General Reference Sources

History 96.2 - The First World War

Chronologies

Mellersh, H. E. L.
Chronology of world history / H.E.L. Mellersh.
Imprint Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1999. Edition Rev. and updated ed.
Descript 4 v. ; 26 cm.
Baker Berry Ref. ÊD11 .M39 1999Ê v.1-4Ê

Chronology of European history, 15,000 B.C. to 1997 / edited by John Powell ; associate editors: E.G. Weltin... [et al.] ; project editor, Wendy Sacket.
Imprint Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998.
Descript 2 v. (xxv, 1835 p.) : ill., maps, ports ; 29 cm.
Baker Berry Ref. ÊD11 .C576 1998Ê

Shaw, Antony.
World in conflict, 1914-45 / Antony Shaw and Ian Westwell.
Imprint London ; Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. Descript 416 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 29 cm.
Baker Berry Ref. ÊD521 .S42 2000Ê

Encyclopedias/Dictionaries

Perrett, Bryan.
The battle book : crucial conflicts in history from 1469 BC to the present / Bryan Perrett.
Imprint London : Arms and Armour ; New York, NY : Distributed in the USA by Sterling Pub. Co., 1996, c1992. Edition Paperback edition.
Descript 349 p. ; 25 cm.
Baker Berry Ref. ÊD25.A2 P47 1996Ê

The European powers in the First World War : an encyclopedia / edited by Spencer C. Tucker ; associate editors, Laura Matysek Wood, Justin D. Murphy.
Imprint New York : Garland Pub., 1996.
Descript xxix, 783 p. ; 27 cm.
Baker Berry ÊD510 .E97 1996Ê

Pope, Stephen.
The dictionary of the First World War / by Stephen Pope and Elizabeth-Anne Wheal ; consultant editor, Keith Robbins ; with original maps by Brendan Eddison.
Imprint New York : St. Martin's Press, c1995.
Descript xxviii, 561 p. : 25 maps ; 24 cm.
Baker Berry Ref. ÊD510 .P66 1996Ê Ê

Bibliographies

Enser, A. G. S.
A subject bibliography of the First World War : books in English, 1914-1987 / A.G.S. Enser
Imprint Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Gower, c1990
Descript xi, 412 p. ; 23 cm
Baker Berry ÊZ6207.E8 E58 1990Ê

Reader's guide to military history / edited by Charles Messenger.
Imprint London ; Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, c2001.
Descript xxxvi, 948 p. ; 29 cm.
Baker Berry Ref. ÊD25 .R35 2001Ê

Ouditt, Sharon, 1963-
Women writers of the First World War : an annotated bibliography / Sharon Ouditt. Imprint London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Descript x, 230 p. ; 24 cm.
Baker Berry ÊZ2014.W37 O93 2000

BiographiesÊ

Herwig, Holger H.
Biographical dictionary of World War I / Holger H. Herwig and Neil M. Heyman
Imprint Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1982
Descript xiv, 424 p. : maps ; 29 cm
Baker Berry ÊD507 .H47 1982Ê

Davis, Henry Blaine.
Generals in khaki / Henry Blaine Davis, Jr.
Imprint Raleigh, N.C. : Pentland Press, c1998.
Descript 411 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Baker Berry ÊD507 .D28 1998Ê

Words and Phrases

Hargrave, Basil.
Origins and meanings of popular phrases and names
Imprint London, T.W. Laurie [1948] Edition [Rev. ed.]
Descript vi, 350 p. 20 cm
Baker Berry Ê829.3 H223oÊ

Fraser, Edward.
Soldier and sailor words and phrases; including slang of the trenches and the air force; British and American war-words and service terms and expressions in every-day use; nicknames, sobriquets, and titles of regiments, with their origins; the battle-honours of the Great War awarded to the British Army; compiled by Edward Fraser ... and John Gibbons ..
Imprint London, G. Routledge and sons, ltd., 1925
Descript vii, 372 p. front., plates. 22 cm
Baker Berry Ê829.709 F862sÊ

Brophy, John, 1899-1965.
Songs and slang of the British soldier: 1914-1918, edited by John Brophy and Eric Partridge
Imprint London, E. Partridge at the Scholartis Press, 1930
Descript vii, [1], 222 p. 22 cm
Baker Berry Ê821.1 B792sÊ

Dictionnaire des termes militaires et de l'argot poilu
Imprint Paris, Librairie Larousse [1916]
Descript vi, [7]-320 p. illus. 19 cm
Storage Ê355.03 D561Ê

Mausser, Otto Ernst, 1880-1942.
Deutsche soldatensprache, ihr aufbau und ihre probleme dargestellt von Otto Mausser; hrsg. vom Verband detuscher vereine für volkskunde
Imprint Strassburg, K. J. Trübner, 1917
Descript vii, 132 p., 2 l. 21 cm
Baker Berry Ê830.079 M448dÊ