Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Abbreviations
- Explanatory notes
- I BIBLIOGRAPHIES
- II CATALOGUES, GUIDES, AND HANDBOOKS
- III GENERAL SURVEYS
- IV CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY
- V POLITICAL HISTORY
- VI FOREIGN RELATIONS
- VII SOCIAL HISTORY
- VIII ECONOMIC HISTORY
- IX LABOUR HISTORY
- X URBAN HISTORY
- XI AGRICULTURAL HISTORY
- XII SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- XIII MILITARY AND NAVAL HISTORY
- XIV RELIGIOUS HISTORY
- XV HISTORY OF THE FINE ARTS
- XVI INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
- Index of authors, editors, and translators
XIII - MILITARY AND NAVAL HISTORY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Abbreviations
- Explanatory notes
- I BIBLIOGRAPHIES
- II CATALOGUES, GUIDES, AND HANDBOOKS
- III GENERAL SURVEYS
- IV CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY
- V POLITICAL HISTORY
- VI FOREIGN RELATIONS
- VII SOCIAL HISTORY
- VIII ECONOMIC HISTORY
- IX LABOUR HISTORY
- X URBAN HISTORY
- XI AGRICULTURAL HISTORY
- XII SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- XIII MILITARY AND NAVAL HISTORY
- XIV RELIGIOUS HISTORY
- XV HISTORY OF THE FINE ARTS
- XVI INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
- Index of authors, editors, and translators
Summary
For guidance to the literature of this topic the advanced student is at once referred to (17–18, 26, 28). Indispensable for the two World Wars are the ‘Official Histories’, published by H.M.S.O.; the major categories with key items are listed in (2144–5).
Printed sources
2067 Bell, Julian (ed.). We did not fight: 1914–1918 experiences of war resisters. 1935.
2068 Blake, Robert (ed.). The private papers of Douglas Haig, 1914–1919. 1952. A selection. See also (2178).
2069 Carrington, Charles E. Soldier from the war returning. 1964. Sensitive account of life at the front during World War I.
2070 Churchill, Winston Spencer. The Second World War. Boston, Mass., 1948–53, 6 vols.
2071 Flower, Desmond and James Reeves (eds.). The war, 1939–1945. 1960. Documentary.
2072 Fremantle, Sydney R. My naval career, 1880–1928. 1949. One of the more useful naval memoirs.
2073 Glubb, John. Into battle: a soldier's diary of the great war. 1978.
2074 Graham, John W. Conscription and conscience, with a preface by Clifford Allen. 1971. Originally published in 1922.
2075 Graves, Robert. Goodbye to all that. New York, 1930. One of the finest autobiographical books on World War I. Another, on 1916–17, is Siegfried Sassoon. Memoirs of an infantry officer. New York, 1930.
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