World War I category: 3312 books
A Soldier Gone to Sea
Memoir of a Royal Marine in Both World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
In this memoir spanning nine decades, Lieutenant Colonel C.F. Jerram (1882–1969) of the Royal Marines recounts his life and military service through both world wars. Jerram describes in candid detail his late 19th-century childhood in Devon and Cornwall, the late Victorian and Edwardian Royal Navy,...
by Guus de Vries
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
During World War I, the picture postcard was the most important means of communication for the soldiers in the field and their loved ones at home, with an estimated 30 billion of them sent between 1914 and 1918. A Postcard from home offered the soldier in the trenches a short escape from their daily...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Remembering the First World War brings together a group of international scholars to understand how and why the past quarter of a century has witnessed such an extraordinary increase in global popular and academic interest in the First World War, both as an event and in the ways it is remembered.
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A Guide to War Publications of the First & Second World War
From Training Guides to Propaganda Posters
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
A “fascinating” guide to war propaganda of WWI and WWII, from “Loose Lips Sink Ships” to “Keep Calm and Carry On”—includes vintage images (Firetrench).
A Guide to War Publications of the First & Second World War is devoted to the printed ephemera that was designed to educate,...
Militarism in a Global Age
Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States and Germany emerged as the two most rapidly developing industrial nation-states of the Atlantic world. The elites and intelligentsias of both countries staked out claims to dominance in the twentieth century. In Militarism in a Global Age, Dirk...
by Major James A. Vohr USMC
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Although during World War I the United States employed observers on the battlefields of the Western Front, the information they provided lacked the substance and conclusions required to evolve the tactical doctrine of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). In initial engagements, the AEF was largely...
Sky My Kingdom
Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009
The Sky My Kingdom is the fascinating autobiography of the famous World War test pilot - Hanna Reitsch (March 29, 1912 - August 24, 1979).
As the war progressed, Reitsch was invited to fly many of Germany's latest (and increasingly desperate) designs, including the rocket-propelled Messerschmitt...
Five Lieutenants
The Heartbreaking Story of Five Harvard Men Who Led America to Victory in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
James Carl Nelson tells the dramatic true story of five brilliant young soldiers from Harvard, a thrilling tale of combat and heroism
Five Lieutenants tells the story of five young Harvard men who took up the call to arms in the spring of 1917 and met differing fates in the maelstrom of battle...
The Locomotive of War
Money, Empire, Power, and Guilt
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
An innovative exploration of the origins, impact, and consequences of the First and Second World Wars, from Peter Clarke, one of our foremost historians.
"War is the locomotive of history," claimed Trotsky, a remark often thought to acknowledge the opportunity that the First World War offered...
Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight
Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
During World War I, thousands of rural southern men, black and white, refused to serve in the military. Some failed to register for the draft, while others deserted after being inducted. In the countryside, armed bands of deserters defied local authorities; capturing them required the dispatch of...
The Wolf
How One German Raider Terrorized the Allies in the Most Epic Voyage of WWI
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
On November 30, 1916, an apparently ordinary freighter left harbor in Kiel, Germany, and would not touch land again for another fifteen months. It was the beginning of an astounding 64,000-mile voyage that was to take the ship around the world, leaving a trail of destruction and devastation in her...
Twilight of the Belle Epoque
The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2014
Mary McAuliffe’s Dawn of the Belle Epoque took the reader from the multiple disasters of 1870–1871 through the extraordinary re-emergence of Paris as the cultural center of the Western world. Now, in Twilight of the Belle Epoque, McAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the twentieth...
by Will Englund
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
“Fast-paced history . . . full of haunting, unforgettable wartime images.” —David M. Shribman, Boston Globe
March 1917 is a riveting history of the month that transformed the world’s greatest nations as Russia faced revolution and America entered World War I. Drawing on a wealth of...
Good Americans
Italian and Jewish Immigrants During the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2003
Among the Americans who joined the ranks of the Doughboys fighting World War I were thousands of America's newest residents. Good Americans examines the contributions of Italian and Jewish immigrants, both on the homefront and overseas, in the Great War. While residing in strong, insular communities,...