Directory of Art and Literature Resources

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A listing of web sites relating to the art and literature of World War I (a.k.a. the Great War).

Subcategories

• Art
• Music
• Personal Accounts
• Poetry

Resources in This Category

• Action Front

  http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Boyd_Cable/Action_Front/
  Full text of a set of short stories written by Boyd Cable in 1916 and based on extracts from the official despatches.

• All Quiet on the Western Front

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front
  An encyclopedia article giving the plot, themes, and adaptations of the book by Erich Maria Remarque.

• Civilization

  http://www.eldritchpress.org/wwone/civil.html
  The complete on-line book by Georges Duhamel.

• Mary Riter Hamilton: Traces of War

  http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/traces-of-war/index-e.html
  Presents the art works related to the First World War of Mary Riter Hamilton. Her task was to provide paintings of the battlefields of France and Belgium for publication in a veterans’ magazine, The Gold Stripe.

• One Man's Initiation - 1917

  http://www.eldritchpress.org/wwone/initiation.html
  Complete text of book by John Dos Passos.

• Prose and Poetry

  http://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/
  Profiles and samples of poets and authors who produced work relating to the war.

• Publications of War

  http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/publications
  Images of pages from a number of wartime publications, including a complete run of "The Hydra", the journal of the Craglockhart Military Hospital. From The First World War Poetry Digital Archive.

• The Georgian Poets and The War Poets

  http://www.literature-study-online.com/essays/war-poets.html
  Essay showing how the romantic poetry of The Georgian Poets evolved into harsh modern realism under the impact of the First World War by Stephen Colbourn.

• Under Fire - The Story of a Squad

  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BarUndr.html
  Complete text of on-line book by Henri Barbusse.

• World War 1 Postcards

  http://www.lib.unc.edu/dc/graypc/
  Bowman Gray Collection from The University of North Carolina offering thousands of postcard images.

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