World War I category: 3312 books
Eyewitness, Being Personal Reminiscences Of Certain Phases Of The Great War,
Including The Genesis Of The Tank [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos
Major-General Ernest Swinton had already had a long and illustrious career in the British Army before the advent of the First World War in 1914. Appointed as the official war correspondent by the...
A Brief History of the First World War
Eyewitness Accounts of the War to End All Wars, 1914-18
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Even 100 years on from the First World War it haunts us still. No other conflict has revealed so dramatically the senselessness of war, and none has shaped the modern world to the same extent, from its impact on the Russian Revolution and the rise of Hitler to the final break-up of the British Empire...
They Fought in Colour / La Guerre en couleur
A New Look at Canada's First World War Effort / Nouveau regard sur le Canada dans la Première Guerre mondiale
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2018
Iconic photos from the First World War, newly colourized.
See seminal images of Canada’s First World War experience in a new light — offered in full colour for the first time — with contributions from Margaret Atwood, Tim, Cook, Charlotte Gray, Paul Gross, Peter Mansbridge, and many others.
Canadians...
The Christmas Truce
Myth, Memory, and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
In late December 1914, German and British soldiers on the western front initiated a series of impromptu, unofficial ceasefires. Enlisted men across No Man's Land abandoned their trenches and crossed enemy lines to sing carols, share food and cigarettes, and even play a little soccer. Collectively...
Virginia and the Great War
Mobilization, Supply and Combat, 1914-1919
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Virginia played an important role during World War I, supplying the Allied forces with food, horses and steel in 1915 and 1916. After America entered the war in 1917, Virginians served in numerous military and civilian roles—Red Cross nurses, sailors, shipbuilders, pilots, stenographers and domestic...
The Espionage and Sedition Acts
World War I and the Image of Civil Liberties
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-1918 mark one of the most controversial moments in American history. Even as President Woodrow Wilson justified US entry into World War I on the grounds that it would "make the world safe for democracy," the act curtailed civil liberties at home by...
by H.G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2014
In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a "War of Ideas." A phrase, "The War to end War," got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists, towards taking an active part in...
by Siegfried Sassoon
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
At the dawn of World War I, Siegfried Sassoon exchanged his pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches of France. The first English soldier-poet to achieve notoriety as an opponent of the war, he ranks among the conflict's most critical poetic voices....
Staffordshire's War
Voices of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This is the story of Staffordshire’s First World War. Using a wide range of sources, including the Mid-Staffordshire Military Appeal Tribunal papers, letters, diaries, journals, local newspapers and autobiographies, this book draws together the vast array of experiences of Staffordshire locals....
A Broken World
Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
EDITED BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF BIRDSONG
‘The First World War anthology for our time’ Evening Standard
2018 marks the centenary of the end of World War One. As we look back over a century later, A Broken World, edited by Sebastian Faulks and Dr Hope Wolf, offers an unprecedented...
by James Hayward
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Accounts of World War I usually center on grueling life in the trenches, living and fighting on the front line. While incorporating wartime life, this book gives a refreshingly different perspective by looking at the rich crop of legends that sprang from the battlefields. Some of these myths still...
by Rob Langham
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
The North Eastern Railway underwent extreme change after the outbreak of war in August 1914. Within months, the company raised its own battalion of men and was the only railway company to do so. The NER also set to work adapting to the changes and requirements the war would bring. Not only would there...
Publishers, Readers and the Great War
Literature and Memory since 1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Literature is at the heart of popular understandings of the First World War in Britain, and has perpetuated a popular memory of the conflict centred on disillusionment, horror and futility. This book examines how and why literature has had this impact, exploring the role played by authors, publishers...
The Great War
Indian Writings on the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
It is very hard to endure the bombs, Father. It will be difficult for anyone to survive and come back safe and sound from the war. The son who is very lucky will see his father and mother…
(Extract from a letter by an Indian soldier serving in France, written on 14 January 1915 to his father)
The...