World War I category: 3312 books
by Bill Nasson
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The Great War of 1914-18 was a conflict which engulfed the whole world, directly or indirectly. It was an imperialist world war that tugged the new Union of South Africa and its people into a series of separate but connected conflicts - from the domestic Afrikaner Rebellion on the highveld, through...
by Lucinda Moore
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Animals in the Great War throws a spot light on the experience of creatures great and small during the First World War, vividly telling their stories through the incredible archival images of the Mary Evans Picture Library. The enduring public interest in Michael Morpurgos tale of the war horse reveals...
Triumph on the Western Front
Diary of a Despatch Rider with the ANZACs 1915-1919
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Share the experiences of a Despatch Rider during World War 1 by reading his own words written as a diary during his years on the Western Front. Oswald Harcourt Davis joined the Royal Engineers in 1916 and arrived in Abbeville, Somme, France in July that year. He was attached to the ANZACs and dished...
Conscience
Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family--a Test of Will andFaith in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Norman Thomas and his brothers' upbringing prepared them for a life of service-but their calls to conscience threatened to tear them apart
Conscience is Louisa Thomas's beautifully written account of the remarkable Thomas brothers at the turn of the twentieth century. At a time of trial, each...
Fight the Good Fight
Voices of Faith from the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
“The inspiring stories of a number of very different characters who used their Christian faith to cope with their experiences of the First World War.” —Jacqueline Wadsworth, author of Letters from the Trenches
While a toxic mixture of nationalism and militarism tore Europe and the wider world...
World War One
A History in 100 Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
There has been no shortage of heroic stories over the course of the Anzac Centenary: stories of courage and sacrifice, fortitude and endurance, mateship and resolve. But a hundred years on, there is a need for other stories as well - the stories too often marginalised in favour of nation-building...
![Cover of A War Minister And His Work: Reminiscences Of 1914-1918 [Illustrated Edition]](https://www.kuoky.com/images/2015/november/300x300/9781786255624-qEOd_300x.jpg)
by General Hermann Von Stein
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos
Even before the advent of the First World War, General Der Artillerie Hermann Von Stein, had had a long and distinguished career in the Prussian Army stretching back to 1873. He served in various...
by Campbell McCutcheon
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
The biggest shipping loss of both world wars was the hospital ship Britannic, at almost 50,000 tons. Supposedly safe to travel the seas, many hospital ships were lost in both wars. From the smallest of motor launches through steam yachts and converted ocean liners, Campbell McCutcheon tells the story...
A Job to Do
New Zealand Soldiers of ‘The Div’ Write About Their World War Two
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
What was it really like for the soldiers of 2 New Zealand Division in World War 2? This anthology is a personal selection of material describing their experiences, mostly written from within its ranks. The extracts chosen by John Gordon are drawn from memoirs, fiction, verse, news reports and magazine...
A Miners Pals Battalion at War
The History of the 18th Battalion Middlesex Regiment (1st public works) Pioneers of the 33rd Division – World War One: Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
On the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War, this is a story that so far has never been told. The 18th Battalion Middlesex Regiment were not infantry men whose primary job was to go ‘over the top’ at the start or during battle. Nor were they deployed behind the lines away from...
A Miners Pals Battalion at War
The History of the 18th Battalion Middlesex Regiment (1st public works) Pioneers of the 33rd Division – World War One: Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
On the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War, this is a story that so far has never been told. The 18th Battalion Middlesex Regiment were not infantry men whose primary job was to go ‘over the top’ at the start or during battle. Nor were they deployed behind the lines away from...
by Rob Langham
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Bloody Paralyser: The Giant Handley Page Bombers of the First World War tells the story of the largest British bombers of the First World War and the men who flew them. In 1915, the biggest plane ever seen in Britain took flight for the first time a twin-engine monster with a 100- foot wingspan, designed...
Last Post
The Final Word From Our First World War Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The 'Forgotten Voices' of the First World War speak for the final time.
LAST POST is very consciously the last word from the handful of First World War survivors who were left alive in 2004. Now they have passed away, our final human connection with the First World War has been broken.
Max...
by Carol Ann Duffy
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has engaged the most eminent poets of the present to choose the writing from the...