World War I list 90

Lawrence and Aaronsohn

T. E. Lawrence, Aaron Aaronsohn, and the Seeds of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

by Ronald Florence
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007

The rivalry that presaged the world's most tenacious conflict As the Arab-Israeli conflict continues to plague the Middle East, historian Ronald Florence offers extraordinary new insights on its origins. This is the story of T. E. Lawrence, the young British officer who became famous around...

War on Hospital Ships 1914- 1918

by Stephen McGreal
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009

It is often said “The first casualty of war is the truth” and there is no better example of this than the furore caused by the claims and counterclaims of the British and German Governments at the height of the First World War. Wounded allied personnel were invariably repatriated by hospital ships,...

The Trap

by Dan Billany
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015

Lieutenant Michael Carr’s peaceful life in a Cornish village is shattered with the outbreak of the Second World War. German planes are heard droning across darkening skies. Towns are set ablaze by incendiary bombs. And Cornwall, though seemingly safe and secluded, is not exempt...

A German Deserter's War Experiences

Fighting for the Kaiser in the First World War

by Julius Koettgen
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013

In 1913 Julius Koettgen, a pacifist and a socialist, was drafted into the ranks of sapper battalion No. 30. He dutifully fought in the ranks of the Kaiser's armies during 1914 and 1915 and saw action in France and Belgium where he describes the terrible events which were to become known as 'the rape...

German War Birds

by Claude "Vigilant" Sykes
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014

This book, originally written in 1931 by “Vigilant” (the pen name for Claude Sykes), tells the dramatic tales of air combat as fought by the best German pilots of the First World War. Manfred von Richthofen, Max Immelmann, Oswald Boelcke and other famous daredevil flyers are joined by the lesser-known...

Guymeyer — The Ace Of Aces. [Illustrated Edition]

by Jacques Mortane
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012

The title of “Ace” in the air war above France in the First World War was the coveted dream of all the daring flyers of the French, German British, and other armies. It was not an easily won honour, in order to be so recognized the airman would have to down five of the enemy aircraft, these experts...

Mount of Aces

The Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a

by Paul R. Hare
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017

The Sopwith Camel may be the most celebrated British fighter plane of the First World War, but it was the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a that almost all the highest scoring aces, including McCudden and Mannock, preferred. The S.E.5a was deadly. It was well-armed, fast, highly manoeuvrable and a superb...

London at War

Relics of the Home Front from the World Wars

by Alan Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011

The two world wars of the twentieth century seem so distant from us now, a lifetime ago, in a different age. Yet in London the evidence of these conflicts is around us, near at hand, in the many relics and reminders that are scattered across the fabric of the modern city. And, as Alan Brooks demonstrates...

Christmas 1914: The First World War at Home and Abroad

by John Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014

By December, 1914, it had become clear to even the most optimistic observer that the war would not be over by Christmas. That month brought the first enemy-inflicted deaths of the war, when German warships bombarded three northeast coastal towns; meanwhile, the recently invented airplane was being...

Over 100 Facts WW1

by Neil Michael O'Mara
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013

The First World War seems to have touched almost every family in Britain. Most people will have had a relative in their family tree that served in the armed forces between 1914 and 1918. Unfortunately this is no longer living memory but has slipped into recorded history. There is now resurgence in interest...

Battle Story: Gallipoli 1915

by Peter Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011

Taking readers to the frontline and beyond, in one of the most resounding defeats of World War I The Gallipoli campaign was in some ways the brainchild of First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, who saw an attack on the Dardanelles as a way to break through the stalemate in supplying the Eastern...

Supreme Sacrifice

A Small Village and the Great War

by Walter Reid, Paul Birch, Gordon Masterton
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016

The war memorial in the Scottish village of Bridge of Weir lists 72 men who died during the First World War. Their deaths occurred in almost every theatre of the war. They were awarded very few medals and their military careers were not remarkable - except in the important respect that they, like...

Victory on the Western Front

The Development of the British Army 1914-1918

by Michael Senior
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016

Marshal Foch, the Generalissimo of the Allied Armies during the last stages of the First World War, commenting on the victories won during the Hundred Days when the Germans were driven back on the Western Front, said ‘Never at any time in history has the British army achieved greater results in...

Mud, Blood and Bullets

Memoirs of a Machine Gunner on the Western Front

by Edward Rowbottom
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010

A detailed, first-hand account of life in the trenches in World War I from an ordinary soldier's perspectiveIt is 1915 and the Great War has been raging for a year, when Edward Rowbotham, a coal miner from the Midlands, volunteers for Kitchener's Army. Drafted into the newly-formed Machine Gun Corps,...