World War I category: 3312 books
World War I Army Training by San Francisco Bay
The Story of Camp Fremont
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
In 1917, Stanford University leased a portion of its land to allow the creation of Camp Fremont, headquartered in present-day Menlo Park. That brought the war into the Bay Area's backyard. Soldiers received a welcome reception, and locals embraced the potential economic opportunities. However, the...
Porter, Steward, Citizen
An African American's Memoir of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
In 1917, the year the United States entered the Great War, Colonel Moorhead C. Kennedy, one of the most powerful men in the state of Pennsylvania and now the Deputy Director General of Transportation for the American Expeditionary Force, asked his African American valet if he would like to accompany...
Birmingham
Remembering 1914-18
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
World War I claimed more than 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Birmingham offers an intimate portrayal of the city and its people living in the shadow of the "war to end all wars." A beautifully illustrated and highly accessible...
Kidderminster
Remembering 1914-18
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
World War I claimed more than 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Kidderminster offers an intimate portrayal of the town and its people living in the shadow of war for five years. A beautifully illustrated and highly accessible volume, it explores...
The Unprevented War
Why the First World War Was Fought
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The Unprevented War
Why the First World War Was Fought
Contents
Introduction
An Assassination in Sarajevo
The European Scene
Alliances and Armaments
The Road to War
From Crisis to War
An Unprevented War
Why the War was Fought
Further Reading
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Gettysburg's Other Battle
The Ordeal of an American Shrine during the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Gettysburg is known as the second bloodiest battle of the 19th century and as the site of Abraham Lincoln's 1863 speech that gave new meaning to America's Civil War. By the turn of the next century, the battlefield was enshrined as a national park under the jurisdiction of the War Department. In 1913,...
by Andrew Wiest
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2005
For years, Douglas Haig has been considered perhaps the most controversial military leader in British history. Today his career is at the center of a swirling historiographical debate concerning the nature of the First World War. The traditional school contends that Haig, like the majority of generals...
A Journalist's Diplomatic Mission
Ray Stannard Baker's World War I Diary
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
At the height of World War I, in the winter of 1917--1918, one of the Progressive era's most successful muckracking journalists, Ray Stannard Baker (1870--1946), set out on a special mission to Europe on behalf of the Wilson administration. While posing as a foreign correspondent for the New Republic...
Terror of the Autumn Skies
The True Story of Frank Luke, America's Rogue Ace of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
The New York Times–bestselling author “refreshingly re-tells, and corrects, the story of Frank Luke’s life and amazing aerial exploits” (War Bird Ace author Jack Stokes Ballard).
Frank Luke Jr. was an unlikely pilot. In the Great War, when fliers were still “knights of the air,”...
by Norman Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
World War I is often thought of as just being a land war with men entrenched across the Western Front, but this "war to end all wars" was won as much at sea and in the air, as it was on land. This accessible guide takes readers through the birth of the Royal Flying Corps and discusses how...
The Deluge
The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize - Nonfiction
In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies...
Specialized Assault Units Of The World War I Western Front:
A Comparative Study Of The German Stormtrooper Battalions, And Canadian Trench Raiders
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This thesis will use a comparative study of the German Storm trooper battalions and the Canadian trench raiders in order to examine the dynamics of the World War I battlefield, the role of military culture in adaptation in order to acknowledge and act on the requirements of battlefield innovation....
The Last Century of Sea Power, Volume 1
From Port Arthur to Chanak, 1894–1922
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
The transition to modern war at sea began during the period of the Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) and the Spanish-American War (1898) and was propelled forward rapidly by the advent of the dreadnought and the nearly continuous state of war that culminated in World War I. By 1922, most of the elements...
by Dr Stephen Bull
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
This is the first Pocket Manual to be dedicated to the German Army in the First World War, with chapters comprising of complete documents or extracts drawn from two major sources: the German Army of 1914 - 1918 itself, or the intelligence sections of other armies.
It describes the new tactics...