ABSTRACT
The following bibliography is strictly selective, consisting principally of those books which I personally found most useful, both for preparing individual maps and for background knowledge about many diverse aspects of the war: its campaigns, its diplomacy, its men and its moods. It ranges from the multi-volume official histories replete with documents and maps, to much briefer narratives of particular events. Put together, I hope that these books provide a useful and varied introductory survey of the war.
