World War I category: 3312 books
American Expeditionary Forces in the Great War
The Meuse Argonne 1918: Breaking the Line
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Although the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, which began in late September 1918 and continued through to the Armistice, was not the first major action fought by the AEF, it was the greatest in which it engaged in the Great War. Indeed, the casualty count in the fighting at the Meuse-Argonne makes it the...
by Paul Knight
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The Territorial Force is the forgotten army of the First World War. Between the pre-war Regular Army, which attempted to stem the German advance in 1914, and the New Armies who took to the field with such disastrous consequences on the Somme in 1916, stood the Territorial Army. Liverpool's Territorials...
The Young Gunner
The Royal Field Artillery in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The Young Gunner describes the history of the Royal Field Artillery in France and Flanders in the Great War, including the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The book is based on the letters and journals of Second Lieutenant Colin Hutchison who joined the army aged 19 just before the war started. He found...
The Schlieffen Plan
Critique of a Myth
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
The Schlieffen Plan was the name given after World War I to the theory behind the German invasion of France and Belgium on 4 August 1914. In 1905-1906 Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen, the Chief of the Imperial Army German General Staff from 1891-1906, had devised a deployment plan for a war-winning...
Canada's Dream Shall Be of Them
Canadian Epitaphs of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
There could be no truer witness to the enormity of the First World War and its terrible cost in lives than the memorials and war cemeteries along the old Western Front. In Canada, no less than in the other dominions of the British Empire, the war left a conflicting legacy of pride and sorrow that...
Devil Dogs
Fighting Marines of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
In telling the story of the extraordinary contributions of the U.S. Marines in World War I, this now-classic history examines the Corps’ entire experience in France. Now available in paperback, the book is a valuable resource for data, especially details about each unit and how they functioned. Bolstered...
Spy Who Painted the Queen
The Secret Case Against Philip de László
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
The only book to examine MI5's secret evidence that high society painter Philip de Laszlo was an Austrian spy in World War I—with a shocking conclusionIn 1917, noted society portrait painter Philip de László, who painted such luminaries as the Pope, the Austrian emperor, King Edward VII, and Prince...
by Stephen Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2019
The First World War was only a matter of days old when Barking placed itself firmly on the map, after Driver Job Henry Charles Drain of the 37th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, was awarded the Victoria Cross. He was born in Barking on 18 October 1895, and on 26 August 1914, the 18-year-old Drain was...
by Stephen Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
With the outbreak of the First World War, it was not surprising that a number of individuals who were of German decent, and who lived in Hartlepool and its surrounding areas, were rounded up and detained by the British military authorities, in the interests of both national security and for their...
The Stab-in-the-Back Myth and the Fall of the Weimar Republic
A History in Documents and Visual Sources
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
This unique sourcebook explores the Stab-in-the-Back myth that developed in Germany in the wake of World War One, analyzing its role in the end of the Weimar Republic and its impact on the Nazi regime that followed.
A critical development in modern German and even European history that has...
by Sabine Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This book explores the life courses of children born of war in different twentieth-century conflicts, including the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Bosnian War, the Rwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict. It investigates both governmental and military policies vis-à-vis children born of war...
Clare War Dead
A History of the Casualties of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The Clare War Dead is a comprehensive record of those men from County Clare who died during the World War I, and is the next instalment in this prolific author's series on the subject. His tireless research has been undertaken to honour those who died in service, and to shine a light on an aspect...
The Royal Naval Air Service in the First World War
Aircraft and Events as Recorded in Official Documents
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
This book makes five original documents relating to the work of Britain's Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) during the First World War readily available to students and historians. To enhance visual interest a large collection of photographs, many hitherto unpublished, has been added. Some of these relate...
by Frances Clamp
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
'A fortified place'. This is not the way we usually think of Southend-on-Sea but it was the description used by the Germans during the Great War. Built beside the Thames Estuary and with the Shoebury Garrison to the east, Rochford Aerodrome to the north and the longest pleasure pier in the world to...