US Military History: WW1

World War 1914 1918 United States

World War 1914 1918 United States Armed Forces History

United States Army American Expeditionary Forces

Link to all World War 1914 1918 subject headings

The following links are to recommended books on the US Civil War.

• The Journal of American History

  The Journal of American History is the official academic journal of the Organization of American Historians. It covers the field of American history and was established in 1914 as the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, the official journal of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association.
• The American Historical Review

  The American Historical Review is a quarterly academic history journal and the official publication of the American Historical Association. It targets readers interested in all periods and facets of history and has often been described as the premier journal of American history in the world.
• Reviews in American History

  Reviews in American History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1973 and published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. It publishes reviews of new books on the topic of American history, as well as retrospectives on influential titles of the past.
• American Quarterly

  American Quarterly is an academic journal and the official publication of the American Studies Association. The journal covers topics of both domestic and international concern in the United States and is considered a leading resource in the field of American studies.
• Journal of American Studies

  The Journal of American Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering international perspectives on the history, literature, politics and culture of the United States. It includes a book review section.
• The Journal of Military History

  The Journal of Military History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the military history of all times and places. It is the official journal of the Society for Military History. The journal was established in 1937.

The American Heritage Center (AHC) at the University of Wyoming contains items related to WW1, including some personal memoirs. Contact the AHC at ahcref@uwyo.edu for more information.

The library catalog lists items held in the AHC. This link will display items identified using an advanced search using the keywords WW1 and World War 1.

The Library of Congress "Experiencing War - World War I Remembered" website provides information on diaries and memoirs of Americans who served in "The Great War."

The United States' late entry into WW1 somewhat limited the number of published memoirs when compared to soldiers of European nations. This link is to a few recommended memoirs at American Heritage magazine.

A very comprehensive list of memoirs from a guide at Brigham Young University Library.

The following books are available through interlibrary loan:

John Lucy "There's a Devil in the Drum." Memoir of an Irish soldier.

Max Arthur : Forgotten Voices of the Great War : A History of World War I in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There.

• Answering the call : the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, 1917-1919 : a commemorative tribute to military nursing in World War I

  Call Number: Online

  Publication Date: 2008

  Also at GOV DOCS D 114.2:N 93/4
• Armageddon's lost lessons : combined arms operations in Allenby's Palestine campaign by Gregory A. Daddis

  Call Number: Online

  Publication Date: 2005
• Army Medical Department, 1865-1917 by Mary C. Gillett

  Call Number: Online

  Publication Date: 1995

  Also at GOV DOCS D114.19:M46/865-917
• Chemical warfare in World War I : the American experience, 1917-1918 by Charles E. Heller

  Call Number: GOV DOCS D110.9:10
• Defeating the U-boat [electronic resource] : inventing antisubmarine warfare by Jan S. Breemer

  Call Number: Online

  Publication Date: 2010
• Development of military night aviation to 1919 by William Edward Fischer, Jr

  Call Number: GOV DOCS D 301.26/6:AV 5

  Publication Date: 1998
• Dynamics of doctrine : the changes in German tactical doctrine during the First World War by Timothy T. Lupfer

  Call Number: Online & GOV DOCS D 110.9:4

  Publication Date: 1981
• Final report of Gen. John J. Pershing : Commander-in-Chief American Expeditionary Forces

  Call Number: GOV DOCS W 1.2:P 58f
• Infantry in battle by C. T. Lanham

  Call Number: GOV DOCS D1.2:IN3

  Publication Date: 1996
• Into the fight, April-June 1918 by Mark E. Grotelueschen

  Call Number: Online

  Publication Date: 2018
• Joining the Great War, April 1917-April 1918 by Eric B. Setzekorn

  Call Number: Online

  Publication Date: 2017

  Also at GOV DOCS D 114.7/6:J 66
• Learning lessons in the American Expeditionary Forces by Kenneth E. Hamburger

  Call Number: Online

  Publication Date: 1997
• Letters of Second Lieutenant Charles Wesley Chapman, Jr., December 19, 1894-May 3, 1918

  Call Number: Online

  Publication Date: 2016

  Also at GOV DOCS D 301.26/6:C 36
• Like a thunderbolt : the Lafayette Escadrille and the advent of American pursuit in World War I by Roger G. Miller

  Call Number: GOV DOCS D 301.82/7:L 13
• The Marne 15 July-6 August 1918 by Stephen C. McGeorge and Mason W. Watson

  Call Number: Online

  Publication Date: 2018
• Queenstown patrol, 1917 : the diary of commander Joseph Knefler Taussig, U.S. Navy

  Call Number: GOV DOCS D208.210:12
• Reducing the Saint-Mihiel salient, September 1918 by Walter G. Ford

  Call Number: Online

  Publication Date: 2018
• Shooting the front : allied aerial reconnaissance and photographic interpretation on the Western Front--World War I by Terrence J. Finnegan

  Call Number: GOV DOCS D 5.202:R 24

  Publication Date: 2006
• The U.S. Air Service in World War I

  Call Number: Online

  Publication Date: 1978-1979
• United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919

  Call Number: GOV DOCS D114.8: v.1-17
• United States Marine Corps in the First World War : anthology, selected bibliography, and annotated order of battle by Annette D. Amerman

  Call Number: Online

  Publication Date: 2016
• The United States Marine Corps in the World War by Edwin N. McClellan

  Call Number: GOV DOCS D 214.13:W 89/5/2014

  Publication Date: 2014
• Women Marines in World War I by Linda L. Hewitt

  Call Number: Online

  Publication Date: 1974

  Also at GOV DOCS D 214.13:W 84