World War I category: 3312 books
Fighting for the Bucks
The History of the Royal Bucks Hussars 1914-18
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
From the hell of Gallipoli to the deserts of the Holy Land, torpedoed in the Mediterranean before finally posted to the mud and trenches of the Western Front, the Royal Bucks Hussars had a fascinating and bloody story during World War I. Condemned by Lord Kitchener as mere play boys, they were able...
by Admiral Reinhard Scheer
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2013
Victors write history. German Admiral Reinhard Scheer knew this, and wrote his own anyway. In this memoir of World War One, he says, "We are victors and vanquished at one and the same time, and in depicting our success the difficult problem confronts us of not forgetting that our strength did...
Paris 1919
Six Months That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A landmark work of narrative history, Paris 1919 is the first full-scale treatment of the Peace Conference in more than twenty-five years. It offers a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days when much of the modern world was sketched out, when countries were created—Iraq, Yugoslavia,...
King, Kaiser, Tsar
Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
The extraordinary family story of George V, Wilhelm II, and Nicholas II: they were tied to one another by history, and history would ultimately tear them apart.
Drawing widely on previously unpublished royal letters and diaries, made public for the first time by Queen Elizabeth II, Catrine...
by Winston S. Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
The second volume in Churchill’s “outstandingly readable history of the First World War” (David Fromkin, author of A Peace to End All Peace).
This second volume in Winston S. Churchill’s five-volume series The World Crisis, 1915 is by far the most personal—dealing frankly with Churchill’s...
To End All Wars
A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
World War I stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics,...
The Trigger
Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
From the author of Blood River: “A splendid book, part memoir, part history,” about the teenager who killed Archduke Ferdinand and sparked WWI (Norman Stone, author of World War One).
Sarajevo, 1914. On a June morning, nineteen-year-old Gavrilo Princip drew a pistol from his pocket and fired...
Armistice 1918
The Last Days of The First World War Told Through Newspaper Reports, Official Documents and the Accounts of Those Who Were There
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
At 11.00 hours on 11 November 1918, the guns fell silent across the battlefields of Europe. After the deadliest conflict the world had ever seen, peace had finally arrived.
Since the withdrawal from the Somme and the repulse at Verdun, the Germans knew they could not win the war and had sought...
Summary of Dead Wake
by Erik Larson | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Summary of Dead Wake by Erik Larson | Includes Analysis Preview: Dead Wake by Erik Larson is a non-fiction account of the German Unterseeboot, or U-boat, sinking of Lusitania, a British merchant vessel belonging to Cunard Line, on May 7, 1915 and its aftermath. On...
First to Fly
The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille, the American Heroes Who Flew for France in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
“The compelling story of the squadron of adventurous young American pilots who were among the first to engage in air combat.” —Tampa Bay Times
In First to Fly, lauded historian Charles Bracelen Flood draws on rarely seen primary sources to tell the story of the daredevil Americans of...
by René Chartrand
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This book describes the organization, lists the units and illustrates the uniforms and equipment of the four Canadian divisions which earned an elite reputation on the Western Front in 1915-18. Canada's 600,000 troops of whom more than 66,000 died and nearly 150,000 were wounded represented an extraordinary...
by Nigel Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
The years 1915–17 saw the Imperial German Army forced to adapt to the new realities of static trench warfare. Prewar uniforms and equipment had to be modified, for both utility and economy; on battlefields ruled by machine guns and artillery the steel helmet reappeared, as well as masks to protect...
AMERICA'S GREATEST BLUNDER
The Fateful Decision to Enter World War One
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Entering World War One against Germany was Americas greatest blunder of the 20th century. America had no reason to join the devastating and stalemated three-years-old struggle. America was never threatened; its security was never at risk. By sending two million doughboys to the Western Front, America...
1917
War, Peace, and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
1917 was a year of calamitous events, and one of pivotal importance in the development of the First World War. In 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution, leading historian of World War One, David Stevenson, examines this crucial year in context and illuminates the century that followed. He shows how in...