World War I category: 3312 books
by James W. Gerard
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Gerard assumed the care of British interests in Germany, later visiting the camps where British prisoners were confined and doing much to alleviate their condition. His responsibilities were further increased by the fact that German interests in France, Great...
Sergeant York
His Own Life Story and War Diary
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
The inspiring true story of “the reluctant World War I infantryman who became an American legend”—in his own words (The New York Times).
October 8, 1918: Amid the last of the Allies’ attempts to defeat the Germans, Sgt. Alvin York of Tennessee found himself and his platoon of only seventeen...
by Fritz Kreisler
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
"After much persuasion, Mr. Kreisler reluctantly acceded to the suggestion that he write out his personal memories of the war for publication. He has completed his narrative in the midst of grave difficulties, writing it piecemeal in hotels and railway trains in the course of a concert tour through...
by Ellen Newbold Lamotte
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
"After this war, there will be many other wars, and in the intervals there will be peace. So it will alternate for many generations. By examining the things cast up in the backwash, we can gauge the progress of humanity. When clean little lives, when clean little souls boil up in the backwash, they...
The Victory at Sea
American Destroyers in Action, Decoying Submarines to Destruction, The American Mine Barrage in the North Sea, German Submarines Visit the American Coast, The Navy Fighting on the Land
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This 1921 Pulitzer Prize awarded history has been written in response to a demand for some account of the generally very misunderstood German submarine campaign in the World War I and particularly of the means by which it was defeated. The interest of the public in such a story is due to the fact...
by David Lassman, Nigel Lassman
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Bath at War 1939-45 is a comprehensive account of the city’s experience of the conflict, covering in detail life on the Home Front set against the background of the wider theatres of war.The narrative of that global struggle is given with a focus on the ordeals endured by the people of Bath, as...
The Forgotten VCs
The Victoria Crosses of the War in the Far East During WW2
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Fought amid the most challenging terrain of any theater during the Second World War, the campaign in the Far East saw heroic actions against the unyielding Japanese that resulted in the awarding of more than forty Victoria Crosses – greater than a fifth of all the VCs of the war.
Such actions...
by Dillwyn Parrish Starr
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Dillwyn Parrish Starr led a short life but he lived it at a tremendous speed, when the First World War broke out he was a star American Football Player and scholar at Harvard. However spurred on by his convictions he sailed to the U.K. in a rush and signed up for service as soon as possible; thereafter...
Blade of a Sword
Ernst Jünger and the 73rd Fusilier Regiment on the Western Front, 1914–18
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2020
Combining traditional military history with a trench-level soldier's view of the Great War, this book tracks the experiences of an elite German regiment throughout the conflict, following the men who fought and died in the service of what would ultimately prove to be a futile cause.
The German...
by Major Peter J. Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This thesis discusses the role of airpower in the Mesopotamian Campaign of World War I. Britain conducted military operations against Ottoman forces in Mesopotamia to defend Britain’s oil interests and lines of communication, but also to open an additional front against the Turks. The battles conducted...
Camel Combat Ace
The Great War Flying Career of Edwin Swale CBE OBE DFC*
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This work follows the First World War career of Captain (later wing commander) Edwin Swale, CBE DFC and bar, who served with 210 Squadron RAF, piloting Sopwith Camel scouts between March and October 1918. During this timeframe, he destroyed seventeen enemy aircraft, the majority being the formidable...
by Helen Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This early work by Helen Fraser was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'Women and War Work' contains Fraser's thoughts on the methods of organising and utilising the skills of women in the workforce to improve productivity. In 1917, Fraser...
Exhibiting War
The Great War, Museums, and Memory in Britain, Canada, and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
What does it mean to display war? Examining a range of different exhibitions in Britain, Canada and Australia, Jennifer Wellington reveals complex imperial dynamics in the ways these countries developed diverging understandings of the First World War, despite their cultural, political and institutional...
by Stephen Wynn
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
In the early months of the war, for most people Scarborough was just another town somewhere in northern England, where exactly, they weren't entirely sure. But all of that changed at 8 am on the morning of 16 December 1914, when three vessels of the Imperial German Navy positioned themselves about...