World War I category: 3312 books
by T.E. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
The definitive version of one of the greatest books ever written.
Produced from the rare first edition, Apostrophe Books’ release of T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom has all the charm of the original, plus its 58 stunning pictures and maps.
Published in 1935, Seven Pillars...
The Ambulance Drivers
Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense twenty-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a "lost generation" shaken by war.
Eager to find his way in life and words, John Dos Passos...
by V M Yeates
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
‘The greatest novel of war in the air.’ - The Daily Mail France, 1914. The war on the land is taking to the skies. Pilot Tom Cundall is ready to take on the enemy in his trusty Camel fighter plane. But as he sees more and more planes shot down in flames, he begins to...
Billy Bishop
Top Canadian Flying Ace
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Billy Bishop was the top Canadian flying ace in the First World War, credited officially with a record-breaking 75 victories. He was a highly skilled pilot and an accurate shot. Bishop went from being the most decorated war hero in Canadian history to a crusader for peace, writing the book Winged...
A Crowded Hour
Milwaukee during the Great War, 1917-1918
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
A Crowded Hour: Milwaukee During the Great War examines the social, political, and economic challenges that scarred and dramatically changed the city during and after World War I. Pro-war patriots considered Milwaukee’s loyalties doubly suspect because of its large German-American population and...
by Charles L. Mee Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2019
World War I and the Versailles Treaty that followed produced the most serious upheaval in a long and stormy course of modern world history. Four great empires - Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, and Turkey - were part of the war's rubble. Far from restoring order, the diplomats who met in 1919 at...
A Boy from Botwood
Pte. A.W. Manuel, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, 1914-1919
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
A proud Newfoundland soldier’s memoir gives unprecedented details of life as a German POW during the First World War.
I’m going to tell my story. With those words, eighty-three-year-old Arthur Manuel set his remarkable First World War memoir in motion.
Like many Great War veterans,...
by Alexander Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
The Turks, who had remained hidden in their trenches up to this point, opened fire. Men were killed where they sat in their barges. “One fellow`s brains were shot into my mouth as I was shouting for them to jump for it,” said Sergeant J. McColgan, who was shot in the leg. “I dived...
Betrayal at Little Gibraltar
A German Fortress, a Treacherous American General, and the Battle to End World War I
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
A vivid, thrilling, and impeccably researched account of America’s bloodiest battle ever—World War I’s Meuse-Argonne Offensive—and the shocking American cover-up at its heart.
The year is 1918. German engineers have fortified Montfaucon, an elevated fortress in northern France, with...
War of Attrition
Fighting the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
A Wall Street Journal Best Non-Fiction Book of 2014!The Great War of 1914“1918 was the first mass conflict to fully mobilize the resources of industrial powers against one another, resulting in a brutal, bloody, protracted war of attrition between the world’s great economies. Now, one hundred...
by Michael Foley
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
With the end of the First World War, British troops crossed the Rhine and entered a country torn by violence where revolution seemed likely. Also, there was a threat of the war resuming if Germany refused to accept Allied terms. British forces were plunged into the turmoil of a defeated country and...
A History Of The First World War In 100 Objects
FREE SAMPLER: In Association With The Imperial War Museum
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
A History of the First World War in 100 Objects narrates the causes, progress and outcome of the First World War by telling the stories behind 100 items of material evidence of that cataclysmic and shattering conflict.
From weapons that created carnage to affectionate letters home and from unexpected...
Anzac's Long Shadow
The Cost of Our National Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
A century ago we got it wrong. We sent thousands of young Australians on a military operation that was barely more than a disaster. It’s right that a hundred years later we should feel strongly about that. But have we got our remembrance right? What lessons haven’t we learned about war, and what...
Too Important for the Generals
Losing and Winning the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
‘War is too important to be left to the generals’ snapped future French prime minister Georges Clemenceau on learning of yet another bloody and futile offensive on the Western Front.
One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions and debate about the First World War is why did winning take...