World War I category: 3312 books
by S. MacNaughtan
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
A Woman's Diary of the War is the personal recollections of Sarah Macnaughtan, a Scottish woman who volunteered for the Red Cross during World War I. She fell ill in Iran and eventually died in London in 1916.
British Nannies and the Great War
How Norland's Regiment of Nannies Coped with Conflict and Childcare in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In 1912, Norland children’s nurse Kate Fox was travelling by train heading to the British military station at Nowshera on the Afghan border to care for the premature baby born to the base’s commanding officer. Two years later, Kate was escaping from Germany in the first days of the Great War,...
by Jenny Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Taking Mesopotamia was originally inspired by Jenny Lewis’s search for her lost father—the young South Wales Borderer who led his troops across the desert by starlight in the ill-fated Mesopotamian campaign of World War I. Through reconstructed diary extracts, witness statements, and a mixture...
Early US Armor
Tanks 1916–40
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Between the two World Wars, the US contributed significantly to the development of the tank, a weapon invented by the British and the French seeking a way to break through the lines of German trenches. From the employment of the French Renault FT and British Mark V during their involvement in World...
by Janet Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Napoleon famously said that an army marches on its stomach, but it also marches in its boots and its uniforms, carrying or driving its weapons and other equipment, and all this material has to be ordered from headquarters, produced and delivered. Janet Macdonald's detailed and scholarly new study...
Military Aviation in the First World War
The Aces of the Allies and the Central Powers
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This beautifully illustrated book provides details of every power that took part in Military aircraft activity during the First World War. The war was a global conflict with 57 nations involved but with aviation being in its infancy only eight nations had a major air arm to their fighting Services....
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
What is total war? Definitions abound, but one thing is certain—the concept of total war has come to be seen as a defining concept of the modern age. In The Age of Total War, celebrated historian Jeremy Black explores the rise and demise of an era of total war, which he defines in terms of the intensity...
The War Behind the Wire
The Life, Death and Glory of British Prisoners of War, 1914-18
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The last untold story of the First World War: the fortunes and fates of 170,000 British soldiers captured by the enemy.
On capture, British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans 'For you the war is over'. Nothing could be further from the truth. British Prisoners of War merely...
by Ian Sir Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. On the heels of the South African War came the sleuth-hounds pursuing the criminals, I mean the customary Royal Commissions. Ten thousand words of mine stand embedded in their Blue Books, cold and dead as so many...
Invasion 1914
The Schlieffen Plan to the Battle of the Marne
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
For a century, accounts of the German invasion of France and the opening year of the First World War have been dominated by histories of British troops and their experience in battle, despite the fact that the British Expeditionary Force comprised just four divisions, while the French and Germans...
Germany’s Western Front: 1915
Translations from the German Official History of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
This multi-volume series in seven parts is the first English-language translation of Der Weltkrieg, the German official history of the First World War. Originally produced between 1925 and 1944 using classified archival records that were destroyed in the aftermath of the Second World War, Der Weltkrieg...
Battle Stories — WWI 2-Book Bundle
Somme 1916 / Passchendaele 1917
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2016
Discover two pivotal battles of the First World War in this collection of Battle Stories.
Somme 1916
The Battle of the Somme was one of the bloodiest fought in military history. It has come to signify for many the waste and bloodshed of the First World War, as hundreds of thousands of men on...
Hero of the Fleet
Two World Wars, One Extraordinary Life - The Memoirs of Centenarian William Stone
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
William Stone died on 10 January 2009 aged 108. He received a hero's funeral. Born in rural Devon, he joined the navy during the First World War, travelled the globe just before the British Empire's light began to fade and saw action in some of the most significant sea battles of the Second World...
by Clive Akers, Bettina Anderson, Peter Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
‘Rugby may borrow the language of warfare, but in war injury time may last a whole lifetime and not all of the team go home after a shower and a beer.’ ~ Stephen Cooper: The Final Whistle, 2012. In this fascinating WWI centenary e-publication, rugby historian Clive Akers explores the impact...