World War I category: 3312 books
Zeppelin Nights
London in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
‘Zeppelin Nights is social history at its best… White creates a vivid picture of a city changed forever by war’ The Times
2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First World War. In those four decisive years, London was irrevocably changed. Soldiers passed through the capital on their...
by Chaim Weizmann
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann (Book One) by Chaim Weizmann (introduction by Abba Eban)
Chaim Weizmann’s autobiography is a highly personal account of his life in the Zionist movement. Book One, completed in 1941, covers the years 1874-1917 and Book Two covers the...
by Jack Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
What age was the youngest soldier to receive the Victoria Cross during WWI? What role did tanks play in the conflict? How much were Germany ordered to pay in reparations after the war? All these questions are answered in this fascinating book containing over one hundred facts about the Great War. Whether...
Walking Since Daybreak
A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2000
Part history, part autobiography, WALKING SINCE DAYBREAK tells the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II. Personal stories of the survival or destruction of Modris Eksteins's family members lend an intimate dimension to this vast narrative of those millions who...
Letters From the Front
Letters and Diaries from the BEF in Flanders and France, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
A generation raised on the British Empire confronted the unexpected horrors of modern war. Never were a nation's expectations so different from the coming clash of the First World War. Expecting a vigorous romp to victory, soldiers endured a brutal quagmire. Presenting letters & diaries of soldiers...
1914: The Outbreak of War to the Christmas Truce
Key Dates and Events from the First Year of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This special ebook has been created by historian Saul David from his acclaimed work 100 Days to Vistory: How the Great War was Fought and Won, which was described by the Mail on Sunday as 'Inspired' and by Charles Spencer as 'A work of great originality and insight'. Through key dates from 4 August...
by Adam Wakeling
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
'They were fifty miles to victory and defeat, fifty miles to collapse and renewal, and fifty miles to a new place for Australia among the nations of the world. They were among the most significant fifty miles in our history.'
March, 1918. The young Australian nation is struggling to cope with the...
by Major David G. Fivecoat
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Recent historiography has almost universally denounced the tactical prowess of the American Expeditionary Force. However, a detailed analysis of the performance of the 42nd Division’s 165th Infantry Regiment tells a surprisingly different story. Despite the challenges of the First World War battlefield,...
Old Gimlet Eye
The Adventures of Smedley D. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Old Gimlet Eye is the autobiography of early U.S. Marine Corp legend Smedley Butler who, at the time of his death in 1940, was the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. Butler joined the Corps at age 16 and took part in critical military actions in Cuba, the Philippines, China, Central America, Mexico...
German Soldiers in the Great War
Letters and Eyewitness Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
The first English translation of writings that capture the lives and thoughts of German soldiers fighting in the trenches and on the battlefields of WWI.
German Soldiers in the Great War is a vivid selection of firsthand accounts and other wartime documents that shed new light on the experiences...
by Gebhard Aders
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
The German Night Fighter force had its origins in the First World War to repel night raids and to fly long-range intruder sorties. They developed operational procedures which became largely forgotten a few years after the Armistice. The Western Allies, Britain and France, maintained and improved night-fighting...
The Great War
1914 - 1918
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
It did not need a Fort Sumter cannonade to set the world in flames in 1914, only the pistol shots of an assassin.
The Great War 1914-1918, written by one of the leading military historians of his time, John Terrain, thoroughly examines the political, economical and social triggers which led...
by Gerald Gliddon
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
The only series that offers full biographies of all the VC winners of the First World War—a must-have for any military historian or genealogistCambrai is the battle famous as the birth of tank warfare and is commemorated annually on Cambrai Day by the Royal Tank Regiment. Featuring the careers of 43...
VCs of the First World War
The Road to Victory 1918
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
By August 1918, fortune was on the side of the Allies: America was increasing its contribution of troops and equipment substantially; the morale of the German Army was sinking as it failed to deliver the desired "knock out blow;" and Haig found a new confidence, firmly believing that the...