Links to World War One sites



Associations, Magazines, Battletours & Books:

The Western Front Association (Magazine: Stand To!)
The premier society in the UK for research into WW1 activities.
Everybody interested in WW1 should be a member of this association!!

Cross & Cockade International (Magazine: Cross & Cocade Journal)l
World War I aviation society. Many interesting WW1 aviation links on this site

Ray Westlake - Military Books 
Ray publishes a quarterly mailorder catalogue with new books on the Great War - especially useful for people from The Netherlands and Belgium. Books that can hardly be found in Dutch and Belgian bookstores can be obtained through this site
 
List of websites of  Antiquarian Booksellers    
A list of booksellers of Second World War and Great War books

Great Northern Publishing
Have made a name for themselves with their award-winning and best-selling Great War books, which include the works of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather and the definitive account of the German naval attacks on Scarborough, Whitby and Hartlepool in 1914 (now a BBC documentary). Mail order customers can get special discounts (all over the world) so visit the site and have a look at their small, but rapidly growing list of Great War titles.
Publishers of The Great War magazine - launched 3rd September 2001 - full details on site.

Link lists:

The battle of Verdun, the Greatest Battle ever
The Battle of Verdun, which was fought in 1916 between France and Germany, is the largest in world history and caused over 700,000 casualties

The Accrington Pals
This homepage is dedicated to the fameus 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment.

The Heritage of The Great War/De erfenis van De Groote Oorlog
Rob Ruggenberg's very interesting website - worth visiting

Hellfire Corner 
Tom Morgan's great website

The Great War 1914-1918
Karl Murrey's website with a lot of links

Letters from the Great War
This site contains original letters from Lieutenant Percy Smith to his old headmaster and the headmasters daughter. These letters were found in a bookcase that had not been opened for years.

To the Links of 'World War I (1914 - 1918)'
Lots of links

To the Links of 'WWI Document Archive'
Lots of information on all aspects of WW1

To the Links of 'Trenches on the Web'
A excellent collection of material on all aspects of WW1

To the Links of the 'Great War Society' (USA)
Another site with lots of links

The Great War Historical Society
It is what it sounds like....it's really terrific

Canada and the First World War
Beautiful designed site: Valour remembered - a complete story of Canadians in WWI

Australian War Memorial
This site is momentous. Australian records on line, with 27,000 photos!

The American War Library
A lot of links on all wars - a hughe site - a lot of information

Trenches on the Web
Another must see!

Encyclopae of the First World War
All you want to know on the Great War can be found here!

Belgium and the Great War:

In Flanders Fields
A new museum in Yper - modern multimedia presentation - a must to visitors

The Menin Gate Memorial
Hinchinbrooke Battlefields of the Great War
Battlefields of Ypres
Oorlogsmuseum Hooge Crater
Photo Archive: The Ypres Salient

La Grande Guerre:

L'Association 1914-1918
L'Association 1914-1918 was founded in 1990 and it publishes a quarterly journal in French, called LA GRANDE GUERRE MAGAZIN.
The goal of the association is to provide a better knowledge of WW1 for everyone interested in this period (the site is also in the English language)

Les Forums de l'Histoire 
It is very difficult to find French information on WWI - here is a French WWI site with some very good material with many French and English links (liens = links).

British sources of research:

Public Records Office, Kew
For researchers: the very best of British and Commonwealth records.

GH Williams Collection 
WW1 aviation archives held at the University of Dallas, Texas.

UK National Register of Archives
Not very well-known...but useful for students of WWI.

Literature:

Ernst Jünger
The unofficial Ernst Jünger Homepage - a lot of information on the famous German author

Lost poets of the Great War
A presentation on English World War One Poets

Miscellaneous:

Flying Corps - a beautiful flight & combat simulator

WW1 Modeller's HomePage - interesting WWI modelling

Medals of the Great War - a collectors item

The Great War - a site devoted to Military Artifacts, Relics, Equipment and Reenactment

My Mother's War -- Memento's of WW1
The story of an American WW1 nurse in France. Told by her daughter.

The bombing, siege and fall of Antwerp  
An interesting site, not only about Antwerp, but with lots of magazine pictures from the period, used to illustrate events of which there were no suitable photographs available.

The Western Front Museum  
A site worth visiting for those who are interested in WW1 battlefield relics and cartridges.

Photos of the Great War  
Nearly 2,000 pictures of World War One on all possible subjects. You name it, you'll find it. Impressive!!

Zwerdling Nursing Archives
The Zwerdling Nursing Archives specializes in rare art and photographic postcards related to the nursing profession worldwide.
The primary function of the Archives is to make accessible nursing images not found in any other format for projects and studies.
World War I is represented in depth.

Links on internment in World War I:

Refugees in the Netherlands during WW1
A comprehensive site on civilian and military refugees and internees
in the Netherlands.

Internment Camp Ruhleben
British civilians in Ruhleben Camp near Berlin during WWI

Internment of Ukrainians in Canada 1914-1920
Very interesting site on illegal internment of Ukrainians

World War I Internment Camps (Parks Canada)
On civilian internment in the USA during World War I

The Hague Convention 1907
The complete text of the The Hague Convention concerning internment of soldiers


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