World War I category: 3312 books
by David Bullock
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
The Czech Legion was not just a single military unit, but a volunteer army that fielded up to 100,000 troops on the Allied side on all three main fronts of the war. Since only the defeat of Austro-Hungary and Germany offered any hope for Czech national independence, they were amongst the most motivated...
by Norman Franks
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
The Sopwith Pup was the forerunner of the hugely successful Sopwith Camel, which duly became the most successful fighter of World War 1. The first proper British fighting scout, the first Pups – the Royal Naval Air Service – arrived on the Western Front in 1916. Although regarded as a 'nice' aeroplane...
by Norman Franks
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
This book focuses on the combat careers of the last of the famous Sopwith fighters to enter service during World War 1, the Dolphin and the Snipe, both of which were built on the strong scouting heritage of the Pup and Camel. The Dolphin featured the unique negative-staggered biplane wing arrangement,...
RAF Duxford
A History in Photographs from 1917 to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2006
Established in 1917 to train Royal Flying Corps aircrew, during WWI Duxford was also the base for two United States Aero Squadrons, 137 and 159, and by the end was a mobilization airfield for three DH9 day bomber squadrons. During the 1920s and 30s, expansion continued apace, with three fighter squadrons,...
Living Up to a Legend
My Adventures with Billy Bishop's Ghost
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
Diana Bishop recounts growing up in the shadow of her famous grandfather, Canadian First World War flying ace Billy Bishop.
As a child, Diana Bishop showed up one day at school with a brown paper bag. Inside was a large breastplate of some of the most precious war medals on the planet, including...
by David A Finlayson, Michael K Cecil
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Pioneers of Armour in the Great War tells the story of the only Australian mechanized units of the Great War. The 1st Australian Armoured Car Section, later the 1st Australian Light Car Patrol, and the Special Tank Section were among the trailblazers of mechanization and represented the cutting edge...
The Great Silence
From Mushroom Valley to Delville Wood, South African Forces in World War One
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When war struck in 1914, it struck not just in Europe, but everywhere across the globe, including South Africa, whose troops saw action in five theatres. They fought one another on home soil, during a rebellion fuelled by old resentments; they fought the Germans in the deserts of South West Africa and...
Tracing your Great War Ancestors: Ypres
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Do you have an ancestor who served at Ypres in the First World War, during the four years in which the city was in the front line? Perhaps you have thought of visiting the battlefields nearby and the monuments that commemorate them, and want to find out exactly where your ancestor served and what...
When the Office Went to War
War letters from men of the Great Western Railway
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
During the course of the First World War, staff of the Great Western Railway's Audit Office sent letters and photographs back to their employer in Paddington, which were in turn collated into monthly "newsletters†? by those who stayed at home to keep Britain moving. Today these newsletters...
These Were Our Sons
Stories from Stockwell War Memorial
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
In 1922 the names of over 500 local men who perished in the First World War were carved into the panels of Stockwell War Memorial in South London. Who were they? These biographies show that they were jack-the-lads, fraudsters and underage messenger boys as well as seasoned soldiers, steady family...
Names on a Cenotaph
Kootenay Lake Men in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
At the outbreak of war in 1914 a patriotic hysteria swept across Canada as men clamored to sign up and join the fight for God, country and empire. Among them were more than a thousand men from the beautiful Kootenay Lake region of British Columbia. Many were fruit ranchers, mostly British immigrants...
Never in Finer Company
The Men of the Great War's Lost Battalion
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
It was one of the most heroic events in American military history. Here is the larger-than-life story of World War I's "Lost Battalion" and the men who survived the ordeal, triumphed in battle, and fought the demons that lingered.
In the first week of October, 1918, six hundred men...
Thunder and Flames
Americans in the Crucible of Combat, 1917-1918
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2015
November 1917. The American troops were poorly trained, deficient in military equipment and doctrine, not remotely ready for armed conflict on a large scale—and they'd arrived on the Western front to help the French push back the Germans. The story of what happened next—the American Expeditionary...
by Frank White
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Fot the general reader who has little or no pre-knowledge of the First World War. An authoritative but short, compeliing and easily read account of the part played by the British during the four most calamitous years in human history. By an author who has written extensively on the subject for both print and terlvision.