World War I category: 3312 books
World War One
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, four empires were destroyed, and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. World War I took humanity from the nineteenth century forcibly into the...
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
This new work demonstrates how the outcome of the First World War has formed the modern world we live in today. The First World War was the Great War for its leading participants. In revisiting the events of 1914-1918 a century on, Jeremy Black considers how we now look at the impact of the conflict...
July 1914
Countdown to War
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
A bold, gripping history of the first month of World War I
When an assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, no one could have imagined the shocking bloodshed that would soon follow. Indeed, as award-winning historian Sean McMeekin reveals in July 1914, World War I might...
Ring of Steel
Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
A prize-winning, magisterial history of World War I from the perspective of the defeated Central Powers
For the Central Powers, the First World War started with high hopes for an easy victory. But those hopes soon deteriorated as Germany's attack on France failed, Austria-Hungary's armies suffered...
Collapse at Meuse-Argonne
The Failure of the Missouri-Kansas Division
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2004
During World War I, the Thirty-fifth Division was made up of National Guard units from Missouri and Kansas. Composed of thousands of men from the two states, the Missouri-Kansas Division entered the great battle of the Meuse-Argonne with no battle experience and only a small amount of training, a...
I Will Hold
The Story of USMC Legend Clifton B. Cates, from Belleau Wood to Victory in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The incredible true story of Clifton B. “Lucky” Cates, whose service in World War I and beyond made him a legend in the annals of the Marine Corps.
Cates knew that he and his small band of marines were in a desperate spot. Before handing the note over to a runner, he added three words that...
Woodrow Wilson and World War I
A Burden Too Great to Bear
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This book is a story of Presidential failure, a chronicle of Woodrow Wilson’s miscalculations in war, and a harrowing account of the process through which an intelligent American leader fell to pieces under a burden he could not bear. Historian Richard Striner argues persuasively that President...
To Hell and Back
Europe 1914-1949
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
**"Chilling... To Hell and Back should be required reading in every chancellery, every editorial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics do their thinking…. Kershaw documents each and every ‘ism’ of his analysis with extraordinary detail and passionate humanism."—The...
by Robert Herrick
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Last April, when I left New York for Europe, Italy was on the verge of entering the great war. According to the meager reports that a strict censorship permitted to reach the world, Italy had been hesitating for many months between a continuance of her precarious neutrality and joining with the Allies,...
Prayer After the Slaughter
The Great War: Poems and Stories from World War I
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Never before or after have the horrors of the "Great War," as World War I was known, been captured as they were by Kurt Tucholsky. The famed Weimar writer, who would become one of Germany’s best-known satirist and journalists, describes surviving in the trenches and fighting a losing battle,...
THE BANTAMS
The Untold Story Of World War One
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2013
“The Bantams” tells the nigh incredible story of how the British and Canadian armies recruited over 50,000 under-height men to serve as front-line soldiers in WW1. This book gives one of the best accounts this reviewer has ever encountered of the rigors of trench warfare. It is a must for all...
The Shattered Peloton
The Devastating Impact of World War I on the Tour de France
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
"As a record of achievement, loss, and unfulfilled potential, it’s hard to think of another book that is as valid as this one is this year." —The Jersey Pocket
A fascinating, mind-boggling account of young athletes in their prime destroyed in the hell of war. A mesmerizing...
by Edmund Blunden
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
“I took my road with no little pride of fear; one morning I feared very sharply, as I saw what looked like a rising shroud over a wooden cross in the clustering mist. Horror! But on a closer study I realized that the apparition was only a flannel gas helmet. . . . What an age since 1914!”
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From Stray Dog to World War I Hero
The Paris Terrier Who Joined the First Division
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
On the streets of Paris one day in July 1918, an American doughboy, Sgt. Jimmy Donovan, befriended a stray dog that he named Rags. No longer an unwanted street mutt, Rags became the mascot to the entire First Division of the American Expeditionary Force and a friend to the American troops who had...