World War I category: 3312 books
Palestine Diaries
the light horsemen’s own story, battle by battle
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
The third instalment in Jonathan King’s acclaimed World War 1 centennial trilogy.
‘In the history of the world there never was a greater victory than that which was achieved in Palestine.’ — Prime Minister Billy Hughes addressing the Australian Parliament in 1919.
Culminating...
Beyond 1917
The United States and the Global Legacies of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
A massively destructive and transformative event, the First World War left in its wake many legacies. Beyond 1917 explores both the consequences of the war for the United States (and the world) and American influence on shaping the legacies of the conflict in the decades after US entry in 1917. From...
New York and the First World War
Shaping an American City
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
The First World War constitutes a point in the history of New York when its character and identity were challenged, recast and reinforced. Due to its pre-eminent position as a financial and trading centre, its role in the conflict was realised far sooner than elsewhere in the United States. This book...
Manliness and Militarism
Educating Young Boys in Ontario for War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
Euphoria swept Canada, and especially Ontario, with the outbreak of World War I. Young men rushed to volunteer for the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and close to 50 per cent of the half-million Canadian volunteers came from the province of Ontario. Why were people excited by the prospect of war? What...
Merseyside's War
Voices of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
As the ‘second city of empire’, Liverpool and the surrounding region played a pivotal role in the First World War. Even before the conflict, almost a third of all the goods that came into the country and the products that were shipped overseas passed through the port. During the First World War,...
Consequences of the Peace
The Versailles Settlement: Aftermath and Legacy 1919-2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
The Versailles Settlement, at the time of its creation a vital part of the Paris Peace Conference, suffers today from a poor reputation: despite its lofty aim to settle the world's affairs at a stroke, it is widely considered to have paved the way for a second major global conflict within a generation....
by Scott Lomax
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
The First World War saw many changes to Sheffield that have helped shape what the city is today. It is apt that as we mark the centenary of the outbreak of the war, whilst paying our respects to those who were killed serving our country, we recognise the impact that the war had on those at home.
This...
Pandemic 1918
Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Before AIDS or Ebola, there was the Spanish Flu — Catharine Arnold's gripping narrative, Pandemic 1918, marks the 100th anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history.
In January 1918, as World War I raged on, a new and terrifying virus began to spread across the globe. In three successive...
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by Maurice Baring
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes Aerial Warfare During World War I Illustrations Pack with 115 maps, plans, and photos.
“Maurice Baring made an unlikely soldier but during the First World War, at the age of forty, he obtained a commission and became Private Secretary to Hugh Trenchard, Commander of the Royal Flying...
Pandora’s Box
A History of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
In this monumental history of the First World War, Germany’s leading historian of the twentieth century’s first great catastrophe explains the war’s origins, course, and consequences. With an unrivaled combination of depth and global reach, Pandora’s Box reveals how profoundly the war shaped...
by Gordon Martel
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Origins of the First World War summarizes the policies, issues and crises that brought Europe to war in 1914. Examining the strategic and political problems that confronted each of the great powers and the way in which social and economic factors influenced the decision-making process, Martel discusses...
American Newsfilm 1914-1919 (RLE The First World War)
The Underexposed War
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The First World War was the first conflict in which film became a significant instrument of propaganda. For the United States, the war had two distinct phases: from August 1914 to April 1917, America was officially a neutral country; after April 1917 the United States was in the war, providing men,...
On the Front Line
True World War I Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
In 1930, the editor of Everyman Magazine requested entries for a new anthology of Great War accounts. The result was a revolutionary book unlike any other of the period; for as Malcolm Brown notes in his introduction 'I believe it might fairly be described as a rediscovered classic'.
It was...
The Last Battle
Victory, Defeat, and the End of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Author of The Great War, as well as celebrated accounts of the battles of the Somme, Passchendaele, Jutland, and Gallipoli, historian Peter Hart now turns to World War One's final months. Much has been made of-and written about-August 1914. There has been comparatively little focus on August 1918...