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WORLD WAR I:1914-1918

  

General sites of interest

PBS Great War: Includes a timeline and maps.  A great site!

Timeline of the war (Library of Congress)

World War One: “Read and listen to stories of the War from the people who lived it. Explore diaries, letters, scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings, photos and keepsakes”

First World War.com: The site provides a general overview, with great photos and quality resources. Margin at left offers: “Primary Documents,” “Memoirs and Diaries,” “Propaganda Posters,” and much more.  “Prose & Poetry” features a piece on “Literary Ambulance Drivers” (like Ernest Hemingway)

BBC World War I: Includes audio, movies and personal narratives

The First World War: Online exhibit from the National Archives, London. Click on “Document Packs,” “Spotlights on History,” and “People” for materials and other resources

Doughboy Center: First Army: Includes material on history, battles, etc. Scroll down for naval and aviation series; Second Army: Includes “Personnel Files,” biographies and first-hand accounts, and much more

The Long, Long Trail: The British Army in the Great War: Scroll down to "A Soldier's Life," “Ordinary Heroes" and more

BBC News, "World War I:  Eighty Years On": Scroll down for “Letters home”

Women and War: Categories include: “Doctors and Nurses,” “Women and Recruitment,” “Women and the Home Front,” and “Women’s Organizations and Issues” (this includes the peace movement)

People of World War I: Features the more “famous” people involved, such as Woodrow Wilson, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Otto von Bismarck, and more

The War Times Journal Series, "The Great War": Includes articles / memoirs of pilots, sailors, and more. Read “the only memoir written by ‘The Red Baron’ Manfred von Richthofen before his death in 1918

WWI Personal Accounts: Scroll down the list of soldiers from different countries—British, Australian, American, German, Austrian, and more

North Carolinians and the Great War: Some great material on Propaganda posters, The Home Front, and The Soldier’s Experience

 

 

Special Sites

 

Letters of Lloyd Maywood Staley (US Army)

 

World War I Political Cartoons

 

Eyewitness to History (includes: U-boat Attack, 1916—aboard a German submarine)

 

Josef Sramek's Memoirs of the World War I (Austrian army)

 

American Ambulance Service

 

Photos of the Great War (World War I Image Archive)

 

Women in the US Army Signal Corp

 

First World War Poetry: Includes trench poetry & songs, and women’s WWI poetry

 

Songs of the First World War

 

The Battlefield Art of Mary Riter Hamilton

 

Posters from the Great War: Includes posters from Great Britain, USA, France, Germany, Russia, and more

 

Art of the First World War

 

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