Books
David M. Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War
and American Society
Examines the impact of the war on the home front, including
its impact on labor, dissenters, intellectuals, and African
Americans, and assesses Wilson's presidential leadership.
Films
All Quiet on the Western Front
This anti-war film, based upon the 1929 novel by Erich
Maria Remarque, received the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The movie's prologue states:
This story is neither an accusation nor a confession,
and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure
to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply
to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may
have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war....
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0020629/
Gallipoli
Masterminded by Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty,
Winston Churchill, the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 and
1916 was designed to take Turkey out of the war by gaining
the Dardanelles strait and capturing Constantinople. A
lack of cooperation among the Allies and tough Turkish
resistance made the campaign a costly failure.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0082432/
Web Sites
Recommended Web Site:
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/
This companion site to the PBS and BBC series contains
interviews, time lines, maps, and images.
Related Web Sites:
Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/
59 one to five minute sound recordings of speeches by
American leaders at the turn of the century on issues
and events surrounding the First World War and the presidential
election of 1920.
Trenches on the Web
http://www.worldwar1.com/reflib.htm
This site contains documents, biographies, posters, maps,
time lines, statistics, and photographs.
The World War I Document Archive
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi
The site contains documents by year, Memorials, Personal
Reminiscences, a WWI Biographical Dictionary, a WWI Image
Archive, Special Topics and Commentaries, The Maritime
War, The Medical Front, and Conventions, Treaties, & Official
Papers.
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