Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke

War & Military

First World War Centenary Prose Collection Vol. I

by VARIOUS ( - )

This collection of non-fiction and fiction, with its companion poetry collection, commemorates the outbreak of the First World War on 28th July 1914. The majority of the items, all chosen by the readers, are in English, but the collection also includes pieces in Dutch, French, German and Ukrainian. Please note that some works are still protected by copyright in countries which observe copyright laws based on the author's date of death. Most items were written during or shortly after the war, but one or two have been included for their relevance in other ways. For more information about each piece, please see this document (PDF format), which also shows the authors' dates of death. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

Listen next episodes of First World War Centenary Prose Collection Vol. I:
Folkestone During the War: The Air Raids, Part 2 , A Diary Without Dates: Outside the Glass Doors , A glimpse of the British army , Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War: Chapter 8: Scouting from the Skies , Alphabet de la grande guerre, 1914-1916 pour les enfants de nos soldats , And They Thought We Wouldn't Fight: Wounded - How it Feels to Be Shot , Books in the War, the Romance of Library War Service: Chap. 10 , Brieven uit den loopgraaf (in De Nieuwe Gids, 1916) , Chapter 1, Eighteen Months in the War Zone , Das Feuer: Kapitel 1 , De Belgen in Holland, 1914-1917 , De electrische grensafsluiting , Early Care of Gunshot Wounds of the Jaws and Surrounding Soft Parts, from Abstracts of War Surgery , Excerpt from Edith Cavell: Her Life Story , Excerpt from Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons , Excerpt from 'The Last Ride' from Fanny Goes to War , Extract from Journal of A Disappointed Man , Extract from Oorlogstijd , Feeding an Army , Finished with the War: A Soldier's Declaration , Folkestone During the War: The Air Raids, Part 1 , Het vluchtoord te Bergen op Zoom , Kriegstagebuch , Liberty: a Statement of the British Case , Neutral Nations and the War , Night-work in a Munitions Factory , No Man's Land: A Point of Detail , Paths of Glory, Chapter 9: Viewing a Battle from a Balloon , Paths of Glory: Notes and Chapter 1 , Поза межами болю. Переднє слово (Poza mezhamy boliu. Perednye slovo) , Rilla of Ingleside: Chapter 18, A War Wedding , Scott's Official History of the American Negro: Negro Women in War Work , Selected Letters from The American Spirit , Selections from the first issue of Stars and Stripes , Somme Battle Stories: Close Quarters , Ten Lessons on Food Conservation: Lesson 1 , The Battle of Jutland , The Children Of Our Dead from The Soul of the Soldier: Sketches from the Western Battle Front , The Conduct of the War by Sea: speech to the House of Commons, 1915 , The Moonlight Battle for Baghdad, from Pen Pictures of British Battles , The War as Art Critic , The War in Africa and the Far East: Chapter 3, The Pacific Colonies and The Capture of Kiao-Chau , The War Mania of Mr. Jinks and Mr. Blinks , Torpedoed , War Letters of a Public-School Boy: In the Somme Battlefield , Warfare under Water, from Pen Pictures of British Battles , Young Girls Fighting on the Russian Front