World War I category: 3312 books
Landscapes of the Western Front
Materiality During the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book examines the British soldiers on the Western Front and how they responded to the war landscape they encountered behind the lines and at the front. Using a multidisciplinary perspective, this study investigates the relationship between soldiers and the spaces and materials of the warzone,...
Verdun
The Longest Battle of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
At seven o'clock in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next ten hours, twelve hundred German guns showered shells on a salient in French lines. The massive weight of explosives collapsed dugouts, obliterated trenches, severed communication wires,...
Annie's War
A New Zealand Woman and Her Family in England 1916–19
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
There have been many published collections of soldiers' diaries and letters from the First World War, but never a firsthand account of one New Zealand family's life in England during these challenging and frightening years. When her sons, Oswald and Seton, decided they wanted to serve as pilots, which...
The Flag
Revd David Railton MC and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Reverend David Railton MC served as a chaplain on the Western Front during World War I. Attached to three divisions between 1916 and 1918, Railton supported the soldiers in their worst moments; he buried the fallen, comforted the wounded, wrote to the families of the missing and killed, and helped...
by Stephen Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Maidstone in the Great War tells the remarkable story of this Kent county town's immense contribution to the Great War effort from the outbreak of war in 1914, to the long-awaited Allied victory in 1918. Maidstone has a long and illustrious military history – it even had its own Civil War battle,...
The German Air Force I Knew 1914-1918
Memoirs of the Imperial German Air Force in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Major Georg Paul Neumann was a former German Air Force officer who had served in the Great War. He produced his outstanding survey of the German Air Force in 1920 while the events were still recent history. He was able to draw on his own experience and his contacts to compile a large number of personal...
Lusitania
The Cultural History of a Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A fascinating reassessment of a turning point in the First World War, revealing its role in shaping the German psyche On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, a large British luxury liner, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast. Nearly 1,200 people, including 128 American citizens, lost their lives....
by Frederick Oughton
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN THE AIR…MANNOCK, McCUDDEN, VON RICHTHOFEN, UDET…TRUE STORIES OF THE GREATEST ACES
At the beginning of World War I the military potential of the airplane was completely unknown….THE ACES tells the stories of the hardy men who converted the skies over France and Germany...
by Terry Breverton
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
A remarkable compendium of oddities, curiosities and little-known facts from the Great War What was a trench rabbit? What was known as a 'suicide ditch'? What were 'coffin nails'? Why did the Kaiser ban the production of sausages? What was the real 'War Horse'? Who was a 'donkey walloper'? Featuring...
by Alexander McClintock
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
An American with the British forces in France during the First World War recounts his experiences and how his exploits won him the Distinguished Conduct Medal.
Alexander McClintock did not have any literary pretensions when he started out to write his autobiography, knowing that there were others...
A Box of Sand
The Italo-Ottoman War 1911-1912
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
This is the first book in the English language to offer an analysis of a conflict that, in so many ways, raised the curtain on the Great War. In September 1911, Italy declared war on the once mighty, transcontinental Ottoman Empire – but it was an Empire in decline. The ambitious Italy decided to...
Exeter
Remembering 1914-18
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
World War I claimed more than 900,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Exeter offers an in-depth portrait of the town and its people during the "war to end all wars." It describes the local reaction to the war's outbreak; charts the experience...
The Scaremongers (RLE The First World War)
The Advocacy of War and Rearmament 1896-1914
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
This revealing book illustrates how the passion for war was fostered and promoted. The author provides detailed evidence of how and why an image of Germany as a nation determined upon world hegemony was deliberately promoted by a group of British newspaper editors, proprietors and journalists. This...
by Keith Haines
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Shortly before the First World War, Belfast was one of the most prosperous and vibrant cities in the world, boasting an impressive new City Hall and some of the largest industrial concerns of their kind. It was, nevertheless, divided politically by intransigent ideologies and socially between conspicuous...