Cruttwell, C. R. M. F. A History of the Great War, 1914-1918. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1936. D521.C889h
Howard, Michael. The First World War: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 [2002]. [UND Online access and print: D521.H69 2002 and D521.H645 2007] **GOOD PLACE TO START
Sondhaus, Lawrence. World War I: The Global Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. [ILL; WorldCat record]
Storey, William Kelleher. First World War: A Concise Global History. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009. [UND Online access and print: D523.S745 2009]
Strachan, Hew. The First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. [D521.S86 2001 and D521.S86 2004]
Winter, Jay, ed. The Cambridge History of the First World War. 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Due to be released February 28, 2014 – on order for Hesburgh]
Origins/Causes
Afflerbach, Holger, and David Stevenson. An Improbable War? The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007. D511.I46 2007
Hamilton, Richard F., and Holger H. Herwig. The Origins of World War I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. D511.O68 2003.
Joll, James, and Gordon Martel. The Origins of the First World War. New York: Pearson Longman, 2007. D511.J735 2007.
Sheffield, G. D. Forgotten Victory: The First World War: Myths and Realities. London: Headline. 2001. [ILL; WorldCat record]
Diplomacy
Stevenson, David. The First World War and International Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. D511.S816 1988
Zeman, Z. A. N. The Gentlemen Negotiators: A Diplomatic History of the First World War. New York: Macmillan, 1971. D610.Z44 1971
War Economies
Broadberry, S. N., and Mark Harrison. The Economics of World War I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. D635.E36 2005
Offer, Avner. The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. [UND Online access and in print: D635.O38 1989]
Consequences/Legacies
Eksteins, Modris. Rites of Spring: the Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. D523.E37 1989
Winter, Jay. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. D523.W58 1995
War and Society
Home, John. State, Society, and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. D523.S685 1997
Wall, Richard, and Jay Winter. The Upheaval of War: Family, Work, and Welfare in Europe, 1914-1918. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. D523.U7 1988
Culture
Cork, Richard. A Bitter Truth: Avant-garde Art and the Great War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. N9150.C67 1994
Goldman, Dorothy. Women Writers and the Great War. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995. PR478.W65 G65 1995
Eksteins, Modris. Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age, 1989. D523.E37 1989
Experiences of War
Ashworth, Tony. Trench Warfare, 1914-1918: The Live and Let Live System. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1980. D523.A756 1980
Barham, Peter. Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. RC550.B37 2004
Frantzen, Allen J. Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. D523.F722 2004
Babington, Anthony. Shell-shock: A Hhistory of the Changing Attitudes of War Neurosis. London: Leo Cooper, 1997. [ILL; WorldCat record]
Chickering, Roger, and Stig Förster. Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. D530.G68 2000
Halpern, Paul G. A Naval History of World War I, 2003. London: Routledge. [ILL]
Hartcup, Guy. The War of Invention: Scientific Developments, 1914-18. Washington: Brassey’s Defence Publishers, 1988. D639.S2 H37 1988
Horne, John. State, Society, and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. D523.S685 1997
Kennett, Lee B. The First Air War, 1914-1918. New York: Free Press, 1991. D600.K46 1991
Morrow, John Howard. The Great War in the Air: Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1993. [ILL; WorldCat record]
Propaganda
Haste, Cate. Keep the Home Fires Burning: Propaganda in the First World War. London: Allen Lane, 1977. [ILL; WorldCat record]
Paddock, Troy. A Fall to Arms: Propaganda, Public Opinion, and Newspapers in the Great War. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. D639.P6 C35 2004
Graphic/Visual Interpretations of the War
Sacco, Joe and Adam Hochschild. The Great War. July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme. An Illustrated Panorama. New York: W. W. Norton, 2013. D545.S7 S23 2013
Tardi, Jacques and Kim Thompson. It Was the War of the Trenches. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2010. [On order for Hesburgh]