World War I Memories

Edward G. Lengel is Associate Professor on the staff of the Papers of George Washington documentary editing project at the University of Virginia. He is the also the author of several books and articles, including a military biography of George Washington. Lengel has received the General and Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgeway Research Grant for bibliography-related work in recognition of his research on this bibliography

This work is an annotated list of post-war memoirs, diaries, and letters published in (or translated into) English by writers from Austria-Hungary, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, the United States, and several other countries. The author has included printed books or pamphlets found on the used book market or in a major state or international library and some rare typescripts held in the Library of Congress or the British Library...FewWorld War I veterans survive. About 4.7 million American men and thirty-three thousand women served in the military in that war. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs fewer than twenty-two hundred of its veterans are alive today. The war's diaries, letters, and memoirs have not captured the attention of Americans in the way that Civil War and World War II works have, and consequently few are in print. Furthermore, of those published many were put out by obscure publishers no longer in existence....The last meaningful selective bibliography of memoirs was War Books: A Critical Guide by Cyril Falls, published in London in 1930. World War I Memories is an admirable update of Falls's work....The work is organized alphabetically by countr

• Part 1 PrefacePart 2 AcknowledgmentsPart 3 List of AbbreviationsPart 4 IntroductionPart 5 BibliographyChapter 6 1. Australia and New ZealandChapter 7 2. Austria-HungaryChapter 8 3. CanadaChapter 9 4. FranceChapter 10 5. GermanyChapter 11 6. Great BritainChapter 12 7. ItalyChapter 13 8. RussiaChapter 14 9. South AfricaChapter 15 10. TurkeyChapter 16 11. United StatesChapter 17 12. OtherPart 18 Appendix: List of Notable and Recommended BooksPart 19 Subject IndexPart 20 About the Author