World War I category: 3312 books
World War I New York
A Guide to the City's Enduring Ties to The Great War
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
In 1917 one million soldiers, sailors, and Marines departed for France to fight in World War I from New York. The city was an important hub during the war as the recruiting and patriotic efforts continued. Following the Armistice in 1918, more memorials were erected to veterans than for any other...
by Taffy Thomas, Helen Watts
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
From 2014 to 2018, people all over the world will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. They will not only be honoring those who lost their lives on the battlefield between 1914 and 1918, they will also be remembering everyone who played a part in, or lived through,...
Some Desperate Glory
The First World War the Poets Knew
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The story of World War I, through the lives and words of its poets
The hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of what many believed would be the war to end all wars is in 2014. And while World War I devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry—words in which the atmosphere and landscape...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Nels Anderson’s World War I Diary provides a rare glimpse into the wartime experiences of one of the most well-respected sociologists of the twentieth century, the renowned author of The Hobo (1920) and Desert Saints: The Mormon Frontier in Utah (1942). Anderson, a keen observer of people, places,...
by Dale Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
As the First World War bogged down across Europe resulting in the establishment of trench systems, artillery began to grow in military importance. Never before had the use of artillery been so vital, and to this day the ferocity, duration and widespread use of artillery across the trenches of Europe...
Tin Cans and Greyhounds
The Destroyers that Won Two World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
For men on destroyer-class warships during World War I and World War II, battles were waged “against overwhelming odds from which survival could not be expected.” Those were the words Lieutenant Commander Robert Copeland calmly told his crew as their tiny, unarmored destroyer escort rushed toward...
![Cover of The Last Four Months; How the War Was Won [Illustrated Edition]](https://www.kuoky.com/images/2015/november/300x300/9781786255471-v8rO_300x.jpg)
by Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos
The epic story of the last campaign of the Allied armies that shattered the German Army on the Western Front in 1918 bringing the First World War to a close. Renowned military writer Major-General...
by David Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
The first Rolls-Royce armoured car was a privately owned vehicle fitted with a machine-gun and a limited amount of armour plate, used by the Royal Naval Air Service in Flanders in 1914. By 1915, nearly 100 had been built and turned over to the Army. From then on, as Sir Albert Stern said 'They searched...
The Greater Game
Sporting Icons Who Fell in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
From the athletic fields to the fields of battle—these great sportsmen gave their all and sacrificed their lives for their countries in World War I.
As the First World War swept across Europe, millions of eager and idealistic volunteers lined up to serve in what was to be the War to End All Wars....
Wasteland
The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Publication is timed both for Halloween and seasonal horror coverage, as well as with the 100th Anniversary of the armistice that brought World War I to a close (Nov 11, 1918).
Wasteland tells the story of how the horrors of World War I created a new kind of imaginative literature and film....
Someone Else’s War
Fighting for the British Empire in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2019
World War I was the first truly global conflict and its effects were felt across the British Empire. When war broke out in 1914, Great Britain had the largest empire, encompassing one quarter of the population of the world. Many colonial citizens were to be enlisted into the war effort and shipped...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
This study develops and substantiates a comprehensive evaluation of British long-range bombing in the First World War. Its findings run directly counter to the generally held opinion. Natural limitations, technical shortfalls, and aircrews lacking proficiency acted in concert with German defenses...
We Return Fighting
World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
A richly illustrated commemoration of African Americans' roles in World War I highlighting how the wartime experience reshaped their lives and their communities after they returned home.
This stunning book presents artifacts, medals, and photographs alongside powerful essays that together highlight...
World War I and the Jews
Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East, and America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world: it allowed them to display their patriotism, to dispel antisemitic myths about Jewish cowardice, and to fight for Jewish rights. Yet Jews also suffered as refugees and deportees, at times catastrophically. And in the aftermath of...