World War I category: 3312 books
Pack Up Your Troubles
How Humorous Postcards Helped to Win World War I
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Artist-drawn humorous postcards were growing considerably in popularity at the start of the 20th century. When war broke out in 1914 trade in them soared as the government utilised them as a widespread means of communication, to bolster morale, stiffen resolve and lift up the spirits in the field,...
Hundred Days
The Campaign That Ended World War I
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
In the late summer of 1918, after four long years of senseless, stagnant fighting, the Western Front erupted. The bitter four-month struggle that ensued-known as the Hundred Days Campaign-saw some of the bloodiest and most ferocious combat of the Great War, as the Allies grimly worked to break the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
This first volume of The Cambridge History of the First World War provides a comprehensive account of the war's military history. An international team of leading historians charts how a war made possible by globalization and imperial expansion unfolded into catastrophe, growing year by year in scale...
The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty that Marked the End of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Treaty of Versailles in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Treaty of Versailles. The First World War had left Europe in a state of almost total devastation. Eager...
The YMCA at War
Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is best known for its athletic and youth programs, a heritage that draws on its origins in 1844 to provide wholesome recreation to urban youth away from the moral decay of industrialized urban living. Before long, that uplift mission found a place in...
Death Was Their Co-Pilot
Aces of the Skies
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
It was in World War I that the skies first became a battlefield, with nations seeking to decide military outcomes off the ground. This volume introduces the fighter pilots of World War I, including the infamous “Red Baron” Manfred von Richthofen. In addition to this iconic flying ace, the author...
by Stephen Wynn, Tanya Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
A “superlative social history” of British women’s efforts in WWI and how they led to the women’s suffrage movement—includes photos (Books Monthly).
In this fascinating history, husband and wife coauthors Stephen and Tanya Wynn chronicle the effects of the Great War on the lives of women,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This book gives students an informed insight into the British experience in the First World War. The contributors, all established First World War historians, have drawn on their own research and secondary sources to give a succinct account of politics, diplomacy, strategy and social developments...
Their Name Liveth for Evermore
Carshalton's First World War Roll of Honour
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Carshalton in Surrey was ineradicably affected by World War I. Over 1,900 local men enlisted to fight, and 243 of them lost their lives and are commemorated on the war memorial. As the centenary of the war approaches, it is more important than ever that these men are not forgotten. Drawing on over...
The First World War
A Concise Global History
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
In a compact but comprehensive and clear narrative, this book explores the First World War from a genuinely global perspective. Putting a human face on the war, William Kelleher Storey takes into account individual decisions and experiences as well as environmental and technological factors, such...
The Path to War
How the First World War Created Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
When war broke out in Europe in August of 1914, it seemed, to observers in the United States, the height of madness. The Old World and its empires were tearing each other apart, and while most Americans blamed the Germans, pitied the Belgians, and felt kinship with the Allies, they wanted no part...
by Ryan K. Noppen
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
This is the story of Germany's commerce raiders of World War I, the surface ships that were supposed to starve the British Isles of the vast cargoes of vital resources being shipped from the furthest reaches of the Empire. To that end pre-war German naval strategists allocated a number of cruisers...
by David Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Although, to the casual eye, all British tanks of World War I look much the same, the Mark V is quite outstanding and has a strong claim to be the tank that won the Great War. In this title, renowned tank expert David Fletcher examines the technological developments that made this tank excel where...
The First Eagles
The American Pilots Who Flew With the British, Became Aces, and Won World War I
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
An incredible history of the American WWI pilots who refused to be grounded.
There was a time when the United States didn’t believe in aerial warfare. Wars, after all, were for men—not flying machines. When Europe went to war in the summer of 1914, the U.S. military boasted a measly collection...