World War I category: 3312 books
by Tammy M. Proctor
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
World War I heralded a new global era of warfare, consolidating and expanding changes that had been building throughout the previous century, while also instituting new notions of war. The 1914-18 conflict witnessed the first aerial bombing of civilian populations, the first widespread concentration...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
In this thoroughly researched and lucidly written volume, Lt. Col. John F. Shiner describes the Air Corps' effort to prepare the nation for war; to gain money, aircraft, and, even more important, independence; and to achieve a capability to wage aerial war. The focus of the work is Maj. Gen. Benjamin...
by Mark D. Van Ells
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
It has now been a century since World War I began, but America’s role in this colossal struggle has been largely forgotten on both sides of the Atlantic. Historian and travel writer Mark D. Van Ells aims to change that. America and World War I follows in the footsteps of the Doughboy-as the U.S. soldier...
It's All a Bit Heath Robinson
Re-inventing the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Heath Robinson is one of the most famous British inventors of all time. This book pays tribute to his quirky take on World War I.
Heath Robinson remains one of Britain's most famous inventors, inspiring the phrase "it's all a bit Heath Robinson", describing any implausible and unnecessarily...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication documents the advent of an American squadron, or "escadrille" within the French Air Force during World War I.French leaders initially held the belief, common at the time, that the war begun...
German Disarmament After World War I
The Diplomacy of International Arms Inspection 1920-1931
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
German Disarmament After World War I examines the Allied disarmament of Germany and the challenges that such an enormous task presented to international efforts in enforcing the Treaty of Versailles.
In the twenty-first century, disarmament remains a critical issue for the International community....
by General Sir John Monash, GCMG, KCB
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Monash in his own words …
From the far-off days in 1914, when the call first came, until the last shot was fired, every day was filled with loathing, horror, and distress … Yet it had to be, and the thought always uppermost was the earnest prayer that Australia might forever be spared such...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication examines the 1930s Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Alabama, was the nurturing ground for American air doctrine. Those who studied and taught there were the same individuals who prepared...
The World Remade
America in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A bracing, indispensable account of America’s epoch-defining involvement in the Great War, rich with fresh insights into the key issues, events, and personalities of the period
After years of bitter debate, the United States declared war on Imperial Germany on April 6, 1917, plunging the...
The Guns of August
The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era
In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize–winning...
Yanks
The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2001
Fought far from home, World War I was nonetheless a stirring American adventure. The achievements of the United States during that war, often underrated by military historians, were in fact remarkable, and they turned the tide of the conflict. So says John S. D. Eisenhower, one of today's most acclaimed...
Forty-Seven Days
How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
**The gripping account of the U.S. First Army’s astonishing triumph over the Germans in America’s bloodiest battle of the First World War—the Battle of the Meuse-Argonne.
“Mitchell Yockelson expands our understanding not only of how World War I ended, but also of how militaries can...
Unjustly Dishonored
An African American Division in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
For nearly one hundred years, the 92nd Division of the U.S. Army in World War I has been remembered as a military failure. The division should have been historically significant. It was the only African American division of the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Comprised of nearly twenty-eight...
by Hew Strachan
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2005
“This serious, compact survey of the war’s history stands out as the most well-informed, accessible work available.” (Los Angeles Times)
Nearly a century has passed since the outbreak of World War I, yet as military historian Hew Strachan (winner of the 2016 Pritzker Literature Award)...