Here is an extremely comprehensive reference collection regarding the Great War — its origins, strategy and tactics, major battles and personages, books, documents, feature films, documentaries etc.Other names for World War I include “the Great War,” “the War to End All Wars,” and “the First World War”. Before World War II, it was commonly called the Great War, but the “First World War” moniker emerged after the second global conflict began.The Great War: This was the most common name before the Second World War. It was even self-named “The Great War” by contemporary publications.The War to End All Wars: This name reflects the hope that the conflict’s unprecedented bloody and deadly scale would mean no future wars would be necessary.Approximately 15 to 22 million people died in World War I, with estimates suggesting 8.5 to 10 million military deaths and a similar number of civilian deaths. The total number of casualties, including the wounded, is estimated to be around 40 million.Military deaths: Around 9.7 million soldiers died from combat wounds or disease. The German Empire and Russia suffered the highest number of military casualties.Civilian deaths: Estimates for civilian deaths range from around 5 million to over 6.8 million, caused by factors like starvation and genocide.World War: This was a common term used during and after the conflict, notably by Winston Churchill.The War to Make the World Safe for Democracy: This name comes from a famous speech by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson encouraging American entry into the war.The War of the Nations: This name reflects the wide range of countries involved in the conflict.The European War: This name was used in some British newspapers during the conflict.The Genocide Called World War IWorld War 1 – Royal Cousins at War 1 of 2 – A House Divided – video DailymotionEpisode 1: A House Divided (it is available – just click and wait)Examines what impact the relationships between cousins Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and George V of the United Kingdom had on the outbreak of the First World War. This episode focuses on the story of the emerging divisions and rivalries between the inter-related royal houses of Europe during the 19th century.World War 1 – Royal Cousins at War 1 of 2 – A House Divided – video DailymotionEpisode 2: Into the Abyss (it is available – just click and wait)The realignment of the European powers and the emergence of the alliance system in the years following the death of Queen Victoria, played a significant role for the three monarchs in the frantic, desperate days of July and August 1914.Cousins at War — ArticleIn May 1910, the monarchies of Europe came together in London, in an opulent show of strength, for the funeral of Edward VII. War and revolution in the ensuing decade heaped assassination, defeat and exile upon them. Author Theo Aronson portrays the European Royal Families at War.World War I: A Revisionist Reading List — By David GordonThe WWI Conspiracy – Part One: To Start A War — DocumentaryThe WWI Conspiracy – Part Two: The American Front — DocumentaryThe WWI Conspiracy – Part Three: A New World Order — DocumentaryHistory Is Written By The Winners — DocumentaryPeople’s Century: 1914 Killing Fields — DocumentaryThey Shall Not Grow Old — DocumentaryI Didn’t Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier — Popular Song Before American Intervention In World War IWorld War I: The American Legacy — DocumentaryTrench Warfare — DocumentaryWorld War I: Tactics And Strategy — DocumentaryThe Christmas Truce of 1914 — DocumentariesThe Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century – episode 1: Explosion — DocumentaryThe Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century – episode 2: Stalemate — DocumentaryThe Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century – Episode 3: Total War — DocumentaryThe Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century – episode 4: Slaughter — DocumentaryThe Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century – episode 5: Mutiny — DocumentaryThe Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century – episode 6: Collapse — DocumentaryThe Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century – Episode 7: Hunger and Hatred — DocumentaryThe Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century – Episode 8: War Without End – DocumentaryWho Was Edward M. House? — Article by Robert HiggsPhillip Dru, Administrator — Anonymous (Edward Mandel House)The Intimate Papers of Colonel House — Book by Charles Seymour (editor)Triumphant Plutocracy; the Story of American Public Life from 1870 to 1920, Book by Richard Franklin PettigrewYour Country At War and What happens To You After A War, Book by Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.The United States and World War I — Article by John J. DwyerWoodrow Wilson and World War I, — Murray N. Rothbard (audio lecture)World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals — Murray N. Rothbard articleWar Collectivism in World War I — Book by Murray N. RothbardMore than any other single period, World War I was the critical watershed for the American business system. It was a “war collectivism,” a totally planned economy run largely by big-business interests through the instrumentality of the central government, which served as the model, the precedent, and the inspiration for state corporate capitalism for the remainder of the twentieth century.Merchants of Death: A Study of the International Armament Industry — Book by H. C. Engelbrecht and F. C. HanighenHere is the archetype of all post–World War I revisionism of a particular variety: the hunt for the people who made the big bucks off the killing machine. The Merchants of Death was, in many ways, the manifesto of a generation of people who swore there would not be and could not be another such war.But here is the kicker: it was co-authored by the founder of Human Events, the conservative weekly. So this is no left-wing screed against profiteering. It is a careful and subtle, but still passionate, attack on those who would use government to profit themselves at the expense of other people’s lives and property.Here is a sample of the ideological orientation: “The arms industry did not create the war system. On the contrary, the war system created the arms industry.… All constitutions in the world vest the war-making power in the government or in the representatives of the people. The root of the trouble, therefore, goes far deeper than the arms industry. It lies in the prevailing temper of peoples toward nationalism, militarism, and war, in the civilization which forms this temper and prevents any drastic and radical change. Only when this underlying basis of the war system is altered, will war and its concomitant, the arms industry, pass out of existence.”This book is a wonderful example of what Rothbard called the “Old Right” in its best form. The book not only makes the case against the war machine; it provides a scintillating history of war profiteering, one authoritative enough for citation and academic study. One can see how this book had such a powerful effect.Why re-release this book now? The war profiteers are making money as never before. They are benefiting from conflict as never before. Everything in this book has not only come to pass but as been made worse by a million times. So this treatise is more necessary than ever.This is the real heritage of the American Right.Merchants of Death Revisited: Armaments, Bankers, and the First World War — T. Hunt Tooley articleThe year 2004 marked the seventieth anniversary of the publication of Engelbrecht and Hanighen’s Merchants of Death: A Study of the International Armament Industry, a book that made it into the general consciousness of most thinking Americans by the mid-twentieth century. The stark language of the title no doubt contributed to its fame. Moreover, the theme of arms merchants pushing for war is both easily understood and easily discussed, even by those who have not read it.The World at War (Ralph Raico) — Video LectureThe late Ralph Raico was a specialist in European classical liberalism and Austrian Economics. He learned economics under Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Friedrich Hayek, and was professor emeritus of history at Buffalo State College.In this lecture, Raico teaches a Cato Summer Seminar group the history of World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. He offers an in-depth look at the conditions which led to both wars and the ways in which governments throughout the 20th century have used war powers to justify and fuel their expansion.The Senseless Slaughter of the Great War (World War I)Aftermath of The Great WarParis 1919, Part 1 — Feature FilmParis 1919, Part 2 — Feature Film The post Veterans Day (Armistice Day — One Hundred and Eight Years Ago — 11/11/1918) appeared first on LewRockwell.