World War I category: 3312 books
by FRANCIS A. MARCH, Ph.D, RICHARD J. BEAMISH
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The events of the past four years have been of such magnitude that the various steps, the numberless battles, and the growth of Allied power which led up to the final victory are not clearly defined even in the minds of many military men. A history of this great period which will state in an...
by Gregory Archer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In time for the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into the First World War, *Private Heller and the Bantam Boys—*based on Heller’s long-hidden diary—tells the tale of a group of privileged yet naïve Princeton University students and their big, brawny Midwestern farm boy interloper, Ralph...
The Fourth Marine Brigade in World War I
Battalion Histories Based on Official Documents
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
During World War I, the American Expeditionary Force Second Division saw more action and captured more ground and enemy combatants than any other, including the vaunted First Division. The 4th Marine Brigade, especially, earned a reputation as a steadfast unit of superb fighting men. Drawing on battle...
Mussolini in the First World War
The Journalist, the Soldier, the Fascist
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
How did Benito Mussolini come to fascism? Standard accounts of the dictator have failed to explain satisfactorily the transition from his pre-World War I 'socialism' to his post-war fascism. This controversial new book is the first to examine closely Mussolini's political trajectory during the Great...
The Devil Dogs at Belleau Wood: U.S. Marines in World War I
U.S. Marines in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Facing massed German machine guns, the Marines made sweep after bloody sweep through Belleau Wood. Repeatedly accosted by the retreating French and urged to turn back, Captain Lloyd Williams of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, uttered the now-famous retort, "Retreat, hell. We just got...
The Proud Tower
A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era
During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged...
Army of Empire
The Untold Story of the Indian Army in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Drawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War I
While their story is almost always overlooked, the 1.5 million Indian soldiers who served the British Empire in World War I played a crucial role in the eventual Allied victory. Despite...
Gentlemen Volunteers
The Story of the American Ambulance Drivers in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
“Illuminating insights into the American role in the Great War, as well as stirring examples of, as volunteer Hemingway put it, ‘grace under pressure’” (Publishers Weekly).
They left Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Michigan, and Stanford to drive ambulances on the French front, and on the killing...
Unknown Soldiers
The American Expeditionary Forces in Memory and Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
The Great War remembered
“This book is not a history of World War I, nor is it a history of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) on the Western Front. Rather, it is a collection of essays that examines how the wartime generation and those that followed have remembered or commemorated individuals,...
The Lost History of 1914
Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
In The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty offers a highly original view of World War I, testing against fresh evidence the long-dominant assumption that it was inevitable. "Most books set in 1914 map the path leading to war," Beatty writes. "This one maps the multiple paths that led away from it."
Chronicling...
America's Deadliest Battle
Meuse-Argonne, 1918
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
American fighting men had never seen the likes of it before
The great battle of the Meuse-Argonne was the costliest conflict in American history, with 26,000 men killed and tens of thousands wounded. Involving 1.2 million American troops over 47 days, it ended on November 11—what we now know...
The Assassination of the Archduke
Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Drawing on unpublished letters and rare primary sources, King and Woolmans tell the true story behind the tragic romance and brutal assassination that sparked World War I
In the summer of 1914, three great empires dominated Europe: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Four years later all...
A Soldier on the Southern Front
The Classic Italian Memoir of World War 1
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A rediscovered Italian masterpiece chronicling the author's experience as an infantryman, newly translated and reissued to commemorate the centennial of World War I. Taking its place alongside works by Ernst JŸnger, Robert Graves, and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu's memoir is one of the most...
by Bill Price
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Contents
Introduction Before the War Spying for the Kaiser On His Majesty’s Secret Service Allied Spies
The use of spies during war has a very long history, no doubt going back to the beginnings of warfare itself. In The Art of War, which is believed to have been written...