World War I category: 3312 books
Battle Scarred
The 47th Battalion in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
'The dead and wounded of the 47th lay everywhere underfoot' With these words Charles Bean, Australia's Official War Historian, described the battlefield of Dernancourt on the morning of the 5th of April, 1918, strewn with the bodies of the Australian dead. It was the final tragic chapter in the story...
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by Lieut.-Col. Charles à Court Repington C.M.G.
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos
A fascinating history of the First World War seen through the eyes of a highly respected and connected War Correspondent.
Lieut.-Col. Charles à Court Repington was a career soldier in the...
The First World War and Its Aftermath
The Shaping of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Think of a map of World War I and chances are that map will be of Europe—but the First World War had just as heavy an impact on the Middle East, shaping the region into what we know it as today. This book gathers together leading scholars in the field to examine this impact, which is crucial to...
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!
A World without World War I
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
The "Great War" claimed nearly 40 million lives and set the stage for World War II, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. One hundred years later, historians are beginning to recognize how unnecessary it was. In Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!, acclaimed political psychologist Richard Ned Lebow...
by Henri Pirenne
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
During World War I, Americans and British were riveted by the invasion and occupation of Belgium. Over 5,500 innocent civilians were executed in August 1914, over 2 million fled to the Netherlands, France, and Britain, and the 5 million remaining in the country faced mass starvation. The great medieval...
Ballplayers in the Great War
Newspaper Accounts of Major Leaguers in World War I Military Service
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
This volume presents carefully selected, and annotated, articles about major-leaguers serving at home and overseas in the U.S. armed forces during World War I. Some continued to play ball in the military. Others fought the Germans in the trenches, in the air and at sea. Several lost their lives in...
Farewell, Dear People
biographies of Australia’s lost generation
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
WINNER OF THE 2013 PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
WINNER OF THE 2012 MANNING CLARK HOUSE NATIONAL CULTURAL AWARD
COMMENDED FOR THE FAW EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION AWARD
For Australia, a new nation with a relatively small population, the death of 60,000 soldiers...
War Hammers
The Story of West Ham United During the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
This book tells the fascinating story of West Ham United Football Club during World War I. It charts the relationship between war and soccer by following the pursuits of West Ham from 1913/14 to 1918/19. In many ways, it was their success in wartime competitions that led to them being accepted into...
The Glorious Madness – Tales of the Irish and the Great War
First-hand accounts of Irish men and women in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
From tragic generals to nuns on the run – the extraordinary stories of the Irish on the frontlines of the First World War that you’ve never heard before
Based on first-hand accounts of the First World War, The Glorious Madness is a collection of character portraits and stirring anecdotes...
West Sussex
Remembering 1914-18
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
World War I claimed more than 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: West Sussex offers an intimate portrayal of the county and its people living in the shadow of World War I for five years. Compiled by West Sussex County Council, with content...
by Bill Harriman
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The Mosin-Nagant is the world's longest-surviving and most widely distributed military rifle, having armed the forces of Russia and many other countries for more than five decades. It has seen action from World War I to the present day, but is most famous for its role during World War II when it proved...
German Assault Troops of the First World War
Stosstrupptaktik - The First Stormtroopers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
To many it would later seem as if the rule book of war had been torn up and thrown away. World War I is usually characterized as a static war of attrition, but by its end a new doctrine of fire and movement emerged, with the squad as the key tactical unit, marking a fundamental shift in methods of...
by Michael S. Neiberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2003
Ferdinand Foch is the prototype of the twentieth-century general. Better than any other general of the First World War, Foch came to understand how technology and modern alliance systems had changed the nature of warfare. He is most famous for his role as Allied commander in chief in 1918. In this...
by John Dos Passos
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Considered one of the Lost Generation writers, Dos Passos' (1896-1970) first novel was published in 1920. Titled ONE MAN'S INITIATION--1917, it drew upon Dos Passos' experiences as an ambulance driver in World War I and was followed by another antiwar story, THREE SOLDIERS, which brought him considerable...