Account of the First Battle of Ypres in 1914, when the British Expeditionary Force held the line against German forces at enormous cost.

Originally published in 1918.

Oral history of the British experience on the Western Front in 1915, drawn from the letters, diaries, and testimonies of those who served.

Account of the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917, examining both the military action and its enduring significance as a defining moment of Canadian national identity.

Contemporary comprehensive history of the First World War published in 1919, with particular attention to Canada's military contribution to the Allied cause.

Account of the First World War that interweaves the stories of those who fought with those who opposed the war, examining the conflict between loyalty and conscience in Britain.

Memoir and dispatches of American war correspondent Frederick Palmer covering his year reporting from the front during the opening phase of the Great War.

Wartime argument for compulsory national military service in Canada, published in 1917 at the height of the conscription crisis. Merritt was president of the Canadian Defence League and a prominent advocate for compulsory military service. He died of influenza in October 1918, weeks before the armistice, having lived to see both the conscription he championed and the bitter French-English divisions it provoked. The town of Merritt, British Columbia is named after him.

Account of the 1917 Halifax Explosion.

WWI memoir of a Canadian medical officer who served in France, treating gas casualties and recording life behind the lines.