World War I category: 3312 books
by Peter Liddle
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
How can we begin to make sense of the Great War now that over 100 years have passed since it ended with the defeat of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman empire and Bulgaria, and the collapse of Tsarist Russia? The conflict had such a profound influence on world history that is it difficult to reconcile...
The Fall Of The Dynasties
The Collapse Of The Old Order, 1905-1922 [Illustrated Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Originally published in 1963, The Fall of the Dynasties covers the period from 1905 to 1922, when the four ruling houses—the Habsburg, Hohenzollern, Ottoman, and Romanov—crumbled and fell, destroying old alliances and obliterating old boundaries. World War I was precipitated by their decay and...
The Beginning of Futility
Diplomatic, Political, Military and Naval Events on the Austro-Italian Front in the First World War 1914-1917 Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
Since Picketts failed charge at Gettysburg, the frontal infantry assault had been known as obsolete. Nevertheless fifty years later, Allied military leaders in the Great War persisted in using it as a military tactic. Italian military leaders were no exception not even accepting the deadly effect...
Lost Battalions
The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
"A work of stunning density and penetrating analysis . . . Lost Battalions deploys a narrative symmetry of gratifying complexity."—David Levering Lewis, The Nation
During the bloodiest days of World War I, no soldiers served more valiantly than the African American troops of the...
The Great War
The People's Story (Official TV Tie-In)
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
During the First World War three quarters of a million British people died – a figure so huge that it feels impossible to give it a human context. Consequently we struggle to truly grasp the impact this devastating conflict must have had on people's day-to-day lives. We resort to looking at the...
The Lives of Hans Luther, 1879 - 1962
German Chancellor, Reichsbank President, and Hitler's Ambassador
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
For the first time in any language, a book examines the life of Hans Luther, the German statesman whose career began at the tail end of the Second Empire and ended in the postwar years. Luther had a front-row seat for World War I, the Revolution of 1918, the Great Inflation, the Great Depression,...
Eric Bogle, Music and the Great War
'An Old Man's Tears'
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Eric Bogle has written many iconic songs that deal with the futility and waste of war. Two of these in particular, ‘And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda’ and ‘No Man’s Land (a.k.a. The Green Fields of France)’, have been recorded numerous times in a dozen or more languages indicating the...
Mysteries, Legends and Myths of the First World War
Canadian soldiers in the trenches and in the air
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This book offers a close-up look at the First World War as it was experienced by ordinary Canadian soldiers. It portrays the war experience of tens of thousands of young Canadians. Reading their accounts offers a no-holds-barred picture of fighting, life in the trenches, the human cost in lives lost,...
In the Company of Generals
The World War I Diary of Pierpont L. Stackpole
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Pierpont Stackpole was a Boston lawyer who in January 1918 became aide to Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett, soon to be commander of the first American corps in France. Stackpole’s diary, published here for the first time, is a major eyewitness account of the American Expeditionary Forces’ experience...
Borrowed Soldiers
Americans under British Command, 1918
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
The combined British Expeditionary Force and American II Corps successfully pierced the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Campaign of World War I, an offensive that hastened the war’s end. Yet despite the importance of this effort, the training and operation of II Corps has received scant...
Valour at Vimy Ridge
The Great Canadian Victory of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 saw Canadian troops storm a 14-kilometre long escarpment that was believed to be impregnable. This was the first time in Canada�s history that a corps-sized formation fought together as a unit under its own leadership. Canadian troops persevered under heavy...
Mud, Blood and Poppycock
Britain and the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The true story of how Britain won the First World War.
The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made...
The Anzac Girls
The extraordinary story of our World War I nurses
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were the women who left for war looking for adventure and romance but were soon confronted with challenges for which their civilian lives could never...
A Storm in Flanders
The Ypres Salient, 1914–1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
From the Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of Forrest Gump: “A fascinating, evenhanded, page-turning account” of Ypres’s pivotal WWI battles (San Francisco Chronicle).
The Ypres Salient in Belgian Flanders was the most notorious and dreaded territory in all of World War I—possibly of...