Bibliography Listing Reference Books for WW1 Research

The books and documents listed here have been used in this website. Most of them specifically relate to sources used to develop the Battle Study about the Second Battle of Ypres by Joanna Legg.

13th Battalion Royal Highlanders of Canada 1914 - 1919, by F.C. Fetherstonhaugh, 1925

A Crown of Life: The World of John McCrae, by Dianne Graves, Spellmount Limited, 1997, ISBN 1-873376-86-3

A Higher Form of Killing, The Secret History of Gas and Germ Warfare, Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman

An Illustrated Companion to the First World War, by Anthony Bruce, Michael Joseph Ltd., 1989, ISBN 0-7181-2781-1

Atlas des Nécropoles Nationales, Ministère des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre, published by La documentation Française, 1994, ISBN: 2-11-002737-1

Before Endeavours Fade, by Rose E B Coombs, MBE, After the Battle Publications, 1990, ISBN 0 900913 61 4

Between Genius and Genocide, Daniel Charles

British Military Operations: France and Belgium 1915, compiled by Brigadier-General J E Edmonds and Captain G C Wynne, Macmillan and Co. Ltd., London 1927

Canada In Flanders, by Sir Max Aitken M.P., Hodder & Stoughton, 1916

Can't Shoot a Man with a Cold, Colin Campbell and Rosalind Green, Argyll Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1 902831 76 4

Der Chemische Krieg, Rudolf Hanslian, Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1927

Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918: Sommer und Herbst 1915, 8. Band. Im Auftrage des Reichskriegsministeriums, Mittler und Sohn, Berlin, 1932, pp. 34-49

Der Erste Weltkrieg, Dokumente, Helmut Otto und Karl Schmiedel, Militaerverlag der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (VEB), Berlin 1977

Der Völkerkrieg, Eine Chronik der Ereignisse seit dem 1. Juli 1914, edited by C H Baer, Verlag von Julius Hoffmann, Stuttgart, 1915

Die Schlachten und Gefechte des Grossen Krieges 1914-1918, zusammengestellt vom Grossen Generalstab, Hermann Sack, Berlin 1919

For Remembrance, Soldier Poets Who Have Fallen in the War, by A St. John Adcock, Hodder & Stoughton

Gas! The Battle for Ypres, 1915, by James L McWilliams and R James Steel, Vanwell Publishing Ltd., 1985

General Headquarters 1914-1916 and its Critical Decisions, by General Erich von Falkenhayn, (English translation) Hutchinson & Co, London

Geschichte des Reserve-Infanterie-Regiments Nr. 209, by Oberleutnant d. R. a. D. Schulz, Oberstleutnant a. D. Kissler, Leutnant d. R. a. D Schulze, Oldenburg i. O/Berlin, 1930

Geschichte des Reserve-Infanterie-Regiments Nr. 210, by Dr. phil. Günther Gieraths, Gerhard Stalling, Berlin 1928

Geschichte des Reserve-Infanterie-Regiments Nr. 238, by Georg Herbrechtsmeier, Neustadt.

Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), Compiled from records of Intelligence section of the General Staff, American Expeditionary Forces, at General Headquarters, Chaumont, France 1919, (First published 1920), London Stamp Exchange, 1989, ISBN 0-948130-87-3

Ieper in oude prentkaarten, by D Masure, Europese Bibliotheek - Zaltbommel/Nederland

In Flanders Fields, The Story of John McCrae, by John F Prescott, The Boston Mills Press, 1985 ISBN 0-919783-07-4

Königlich Preussisches Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment 213, by Max Tiessen, J J Augustin, Hamburg-New York, 1937

Les Armées Françaises dans la Grande Guerre, Tome II, Troisième Partie

Menin Gate & Last Post, by Dominiek Dendooven, De Klaproos Editions, 2001 , (English version) ISBN 90-5508-051-9 (www.klaproos.be)

Official History of the Canadian Forces in The Great War 1914-1919, Volume I, by Colonel A Fortescue Duguid, DSO, BSc, RCA, J O Patenaude, I.S.O., 1938

Official History of the Canadian Forces in The Great War 1914-1919, Volume I, Chronology, Appendices and Maps, J O Patenaude, I.S.O., 1938

Plumer of Messines, by General Sir Charles Harington, GCB, GBE, John Murray, London, 1935

Serre (Somme), by Jack Horsfall & Nigel Cave, Battleground Europe Series, Leo Cooper, 1996, ISBN 0 85052 508 X

St. Julien (Ypres) , by Graham Keech, Battleground Europe Series, Leo Cooper, 2001, ISBN 0 85052 839 9

Surgeon with the Kaiser's Army, by Stephen Westman, MD, FRCS, William Kimber, 6 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1, 1968, p. 57

Tales of Talbot House, Everyman's Club in Poperinghe & Ypres 1915-1918, by P B Clayton, MC, FSA, Chatto & Windus, London, 1919, p. vii

The First Great Air War, Richard Townsend Bickers, Hodder & Stoughton, 1988, ISBN 0-34026379-2

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Artillery, by Ian V Hogg, Guild Publishing, London, 1987

The Miracle Flower, The Story of the Flanders Fields Memorial Poppy, by Moina Michael, Dorrance and Company, Philadelphia, 1941

The Poisonous Cloud, Chemical Warfare in the First World War, by Ludwig Fritz Haber, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986 (ISBN 0 19 858142-4)

War Diary of the 5th Army Corps, DA & QMG for the month of April 1915 dated 30/4/15, ref. WO 95/4048, National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England

War Diary of 5th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders (51st Highland Division) ref. WO95/2866, National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England

War Diary of the 1st Canadian Division, April 1915 ref. WO 95/3716 & 3717, National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England

War Diary of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade, April 1915: Diary of Operations 22nd April to 5th May, 1915 ref. WO 95/3772, National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England

War Diary of the 10th Canadian Battalion, April 1915 ref. WO 95/3770, National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England

War Diary of the 16th Canadian Battalion, April 1915 ref. WO 95/3781, National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England