World War I category: 3312 books
Cycling Through a Foreign Field
A cycle ride through the First World War battlefields of Flanders and The Somme
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
In an overheated room in a sheltered housing complex in Burnley there is a small, carved wooden box. The box is a depository for memories, half remembered or forgotten entirely. Inside this box are two life times of old photographs, some sepia, some black and white, known and unknown ancestors; and...
1914 The First World War in Photographs
Over by Christmas
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
1914: the first year of the 'war to end all wars', documented through old photographs. In 1914, after more than a decade of sabre-rattling, arms races and localised wars, mainland Europe erupted into the greatest war man had ever seen. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand saw the beginning...
by William Brazear
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
This is a transcript of the Journal of Private William Brazear, from his father's death in 1895 to the death of his son during the second World War. It tells of his journey on foot from London to Wales, a distance of some 200 miles, in order to find work and goes on to tell of his imprisonment...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
On Platform One of Paddington Station in London, there is a statue of an unknown soldier; he’s reading a letter. On the hundredth anniversary of the declaration of war everyone in the country was invited to take a moment and write that letter. A selection of those letters are published here, in...
Poilu
The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the French army fought its fiercest...
by Scott Addington
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Why was the machine gun so devastating and how did it change the nature of the war? Who invented poison gas and how effective was it on the battlefield? What was it like to come face-to-face with the iron monsters that were the World War I tanks, unleashed for the first time?
by Philip Gibbs
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
"In this book I have written about some aspects of the war which, I believe, the world must know and remember, not only as a memorial of men's courage in tragic years, but as a warning of what will happen again—surely—if a heritage of evil and of folly is not cut out of the hearts of peoples....
The Somme
Herosim and Horror in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
From one of our most distinguished historians, an authoritative and vivid account of the devastating World War I battle that claimed more than 300,000 lives
At 7:30 am on July 1, 1916, the first Allied soldiers climbed out of their trenches along the Somme River in France and charged out into...
by Winston S. Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
The causes of the Great War are examined in this first volume of the series that is “essential reading, as fresh and compelling as ever” (Jon Meacham, bestselling author of Franklin and Winston).
An absorbing history of the outbreak of World War I from a true insider’s point of view,...
A Rainbow Division Lieutenant in France
The World War I Diary of John H. Taber
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Lieutenant John Huddleston Taber was a New Yorker assigned to the 168th “Third Iowa” Infantry Regiment of the American Expeditionary Force’s 42nd “Rainbow” Division during World War I. His diary provides a detailed narrative of a young officer maturing through his war experiences, from the...
1918
Winning the War, Losing the War
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
In 2018, the world will be commemorating the centenary of the end of the First World War. In many ways, 1918 was the most dramatic year of the conflict. After the defeat of Russia in 1917, the Germans were able to concentrate their forces on the Western Front for the first time in the war, and the...
The Great War
Strategies & Tactics of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
World War I marked the end of the old military order and the beginning of the era of mechanized warfare. This is a thorough examination of the campaigns of the “war to end all wars.” It analyzes the development of military theory and practice from the prewar period of Bismark’s Prussia to the creation of the League of Nations.
The Great Rescue
American Heroes, an Iconic Ship, and the Race to Save Europe in WWI
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Published in commemoration of the centennial of America’s entry into World War I, the story of the USS Leviathan, the legendary liner turned warship that ferried U.S. soldiers to Europe—a unique war history that offers a fresh, compelling look at this epic time.
When war broke out in Europe...
Broken Nation
Australians in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Winner of the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History.
The Great War is, for many Australians, the event that defined our nation. The larrikin diggers, trench warfare, and the landing at Gallipoli have become the stuff of the Anzac 'legend'. But it was also a war fought...