World War I list 92

The World War and What was Behind It Or, the Story of the Map of Europe

by Louis Paul Bénézet
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

This little volume is the result of the interest shown by pupils, teachers, and the general public in a series of talks on the causes of the great European war which were given by the author in the fall of 1914. The audiences were widely different in character. They included pupils of the sixth, seventh,...

Outrage at Sea

by Tony Bridgland
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002

This, the follow-up to Naval Atrocities in World War 2, is an anthology of shameful incidents at sea, causing outrage on both sides. The sinking of the Lusitania was the trigger of these events, which were played out, at least initially, while an anguished and undecided America looked on. Later in...

Imperial War Museum Book of the War at Sea 1914-18

by Julian Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011

Based on gripping first-hand testimony from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, this book reveals what it was really like to serve in the Royal Navy during the First World War. It was a period of huge change – for the first time the British navy went into battle with untried weapon systems,...

The Great War Handbook

A Guide for Family Historians & Students of the Conflict

by Geoff Bridger
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014

Geoff Bridger’s The Great War Handbook answers many of the basic questions newcomers ask when confronted by this enormous and challenging subject – not only what happened and why, but what was the Great War like for ordinary soldiers who were caught up in it. He describes the conditions the soldiers...

Disturbing Practices

History, Sexuality, and Women's Experience of Modern War

by Laura Doan
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013

For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced powerful narratives by tracing the homosexual or queer subject as continuous or discontinuous. Yet organizing historical work around categories of identity...

The Woman Who Fought an Empire

Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring

by Gregory J. Wallance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018

Though she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman—the daughter of Romanian-born Jewish settlers in Palestine—who became the daring leader of a Middle East spy ring. Following...

The Great Push - An Episode Of The Great War

by Patrick MacGill
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014

Winner of a much esteemed star from doyen of First World War writers Cyril Falls, the author writes of the battle of Loos in 1915, particularly graphically. MacGill was actually engaged and wounded during the battle whilst serving with the London Irish Rifles. “MacGill, who had won considerable...

The Irish Guards in the Great War: The Second Battalion

by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015

The greatest of all wars. As told by one of England's greatest poets. 'The Irish Guards In The Great War' is a classic of military history - Rudyard Kipling's memorable two volume account of how one regiment fought from 1914-1918. This e-book edition features an introduction by...

A World War 1 Adventure

The Life and Times of Rnas Bomber Pilot Donald E. Harkness

by House of Harkness
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014

A deeply personal and revealing eyewitness narrative of one airmans life as a bomber pilot in England s RNAS (Royal Naval Air Service) in WWI. It is a true story, an adventure, and a war memoir carefully constructed from Captain Donald E. Harknesss unpublished diaries, letters, sketches and photographs...

Generals And Generalship

by Field-Marshal Earl Wavell
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016

Field Marshal Wavell was one of the most successful British Army commanders of the Second World War, often given the toughest assignments, usually greatly outnumbered and with few resources. In this short volume he shares the distilled wisdom on the qualities, mental, moral and political that are...

Revolt In The Desert [Illustrated Edition]

by Colonel T. E. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

[World War One In The Desert Illustration Pack- Includes 92 photos and illustrations with 19 maps spanning the Desert campaigns 1914-1918] Lieutenant-Colonel T. E. Lawrence has often been pictured as many differing characters; crank, madman, genius, visionary, man “gone native”, pawn, military...

Three to a Loaf

A Novel of the Great War

by Lt. Col. (Ret). Michael J. Goodspeed
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008

Three to a Loaf is the First World War story of Rory Ferrall, a young Canadian officer of Anglo-German descent who, after being wounded and disfigured at Ypres, comes to the attention of British military intelligence. Ferrall's German background is valuable to the war's planners. Hundreds of German-Americans...

From the Marne to Verdun

The War Diary of Captain Charles Delvert, 101st Infantry, 1914–1916

by Charles Delvert
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016

Charles Delvert’s diary records his career as a front-line officer in the French army fighting the Germans during the First World War. It is one of the classic accounts of the war in French or indeed in any other language, and it has not been translated into English before. In precise, graphic detail...

A Subaltern’s Share In The War

Home Letters Of The Late George Weston Devenish Lieut. R.A., Attached R.F.C.

by Lieutenant George Weston Devenish
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012

Lieutenant Devenish celebrated his twenty-first birthday, his last in peace-time, on the 25th of July 1914; he was by this point in his short life a soldier by profession and by choice. Having left Charterhouse with a taste for military ways after training in the O.T.C., he decided that his chosen...