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== '''General Information''' ==
== '''General Documentation''' ==


*'''[http://www.erster-weltkrieg.clio-online.de/ Clio Online: Themenportal 1. Weltkrieg]''' - extremely comprehensive collection of links from a scholarly German perspective.
*'''[http://www.erster-weltkrieg.clio-online.de/ Clio Online: Themenportal 1. Weltkrieg]''' - extremely comprehensive collection of links from a scholarly German perspective.
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*'''[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww1.htm Documents of World War I]''' assembled by Vincent Ferraro of Mount Holyoke College.  
*'''[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww1.htm Documents of World War I]''' assembled by Vincent Ferraro of Mount Holyoke College.  
*'''[https://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/career-advice/military-transition/gm-military-history-motorized-vehicles.html The Early Days of Motorized MIlitary Vehicles].


*'''[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/History/History-idx?type=browse&scope=History.WWIColl Electronic Facsimile Texts of World War One]''' -- books and documents digitized in University of Wisconsin [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/History/HistoryHome.html Digital History Collection].  
*'''[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/History/History-idx?type=browse&scope=History.WWIColl Electronic Facsimile Texts of World War One]''' -- books and documents digitized in University of Wisconsin [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/History/HistoryHome.html Digital History Collection].  
*'''[https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/collections/world-war-I Europeana 1914-1918]'''  -- an exhaustive collection of texts, images, documents, video and sound files on WWI from all European countries.
*'''[https://transcribathon.com/en/documents/ Europeana Transcribe]''' -- Hundreds of European documents from 1914 in over 30 languages. You can either research them or help transcribe them.


*'''[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm First World War: Index]''' -- an ambitious school project of relevant, categorized links.
*'''[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm First World War: Index]''' -- an ambitious school project of relevant, categorized links.
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*'''[http://www.firstworldwar.com FirstWorldWar.com]''' assembled by Michael Duffy.  
*'''[http://www.firstworldwar.com FirstWorldWar.com]''' assembled by Michael Duffy.  


* The '''[http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rene.brouwer/ First World War 1914-1918 -]''' A website of Rene Brouwer in the Netherlands.  
* The '''[http://www.worldwar1.nl First World War 1914-1918 -]''' A website of Rene Brouwer in the Netherlands.  


* The '''[http://www.greatwar.co.uk/index.htm Great War 1914-1918]''' -- from a British perspective.  
* The '''[http://www.greatwar.co.uk/index.htm Great War 1914-1918]''' -- from a British perspective.  
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*'''[http://www.storybytes.com Story Bytes - Very Short Stories]''' written on the general conduct and events of the Great War.  
*'''[http://www.storybytes.com Story Bytes - Very Short Stories]''' written on the general conduct and events of the Great War.  
*'''[https://www.loc.gov/collections/world-war-history-newspaper-clippings/about-this-collection/ World War History: Newspaper Clippings, 1914 to 1926]''' (Digital Collection of the Library of Congress).


*'''[http://www.worldwar1.com Trenches on the Web]''' (Graphic Images of Trench Warfare -- World War I).  
*'''[http://www.worldwar1.com Trenches on the Web]''' (Graphic Images of Trench Warfare -- World War I).  
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*'''[http://archives.govt.nz/world-war-one New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) Personnel File Search]'''
*'''[http://archives.govt.nz/world-war-one New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) Personnel File Search]'''


*'''[http://www.militaryindexes.com/worldwarone/ Online World War I Military Indexes & Records]''' - Genealogical sources for WWI vets, mostly U.S. but also international.
*'''[http://www.militaryindexes.com/worldwarone/ Online World War I Military Indexes & Records]'''
::Genealogical sources for WWI vets, mostly U.S. but also international.


*'''[http://www.rafmuseumstoryvault.org.uk/pages/raf_vault.php Royal Air Force Casualty Card Collection]'''
*'''[http://www.rafmuseumstoryvault.org.uk/pages/raf_vault.php Royal Air Force Casualty Card Collection]'''
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*'''[https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Special:Search?fulltext=true&search=ww1&searchbutton=Search Military Records through ''familysearch.org'']'''
*'''[https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Special:Search?fulltext=true&search=ww1&searchbutton=Search Military Records through ''familysearch.org'']'''


*'''[https://ersterweltkrieg.bundesarchiv.de/genealogie Urgrossvater im Ersten Weltkrieg]''' (Germany)
*'''[https://bundesarchiv.de/genealogie.html Urgroßvater im Ersten Weltkrieg]'''  
::Great Grandfather in the First World War: German genealogical aids in German


== '''Home Front''' ==
== '''Home Front''' ==
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::(1914; Facsimiles)
::(1914; Facsimiles)


*'''[http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.BelFuture "For the Future": Belgium and Northern France]''' (San Francisco, Califormia: Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1916).  
*Der '''[http://www-old.bildpostkarten.uos.de/index.php?cat=142 Erste Weltkrieg auf der Bildpostkarte]'''
::German WWI postcards from [http://www-old.bildpostkarten.uos.de/index.html Historische Bildpostkarten]
::Digitized by the University of Osnabrück
 
*'''[http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.BelFuture "For the Future": Belgium and Northern France]'''  
::(San Francisco, Califormia: Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1916).  


*'''[http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.Krigsmand Fra forretningsmand til krigsmand: en Britisk soldats uddannelse]'''
*'''[http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.Krigsmand Fra forretningsmand til krigsmand: en Britisk soldats uddannelse]'''
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*'''[http://www.flickr.com/photos/lac-bac/ World War I Images]''' - from Library and Archives Canada.
*'''[http://www.flickr.com/photos/lac-bac/ World War I Images]''' - from Library and Archives Canada.
=== <b>China</b> ===
*'''[https://archive.org/details/officialdocument00chin/page/n5 Official Documents Relating to the War (For the Year 1917)]''' - published by the Ministry of Public Affairs, Peking, China.
*'''[https://archive.org/details/cu31924017545249/page/n15 Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919]''' - covering the period of time from the Sino-Japanese War to the end of World War I.


=== <b>Czechoslovakia</b> ===
=== <b>Czechoslovakia</b> ===
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*'''[http://www.pacifier.com/~helenp/7ww1.html Somme: a Land of History]''' - ANZAC connexions to the Somme, presented by the French Conseil Général de la Somme.  
*'''[http://www.pacifier.com/~helenp/7ww1.html Somme: a Land of History]''' - ANZAC connexions to the Somme, presented by the French Conseil Général de la Somme.  
*'''[https://www.lefigaro.fr/fig-data/tombes-champ-honneur/ Tombés au Champ d'Honneur]  - Interactive map of daily French losses.


*'''[http://humanbonb.free.fr/ Vestiges militaria]''' - French-language portal to war relics & personal collections left over from the First and the Second World Wars.
*'''[http://humanbonb.free.fr/ Vestiges militaria]''' - French-language portal to war relics & personal collections left over from the First and the Second World Wars.
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=== <b>Germany</b> ===
=== <b>Germany</b> ===


*'''[https://ersterweltkrieg.bundesarchiv.de/ Portal des Bundesarchivs zum Ersten Weltkrieg]'''
*'''Das [http://www.stahlgewitter.com/ Archiv zum 1. Weltkrieg]'''
::Portal to over 700,000 WWI documents.  
::Archive of World War I documents from the German perspective, 1914-1918.
 
*'''[https://ersterweltkrieg.bundesarchiv.de/ Bundesarchiv: Portal zum Ersten Weltkrieg]'''
::Portal to a wealth of German resources from World War One.
::Including [https://bundesarchiv.de/digitalisierte-sammlungen.html digitized documents], [https://bundesarchiv.de/digitales-bildarchiv.html images], [https://bundesarchiv.de/european-film-gateway.html films], [https://bundesarchiv.de/tonaufnahmen.html audio files] and [https://bundesarchiv.de/genealogie.html genealogical aids].
::Also contains [https://bundesarchiv.de/index.html#gallery-front galleries] and [https://bundesarchiv.de/index.html#node-61 panorama images].
::Interface in German.  


*'''[http://www.erster-weltkrieg.clio-online.de/ Clio Online: Themenportal 1. Weltkrieg]'''
*'''[http://www.erster-weltkrieg.clio-online.de/ Clio Online: Themenportal 1. Weltkrieg]'''
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::A website of the German Naval Archive.
::A website of the German Naval Archive.


*'''[http://tsamo.germandocsinrussia.org/ German documents of the First World War]'''
*'''[https://archive.org/details/diplomaticcorres00scot/page/n5 Diplomatic Correspondence between the United States and Germany: August 1, 1914 - April 6, 1917]'''
::Collection of German military documents held by Russia.
::Edited by James Brown Scott, Published by Oxford University Press, 1918.


*The '''[http://www.juenger.org Ernst Jünger Home Page.]''' (German author).  
*The '''[http://www.juenger.org Ernst Jünger Home Page.]''' (German author).  
*'''[http://www.vl-zeitgeschichte.de/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req=viewlink&cid=2 Erster Weltkrieg]''' - German-language First World War webpage in [http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html Virtual Library for History].


*'''[http://feldzeitungen.uni-hd.de ''Feldzeitungen aus dem 1. Weltkrieg - online'']''' - newspapers for German soldiers at the front.
*'''[http://feldzeitungen.uni-hd.de ''Feldzeitungen aus dem 1. Weltkrieg - online'']''' - newspapers for German soldiers at the front.
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*'''[http://web387.basicbox7.server-home.net/ Fliegertruppe]'''  
*'''[http://web387.basicbox7.server-home.net/ Fliegertruppe]'''  
::The German air corps from 1911 through 1920.  
::The German air corps from 1911 through 1920.  
*'''[http://tsamo.germandocsinrussia.org/ German documents of the First World War]'''
::Collection of German military documents held by Russia.
*'''[http://www.vl-zeitgeschichte.de/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req=viewlink&cid=2 Erster Weltkrieg]''' - German-language First World War webpage in [http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html Virtual Library for History].
*'''[http://www.mgfa.de/?lang=en&PHPSESSID=efe1a538e3114b8e779ec42dd2462008 Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt]''' - Military History Research Institute of the German Bundeswehr, located in Potsdam.


*'''[http://www.frontflieger.de/ Frontflieger: Die Soldaten der Deutschen Fliegertruppe 1914-1918]'''
*'''[http://www.frontflieger.de/ Frontflieger: Die Soldaten der Deutschen Fliegertruppe 1914-1918]'''
::Information on German flyers, including the "Red Baron," Manfred von Richthofen.  
::Information on German flyers, including the "Red Baron," Manfred von Richthofen.  
*'''[http://www.mgfa.de/?lang=en&PHPSESSID=efe1a538e3114b8e779ec42dd2462008 Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt]''' - Military History Research Institute of the German Bundeswehr, located in Potsdam.


*'''[http://www.stahlgewitter.com/ Stahlgewitter - Kriegschronik]''' - offering chronicles and images of the First World War from the German perspective.  
*'''[http://www.stahlgewitter.com/ Stahlgewitter - Kriegschronik]''' - offering chronicles and images of the First World War from the German perspective.  
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=== <b>United States</b> ===
=== <b>United States</b> ===


*'''[http://www.foresthistory.org/Research/WWI_ForestryEngineers.htm 10th and 20th Forestry Engineers]''' - primary source material and essays on engineers who provided Allied forces with timber needed for the war effort.
*'''[https://foresthistory.org/the-10th-and-20th-forestry-engineers-of-wwi/ 10th and 20th Forestry Engineers]''' - primary source material and essays on engineers who provided Allied forces with timber needed for the war effort.


*'''[http://www.abmc.gov/ American Battlefields Monument Commission.]''' - Assistance in locating battlefields, gravesites.  
*'''[http://www.abmc.gov/ American Battlefields Monument Commission.]''' - Assistance in locating battlefields, gravesites.  
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*'''[http://www.trumanlibrary.org Harry S Truman Library,]''' (USA) - with a wide variety of representative documents and photos concerning the President's experiences.  
*'''[http://www.trumanlibrary.org Harry S Truman Library,]''' (USA) - with a wide variety of representative documents and photos concerning the President's experiences.  


*'''The [http://www.theworldwar.org/ National World War I Museum and Memorial]''' - in Kansas City, Missouri.  
*The '''[http://www.theworldwar.org/ National World War I Museum and Memorial]''' - in Kansas City, Missouri.  


*The '''[http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/ Lost Poets of the Great War]'''(World War I; by Harry Rusche - USA).  
*The '''[http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/ Lost Poets of the Great War]'''(World War I; by Harry Rusche - USA).  
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*'''[http://www.history.army.mil/moh/worldwari.html Medal of Honor Recipients, World War One]''' USA.  
*'''[http://www.history.army.mil/moh/worldwari.html Medal of Honor Recipients, World War One]''' USA.  


*The '''[http://www.nsa.gov/museum/index.cfm National Cryptologic Museum:]''' Includes images of the 'Verdun Intercept Site Exhibit' and of the 'Black Chamber.' (USA)  
*The '''[https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic-heritage/museum/ National Cryptologic Museum:]''' Includes images of the 'Verdun Intercept Site Exhibit' and of the 'Black Chamber.' (USA)  


*The '''[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/ Nation's Forum: Early Sound Recordings of America's Leaders, 1918-1920]''' (USA).  
*The '''[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/ Nation's Forum: Early Sound Recordings of America's Leaders, 1918-1920]''' (USA).  
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*'''[http://www.sgtyork.org/ Sergeant York Patriotic Foundation]''' - with resources on America's "Greatest Hero of World War I."
*'''[http://www.sgtyork.org/ Sergeant York Patriotic Foundation]''' - with resources on America's "Greatest Hero of World War I."
*'''[https://archive.org/details/cu31924032520763 Regulations for the Army of the United States, 1913-1917]'''


*'''[http://www.islayinfo.com/lord_robertson_islay_troopships.html S.S. Tuscania - An American History]''' - About American troops lost on the Troopship Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918.  
*'''[http://www.islayinfo.com/lord_robertson_islay_troopships.html S.S. Tuscania - An American History]''' - About American troops lost on the Troopship Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918.  
*'''[https://archive.org/details/unclesamsfactboo00newy Uncle Sam's Fact Book of the World War]''' - Containing a Thousand and One Facts Worth Knowing...


*The '''[http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyUS-CasualtiesChronoxAviation.htm US Naval Reserve force at Porto Corsini, Italy;]''' August - December 1918.  
*The '''[http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyUS-CasualtiesChronoxAviation.htm US Naval Reserve force at Porto Corsini, Italy;]''' August - December 1918.  
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*The '''[http://www.woodrowwilson.org/library-archives/wilson-elibrary Woodrow Wilson eLibrary]''' - with, among other things, digital copies of his most famous speeches.   
*The '''[http://www.woodrowwilson.org/library-archives/wilson-elibrary Woodrow Wilson eLibrary]''' - with, among other things, digital copies of his most famous speeches.   


*The '''[http://www.preservationnation.org/travel-and-sites/sites/woodrow-wilson-house.html#.U0Yfb1e9Z8E Woodrow Wilson House,]''' presented by the US National Trust.
*The '''[http://www.preservationnation.org/travel-and-sites/sites/woodrow-wilson-house.html#.U0Yfb1e9Z8E Woodrow Wilson House,]''' presented by the US National Trust.
 
*'''[http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas13&local_base=CLAS13 World War I History Commission Questionnaires]''' of the State of Virginia, USA. The surveys of World War I veterans in Virginia, a fully-searchable database of over 14,900 records, one for each questionnaire respondent, accessible by name, city/county, and race. Each record is also linked to digitized images of each page of the questionnaires, as well as any accompanying material such as photographs and additional pages submitted by the respondents.


== <b>Miscellaneous Sites</b> ==
== <b>Miscellaneous Sites</b> ==
   
   
*'''[http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/aulimp/ Air University Periodicals Index]''':  A searchable database.  
*'''[https://fairchild-mil.libguides.com/AULIMP Air University Periodicals Index]''':  A searchable database.  


*'''[http://www.christmastruce.co.uk/ Christmas Truce 1914: Operation Plum Puddings]''' -- A project to document the Christmas Truce.  
*'''[http://www.christmastruce.co.uk/ Christmas Truce 1914: Operation Plum Puddings]''' -- A project to document the Christmas Truce.  
*'''[http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/aces/aces.htm#wwi Fighter Pilot 'Ace' List]'''
*'''[http://www.todayisfree.com/ Today is Free]''' - 360-degree virtual views of war cemeteries.
   
   
*A variety of materiel sites, including the '''[http://pease1.sr.unh.edu The World War I Modelling Page;]''' along with those concentrating on '''[http://www.wpi.edu/~elmer/navy/battleships/germany.html Dreadnoughts]''', '''[http://www.wpi.edu/~elmer/navy/battleships/england.html Battleships]''', and the '''[http://www.oldrhinebeck.org Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome.]'''
*A variety of materiel sites, including the '''[http://www.wwi-models.org/ The World War I Modelling Page;]''' along with those concentrating on '''[https://spartacus-educational.com/FWWdreadnought.htm Dreadnoughts]''', '''[https://www.militaryfactory.com/ships/ww1-battleships.asp Battleships]''', and the '''[http://www.oldrhinebeck.org Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome.]'''





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WWI Document Archive > Links to Other WWI Sites


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Note: In addition to other text and image sites listed below, also see the WWI Resource Center's discussion list archive, text archive and image archive.



General Documentation

See especially the sitemap -- some annotations are in English.
  • Europeana 1914-1918 -- an exhaustive collection of texts, images, documents, video and sound files on WWI from all European countries.
  • Europeana Transcribe -- Hundreds of European documents from 1914 in over 30 languages. You can either research them or help transcribe them.
World War One - Articles -- Articles on various topics.
World War One - Collection Items -- Digital historical sources.
World War One - Themes -- Digital investigations.

Biographical Sketches

Bibliographies and Webographies

  • WWI Books - from U.C. San Diego History Department.
  • WWI Topics - from U.C. San Diego History Department.

Genealogical Resources

Genealogical sources for WWI vets, mostly U.S. but also international.
Great Grandfather in the First World War: German genealogical aids in German

Home Front

Books and U.S. government publications documenting the national effort to make food the key to winning World War I.
Digitized in University of Wisconsin's Digital History Collection.
London: The Over-Seas Club, [1914-1918]

Literature

An eclectic survey of the literature of the Great War.
From an exhibit in BYU Library's Special Collections.
Venice: Istituto Veneto di Arti Grafiche Venezia, 1919
Provided by Oxford University; includes manuscript facsimiles of WWI poets.
This site at Emory University includes a great number of digitized poems and postcards.
An interactive research blog.
Compiled by Heinrich Lersch.
Jena: Eugen Diederichs, 1916
German war poetry.
(auf Deutsch)
By Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
Boston: The American Authors Fund, [1914-1918]
A blog with commentary and facsimiles of first drafts of Sassoon, Graves and Rosenberg;
Part of a publication by the Imperial War Museum.

Maps and Atlases

(New York: Macmillan, 1919).
3 vols. (Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1915-1919). - auf Deutsch -
Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
  • Maps of World War I, offering detailed maps of war plans, battles, and political realignments (U.S. Military Academy).

Music

Visual Arts

Art

An astounding collection representing artists from Guillaume Apollinaire through Eric Kennington to Ossip Zadkine - UNESCO.
Art of World War I on the Madame Pickwick Art Blog.
The online exhibition is sponsored by the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas.
Site maintained by the government of Ontario, Canada.

Cartoons and Illustrated Books

Cartoons of J.-P. Pinchon, vaguely reminiscent of Wilhelm Busch and his Max und Moritz
(Paris: Gautier et Languereau, 1916)
Digitized in University of Wisconsin's Digital History Collection.

Between Shots

by Captain P.L. Crosby
with the 77th Division in France
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1919
  • Cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather
[Bairnsfather was the British "Bill Mauldin" of World War One]
(London: "The Bystander" Tallis House, Whitefriars, & 190, Strand, n.d.)
Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
The Bystander's Fragments from France
The Bystander's Fragments from France, vol. IV
Clippings from the Bystander, no. 5
More Fragments from France, vol. II
More Fragments from France, vol. 5
Still More Bystander's Fragments from France, vol. III
[Caricatures Designed to Enrage: Toward a Psychology of Entente]
(Berlin: Curtius, 1917). - Foreword in German, cartoons in French -
Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
London: Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge, [1914-1918]
Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
British propaganda cartoons on the German invasion of Belgium
Digitally assembled at Brigham Young University.

Film

A film documentary examining the Western political intrigue that laid the foundation for wars, coups, revolts and military interventions in the Middle East.
Hundreds of films in various categories from the extensive film archive of British Pathé.
Personal viewing of the copyright films is permitted in preview mode.
Includes open access videos, images and text documents.
A single access point to 28 European film archives and institutes.
A clickable list of available films is found underneath the viewing window.
A film documentary narrated by David Carridine.

Photography, Photo Collections, Photo Essays

Roughly 2,000 images digitized by the U.S. National Archives.
(Leeds: Petty and Sons, n.d.)
Photographs digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
Roughly 2,000 images digitized by the U.S. National Archives.
(New York: The Committee for Men Blinded in Battle, 1917)
Photographs and text digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
Photographic documents of the French Ministry of War's Photography Section.
2 vols. (Paris: Ministère de la guerre, 1917)
Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
Images discovered in the Rotterdam City Archives in 2014.
(1914; Facsimiles)
German WWI postcards from Historische Bildpostkarten
Digitized by the University of Osnabrück
(San Francisco, Califormia: Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1916).
[From Businessman to Man of War -- The Training of a British Soldier: Danish]
(London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, n.d.)
Photographs digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
[Through Swamp and Jungle -- The British Campaign in Africa: Danish]
(Bristol: Rankin Bros., n.d.)
Photographs digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
Roughly 1,000 images digitized by the U.S. National Archives.
[The War in Pictures -- March 1918 French ed. of Verdenskrigen i billeder (below)]
(London: Illustrated London News & Sketch, 1918).
Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
Accounts from Contemporary Books and Magazines, Photo Galleries and Illustrations.
Picture of 18,000 Soldiers training at Fort Dodge, Iowa (click to enlarge).
["Hanging In There" -- British Women's Work in Wartime: Danish]
(England: The Mendip Press, n.d.)
Photographs digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
[Naval Watch Illustrated: The Unwavering Vigil of the British Fleet: Danish]
(London: Harrison, Jehring and Co., n.d.).
Photographs digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
[Illustrated History of the War of 1914] by Gabriel Hanotaux
17 vols. (Paris: Gounouilhou, 1915-1924). - en français -
Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
Hundreds of images digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
Exhibit and Gallery of humanitarian rescue and relief work in Europe and Palestine by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC).
Produced by JDC Archives.
A searchable database of images by name, place, subject, etc. with zoomable photos.
A visual tour of important WWI sites as they now appear.
  • Verdenskrigen i billeder [World War in Pictures: Danish]
Subtitle added June-December 1918: ... fra de allieredes fronter [From the Allied Front]
(London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1917-1918)
Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
1917: October - November - December
1918: January - February - . . . - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
London: The Over-Seas Club, [1914-1918]
Photos from the German trenches by Hans Hildenbrand, presented by Spiegel Online International with an English interface.
Various photo collections from WWI.
Digital facsimiles of the collection at New York Public Library.
Including French images from Gallica, the online service of the French National Library.
From Library and Archives Canada.

Posters

War Poster Collection. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
Posters, Photos, Poets and Artists.
War Posters from 1910-1919.



By Country

Australia

  • The Australian Archives: From this page can be located Australian WWI serving personnel records, along with memorials and other records of Australian participation in the Great War.
  • The Australian Defence Force Academy: Includes access to the 'First AIF Database Project' which... seeks to record comprehensive information on all 332,000 men and women (i.e. nurses) who served in the the Australian Imperial Force 1914-19.
A subset of Australian Army War Diaries from the Australian War Memorial.
Ed. by Charles Bean; in 12 volumes (1920-1942).
From the Australian War Memorial.

Austria-Hungary

  • "To My Peoples!" Documents of the Austrian National Library in cooperation with the Google Cultural Institute.

Belgium

  • Fort de Liezele. Belgium - 1908-1914; concrete fortifications. In Dutch and English.

A new Belgian site, 'In Flanders Fields'.

  • Les Chevaliers du Ciel, a site in French, from Belgium, on the German fliers, including Richthofen, Voss, Udet.

Canada

  • The Black Watch (RHR) of Canada - the senior Canadian Highland Regiment.
  • Canada at War - The National SchoolNet collections site, part of Canada's Digital Collections, includes the: CEF Attestation Papers; Books of Remembrance; Aviation Hall of Fame; Canadian Military Medals and Decorations; Canadian Veterans Recollect; Courage Remembered; The Northwest Rebellion of 1885; the Taconis Collection and Canadian Military Uniforms. Major resource, en français et anglais.
Also available in the French version.
  • Over the Top, an interactive trench adventure at the Canadian War Museum.
Songs Popular during the First World War (audio)

China

Czechoslovakia

England / Great Britain

  • Captain Noel Chavasse, Medical Officer of the 10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battalion, the King's (Liverpool) Regiment, England, the only man to win the Victoria Cross twice during the Great War. The primary reference for this life.
See in particular Lions Led by Donkeys for biographical notes on British generals.
  • Chailey 1914-1918 - the story of a village community (in what is now East Sussex) during the First World War.
  • Hellfire Corner, a WWI site by Tom Morgan focusing on British and Imperial involvement.
  • The Psywar Society of Great Britain publishes The Falling Leaf, which has published articles dealing with the Great War, including 'The First Leaflet of the First World War', 'Propaganda Behind The Lines', and 'Air Disseminated Postcards of the First World War.

France

  • La Deuxième Bataille de la Marne 1914-1918, France - The Second Battle of the Marne River; Pour tout savoir sur la Bataille et les détails des opérations de la Commémoration de la Deuxième Bataille de la Marne.
  • French Aviation in World War I -- All you ever wanted to know... and more. (en français)
  • Vestiges militaria - French-language portal to war relics & personal collections left over from the First and the Second World Wars.

Germany

Archive of World War I documents from the German perspective, 1914-1918.
Portal to a wealth of German resources from World War One.
Including digitized documents, images, films, audio files and genealogical aids.
Also contains galleries and panorama images.
Interface in German.
A German-language portal to the First World War.
A German site reporting on the conference of the same name.
- also available in English -
- also available in English -
A website of the German Naval Archive.
Edited by James Brown Scott, Published by Oxford University Press, 1918.
The German air corps from 1911 through 1920.
Collection of German military documents held by Russia.
Information on German flyers, including the "Red Baron," Manfred von Richthofen.

Greece

Italy

Mexico

The Netherlands

New Zealand

  • New Zealand and the Great War. Peter Hoar's contribution to mark New Zealand's participation in the war, including memorial sites, chronology and bibliography.

Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

  • Royal Dublin Fusiliers. The history of the RDF, an infantry regiment of the British army that was disbanded before independence in 1922.

Portugal

  • Diário da Grande Guerra. National Library of Portugal website that features timelines with testimonies about the Portuguese presence in WW1 including newspapers, postcards, posters and other materials.

Russia

Scotland (see also Great Britain)

South Africa

Turkey/Ottoman Empire

Located at the library of Texas Tech University.
  • Gallipoli. A website on the battle by Julien Snelders.

United States

  • Harry S Truman Library, (USA) - with a wide variety of representative documents and photos concerning the President's experiences.
  • Life at Camp Funston: Reflections of Army Sergeant Charles L. Johnston, USA. Co-respondence, photographs, dealing with Camp Funston (Ft. Riley), Kansas, 1918.

Miscellaneous Sites




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