Anthologies of Short Stories of the First World War
Great First World War Stories (London: Chancellor, 1994): this is a reprint of Great Short Stories of the War, 1930, and includes, among others: H. M. Tomlinson (‘A Raid Night’), F. Britten Austin (‘The End of an Epoch’), ‘Saki’ (‘The Square Egg’), R. H. Mottram (‘The Devil’s Own’) and Algernon Blackwood (‘Cain’s Atonement’).
Women, Men and the Great War, ed. Trudi Tate (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995): has a special interest in the gender experience and perception of the war, and includes, among others: Wyndham Lewis (‘The French Poodle’), Ford Madox Ford (‘The Scaremonger’), Virginia Woolf (‘The Mark on the Wall’), May Sinclair (‘Red Tape’) and Mary Butts (‘Speed the Plough’).
Political and Social History of the First World War
DeGroot, Gerard, Blighty: British Society in the Era of the Great War (London: Longman, 1996).
Marwick, Arthur, The Deluge: British Society and the First World War (London: Macmillan, 1991 (1965)).
Strachan, Hew (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Strachan, Hew, The First World War: A New Illustrated History (London: Simon & Schuster, 2003).
Cultural History and Impact of the First World War
Eksteins, Modris, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (Boston: Houghton Mifflin; and London: Bantam Press, 1989).
Todman, Dan, The Great War: Myth and Memory (London: Hambledon and London, 2005).
Tylee, Claire M., The Great War and Women’s Consciousness: Images of Militarism and Womanhood in Women’s Writings, 1914–64 (Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1990).
Studies of the War’s Literature
Bergonzi, Bernard, Heroes’ Twilight; A Study of the Literature of the Great War (1965; Manchester: Carcanet, 1997 [1965]).
Eby, Cecil, The Road to Armageddon: The Martial Spirit in English Popular Literature 1870–1914 (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1987).
Higgonet, Margaret R., Lines of Fire: Women Writers of World War I (New York: Plume, 1999).
Onions, John, English Fiction and Drama of the Great War, 1918– 39 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990).
Parfitt, George, Fiction of the First World War: A Study (London: Faber, 1988).
Raitt, Suzanne, and Tate, Trudi (eds.), Women’s Fiction and the Great War (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997).
Sherry, Vincent, The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).