CEF Study Group - Recommended Websites - 1 Sept 2010

The Great War Flying Museum – Brampton, Canada
Formed in 1970 this all-volunteer group is dedicated to recreating the sights, sounds and feel of World War One combat aircraft. They build, maintain and fly seven World War One replica fighter aircraft. These include the following: S.E.5a, Fokker DR1, Fokker D.VII, Nieuport 28, and the Sopwith 1½ Strutter. E-mail: [email protected] [CEF Study Group – Jan 2007]
http://www.greatwarflyingmuseum.com/
 
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster. [CEF Study Group - August 2006]
http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/
 
WW1Cemeteries.com
This website site currently contains over 1250 different images of the First World War Cemeteries of France and Belgium, as well as numerous other images of Military cemeteries and memorials from around the world. All of these cemeteries have been personally visited and photographed by the authors. The site also contains many other Military cemeteries and memorials from all around the world and features regimental headstone badges, a cemetery index for Victoria Cross recipients, links to other Great War websites, and an index of "Shot at Dawn" soldiers. Again, another well designed and presented website. [CEF Study Group - June 2006]
http://ww1cemeteries.com/
 
Today is Free - 360 Panoramic Images of Cemeteries
This unique website provides a 360 degree panoramic view of a select number of cemeteries in Belgium, France, Italy and Germany. [Recommendation by Alain Dubois] [CEF Study Group - Oct 2008]
http://www.todayisfree.com/
 
The Great War Website - Formation of the Volksbund
With the end of the First World War the upkeep of German military cemeteries in France and Belgium came to an abrupt end. Organizations attached to the German army which had looked after the graves during the war were disbanded. The only official military war grave organization operative after 1918 was the Central-Nachweise-Amt, a bureau in the Prussian war ministry. Under the terms of the Versailles Treaty the responsibility of this bureau for the maintenance of German military cemeteries outside Germany's borders was taken out of its hands and handed over to the governments of the respective countries where German soldiers were buried. [Recommended by zipperheads9] [CEF Study Group – Nov 2008]
http://www.greatwar.co.uk/westfront/cemeteries/gecemies.htm
 
Thank you for the site recommendations, Borden Battery. :thumbright: Some of these I had bookmarked already; the others will be fascinating to explore.

Welcome!

Chas
 
FirstWorldWar.com - Primary Document Site
This website contains a collection of primary documents that document the course of the war via source; often official government material. Included here are archive documents signed in the late 1830s which bore relevance to the outbreak of war some 75 years later, as well as memos, letters, treaties and the text of speeches throughout the war and beyond. This section is the most complete source of primary documents related to the Great War. [CEF Study Group - April 2005]
http://www.firstworldwar.com/index.htm
 
The German Declaration of War on Russia
The Imperial German Government declaration of war on the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russia's as presented by Presented by the German Ambassador to St. Petersburg on1 August, 1914 (July 19th Russian calendar).
Web Source: http://www.gwpda.org/1914/germandecruss.html
 
Brigham Young University - Documents of the Great War
British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914,Vol. XI: The Outbreak of War: Foreign Office Documents June 28th-August 4th, 1914, Edited by G.P. Gooch, D.Litt. and Harold Temperley, Litt.D.Vol. XI. Printed and Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1926. Collected and Arranged with Introduction and Notes by J.W. Headlam-Morley, M.A., C.B.E., Historical Adviser to the Foreign Office.[Note: This is a mirror site of The World War One Document Archive, www.gwpda.org] [CEF Study Group]
http://www.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/1914m/gooch/goochidx.htm
 
Conditions of an Armistice with Germany
Signed on the 11th day of November 1918, at 5 o'clock A.M. (French time). [From: Armistice 1918, Harry Rudin, Yale University Press, 1944, pp. 426-432, reprinted, Archon, 1967. NB: The Section titled 'Financial Clauses' found between 'D - General Clauses,' and 'E - Naval clauses' is not similarly categorized (e.g., 'D' or 'E'). This anomaly occurs in the original document. Ed.]The present Armistice was signed on the 11th day of November 1918, at 5 o'clock A.M. (French time). [CEF Study Group]
Web Source: http://www.gwpda.org/papers.html#CA

The Schlieffen Plan – 1905/1914
Count Alfred von Schlieffen, who became Chief of the Great General Staff in 1891, submitted his plan in 1905; it was adopted, slightly modified, in 1914. The plan itself is described in The Army Quarterly, London (July, 1929), 18 (2): 286-90 and presented on this website. [World War I Document Archive][CEF Study Group – Sept 2006]
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914m/schlieffen.html
 
Treaty of Alliance Between Germany and Turkey 2 August, 1914
This short website contains the text of the secret treaty between Germany and the Ottoman Empire. [The Avalon Project Yale Law School][CEF Study Group – Updated Aug 2010]
http://www.eastmanhouse.org/tools/results.php?cx=010826528208080252376%3Anqagz83huc4&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=military&sa=Search#933

Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points Speech - January 8, 1918
This website contains the text of President Wilson's speech to the United States Congress which outlined his “Fourteen Points” for peace from the Great War. [Arts Faculty of the University of Groningen][CEF Study Group – Sept 2006]
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/ww28/speeches/fourteen.htm

The First Lusitania Note to Germany
The following note was sent by President Wilson under the signature of Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan to the German Ambassador regarding torpedoing and sinking of the British steamship Lusitania on May 7, 1915, by which over 100 American citizens lost their lives. [CEF Study Group – Sept 2006]
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1915/lusitania1.html

The Balfour Declaration (2 November 1917)
The British Foreign Secretary, Arthur James Balfour, wrote to Jewish leader Lord Rothschild to indicate British Cabinet support for the ideal of providing a homeland for the Jews with some provisos. The "Balfour Declaration" letter was later published in The Times of London. [There are several perspectives on this Declaration, as such, four websites are provided. Also See Sykes-Picot Treaty][CEF Study Group - Aug 2006]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/balfour.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration,_1917
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace%20Process/Guide%20to%20the%20Peace%20Process/The%20Balfour%20Declaration
http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/his_arabrevolt.html
 
Formal U.S. Declaration of War with Germany, 6 April 1917
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson from the United States outlined the case for declaring war upon Germany in a speech to the joint houses of Congress on 2 April 1917. The text below is the formal declaration of war which followed four days later, on 6 April 1917. [Firstworldwar.com website][CEF Study Group – Feb 2007]
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/usofficialawardeclaration.htm
 
The Versailles Treaty, June 28, 1919
The complete text of the Versailles Treaty [440 Articles], including attached maps, suggested readings and some photographs from the University of San Diego. [CEF Study Group – Updated October 2008]
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/text/versaillestreaty/vercontents.html

The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920
A short review of the consequences of the Versailles Treaty by the economist John Maynard Keynes from Cambridge University. [CEF Study Group – Dec 2006]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1920keynes.html
 
Future of War by Jean de Bloch
Ivan Stanislavovic Bloch (1836 - 1902) (aka Johann von Bloch, Jean de Bloch, Ivan Bliokh) was a Polish banker who published a six volume work, La Guerre Future. These files [in several separate scanned files] are free to the public, but republication should acknowledge the Combat Studies Institute and the Combined Arms Research Library. [CEF Study Group - Dec 2005]
http://cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil/carl/resources/csi/content.asp#future

German Declaration of War – Document Image
This site provides the image of the German Declaration of War and some additional background. [Wikipedia] [CEF Study Group - Dec 2007]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kriegserkl%C3%A4rung_Erster_Weltkrieg.jpg
 
U-Boat
This primary website contains detailed information on the German U-Boat from both the Great War and the Second World War. The site also contains a discussion forum and a good source of referenced material and articles. While the site is primarily Second World War, there is a growing commitment to the Great War. Statistics indicate apparently in WWI a total of 375 U boats sank 6596 merchant ships, a total of 12,800,000 tons. The site is operated from Iceland by Gudmundur Helgason with a detailed database being developed by Michael Lowrey. [CEF Study Group - Updated July 2006]
www.uboat.net
 
The Battle of Jutland - 31st May 1916
The Battle of Jutland took place between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet on the 31st May 1916 in the North Sea, off the mainland of Denmark. Background includes the Battle, Admirals, a Comparison of the Fleets, the Battle Area, Battlecruiser Action, Main Fleet Action , Gains and Losses, Further Resources and an Image Gallery. [CEF Study Group - Mar 2006]
http://www.battle-of-jutland.com/

Submarines of the Great War
A small and simple website on submarines in the Great War and some selected photographs. [CEF Study Group]
http://www.dropbears.com/w/ww1subs/index.htm
 
Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War
This on-line edition of Admiral Reinhard Scheer's World War One memoirs is based directly on the original, published in 1920. Admiral Scheer, who assumed command of the entire German High Seas Fleet in 1916, was in favor of both an aggressive surface fleet policy and unrestricted submarine warfare. On May 31, 1916, he led the German fleet into the battle of Jutland, one of the great naval battles of this century. In the battle, the German fleet performed admirably against the Royal Navy, but it was unable to change the strategic realities of the naval blockade which continued to strangle Germany. The Germans referred to Jutland as The Battle of the Skagerrak. [The War Times Journal][CEF Study Group – Sept 2006]
http://richthofen.com/scheer/

World War 1 Naval Combat
This site is mainly about the history of surface warship warfare between the Imperial German Navy and the British Royal Navy (RN) during World War 1 and includes information on the Battle of Jutland, Battle of Dogger Bank, Battle of Heligoland Bight, Battle of Coronel and the Battle of the Falklands, the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow, losses of battleships, battlecruisers, cruisers and destroyers and the war exploits of the cruisers Emden, Karlsruhe and Königsberg. [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010]
http://www.worldwar1.co.uk/
 
Battles - The Eastern Front [Firstworldwar.com]
This is a sub-set of the FIRSTWORLDWAR.COM [Michael Duffy site] and includes the battles of Battles of Stalluponen, Gumbinnen, Tannenberg, First Battle of the Masurian Lakes, Battle of Bolimov, Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes, Battle of Lake Naroch and Battle of Lutsk. [CEF Study Group - Nov 2005]
http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/ef.htm

OldPhoto - Czechoslovak Website
This Czechoslovak website contains a very large number of remarkable photographs and postcards from the Eastern Front with many of the photographs from Galizia territory and East Carpathian Mountains. [CEF Study Group - June 2005]
http://www.oldphoto.info/galerie/index.php?lang=english
 
WWI Eastern Front Foto - Nachlass eines Soldaten
This unique website presents the private photographs of both a German officer and German military archive photographs of the Eastern Front during the Great War. Most would appear to be unpublished and without notation. The images are unfamiliar and compelling and can be viewed individually or part of a slide show. Recommended for something quite different. [A Jens-Olaf Walter's Website][CEF Study Group - August 2006]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/65817306@N00/sets/486575/show/
 
Bulgarian Artillery: 1878 - 1918
The aim of this site is to provide information to the English-speaking community about the history of the Bulgarian artillery, and in general of the Bulgarian Army, till the end of the First World War, collecting and translating information from Western and Eastern sources. The website provides technical information on a wide range of items related to artillery in this theatre of the Great War incluidng naval and coastal artillery, history, orders of battle, artillery regiments, ammunition, gun sites and a bibliography. [CEF Study Group - Sept 2010]
http://www.bulgarianartillery.it/
 
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