This LibGuide will assist you with the study of Modern History HSC Core World War I 1914-1919.
World War I Gallipoli and Western Front Database The College subscribes to this Australian-developed database by Camp Gallipoli in conjunction with Dynamic Learning Online. It contains articles, images, eBooks, diaries and documentaries on World War I.
A Timeline of World War I This link provides a timeline of events during World War I. The timeline is divided into chapters by year. Click on the relevant year to access the timeline for that period.
World War I History section covers all major battles on the Western Front and Gallipoli. It also includes day-by-day original source document diary entries for Gallipoli.
Documentaries and Video Footage This section of the database provides links to three videos:
WORLD WAR I
Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 The Australian War Memorial provides access to this digitised set of books. Each volume contains chapters which can be downloaded separately as pdfs. These resources were originally published in 1941.
First World War 1914-1918 This weblink by the Australian War Memorial provides an overview of WWI. Follow the links at the bottom of the page to a number of essays, articles, talks, research guides and exhibitions on WWI.
World War 1 Timeline This timeline by the State Library of NSW details the significant events of WWI. Click on the links on the right to skip along to timeline.
Gallipoli and the ANZACS This website by the Department of Veterans' Affairs provides a reliable starting point for information on WWI.
Military Events This weblink by the Australian War Memorial provides links to major military events during all wars. This is particularly useful if you researching a specific military events. Links provided are to a variety of source material including diary events, personal correspondence, photographs and information relating to the battalions.
BBC History World War One This weblink provides links to a vast collection of resources by BBC on World War One. It is worth looking at and exploring topics such as: the war unit spinning the truth in WWI, studying WWI, and the war at home (UK).
State Library of NSW - WWI The State Library of NSW holds a rich collection of resources on the Great War including diaries, letters, maps, photographs, artworks, posters and newspapers.
WAR ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Australians on the Western Front This website by the Department of Veteran Affairs takes the reader along The Australian Remembrance Trail in France and Belgium. Follow the links on the right to skip along the trail. The links on the left of the website provide further information to timelines and locations along the Western Front, the Fromelles Military Cemetery and audio-casts featuring the extraordinary stories of Australian soldiers on the Western Front.
WWI The Western Front This weblink by the Australian Army History Unit provides a concise account of reliable information about the Western Front.
THE HOMEFRONTS IN BRITAIN AND GERMANY
British Homefront This weblink provides a list and further links to various information on the British homefront. It is produced by Spartacus Educational and edited by John Simkin.
World War One at Home This weblink provides links to many resources showing how WWI affected the people and places of the UK and Ireland. The BBC partnered with Imperial War Museums and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to produce this site.
TURNING POINTS
U.S. Entry in WWI, 1917 This weblink is produced by the Office of the Historian, a department of the US Government.
America and World War One The History Learning Site produced this weblink on the entry of America to WWI.
America in World War I This weblink is to EyeWitness to History.com website. Follow the links on America in the Great War, America declares war, the sinking of the Lusitania and sabotage at home.
America enters World War I This weblink is to the History channel website entry for 6th April 1917.
The Zimmerman Telegram This weblink is by the National Archives, a department of the US Government and looks at teaching about documents and uses the Zimmerman Telegram as an example.
Ludendorff's Spring Offensive This weblink is by the History channel on Ludendorff's gamble for victory on the Western Front.
ALLIED VICTORY
Armistice - The End of World War I This weblink is the entry on Armistice on the EyeWitness to History.com website.
Treaty of Versailles This weblink is to the entry in Britannica Encyclopedia on the Treaty of Versailles. Follow the links on the right information on Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson.
Treaty of Versailles 1919 This weblink is Museum of Australian Democracy and includes digitised copies of The Treaty of Peace between the Allied Powers and Germany.
940.3 WWI
940.311 Causes and Origins of WWI
940.394 ANZACS
940.40994 Australia and WWI
940.4144 Western Front
940.426 Gallipoli
940.427 Somme, Fromelles, Pozieres
940.439 Armistice
Somme Mud
Beautifully presented young readers' edition of the bestselling memoir of a young soldier on the First World War's Western Front nbsp; "It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it and many of us die in it. We see it, feel it, eat it and curse it, but we can't escape it, not even by dying." Private Edward Lynch was just 18 when he enlisted in the army. When he returned to Australia almost three years later, he wrote Somme Mud, a vivid account of the horrific realities of trench warfare from an ordinary infantryman's point of view: the traumatized soldiers and ravaged landscapes, the curious mixture of hatred, empathy, and admiration for the equally naive enemy soldiers, the disillusionment and the camaraderie. Lynch's candor and down-to-earth wit make Somme Mud engaging for any reader, while archival photographs, a full glossary, and editor Will Davies' explanatory chapter introductions make this edition an illuminating text for students. As well as a memoir of one man's experience of war, Somme Mud is an evocative record of the language and attitudes of early twentieth century Australia.
Birdsong
Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient. Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come.
Remembering Them - by Big Sky Publishing (sponsored by the Department of Veteran Affairs)
available in itunes and Google Play
Provides a geo-coded list and historical descriptions of museums, memorials, shrines, statues, monuments, war graves and other Australian sites that commemorate Australia's wartime history.
The Gallipoli Story by
Summary: An unforgettable and tough journey deep into the heartland of the Gallipoli campaign, award-winning journalist Patrick Carlyon digs past the myths to explore the lives and choices of the men -- soldiers, politicians and generals alike -- who found themselves caught up in a battle fought far from home.
Eventual Poppy Day by 
All Quiet on the Western Front by
Summary: We were eighteen and had begun to love the world and love being in it; but we had to shoot at it. The first shell to land went straight for our hearts. We've been cut off from real action, from getting on, from progress. We don't believe in those things anymore; we believe in the war. (Back cover)
1914 by 
1915 by
Summary: When Australia throws its support behind Britain in its fight against Germany, young teacher Stan Moore is one of the first to join up, swapping the classroom for adventure in Europe. But the 11th Battalion is sent with the newly formed Anzac Corp to Gallipoli where Stan is confronted by the hard lessons of war. (Back cover).
1916 by 
1917 by
Summary: The German planes patrolled in hunting squads. They flew fast fighting craft, streaking across the sky in tight formation. The greatest of them was the Red Barron, the deadliest ace on the Front. He'd shot down twenty-one of our planes in a single month. And now we were in his firing line. The war in France rages in the skies, and support for the war in Australia turns cold. Alex flies high above the trenches of the Western Front, while a world away his sister Maggie finds herself in the midst of political upheaval. Somehow, both must find the courage to fight on.
1918 by
Summary: The planes kept flying low above them. They were dropping bombs and the noise drowned out all other sounds. After an hour the signal rang out and they surged forward through the smoke. Thousands of men screaming and yelling, their line was kilometres wide. Behind them came Monash's tanks, those huge, new mobile machines. They smothered the land they ran over; flattening the crops and then any wire left standing. With Russia out of the war, the Germans have sent all the troops to the Western Front. Almost defeated, a small group of Australians fight to hold the enemy back at Villers Brettoneux. Weary after years of fighting and deadlock, Ned and his mates know that the war will be lost if they can't turn the tide. More and more, Ned's thoughts turn to home, not knowing if he will ever see his family, or his brother, again? (Back cover).
