World War I category: 3312 books
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by Major-General J.F.C. Fuller DSO
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes more than 30 maps, plans and diagrams
The world-renowned military expert Major-General J.F.C. Fuller DSO, noted for his many works on military strategy, tactics and history, turns his attention to the famed Royal Tank Corps of World War I. He was in a particularly good position to write such...
by Andrew Summers
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
‘Essex Farm, Never Forgotten’ tells the story of Essex Farm and Calvaire (Essex) two First World War cemeteries in Belgium that will forever bear the Essex name. ‘Essex Farm’ is not a comprehensive history of the First World War or a detailed account of the Essex Regiment. However we do try...
Crucible
The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
A bold, revisionist account of World War I's lingering end, the bloody years that followed, and the Western world's reeling transformation.
In Petrograd a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to the Urals. A rancorous Russian exile crosses war-torn Europe to make his triumphal entry into the...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).
*An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.
*This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.
This is a brief timeline of events leading up to WW I, and...
Yesterday There Was Glory
With the 4th Division, A.E.F., in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
In 1946, World War I veteran and self-described “buck private in the rear rank” Gerald Andrew Howell finished a memoir of the experiences of his squad from the 39th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, and their “moments of horror, tragedy, humor, amour, [and] promiscuity” in Europe. This was “the...
Battles at Sea in World War I
Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914)
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
The First Battle of Heligoland Bight was the first naval battle of the First World War, fought on 28 August 1914, between the United Kingdom and Germany. The battle took place in the south-eastern North Sea when the British attacked German patrols off the north-west German coast.
The German...
by Jürgen Prommersberger
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
The Battle of the Falkland Islands was a British naval victory over the Imperial German Navy on 8 December 1914 during the First World War in the South Atlantic. The British, after a defeat at the Battle of Coronel on 1 November, had sent a large force to track down and destroy the victorious German...
by Alan Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Alan Smith's Allenby's Gunners tells the story of artillery in the highly successful World War I Sinai and Palestine campaigns. Following Gallipoli and the reconstitution of the AIF, a shortage of Australian gunners saw British Territorial artillery allotted to the Australian Light Horse and New Zealand...
Jutland
World War I's Greatest Naval Battle
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
During the first two years of World War I, Germany struggled to overcome a crippling British blockade of its mercantile shipping lanes. With only sixteen dreadnought-class battleships compared to the renowned British Royal Navy's twenty-eight, the German High Seas Fleet stood little chance of winning...
Written in Blood
The Battles for Fortress Przemyl in WWI
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
The Tomlinson Prize–winning, “stimulating and informative” account of one of the most significant clashes on the Eastern Front of the Great War (Journal of Military History).
Bloodier than Verdun, the battles for Fortress Przemyl in present-day Poland were pivotal to victory on the Eastern...
Rude Mechanicals
An account of Tank Maturity during the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 1989
In this sequel to "An New Excalibur", which examined the development of the tank during World War I and after, Smithers examines the role played by tanks in World War II. At the beginning of the war only the Germans and the Russians had realized the full power of the tank. The British and...
The Ghosts of the Great War
Reflections on Belgium
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
The destructive story of World War I is still deeply felt in Europe, where bodies, parts of bodies, shells, artillery fragments, live ammunition, and personal items such as letters, books, clothing, and other reminders of war are still being discovered. But in the United States of America, it’s...
by Friedrich Von Bernhardi
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
"Our science, our literature, and the warlike achievements of our past, have made me proudly conscious of belonging to a great civilized nation which, in spite of all the weakness and mistakes of bygone days, must, and assuredly will, win a glorious future; and it is out of the fulness of my German...
Blood on the Snow
The Carpathian Winter War of 1915
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Norman B. Tomlinson Book Prize, Honorable Mention
The Carpathian campaign of 1915, described by some as the "Stalingrad of the First World War," engaged the million-man armies of Austria-Hungary and Russia in fierce winter combat that drove them to the brink of annihilation. Habsburg...