World War I category: 3312 books
Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914
The Outbreak of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Winner of the 2015 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize
Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914 is the first history of the Great War to address in-depth the crucial events of 1914 as they played out on the Balkan Front. James Lyon demonstrates how blame for the war's outbreak can be placed squarely...
by Edward Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Originally published in 1915 in the middle of World War I, Carpenter explores the effects that the war was having on society and humankind as a whole from first-hand experience. In particular, papers focus on the differences between Germany and England, the causes of the war and suggestions for restoration...
A Long Way to Tipperary?
Bombs, bullets and bravery in the trenches of World War 1
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Maurice Neal was 15 when he joined the King’s Royal Rifle Corps in 1906. By the time his regiment was shipped off to the Somme to fight in the First World War, he was a relatively experienced young sergeant. He and his men soon found themselves plunged into the full horror of trench warfare, daily...
by Rene Walmsley
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
My Uncle Jimmy, a working mans hero. What can I say? Uncle Jimmy was just another member of an ordinary familya quiet, reserved man who used to tell us tall stories and take us to the fairground. Then one day, something amazing happens; his diaries from the World War I came to light. Little did I...
Changing War
The British Army, the Hundred Days Campaign and The Birth of the Royal Air Force, 1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
In 1918, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) played a critical role in defeating the German army and thus winning the First World War. This 'Hundred Days' campaign (August to November 1918) was the greatest series of land victories in British military history. 1918 also saw the creation of the Royal...
by Charlie Connelly
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Bestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First World War memoir of his great uncle, Edward Connelly, who was an ordinary boy sent to fight in a war the likes of which the world had never seen. But this is not just his story; it is the story of all the young forgotten soldiers who fought...
Great War Fashion
Tales from the History Wardrobe
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The story of World War I women as told through their changing wardrobes, from silk stockings to factory wearWe often talk of "stepping into someone else's shoes." Walking back in time a century ago, which shoes would they be? A pair of silk sensations costing thousands of pounds designed...
Trotsky in New York, 1917
A Radical on the Eve of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as co-leader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the Twentieth Century, a global icon of radical change. Yet just months earlier, this same Lev Trotsky was a nobody,...
We Hope to Get Word Tomorrow
The Garvin Family Letters, 1914–1916
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
This fascinating collection of letters traces the exchanges between a young subaltern on the front, Gerard ‘Ged’ Garvin, and his mother and father at home. Correspondence was eagerly awaited by all. Ged savored letters home like ‘Jim Hawkins trickling the doubloons through his fingers’. Equally,...
by Don Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This book discusses WWI-era music in a historical context, explaining music's importance at home and abroad during WWI as well as examining what music was being sung, played, and danced to during the years prior to America's involvement in the Great War.
• Provides an excellent resource for...
Rites of Spring
The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2000
This award-winning cultural history reveals how the Great War changed humanity.
This sweeping volume probes the origins, the impact, and the aftermath of World War I—from the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. “The Great War,”...
by Robert L. Willett
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2003
In July 1918, as the carnage of World War I continued, President Woodrow Wilson deployed U.S. troops to join other Allied forces in civil war-ravaged Russia. Ostensibly a mission to guard czarist military supplies and the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the true purpose of the Allied intervention was to help...
The First World War
The war to end all wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Raging for over four years across the tortured landscapes of Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the First World War changed the face of warfare forever. Characterised by slow, costly advances and fierce attrition, the great battles of the Somme, Verdun and Ypres incurred human loss on a scale never...
A Short History of the First World War
Land, Sea & Air, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
As the war is slipping beyond living memory, this concise history helps ensures that the conflict is never forgotten
WWI, lasting just four years from 1914 to 1918, was without parallel, the first true global conflict in which all of the earth's great powers participated. This book tells...