World War I category: 3312 books
by Sandra Gittins
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
In August 1914 the GWR was plunged into war, the like of which this country had never experienced before. Over the years that followed life changed beyond measure, both for the men sent away to fight and the women who took on new roles at home. Not since 1922 has the history of the GWR in the First...
by Mark Lardas
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
In 1910 the first aircraft was successfully launched from a small wooden platform on a stationary ship. Just four years later, seaplane-carrying warships were being used to launch the first naval air raids, and by 1918 the first aircraft carrier to feature a full-length flight deck was in service....
MI5 at War 1909-1918
How MI5 Foiled the Spies of the Kaiser in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
The years 1909-1918 can be regarded as formative for MI5, an era in which it developed from a small counterespionage bureau into an established security intelligence agency. MI5 had two main roles during this period; counterespionage, and advising the War Office on how to deal with the police and...
Kitty's War
The remarkable wartime experiences of Kit McNaughton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The remarkable wartime experiences of Kit McNaughton Kitty’s War is based upon the previously unpublished war diaries of Great War army nurse Sister Kit McNaughton. Kit and historian Janet Butler grew up in the same Victorian district of drystone walls, wheatfields and meandering creeks, except...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
An anthology of letters from writers to the Telegraph covering the lead up to and the duration of the entire First World War.
For the millions at home watching the horrors of the First World War unfold, there were few means by which they could express their anxiety, show their pride for the...
Missing in Action
Australia's World War I Grave Services, an astonishing true story of misconduct, fraud and hoaxing
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
By the end of World War I, 45,000 Australians had died on the Western Front. Some bodies had been hastily buried mid-battle in massed graves; others were mutilated beyond recognition. Often men were simply listed as 'Missing in Action' because nobody knew for sure.
Lieutenant Robert Burns was...
Bully Beef & Biscuits
Food in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
A “well-researched, well-written, humorous and engaging” exploration of soldiers’ rations during World War I (Destructive Music).
Napoleon Bonaparte is often credited with saying that “an army marches on its stomach.” A hundred years after his time, the soldiers of the Great War would...
A Supernatural War
Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
It was a commonly expressed view during the First World War that the conflict had seen a major revival of 'superstitious' beliefs and practices. Churches expressed concerns about the wearing of talismans and amulets, the international press paid considerable interest to the pronouncements of astrologers...
by Stuart Hylton
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
The Great War of 1914-1918 was the world's first total conflict. It drew the whole population into the war effort as never before. The armed forces recruited on a scale that was previously unimaginable, and the munitions industries drew more and more citizens into the labour market. The entire national...
The Strange Case of "The Angels of Mons"
Arthur Machen's World War I Story, the Insistent Believers, and His Refutations
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
World War I began disastrously for the English when the Germans routed them at Mons, Belgium, on August 23 and 24, 1914. On September 29, 1914, the Anglo-Welsh writer Arthur Machen fictionalized this encounter in a newspaper story, claiming that the English were saved by the appearance of angelic...
Instrument of War
The German Army 1914–18
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Drawing on more than a half-century of research and teaching, Dennis Showalter presents a fresh perspective on the German Army during World War I. Showalter surveys an army at the heart of a national identity, driven by – yet also defeated by – warfare in the modern age, which struggled to capitalize...
by Christina Gier
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
An advertisement in the sheet music of the song “Goodbye Broadway, Hello France” (1917) announces: “Music will help win the war!” This ad hits upon an American sentiment expressed not just in advertising, but heard from other sectors of society during the American engagement in the First World...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War explores the social and cultural history of the war and considers the role of civil society throughout the conflict; that is to say those institutions and practices outside the state through which the war effort was waged. Drawing on 25 years...
1914 The First World War at Sea in photographs
Grand Fleet vs German Navy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The arms race that led to the First World War started in 1897 at the Spithead Naval Review, when Kaiser Wilhelm saw the might of Britain's Navy. He wanted to equal or better the fleet of Britain, and set about a huge building programme of warships. By 1914, tensions in Europe were at a breaking point...