World War I category: 3312 books
by Jonathan F. Vance
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
A Township at War takes the reader from rural Canadian field and farm to the slopes of Vimy Ridge and the mud of Passchendaele, and shows how a tightly knit Ontario community was consumed and transformed by the trauma of war.
In 1914, the southern Ontario township of East Flamborough was like...
1915 The First World War in Photographs
Setbacks & Failures
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
1915, the second year of the Great War, was to see the failure of the Dardanelles landings and the sinking of the Lusitania, shown below, with the loss of 1,198 people, as well as the first bombing of mainland Britain by Zeppelin and the entry of Italy into the war. Huge battles would be fought at...
1917 The First World War in Photographs
Mud and Tanks
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
1917, the fourth year of the Great War, saw another year in the trenches for millions of troops mobilised in Europe. Apart from short patrols in the North Sea, the ships of the Royal Navy and Germany’s imperial navy remained in port. However, the enemy submarines were in operation intensively. In...
War Letters 1914-1918, Vol. 5
From a New Zealand Soldier Fighting on the Western Front in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Most people wouldn’t have questioned Harry Norton if in June 1915 he had decided to stay at home in Wellington, New Zealand, rather than enlist to fight in a conflict on the other side of the world.
Harry was 35 years old and had been married to his wife Florence (Florrie) for 14 years....
The Siege of Tsingtau
The German-Japanese War 1914
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The German-Japanese War was a key, yet often neglected, episode in the opening phase of the First World War. It had profound implications for the future, particularly in respect of Japans acquisition of Germanys Micronesian islands. Japans naval perimeter was extended and threatened the United States...
US Flush-Deck Destroyers 1916–45
Caldwell, Wickes, and Clemson classes
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Four pipes and flush decks – these ships were a distinctively American destroyer design. Devised immediately prior to and during the United States' involvement in World War I they dominated the US Navy's destroyer forces all the way through to World War II.
They were deployed on North Atlantic...
Captured Memories 1900-1918
Across the Threshold of War
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Peter Liddle was a pioneer in the recording of memories of personal experience in the First World War and in the social background of those who lived through those years. Later he moved into the recording of men and women for whom the Second World War was the formative experience of their lives.
In...
The Lion's Pride
Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 1999
In The Lion's Pride, Edward J. Renehan, Jr. vividly portrays the grand idealism, heroic bravery, and reckless abandon that Theodore Roosevelt both embodied and bequeathed to his children and the tragic fulfillment of that legacy on the battlefields of World War I. Drawing upon a wealth of previously...
The Drowned and the Saved
When War Came to the Hebrides
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
**Winner of the 2018 Saltire Society 'History Book of the Year' Award
*“Next morning at about 6 o’clock my mother wakened us to say there had been a shipwreck and bodies were being washed ashore. My father had gone with others to look for survivors ... I don’t think any survivors came...
by Charles Morris
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.
Nations of Europe and the Great War is an overview of World War I.
by Peter Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2010
This book describes in considerable detail the people, events ships and aircraft that shaped the Air Service from its origins in the late 19th century to its demise in 1945. The formative years began when a British Naval Mission was established in Japan in 1867 to advise on the development of balloons...
by James Startt
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
James D. Startt previously explored Woodrow Wilson’s relationship with the press during his rise to political prominence. Now, Startt returns to continue the story, picking up with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and tracing history through the Senate’s ultimate rejection in 1920 of the Treaty...
Mississippians in the Great War
Selected Letters
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Even Mississippi textbooks rarely mention the part Mississippi men and women played in World War I. Mississippians in the Great War presents in their own words the story of Mississippians and their roles. This body of work divides into five sections, each associated with crucial dates of American...
The National War Labor Board
Stability, Social Justice, and the Voluntary State in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Conner explains the background, organization, and workings of the National War Labor Board, created by President Wilson in April 1918. She analyzes the board's struggle to succeed and reveals how both labor and business attemted to use this partnership to further their own special interests. The author...