World War I category: 3312 books

Cover of The Lowdown: A Short History of the Origins of World War I
by John Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

A concise history of the origins of the “war to end all wars”. Many of us know that the first world war began when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo in June of 1914. But have you ever wondered exactly what chain of events led up to the incident that...
Cover of THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME – First & Second Phase (Complete Edition – Volumes 1&2)

THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME – First & Second Phase (Complete Edition – Volumes 1&2)

A Never-Before-Seen Side of the Bloodiest Offensive of World War I – Viewed Through the Eyes of the Acclaimed War Correspondent

by John Buchan
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016

This carefully crafted ebook: "THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME – First & Second Phase (Complete Edition – Volumes 1&2)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. John Buchan (1875-1940) was a Scottish novelist and historian and also served as Canada's...
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African American Doctors of World War I

The Lives of 104 Volunteers

by W. Douglas Fisher, Joann H. Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015

In World War I, 104 African American doctors joined the United States Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army’s only black combat units. The infantry regiments of the 93rd arrived first and were turned over to the French to fill gaps in their decimated lines. The...
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Herman Goring Fighter Ace

The World War I Career of German's Most Infamous Airman

by Peter Kilduff
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010

Over the last 70 years, in countless books and essays, Hermann Göring has been defined by his crimes and excess during the Third Reich and the Second World War. But his activities as a young career military officer in World War I have invariably been glossed over until now. 'Hermann Göring Fighter...
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A Mad Catastrophe

The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire

by Geoffrey Wawro
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014

A masterful account of the Hapsburg Empire's bumbling entrance into World War I, and its rapid collapse on the Eastern Front The Austro-Hungarian army that attacked Russia and Serbia in August 1914 had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging...
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Great War Britain Middlesbrough

Remembering 1914-18

by Paul Menzies
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014

World War I claimed more than 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Middlesbrough offers an intimate portrayal of the town and its people living in the shadow of the "war to end all wars." A beautifully illustrated and highly accessible...
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The Trench

Life and Death on the Western Front 1914-1918

by Trevor Yorke
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014

The horrors of World War I scarred an entire generation at the beginning of the twentieth century. Now, one hundred years later, we are asked to reflect upon it and remember what a disastrous episode of history it was.This book offers a brief, straightforward, illustrated history of World War I. In...
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Carnage

The German Front in World War One

by Alistair Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012

These amazingly well preserved photographs originate from German collection. They cover the full gamut of the dreadful conditions that all troops involved in that ghastly war experienced between 1914 and 1918. The collection portrays life and conditions in the German trenches, the carnage of the wrecked...
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Men Against Fire

The Problem of Battle Command

by S.L. A. Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012

S.L.A. "Slam" Marshall was a veteran of World War I and a combat historian during World War II. He startled the military and civilian world in 1947 by announcing that, in an average infantry company, no more than one in four soldiers actually fired their weapons while in contact with the...
Cover of Henry Williamson and the First World War
by Anne Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2004

Henry Williamson is perhaps best known for his Hawthornden Prize-winning "Tarka the Otter", yet he devoted a major part of his life to fiction which drew closely on his experiences during World War I, including his sequence of novels "A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight". His time...
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Hero of the Angry Sky

The World War I Diary and Letters of David S. Ingalls, America’s First Naval Ace

by David S. Ingalls
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013

Hero of the Angry Sky draws on the unpublished diaries, correspondence, informal memoir, and other personal documents of the U.S. Navy’s only flying “ace” of World War I to tell his unique story. David S. Ingalls was a prolific writer, and virtually all of his World War I aviation career is...
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Devil Dogs Chronicle

Voices of the 4th Marine Brigade in World War I

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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013

The 4th Marine Brigade, with roughly 10,000 men, was the only large Marine unit to see major action in World War I. Dubbed "Devil Dogs" by the Germans, the 4th was part of the 2nd Division of the American Expeditionary Forces, nicknamed the "Race Horse Division" for its rapid and...
Cover of World War I
by Stewart Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

World War I describes how the major power struggles of Europe (supported by various colonial holdings and the British alliance with Japan) erupted into a global war that was marked by new forms of combat that included trench warfare, strategies of attrition, and the first use of airpower.
Cover of World War I: Scottish Tales of Adventure
by Allan Burnett, Alan Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013

Acclaimed children's author Allan Burnett turns his attention to the First World War in a book of explosively exciting and emotionally charged tales of bravery and adventure. Featuring the true exploits of soldiers, spies, pilots, sailors and many others, these stories, all based on interviews with...
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