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Captains Career Course: World War I

Find research resources for historical research and battle analysis including books, journals, and databases available at Stimson Library, and links to freely available scholarship and primary source material online

Recommended Websites

Many primary source documents are large files and may take a few minutes to load.

Battles (First World War.com)
The Great War: 1914-1918
Military Resources: World War I (National Archives)
Monographs (pdf's) of U.S. Wars. Combat Studies Institue. U.S. Army Combined Arms Center. Fort Leavenworth, KS.
U.S. Army in the World War, 1917-1919 (U.S. Army Center of Military History)
World War I (Best of History Websites)
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World War I (U.S. Army Center on Military History)
World War I Student Paper Collection (Maneuver Center of Excellence Libraries)
The World War I Document Archive

General Resources for Historical Research

Recommended Books

America's Deadliest Battle: Meuse-Argonne by Robert H. Ferrell
Call Number: D 545 A63 F383a 2007
Biographical Dictionary of World War I by Holger H. Herwig; Neil M. Heyman
Call Number: R D 507 H581b 1982
Gallipoli by Alan Moorehead; Neville Kirk
Call Number: D 568.3 M825g 1982
Three Armies on the Somme by William Philpott
Call Number: D 545 S7 P571t 2011
United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919 by United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History.
Call Number: D 570 A4 U58u 1948
Verdun by Paul Jankowski
Call Number: D 545 V3 J33v 2013

Browse the Stacks

History books are organized by the Library of Congress Classification System.

Books on World War I are located in:

D 501 - D 680

Additional Search Terms

Try these search terms in the library catalog (books), Google Scholar (articles), or library megasearch (books + articles):

First World War
General John Pershing
Great War
World War I
World War One
WWI
WW1

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World War I

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