World War I category: 3312 books
When the United States Invaded Russia
Woodrow Wilson's Siberian Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In a little-known episode at the height of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson dispatched thousands of American soldiers to Siberia. Carl J. Richard convincingly shows that Wilson’s original intent was to enable Czechs and anti-Bolshevik Russians to rebuild the Eastern Front against the Central...
My Fellow Soldiers
General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
From the New York Times bestselling author of War Letters and Behind the Lines, Andrew Carroll’s My Fellow Soldiers draws on a rich trove of both little-known and newly uncovered letters and diaries to create a marvelously vivid and moving account of the American experience in World War I, with...
Home Fires Burning
Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
Challenging assumptions about the separation of high politics and everyday life, Belinda Davis uncovers the important influence of the broad civilian populace--particularly poorer women--on German domestic and even military policy during World War I.
As Britain's wartime blockade of goods to...
Letters from the Trenches
The First World War by Those Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
A history of the First World War told through the letters exchanged by ordinary British soldiers and their families.
Letters from the Trenches reveals how people really thought and felt during the conflict and covers all social classes and groups – from officers to conscripts and women at home...
The Kaiser's Pirates
Hunting Germany?s Raiding Cruisers in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The Kaiser’s Pirates is a dramatic and little-known story of World War I, when the actions of a few men shaped the fate of nations. By1914 Germany had ships and sailors scattered across the globe, protecting its overseas colonies and showing the flag” of its new Imperial Navy. After war broke...
by Wayne Stack
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
The New Zealand Expeditionary Force earned an elite reputation on the Western Front In World War I, and the New Zealanders' war effort was a defining moment in their national history. The statistics are astonishing: of the total population of New Zealand of 1 million, no fewer than 100,000 men enlisted,...
by Nigel Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
This third volume of a mini-series covering the German forces in World War I examines the troops that fought during the climax of the war on all fronts: the last great battles of attrition in the West (Arras, Messines, 3rd Ypres Passchendaele/Langemarck and Cambrai, 1917) and the collapse of Russia...
With Their Bare Hands
General Pershing, the 79th Division, and the battle for Montfaucon
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
With Their Bare Hands traces the fate of the US 79th Division – men drafted off the streets of Baltimore, Washington, and Philadelphia – from boot camp in Maryland through the final years of World War I, focusing on their most famous engagement: the attack on Montfaucon, the most heavily fortified...
by Ashley Ekins
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
World War I, The Great War involved the mobilisation of some 70 million soldiers worldwide. It produced images of such pervasive horror on the Western Front that it defined warfare in human memory long into the twentieth century. The war also left a grim legacy: 13 million people died, 9 million of them...
by Christopher Catherwood
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Our understanding of the twentieth century and beyond hinges upon the First World War. In this new and comprehensive book, the fascinating facts are presented in an accessible way, allowing anyone to brush up on the devastating conflict that changed the world we live in. Discover everything you need...
To Crown the Waves
The Great Navies of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The only comparative analysis available of the great navies of World War I, this work studies the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, the German Kaiserliche Marine, the United States Navy, the French Marine Nationale, the Italian Regia Marina, the Austro-Hungarian Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine,...
by Terence Zuber
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Based on recently discovered material in German archives, this book fundamentally changes our understanding of German military planning before World War I On the basis of newly discovered or long-neglected documents in German military archives, this book gives the first description of Schlieffen’s...
From German Cavalry Officer to Reconnaissance Pilot
The World War I History, Memories, and Photographs of Leonhard Rempe, 1914-1921
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Twenty-one-year-old Leonhard Rempe volunteered to serve Germany in 1914. By the time World War One ended, he had seen action on both major fronts, participated in the war from the back of a horse and the cockpit of a plane, and amassed one of the more unique records of anyone in the Kaiser's army....
Horses Don't Fly
The Memoir of the Cowboy Who Became a World War I Ace
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
From breaking wild horses in Colorado to fighting the Red Baron's squadrons in the skies over France, here in his own words is the true story of a forgotten American hero: the cowboy who became our first ace and the first pilot to fly the American colors over enemy lines.
Growing up on a ranch...