World War I list 54

Castles of Steel

Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

by Robert K. Massie
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2003

In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power...

War Against War

The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918

by Michael Kazin
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017

A dramatic account of the Americans who tried to stop their nation from fighting in the First World War—and came close to succeeding. In this “fascinating” (Los Angeles Times) narrative, Michael Kazin brings us into the ranks of one of the largest, most diverse, and most sophisticated...

History of the 91st Aero Squadron

by Unknown
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

Formed in August 1917, The 91st Aero Squadron was a United States Army Air Service unit that fought on the Western Front during World War I. The 91st was one of the first five American flying squadrons to arrive in France, arriving at Chaumont Aerodrome on 15 November 1917. This is a well...

The Great Wrong War

by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

**An entirely new look at the shocking impact of the First World War on New Zealand.**For New Zealand, World War One was wholly avoidable, wholly unnecessary - and almost wholly disastrous. Stevan Eldred-Grigg believes that the enormous cost of the war to our people was way too high - and that we...

Fighting the Flying Circus

by Eddie Rickenbacker
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012

One of the best first-hand accounts of air combat in World War I, by an American “ace of aces.” Eddie Rickenbacker had an extraordinary career: inventor, race car driver, fighter ace, Medal of Honor winner, and finally president of Eastern Air Lines. In this book he recounts how he achieved 26...

Mud and Bodies

The War Diaries & Letters of Captain N A C Weir, 1914-1920

by Mike Burns
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013

Neil Weir died in 1967, but it was not until 2009 that his grandson, Mike Burns, discovered his diary among some boxes he had been left, and learnt that his grandfather had served as an officer in the 10th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlander throughout the First World War, seeing action at...

Barrow-in-Furness in the Great War

by Ruth Mansergh
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

This book is about how Barrow's output of war materials was vital to the Great War effort, and it is about the Barrovians and men from the surrounding south Lakeland area - from all walks of life - who fought abroad, and the area's women war heroes. It includes background information on the history...

Open Cockpit

by Arthur Gould Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2012

A riveting firsthand account of training for—and surviving—air combat during World War I, by the author of No Parachute. Thanks to a broken leg during flight school, Arthur Gould Lee gained valuable time flying trainers before he was posted in France during World War I. In November 1917 during...

The Unknowns

The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and WWI’s Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home

by Patrick K. O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally constructed in 1921 to hold one of the thousands of unidentified American soldiers lost in World War I, it now also contains unknowns from World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and receives millions...

The Long Road To Victory [Illustrated Edition]

by Colonel John Buchan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

[Illustrated with 10 plates of the battles and engagements detailed in the book] Colonel John Buchan, was a man of many talents, a politician of upright morals and forthright character, a novelist of great acclaim and a soldier who served with distinction in the First World War. He collected stories...

In the Teeth of the Wind

Memoirs of the Royal Navy Air Service in the First World War

by Squadron Leader C P O Bartlette DSC
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013

So rapid have been the advances in the science of aeronautics since the end of the First World War that it requires a considerable feat of imagination to cast one's mind back over the comparatively short period of seventy years to the days when Flight Commander Bartlett of the Royal Naval Air Service...

Lost Voices

The Untold Stories of America's World War I Veterans and their Families

by Martin King, Michael Collins
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018

2017 is the 100th anniversary of America’s declaration of war against Germany. Many historians take a diminutive stance regarding America’s involvement but it cannot be underestimated by any means. It was the reason that brought Germany to it is knees and forced them to accept an armistice that...

Great Britain's Great War

by Jeremy Paxman
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013

Jeremy Paxman's magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people. NOW A MAJOR BBC TELEVISION SERIES "He writes so well and sympathetically, and chooses his detail so deftly, that if there...

Gallipoli

A Ridge Too Far

by Robin Prior, Stephen Bradley, Ashley Ekins
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

For the first time showcasing a unique and extensive range of Australian War Memorial photographs, Gallipoli: a Ridge too far describes the pivotal events of that momentous year as they affected all the countries involved. The book combines fresh perspectives from the worlds leading authorities, including...