World War I category: 3312 books
The Soldier from Independence
A Military Biography of Harry Truman, Volume 1, 1906-1919
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Revealing the little-known facts of Harry Truman’s remarkable military performance, as a soldier and as a politician, The Soldier from Independence adds a whole new dimension to the already fascinating character of the thirty-third president of the United States. D. M. Giangreco shows how, as a...
by Scott S. F. Meaker
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
World War One: A Concise History - The Great War The First World War was supposed to be the war that ended all wars, hence the name, the Great War. The Great War was off to a bad start from the German perspective. The plan was to fend off France and Russia while focusing on the main...
Tommy in the Family
First World War Family History and Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Genealogist and historian Keith Gregson takes the reader on a whistle-stop tour of World War I family stories, from the heart-warming to the tear-jerking. The entries tell the story behind each discovery and then offers an insight into how the researcher found and followed up their leads. They reveal...
The Marne, 1914
The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
For the first time in a generation, here is a bold new account of the Battle of the Marne, a cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of two wars and the world. With exclusive information based on newly unearthed documents, Holger H. Herwig...
The Vanquished
Why the First World War Failed to End
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Winner of the Tomlinson Book Prize
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2016
An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I—conflicts that would shape the course of the twentieth century
For the Western Allies, November 11,...
Pershing's Crusaders
The American Soldier in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
The Great War caught a generation of American soldiers at a turning point in the nation’s history. At the moment of the Republic’s emergence as a key player on the world stage, these were the first Americans to endure mass machine warfare, and the first to come into close contact with foreign...
Great War Britain
The First World War at Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
The declaration of war in August, 1914, was to change Britain and British society irrevocably as conflict came to dominate almost every aspect of civilian life for the next four years. Popular weekly magazines, such as the Tatler, the Sketch, and the Queen, recorded the national preoccupations of...
Over Here
The First World War and American Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
The Great War of 1914-1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history. It also left a residue of disruption and disillusion that spawned an even more ruinous conflict scarcely a generation later. Over Here is the single-most comprehensive discussion...
by Charles Seymour
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
This book was written right after the "Great War" it is a fantastic historical image of how contemporaries viewed the war, its causes, results, and how Woodrow Wilson managed and used it to further his ideological goal of Collective Security. It really is a great contemporary look of the...
by Jennifer D. Keene
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
The First World War was a pivotal event in world history, but Americans often overlook the importance of their participation in the war. The United States and the First World War provides a concise, comprehensive and engaging evaluation of the war's significance in American history by examining the...
by John Keegan
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
From the dean of modern military historians, John Keegan: a key selection from his masterpiece, The First World War. The road to World War I, from the death of the archduke to the first salvos of battle, an incredibly thorough and straightforward account of how a supposedly rational liberal Europe...
The Day the World was Shocked
The Lusitania Disaster and Its Influence on the Course of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
By far the most controversial sinking during the First World War was that of the Lusitania. As opposed to the loss of the Titanic several years earlier, which could be attributed to nature, the destruction of the passenger-liner Lusitania came at the hands of a German U-boat, one of many which infested...
by Gordon Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
As was the case in World War II, one of the greatest threats to Britain during World War I was the German U-boat menace. This book traces the development of the U-boat threat from the Brandtaucher, designed by Wilhelm Bauer, the father of the German submarine arm, in 1850, through to the commissioning...
Prolonging the Agony
How The Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by Three-and-a-Half Years.
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
The fact that governments lie is generally accepted today, but World War I was the first global conflict in which millions of young men were sacrificed for hidden causes. They did not die to save civilization; they were killed for profit and in the hopes of establishing a one-world government. By...