World War I category: 3312 books
by George H. Doran Co.
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2012
First published in 1917, in support of the Allies, this anonymous pamphlet published by George H. Doran discusses the causes of World War I and the politics and government of Germany. This is an excellent primary source.
Posters of The Great War
Published in association with Historical le Grande Guerre, Peronne, France
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Until the arrival of radio and television, and despite the influence of newspapers, posters were the major medium for mass communication. During the Great War all the belligerent nations produced an extraordinary variety of them - and they did so on a massive scale. As the 200 wartime and immediate...
God and the British Soldier
Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Drawing on a wealth of new material from military, ecclesiastical and secular civilian archives, Michael Snape presents a study of the experience of the officers and men of Britain’s vast citizen armies, and also of the numerous religious agencies which ministered to them.
Historians of the...
Hear The Boat Sing
Oxford and Cambridge Rowers Killed in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
During the First World War many sportsmen exchanged their sports field for the battlefield, switched their equipment for firearms. Here acclaimed author and screenwriter Nigel McCrery investigates over forty Oxbridge rowers all of whom put down their oars and gave their lives for their country. Complete...
by Jim Crossley
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
This book recounts the history of the first destroyers of the Royal Navy, which revolutionized the way war was fought at sea with new armaments and a great improvement on earlier designs. Moreover, between 1892, when the first destroyers were laid down, and 1918, destroyers evolved radically from...
Captured!
A Prison Escape Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
“The whole wide country was in a bloody, frenzied turmoil—fighting everywhere. Civil war was raging wherever the Red Guards of Lenin set foot. It was an ideal time for an escape—provided one did not value one’s safety too much, and did not care what happened.”
*Captured! *is the...
Kings, Queens, and Pawns
An American Woman at the Front
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
In 1914, journalist and mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart traveled to Europe alone to cover World War I for the Saturday Evening**Post. This collection of her writings encompasses her observations on her travels—from being received by King Albert in Belgium and recording his first authorized...
Roger, Sausage and Whippet
A Miscellany of Trench Lingo from the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Roger: A code word for a gas cylinder and a nickname for rum. Sausage: An observation balloon. Whippet: A small, light type of tank with a top sped of eight m.p.h. The First World War raged for four years, taking with it hundreds of thousands of young soldiers who lived and died together, bonded by...
Harry's War
A British Tommy's experiences in the trenches in World War One
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
This touching, brutally honest diary of a First World War soldier makes a fascinating contribution to our understanding of what life was like for the British Tommy. It combines frank, unadorned prose with the author's own evocative paintings to form a unique historical document, admirable for its unromantic,...
by Peter Hart
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
One of the bloodiest battles in world history—a military tragedy that would come to define a generation.
On July 1, 1916, the British Army launched the “Big Push” that was supposed to bring an end to the horrific stalemate on the Western Front between British, French, and German forces....
by E.P.F. Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Written with dignity, candour and surprising wit, this soldier�s story of the horror of the Western Front trenches is a testament to the power of the human spirit. It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in...
by Robert Derby Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
I have tried as an American in writing this book to give the public a complete view of the trenches and life on the Western Front as it appeared to me, and also my impression of conditions and men as I found them. It has been a pleasure to write it, and now that I have finished I am genuinely sorry that...
The Black Watch
A Record In Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Joe Cassells offers the reader a superb memoir of the earliest days of World War I as seen through the eyes of a private soldier in one of Britain’s best regiments. The reader is given an account of the dark days of constant retreat before the German march on Paris, and on into the stalemate warfare...
The Compensations of War
The Diary of an Ambulance Driver during the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In 1917, shortly after the United States’ declaration of war on Germany, Guy Emerson Bowerman, Jr., enlisted in the American army’s ambulance service. Like other young ambulance drivers—Hemingway, Dos Passos, Cummings, Cowley—Bowerman longed to “see the show.” He was glad to learn that...