World War I category: 3312 books
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
In the course of May 1916, the Italian authorities expressed a desire that some independent observer from Great Britain should visit their lines and report his impressions. It was at the time when our brave and capable allies had sustained a set-back in the Trentino owing to a sudden concentration...
Days to Remember - The British Empire in the Great War (Illustrated Edition)
The Causes of the War; A Bird's-Eye View of the War; The Turn at the Marne; The Western Front; Behind the Lines; Victory
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
It is never easy to fix upon one cause as the origin of a great war, and the war of 1914 was the outcome of several causes combined. For twenty years there had been growing up in Europe a sense of insecurity; the great Powers had become restless and suspicious of one another . . . (Excerpt) The British...
The Cross and the Flag
World War 1 Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Ridout served as Chaplain with the 38th Regiment in France during World War I, and this is his memoir of sorts. A classic, to be sure!
This edition includes an Active Table of Contents.
Contents: CHAPTER 1: Departure CHAPTER 2: A London Air Raid CHAPTER 3: The Battle of the Skies in...
A Genius for Deception:How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars
How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In February 1942, intelligence officer Victor Jones erected 150 tents behind British lines in North Africa. "Hiding tanks in Bedouin tents was an old British trick," writes Nicholas Rankin; German general Erwin Rommel not only knew of the ploy, but had copied it himself. Jones knew that...
by G. J. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Drawing on exhaustive research, this remarkable, intimate account tells the story of how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today.
On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian...
Paris at the End of the World
The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city’s history.
From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For four years, Paris lived under constant...
The Fall of the Ottomans
The Great War in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
The thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East
An Economist Best Book of the Year
By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. In The...
We Also Served
The Forgotten Women of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
A social history of British women’s brave yet forgotten service during WWI from a historian of female wartime experiences—includes photos.
At the outbreak of World War I, women looking to contribute to the Allied effort were told by the war office to “go home and sit still.” Thankfully,...
by Herbert W. McBride
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
More than 70 years after it was first published, this book is still one of the all-time clazzics on the art of military marksmanship, and is required reading at the U.S. Marine Corps Sniper School. The author grew up learning to shoot in the backwoods of Indiana, and went on to compete nationally...
Catastrophe 1914
Europe Goes to War
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
From the acclaimed military historian, a history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles—the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg—that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches.
In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings...
The Englishman's Daughter
A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War One
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2002
"I have a rendezvous with death, at some disputed barricade." Alan Seeger, 1916
In the first days of World War I four soldiers, left behind as the British army retreated through northern France under the first German onslaught, found themselves trapped on the wrong side of the Western...
The Moralist
Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Acclaimed author Patricia O’Toole’s “superb” (The New York Times) account of Woodrow Wilson, one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents. A “gripping” (USA TODAY) biography, The Moralist is “an essential contribution to presidential history” (Booklist,...
Vera Brittain and the First World War
The Story of Testament of Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Vera Brittain and the First World War tells the remarkable story of the author behind Testament of Youth whilst charting the book's ascent to become one of the most loved memoirs of the First World War period. Such interest is set to expand even more in this centenary year of the war's outbreak.
In...
The Unsubstantial Air
American Fliers in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The Unsubstantial Air is the gripping story of the Americans who fought and died in the aerial battles of World War I. Much more than a traditional military history, it is an account of the excitement of becoming a pilot and flying in combat over the Western Front, told through the words and voices...