World War I category: 3312 books
Treacherous Passage
Germany's Secret Plot against the United States in Mexico during World War I
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
While the Great War raged across the trench-lined battlefields of Europe, a hidden conflict took place in the distant hinterlands of the turbulent Mexican Republic. German officials and secret-service operatives plotted to bring war to the United States through an array of schemes and strategies,...
Tumult & Tears
An Anthology of Women’s First World War Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
During the First World War and its immediate aftermath, hundreds of women wrote thousands of poems on multiple themes and for many different purposes. Women’s poetry was published, sold (sometimes to raise funds for charities as diverse as ‘Beef Tea for Troops’ or ‘The Blue Cross Fund for...
The Road to Passchendaele
The Heroic Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly regarded series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once again, using the winning formula of diaries and memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on illegally held cameras by the soldiers themselves, Richard...
Australia's Argonauts
The remarkable story of the First Class to enter the Royal Australian Naval College
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
The story of the first cadet-midshipmen to join the Royal Australian Naval College is without parallel.
In 1913 twenty-eight thirteen-year-old boys joined the new Navy at a time when Australia was both idealistic and ambitious. The boys were drawn from every State and became known as the...
by Peter Duckers
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Britain has issued medals rewarding war service since at least the early nineteenth century, and increasingly through the period of its imperial expansion prior to 1914, but examples of many of the early types are now scarce. However, few families escaped some involvement with "the Great War†?...
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by Stephen Graham
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos
Stephen Graham was a noted writer and journalist who took the fateful step of enlisting in the Scots Guards at the less than tender age of 33. However as he did so in 1917 the manpower shortage of...
by Stephen Wade
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Harrogate and Ripon, just a few miles apart in one of the most beautiful localities in Yorkshire, have rarely had their contributions to the Great War told all together, in one volume. Stephen Wade has written an account of their importance, from the Ripon camps, where thousands of infantrymen for...
The Western Front
The Irishmen Who Fought in World War One
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
‘One of our fellows, while a German flare lit up his trench as it shot over it, saw half a dozen of our raw Irishmen on their knees, praying to the Virgin as if their last hour had come.’
Captain Gerald Burgoyne, C Company, 4th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles
The Western Front tells the human...
by Derek Tait
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The story of Plymouth in the First World War has never been fully covered although the town played a key role in the deployment of troops to Northern Europe as well as supplying ships and vital munitions. By August 1914, the British War office had moved 120,000 men into the town. Plymouth became the...
War Letters 1914-1918, Vol. 3
From an Australian at Gallipoli during the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
This is the third book in the War Letters 1914-1918 series. It is based on the letters of Frederick Muir, a 21 year-old Australian who joined the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in the first weeks after war was declared in August 1914.
His letters cover the leaving of Australia, the training...
Lawrence of Arabia's War
The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
This radically new perspective on T. E. Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and WWI in the Middle East provides essential insight into today’s violent conflicts.
Archaeologist and historian Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research in the Middle East to offer the first truly multidisciplinary...
by Romain Rolland
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Above the Battle is an anti-world war I treatise by Romain Rolland written in 1916. (Excerpt) "A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the hallucinations, injustices, and follies which the plague lets...
Great War Britain Lancaster
Remembering 1914-18
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, including the deaths of over a thousand "Men of Lancaster", and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain Lancaster looks at the impact that the loss of so many men and offers an intimate portrayal of the city and...
From the Klondike to Berlin
The Yukon in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2017
“No part of the Empire has given up more completely of her splendid men than Yukon … Such being the case, the Dominion should not be forgetful of this region—the Empire’s farthest North, and take pride in the encouragement of the spirit that dominates the people of the Land of the Midnight...