World War I category: 3312 books
Sixty Squadron RAF
A History of the Squadron from Its Formation
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Sixty Squadron RAF, which covers the period from the disastrous maelstrom of the Somme offensive to final victory, 1916–1919, is one of the classic histories of the Great War. It is the story of a squadron whose members were awarded 1 Victoria Cross, 5 Distinguished Service Orders, 1 Bar to the...
The Burden of Guilt
How Germany Shattered the Last Days of Peace, Summer 1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A military historian’s “thought-provoking” examination of Germany’s role in the outbreak of the First World War (Soldier Magazine).
The conflagration that consumed Europe in August 1914 had been a long time in coming—and yet it need never have happened at all. For though all the European...
by Dennis Showalter
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
The battle of Tannenberg (August 2730, 1914) opened World War I with a decisive German victory over Russiaindeed the Kaisers only clear-cut victory in a non-attritional battle during four years of war. In this first paperback edition of the classic work, historian Dennis Showalter analyzes this battles...
by Paul R. Hare
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Those with any interest in the First World War will have have heard of the planes most associated with that conflict - the legendary Sopwith Camel and Royal Aircraft Factory’s S.E.5a, which are often called the ‘Spitfire’ and ‘Hurricane’ of the Great War. Aviation enthusiasts might even...
by Peter Parker
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
This moving and timely book explores the way the First World War has been thought about and commemorated, and how it has affected its own, and later, generations. On 11 November 1920, huge crowds lined the streets of London for the funeral of the Unknown Warrior. As the coffin was drawn on a gun carriage...
by David Evans
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
The Teach Yourself History series offers an alternative to academic historical books, its content being extensive yet extremely accessible and the approach refreshingly different. The books are informative and compelling, and engage the reader from beginning to end. They assume no prior historical...
Britain Goes to War
How the First World War Began to Reshape the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The First World War had a profound impact on British society and on British relations with continental Europe, the Dominions, the United States and the emerging Soviet Union. The pre-war world was transformed, and the world that we recognize today began to take shape. That is why, 100 years after...
KEKs and Fokkerstaffels
The Early German Fighter Units in 1915–1916
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This is the first time that the history of the German Kampfeinsitzer Kommandos, better known as KEKs and the Fokkerstaffels, have been gathered in a book. The KEKs were the predecessors of the famous Jagdstaffeln or Jastas which would wreck havoc on Allied aircraft over the trenches during the First...
The Splintered Empires
The Eastern Front 1917–21
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
At the beginning of 1917, the three empires fighting on the Eastern Front were reaching their breaking points, but none was closer than Russia. After the February Revolution, Russia's ability to wage war faltered and her last desperate gamble, the Kerensky Offensive, saw the final collapse of her...
by B. H. Liddell Hart
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
T. E. Shaw, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, was one of the most romantic, heroic, and enigmatic figures of his day. The subject of myth and hagiography, he was equally accomplished in several fields--as archaeologist, diplomat, writer, and soldier--and he worked throughout World War I and after...
Courage at Sea
Newfoundland Sailors in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Courage at Sea: Newfoundland Sailors in the Great War is a collection of more than forty World War I stories involving the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve and the Newfoundland merchant seamen who delivered goods to Europe in aid of the Allied war effort. Many foreign-going vessels carrying Newfoundlanders...
New Zealand's Great War
New Zealand, the Allies and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
This book is a collection of essays arising out of the Zealandias Great War conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003. In 32 essays by distinguished military historians from New Zealand and around the world, various aspects of New Zealands involvement in World...
Agent of Peace
Emily Hobhouse and Her Courageous Attempt to End the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
The work of Emily Hobhouse, pacifist, in Britain and Europe during World War I, and her efforts to get peace talks startedIn the Anglo Boer War 1899-1902 Emily Hobhouse championed the cause of the women and children herded into camps by Kitchener's army. By 1914, a confirmed pacifist, she felt passionately...
Wounded
A New History of the Western Front in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. On the battlefield, the injuries were shocking, unlike anything those in the medical field had ever witnessed. The bullets hit fast and hard, went deep and took...