World War I category: 3312 books
For King And Country
Voices from the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Far more than an anthology, FOR KING AND COUNTRY is Brian MacArthur's attempt to write a history of the First World War by drawing on the writings of those who were present at the events they describe. Those writings will be drawn from a broad range of sources: from, most obviously, the officers and...
Fall in, Ghosts
Selected War Prose
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Edmund Blunden moved among the ghosts of the Great War every day of his long life, having survived the battles of Ypres and the Somme. His classic prose memoir, Undertones of War, and his early edition of Wilfred Owen’s poems were just two examples of the ways in which he sought to convey his war...
A Fleet in Being
Austro-Hungarian Warships of WW1
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
The Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine -- The Austro-Hungarian Navy -- was in at the beginning of World War I when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie lay in state aboard its flagship, and at the end when it dissolved along with the empire that commanded it. During the war, this small...
by Boyd Cable
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
The war above the battle lines of the First World War is brought to life in these tales of the cavalry of the skies. However, by and large, the knights of the air were not much given to self-publicity that their exploits and effectiveness entitled them to. Writing under a pseudonym, Boyd Cable, who...
No More Parades
Parade's End: Book 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
"No More Parades" - the second volume of Ford Madox Ford's highly-regarded tetralogy Parade's End, was originally published in 1925 and has recently been made into a BBC/HBO television miniseries.
The novel chronicles the life of Christopher Tietjens, "the last Tory",...
THE DIGGERS - The Australians in France
FREE eBook
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
In this small ebook, are but nine chapters which give an Australian perspective of their time spent on the Western Front in France.
The imperishable deeds of the Commonwealth’s glorious soldiers, least of all the Australians, or Diggers, have carved for themselves a deep niche in the topmost towers...
The Dardanelles Disaster
Winston Churchill's Greatest Failure
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Acclaimed naval military expert Dan van der Vat argues that the disaster at the Dardanelles prolonged the war by two years, led to the Russian Revolution, forced Britain to the brink of starvation, and contributed to the destabilization of the Middle East. With never before published information on...
by Jon Guttman
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Often overshadowed by the fighters that either protected or threatened them, two-seater reconnaissance aircraft performed the oldest and most strategically vital aerial task of World War 1 a task that required them to return with the intelligence they gathered at all costs. Bomber sorties were equally...
Uncle Cy's War
The First World War Letters of Major Cyrus F. Inches
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
At 31 years old, Major Cyrus Inches resolved to survive the Great War, and did so without losing his sense of humour, in spite of the tragedies he constantly faced. His letters home were stored and left undisturbed for almost ninety years. Cleverly written with wit and humour, they reveal voluminous...
Private Beatson’s War
Life, Death and Hope on the Western Front
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
Until recently James Beatson was one of the millions of forgotten soldiers of the Great War. But after 90 years his diary has been rediscovered, perfectly preserved, and his story can now be told. It is a moving, intensely personal and beautifully written narrative by an extraordinary young man who...
Western Front 1914-1916
Mons, Le Cataeu, loos, the Battle of the Somme
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914, to the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the fighting on the Western Front in France and Flanders never stopped. There were quiet periods, just as there were the most intense, savage, huge-scale battles.
The war on the...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
From the moment the German army moved quietly into Luxemburg on 2 August 1914, to the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the fighting on the Western Front in France and Flanders never stopped. There were quiet periods, just as there were the most intense, savage, huge-scale battles.
The war on the...
How Jerusalem Was Won
Being the Record of Allenby’s Campaign in Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby GCB, GCMG, GCVO (23 April 1861 – 14 May 1936) was a British soldier and administrator most famous for his role during the First World War, in which he led the Egyptian Expeditionary Force during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in...
by Michael Epkenhans
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Alfred von Tirpitz (1849û1930), who joined the Prussian Navy in 1865 as a midshipman, was chiefly responsible for rapidly developing and enlarging the German Navy, especially the High Seas Fleet, from 1897 until the years immediately prior to the First World War. Epkenhans uses newly discovered documents...