World War I category: 3312 books
World War I Law and Lawyers
Issues, Cases, and Characters
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The global story of the legal side of WWI and its legacy is now told in this new book. Eighty legal issues are identified from this war, ranging from the ancient rights of kings to deploying modern technology like airplanes and poison gases, from mutiny to blockade, from supplying and funding wars...
Society in the First World War
The Pre-War Mind in Britain. Society at War 1914-1916. Britain Holds On 1917, 1918. The Neuroses of the Nations.
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
This volume contains four essays by Caroline Playne on the anthropology and social psychology of the First World War:
The Pre-War Mind in Britain (1928)
Society at War, 1914–16 (1931)
Britain Holds on, 1917, 1918 (1933)
The Neuroses of the Nations (1925)
During the Great War, by constant and solitary...
by Oliver Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Over 185,000 British military servicemen were captured by the Germans during the First World War and incarcerated as prisoners of war (POWs). In this original investigation into their experiences of captivity, Wilkinson uses official and private British source material to explore how these servicemen...
Canada and the First World War
Essays in Honour of Robert Craig Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
The First World War is often credited as being the event that gave Canada its own identity, distinct from that of Britain, France, and the United States. Less often noted, however, is that it was also the cause of a great deal of friction within Canadian society. The fifteen essays contained in Canada...
by Ryan K. Noppen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
At the outbreak of World War I Austria-Hungary had four modern light cruisers and twenty modern destroyers at their disposal, constructed in the early 20th century to defend their growing overseas interests. It was these fast light vessels, not the fleet's prized battleships, which saw most action...
by H.G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
War and the Future (1917) is a work of war propaganda by H.G. Wells that was published in the North America under the title Italy, France, and Britain at War (the subtitle of the British original). Wells would have preferred the title The War of Ideas, but his publisher over-ruled him. Except for...
by Richard Harding Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
One of the most famous war correspondents of his era, Richard Harding Davis covered the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. In this spellbinding book, indispensable reading for any history buff, Davis recounts his firsthand experiences at the front lines in France and Serbia during World War I.
A Life in Code
Pioneer Cryptanalyst Elizebeth Smith Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Protesters called it an act of war when the U.S. Coast Guard sank a Canadian-flagged vessel in the Gulf of Mexico in 1929. It took a cool-headed codebreaker solving a “trunk-full” of smugglers’ encrypted messages to get Uncle Sam out of the mess: Elizebeth Smith Friedman’s groundbreaking work...
Canada and the First World War, Second Edition
Essays in Honour of Robert Craig Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
The First World War is often credited as being the event that gave Canada its own identity, distinct from that of Britain, France, and the United States. Less often noted, however, is that it was also the cause of a great deal of friction within Canadian society. The fifteen essays contained in Canada...
Trial By Gas
The British Army at the Second Battle of Ypres
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
World War I has long captured the macabre imagination for the seemingly willful manner in which nations sent their young men to die in droves while fighting over essentially the same patch of land for four long years. The vision of those senseless deaths becomes even harsher and more depraved when...
Medicine in First World War Europe
Soldiers, Medics, Pacifists
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
The casualty rates of the First World War were unprecedented: approximately 10 million combatants were wounded from Britain, France and Germany alone. In consequence, military-medical services expanded and the war ensured that medical professionals became firmly embedded within the armed services....
Trench Warfare
1850-1950
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Although many books have been published about the Western Front, few of them look beyond the Great War to consider trench warfare in a wider historical context. Trench warfare was not an aberration of the Western Front. On the contrary, it was a watershed in a greater upheaval in warfare which started...
Paths of Glory
Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
What is enclosed between these covers was written as a series of first hand impressions during the fall and early winter of 1914 while the writer was on staff service for The Saturday Evening Post in the western theatre of the European War. I tried to write of war as I saw it at the time that I saw...
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by General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton GCB GCMG DSO TD
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
udes Gallipoli Campaign Map and Illustrations Pack –71 photos and 31 maps of the campaign spanning the entire period of hostilities.
The desperate losses and ultimate failure of the Gallipoli campaign are legendary even among the holocaust of the First World War. The man ultimately held responsible...