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Maps & Geospatial: Conflict/War Maps

War maps resources include materials from the Penn State Libraries and online sources.

World War I

Sample Keyword search terms

World war, 1914-1918 campaign maps
World war, 1914-1918 maps
Military history maps
World history maps

Atlases

Atlas of World War I [Martin Gilbert]
Includes bibliographical references and index
A Military Atlas of the First World War [Arthur Banks]
Includes indexes
Historical Maps of World War I [Simon Forty]
Reproductions of maps with hand-written arrows and notes

There are also atlases that do not focus on World War I, but have a chapter about it:

Collins Atlas of Twentieth Century World History [M.L.Dockrill]
See pages 36-69
Recent History Atlas: 1870 to the Present Day [Martin Gilbert]
See pages 22-56
Atlas of Military Strategy [David G. Chandler]
See pages 168-171

Maps

European area World War I
Scale 50 km to the cm - 80 miles to the inch
[Austro-Hungarian Empire topographic map series] Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia region during World War I
Literary Digest Liberty Map of the Western Front of the Great War [...]
Battle line of liberty as it stood August 5th, 1918 : also showing the lines of farthest advance of the German and the French offensives with complete index

Some Online Resources

40 Maps that Explain World War I [vox.com]
By Zack Beauchamp, Timothy B. Lee and Matthew Yglesias on August 4, 2014
Battlefield Maps [firstworldwar.com]
Choose from war plans or a specific war front from the list on the right