Reds and Wobblies: working-class radicalism and the state in New Zealand 1915-1925 Talk presented at the National Library of New Zealand, 22 October 2013, by Jared Davidson about New…
The guns of August - Barbara W. Tuchman In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize–winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in…
Failure of a revolution: Germany 1918-1919 - Sebastian Haffner Interesting book examining the reasons for the failure of the German revolution. Reproduced for…
All quiet on the western front - Erich Maria Remarque Paul Bäumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I.
A world undone: The story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 - G.J. Meyer The First World War is one of history's greatest tragedies.
To end all wars: A story of loyalty and rebellion, 1914-1918 - Adam Hochschild World War I stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational…
The crisis in the German social democracy (the Junius pamphlet) - Rosa Luxemburg German communist Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the imperialist rivalries that exploded in World War I…
The Good Soldier Švejk - Jaroslav Hašek Satirical anti-war novel in which the absurdity and hypocrisy of the military, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the church are repeatedly revealed…
Birth of Our Power - Victor Serge Pan-European novel, taking us from the workers' stronghold of Barcelona at the end of the First World War where hopes for revolution are fueled…
The British West Indies Regiment mutiny, 1918 - Steven Johns A short history of the mutiny at Taranto in Italy by West Indian soldiers in the British army at the…
100 Years Ago: The Philadelphia dockers strike and Local 8 of the IWW - Mouvement Communiste and Kolektivně proti Kapitălu A text published to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of an important strike…
“The Ku Klux Government”: Vigilantism, lynching, and the repression of the IWW Michael Cohen's journal article on the extra-parliamentary repression of the IWW that ran parallel…