-1918
• In Flanders Fields: Museum and Battle Site
• La Grande Guerre : The Italian Front, 1915-1918
• The RMS Lusitania
• UBoat.net: The U-Boat War, 1914-1918
• Woodrow Wilson : Presidents of the United States (POTUS)
• World War I: The Maritime War: The War at Sea

Associations and Organizations

• The Great War Society

War Documents

• American Leaders Speak : Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election : American Memory Project : Library of Congress
• President Woodrow Wilson's War Message : April 2, 1917 -- the American declaration of war
• The Versailles Treaty : June 28, 1919 -- full-text
• World War I Document Archive -- full-text primary documents

Museums

• Canadian War Museum
• Imperial War Museum, London
• Liberty Memorial Museum; Kansas City, MO

The Arts

• Art of the First World War, 1914-1918 -- over 100 images from Europe's major museums
• First Call : American Posters of World War I from the Collection of Roger N. Mohovich : Georgetown University Library
• Propaganda Posters: France: World War I

Publications

• Relevance : The Quarterly Journal of the Great War
• War Times Journal

Busse Library Resources

• Asprey, Robert B. The German high command at war : Hindenburg / c1991. D530. A77 1991
• Cooper, John Milton. Causes and consequences of World War I. / [1972] D619. C69
• Ellis, John. Eye-deep in hell : trench warfare in World War I / c1976. D530. E44 1976
• Ferrell, Robert H. Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1921 / c1985. D619. F34 1985
• Fleming, Denna Frank. The origins and legacies of World War I / 1968. D511. F64
• Gavin, Lettie. American women in World War I : they also served / c1997. D639. W7 G38 1997
• Romedahl, Joe. An Iowa soldier in World War I / c1993. D756.R52 1993
• Schneider, Dorothy. Into the breach : American women overseas in World War I / 1991. D639.W7 S36 1991
• Sevareid, Eric. The Great War--1918 / 1990. Video D 545.A63 G7x
• Winter, J.M. The experience of World War I / 1989. D521.W48 1989q

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