World War I category: 3312 books
by Gary Staff
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
This is the most comprehensive study yet in the English language of the German Imperial Navy's battlecruisers that served in the First World War. Known as Panzerkreuzer, literally 'armoured cruiser', the eight ships of the class were to be involved in several early North Sea skirmishes before the...
Writing the Great War
Sir James Edmonds and the Official Histories, 1915-1948
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2003
Begun within months of the war's outbreak, and not completed for a further 33 years, the writing of the Official Histories of World War I was a venture of unprecedented scale and complexity.Who, then, was responsible for producing such an enterprise? Did it aim to inform or did it have darker political motivations? Did the authors, who alone had ac
The Nation's Cause
French, English and German Poetry of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
As we approach the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this timely reissue, first published in 1991, evaluates the function of poetry in wartime Europe, arguing that war poetry must be understood as a social as well as a literary phenomenon.
As well as locating the work of well-known...
Fighting the Great War at Sea
Strategy, Tactic and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
The overriding image of the First World War is the bloody stalemate of the Western Front, but although much of the action did occur on land, the overall shape of the war – even the inevitability of British participation – arose out of its maritime character. It was essentially a struggle about...
by Archie Foley, Margaret Munro
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Portobello grew from a settlement founded around 1750 on the Figgate Whins, a desolate area of scrubland 3 miles east of Edinburgh. It took its name from Puerta Bella, the port in Panama that was captured from Spain by the British in 1739 and is best known as a popular beach resort. What is less well-known...
by Charles Houston Goudiss, Alberta Moorhouse Goudiss
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This early work by Charles Houston Goudiss and Alberta Moorhouse Goudiss was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'Foods That Will Win the War and How to Cook Them' is an excellent work on a variety of meals and food stuffs that help to reduce...
The French Air Force in the First World War
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The French air force of the First World War developed as fast as the British and German air forces, yet its history, and the enormous contribution it made to the eventual French victory, is often forgotten. So Ian Sumner's photographic history, which features almost 200 images, most of which have...
by M. Jean de Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
M. Jean de Bloch was perhaps the world’s greatest amateur philosopher of war. A banker and railway financier, he devoted years to the study of war before the dawn of the 20th Century. He concluded that advances in modern armaments such as smokeless powder, improved rifles, and machine guns had rendered...
by Timothy McCracken
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) supported the British Army throughout the First World War treating sick and wounded military personnel. The RAMC also had a range of sanitation responsibilities. The military nursing services and voluntary medical personnel provided vital support to RAMC medical...
War Letters 1914-1918, Vol. 1
From a Young British Officer at the Western Front During the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Wilbert Spencer was 17 years old when the First World War began. With one year still to complete at school, he decided to join the British army instead. Within four months he was leading 200 men to the front; within eight months he was dead.
Published for the first time in their entirety,...
From Rinks to Regiments
Hockey Hall-of-Famers and the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
A celebration of thirty-two heroes of the First World War enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Praise for Remembered in Bronze and Stone:
“A remarkable look at the many ways we honoured our war dead.”—Canada’s History
“A fine tribute and a call to current and future generations.”—Mark...
Longman Companion to the First World War
Europe 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This new Companion covers one of the most devastating conflicts in modern history. The Great War traumatised a generation and shaped the whole of the twentieth century. Speaking as loudly as any first-hand account, the facts and figures laid out in this volume reveal the sheer massive destruction...
Bayly's War
The Battle for the Western Approaches in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Bayly’s War is the story of the Royal Navy’s Coast of Ireland Command (later named Western Approaches Command) during World War One.
Britain was particularly vulnerable to the disruption of trade in the Western Approaches through which food and munitions (and later soldiers) from North...
by Stephen Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Before the outbreak of the First World War, the Channel Islands were viewed as they are today; scenic, sunny and relaxing holiday destinations, where it was possible to briefly escape from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. As soon as the fighting began, the immediate worry was the threat of...