World War I category: 3312 books
An Improbable War?
The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrophe...
World War I on Film
English Language Releases through 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
One of the central events of modern history, World War I has been poorly presented in English language films. Torn between the powerful isolationist movement in the U.S. and a growing hatred of the “Hun,” contemporary films were mainly propaganda calling citizens to arms. The American film industry...
The 5th Marine Regiment Devil Dogs in World War I
A History and Roster
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
More than 8,000 men served in the Fifth Marine Regiment during World War I and the occupation of Germany. Marine units were among the first to arrive in war-torn Europe in 1917, and they sustained greater casualties than other American units. This book tells the story of the “Devil Dogs” in World...
by Rose Hewlett
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Frampton Remembers World War I tells the story of a Gloucestershire village during the First World War, and how its inhabitants individually and collectively contributed towards victory. Much of what happened in Frampton on Severn was replicated throughout Britain, but in Frampton, the need to supply...
by Elizabeth Clemens
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
World War I was the catalyst that ushered in themes that would define the 20th century: industrialization, urbanization, and the struggle for equality between social classes, gender, and race. During this time, from 1914 to 1918, Detroit was a city rapidly on the rise, with spectacular economic, industrial,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
The pieces in this book form an excellent introduction to the military history of World War I that will also prove valuable to specialists in the subject.' Professor Gary Sheffield World War I changed the face of the 20th century. For four long years the major European powers, later joined by America,...
Sons of Freedom
The Forgotten American Soldiers Who Defeated Germany in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The definitive history of America's decisive role in World War I
The American contribution to World War I is one of the great stories of the twentieth century, and yet it has all but vanished from view. Historians have dismissed the American war effort as largely economic and symbolic. But...
America Entering World War I (1917-1918)
The U.S. Army Before the War, Mobilization of Manpower, Building the American Expeditionary Forces, American Soldiers Begin Arriving, Men and Materiel, The AEF Joins the Fight
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
America's entry into the World War in April 1917 presented the United States Army with its greatest challenge in the nation's history. This book examines the U.S. Army's involvement in the Great War from the declaration of war on 6 April 1917 through the initial phase of the German Spring Offensive...
by Kenneth J. Blume
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
The A to Z of U.S. Diplomacy from the Civil War to World War I provides a convenient introduction to a critical period of American diplomacy. The half-century from 1861 to 1914 formed a crucial time in the development of the American approach to the world, for the United States laid the foundations...
African American Army Officers of World War I
A Vanguard of Equality in War and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
In April 1917, Congress approved President Woodrow Wilson’s request to declare war on the Central Powers, thrusting the United States into World War I with the rallying cry, “The world must be made safe for democracy.” Two months later 1,250 African American men—college graduates, businessmen,...
Our Land at War
Britain's Key First World War Sites
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
World War I was a human catastrophe, but it also saw a dynamic development of new weapons, and a new kind of war; between the lions and the donkeys came the managers—and the workers—who transformed a nation into a war machine in 48 months. This book takes you on a journey to the key places that...
The Life and Times of a World War I Soldier
The Julius Holthaus Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Julius Holthaus, a humble American farm boy, went to France to help fill the depleted ranks of the Allies in Americas largest battle of World War I, the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. He had no idea what he was getting into. The fight would involve more than a million American doughboys, span forty-seven...
The Body Populace
Military Statistics and Demography in Europe before the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
How data gathered from national conscriptions in pre–World War I Europe influenced understandings of population fitness and redefined society as a collective body.
In pre–World War I Europe, individual fitness was increasingly related to building and preserving collective society. Army...
Germany and Propaganda in World War I
Pacifism, Mobilization and Total War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Adolf Hitler, writing in Mein Kampf, was scathing in his condemnation of German propaganda in World War I, declaring that Germany failed to recognise that the mobilization of public opinion was a weapon of the first order. This, despite the fact that propaganda had been regarded by the German leadership,...