THE HERITAGE OF THE GREAT WAR

Great Writings of The Great War

Below you'll find complete books on the Great War. They are in different formats; most are just plain text, others are html-files or pdf. They come from various sources: the , , , , the library of the , etc.

Of a few books we have at the moment excerpts only. As soon as the full texts are available we will replace them.

If you can't find the book you are looking for, then maybe it is not yet in the public domain. Books are copyright free 70 years after the author's death (in the European Union), or when first published before 1923 (in the USA). Click here if you want to know more about copyrights.

The books in the list below are already in the public domain. Take your pick (some may take time to load):

Prose        

2. , by Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, United States. War Dept. General Staff, 1919

3. , by Punch, London, 1919

4. , by Robert Baden Powell, 1915

5. Under Fire: The Story of a Squad, by Henri Barbusse, 1917 (translated from the French)

6. , by General Friedrich von Bernhardi (translated from the German Vom heutigen Kriege), 1914 (excerpts only)

7. , by Harriot Stanton Blatch

8. , by John Buchan (adapted to the screen by Hitchcock in 1935), 1915

9. (1914-1917), told by its members, 1917

10. , by Willa Cather (Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of a midwestern American’s journey to the Western Front), 1922

11. , by Erskine Childers (in which he discusses a fictional German plan for invading England), 1903

12. , by Joseph Conrad, 1921

13. , by Richard Harding Davis, 1917

14. , by Roland Dorgeles, 1921

15. , by Georges Duhamel (translated from the French)

16. , by Philip Gibbs

17. , by Clair W. Hayesh

18. , by Vicente Blasco Ibanez, 1918

19. , by Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1919 (excerpts only)

20. The Gardener, by Rudyard Kipling (short story)

21. , by Rudyard Kipling, 1923

22. , by Fritz Kreisler, 1915 (translated from the German/Austrian)

23. , by Victor LeFebure (with a preface by Marshall Foch and an introduction by Field-Marshall Sir Henry Wilson), 1923

24. , by Charles Lucieto, of the Allied Secret Service, 1927

25. , by Private Jack O'Brien (appendix only: a narrative of the the 28th Battalion), 1919

26. , by E. Phillips Oppenheim

27. , by John Dos Passos, 1920

28. , by John Dos Passos, 1921

29. , by Lord Dunsany (pseudonym of Edward John Plunkett), 1918

30. , by E. Alexander Powell, with photo's by Donald Johnson, London

31. , by Punch, London, 1919

32. , by Homer Randall

33. The Land that Time Forgot, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (novel, first published in 1918's Blue Book Magazine as "The Lost U-Boat")

34. , by Admiral Reinhard Scheer (translated from the German), 1920

35. , by Grafton Elliot Smith, Dean of Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Anatomy, and Tom Hatherly Pear, Lecturer in Experimental Psychology, both from Manchester University Medical School, 1917

36. , by General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, 1925 (excerpts only)

37. , by André Tardieu (translated from the French), 1921

38. , by H.M. Tomlinson, 1918

39. , by H.M. Tomlinson, 1922

40. , by H.G. Wells, 1921 (1914)

41. , by H. G. Wells, 1917

42. , by Edith Wharton, 1915

43. , 1918

44. , by Ernst Friedrich, 1924 (Extract in English)

     

      On the War in the Air

45. , by Manfred von Richthoven (translated from the German Der Rote Kampfflieger), 1917

46. , by Eddie Rickenbacker, 1919

47. , by James Norman Hall

48. , by Captain William B. Perry

49. , by H. G. Wells, 1906

50. , by J.M. Bacon

51. , by William J. Claxton

52. , by Horatio Barber, 1917

53. , by J.S. Zerbe, 1915

54. , by Charles Amory Beach

55. , by George Whale

56. , by Frederick A. Talbot

57. , by Major C. Gordon Burge, with a foreword by Air-Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard, 1918

     

      Less related but relevant

58. Merchants of Death, A Study of the International Armament Industry, by H.C. Engelbrecht and F.C. Hanighen. With a Foreword by Harry Elmer Barnes, 1934

59. , by John Reed, 1922

60. , by Carl von Clausewitz (translated from the German, with an introduction by Colonel F. N. Maude, C.B.)

61. Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler, 1924 (translated into English by James Murphy, 1939, plain text; also available in pdf-format).

62. , by Bertrand Russell, 1918

63. (with an article on war, business and insurance)

     

      TomeRaider Files (You need a -program to read these files)

64. A Short History of the Great War, by A.F. Pollard, 1920

65. Vom Kriege, by Carl von Clausewitz (original German version)

66. World War I Conventions and Treaties (18 texts)

67. The Mastery of the Air, by William J. Claxton

68. A Short History of Austria-Hungary, by H. Wickham Steed, Walter Alison Phillips and David Hannay, 1914

69. Die russische Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg (original German version)

70. Drei Aufsätze - Januar 1919, by Rosa Luxemburg (original German version)

71. The World Set Free, by H.G. Wells, 1914

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    Verse        

72. , edited by George Clarke Herbert (151 poems by 106 authors), 1917

73. , by John McCrae, with an essay in Character by Sir Andrew Macphail, 1919 (also available , and in pdf-format)

74. , by Rupert Brooke, 1916

75. , by Wilfred Owen (with an introduction by Siegfried Sassoon)

76. , (poems) by Robert Graves

77. , (46 poems) by Robert Graves, 1918

78. , by Alan Seeger (with an introduction by William Archer)

79. , by Siegfried Sassoon, 1918

80. , by Siegfried Sassoon, 1918

81. , by Siegfried Sassoon, 1920

82. , by William Butler Yeats

83. , by Robert W. Service. 1916

  Many of these books are deep-linked from here. If one of the links appears dead, or if you know of the presence of other complete World War I books on the Internet, please let me know.

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