World War I Memories: An Annotated Bibliography of Personal Accounts Published in English Since 1919

Edward Lengel, Associate Professor and editor on the staff of the Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia, has, with World War I Memories, compiled and annotated an important, compact volume. Lengel divides the over 1,400 entries from “belligerent nations (p. v) into 12 chapters based on the home country: Australia and New Zealand, Austria‐Hungary, Canada, France, Germany, the UK, Italy, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, the US and other countries combined”. The majority of listings contain annotations, with the exception of a few publications that the author could not examine first‐hand.

As with any volume covering such a...