Here are some links to other websites which will aid classroom or home study using Real Reads World War I books.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nb93y
This site gives an up-to-date introduction to many aspects of World War I. Includes many fascinating interviews.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01nhwgx
The BBC’s incredibly detailed resource centre on World War I.
Multimedia site which includes video and audio clips from 1914–18.
A website dedicated to the battlefields of World War I
The Riddle of the Sands
See Erskine Childers articles on this site about his involvement in Irish politics and the events leading up to his execution.
Information from the Royal Museums Greenwich website about Childers’ real-life adventures as a sailor of small yachts – search for ‘Erskine Childers’ on the site.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Information about the life and work of John Buchan, including The Thirty-Nine Steps.
The site of the British Security Service, also known as MI5. The section on ‘MI5 History’ and the link to ‘1909 to WW1’ gives some fascinating information about the real-life German spies who operated in Britain in the years before World War I, and how some of them were caught.