THE GREAT WAR

The Great War ended in 1918. For many years afterwards its causes, and the conduct of all the participants were minutely picked-over, investigated and analysed. Subsequently, numerous books were written on all the War's aspects. Those soldiers who had fought in the trenches returned home and tried to resume normal lives - often by no means easy, especially for those who had been wounded, not only physically but also mentally by the horrors which they had experienced.

However, although the momentous events of World War Two and the passage of time gradually dimmed people's memories, there were many who still remembered the events of those awful years. Gradually during the past fifteen years or so there has been, I believe, a re-awakening of interest in the Great War and I should like to use this WWW page to help encourage that trend.

I believe that there is still a large amount of unpublished material in existence about the Great War. My intention is to add suitable and appropriate articles sent to me by interested readers to this page.

To start things off I have attached a number of my own files which, I hope, some will find useful and interesting.

These are:

The Great War - an abbreviated account

The Road to Passchendaele

Story of the 36th (Ulster) Division in the Great War ... Revised, February, 1997

The 36th (Ulster) Division and the Battle of the Somme

Alex R. Murray - "Killed in Action" ... New link added - February, 1997

Booklist

Maps and Pictures

The Reckoning and Aftermath

List of Belligerent States - by Nick Luft and Jon Casey

Western Front Museums & Commemorative sites - March, 1997

Some Great War Statistics - March, 1997

Click here for Western Front Data on:

1. Tourist information
2. Accommodation
3. Associations
4. Tour operators
5. Miscellaneous

Other Great War sites well-worth a visit are:

• For some excellent further links
• Pictures of WWI aeroplanes
• Information on submarine warfare
• Hinchinbrooke School's great pages
• "Trenches on the Web" - an unofficial History of the Great War
• A selection of books on the Great War
• The Somme Heritage Centre
• Links to Military Art and Science
• The Armourer magazine for militaria collectors
• World War I documents archive
• Poetry, Images, and Opinions
• Humanities at Oxford with WWI link
• The Great War Society. An outstanding WW1 site with many excellent links
• "Legends and Heroes of World War One"
• The Western Front Association
• Lawrence of Arabia fact-file
• Another Lawrence of Arabia site
• Canada's Books of Remembrance
• Canadian War Museum
• Hellfire Corner
• The American War Library's huge site
• Many great world-wide links
• Friends of War Memorials Link, March, 1997
• Napier University (Craiglockhart War Hospital) War Poets site Link, March, 1997

If you know of further sites, have articles which you would like included here, or have any observations to make please get in touch with me at:

karlmurr@larkspur.dnet.co.uk

A few years ago our daughter, Catherine, graduated in Physics at Edinburgh University. She now works there in the Chemical Engineering Department where she has her own Web pages. In a Scientific/Historical effort at understanding, readers here might like to log on to her site and find out more about Edinburgh, Chemical Engineering, Deafness and Sign Language Research, Mr Benn, and Playpeople!

In December, 1996 this site was voted by The American War Library as

"1996 BEST VETERAN/MILITARY WORLD WIDE WEBSITE"

Readers who may be interested in one of the greatest books of History ever written in English, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" should click here to go to my Edward Gibbon site