World War I category: 3312 books
World War I, Mass Death, and the Birth of the Modern US Soldier
A Rhetorical History
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
World War I, Mass Death, and the Birth of the Modern US Soldier: A Rhetorical History examines the United States government’s postwar ideological and rhetorical project in establishing permanent national military cemeteries abroad. Constructed throughout Europe where citizen-soldiers had fought...
by Jon E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The spectre of the Great War still haunts us. No other conflict so dramatically illustrates the waste of life, and the slaughter of innocents, as that of 1914-18. And none has so dramatically shaped the modern world: the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the break-up of Empire, the supremacy...
World War I Montana
The Treasure State Prepares
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Montana's cowboys, miners, foresters, farmers and nurses entered World War I in April 1917 under the battle cry that would resonate on the battlefields in France--"Powder River, Let 'Er Buck!" Montana men served in a greater percentage per capita than any other state. Hundreds responded...
Battle Tactics of the Western Front
The British Army`s Art of Attack, 1916-18
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1994
Historians have portrayed British participation in World War I as a series of tragic debacles, with lines of men mown down by machine guns, with untried new military technology, and incompetent generals who threw their troops into improvised and unsuccessful attacks. In this book a renowned military...
by J. Luz Sáenz
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
“I am home, safe and sound, and reviewing all these memories as if in a dream. All of this pleases me. I have been faithful to my duty.” Thus José de la Luz Sáenz ends his account of his military service in France and Germany in 1918. Published in Spanish in 1933, his annotated book of diary...
by Dr Mark Hewitson
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
How can we understand what caused World War I? What role did Germany play? This book encourages us to re-think the events that led to global conflict in 1914.Historians in recent years have argued that German leaders acted defensively or pre-emptively in 1914, conscious of the Reich's deteriorating...
The Forgotten Front
The Eastern Theater of World War I, 1914 - 1915
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Although much has been written about the Western Front in World War I, little attention has been given to developments in the east, especially during the crucial period of 1914--1915. Not only did these events have a significant impact on the fighting and outcome of the battles in the west, but all...
by Neil Grant
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
During World War I, the British adopted the US-designed Lewis gun as an infantry weapon, realizing that its light weight and the fact that it could be fired both prone and on the move made it ideal for supporting advances and defending captured trenches. Later adopted by an array of countries from...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book reproduces thirteen important government documents, reports, and studies dealing with the career and work of naval pioneer and strategist Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan. Documents include:Mahan's...
Black September 1918
WWI’s Darkest Month in the Air
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
The follow-up to Bloody April 1917 continues fifteen months later into World War I. Much had happened over this period. More battles had been fought, won and lost on both sides, but now the American strength was feeding in to France with both men and material. With the mighty push on the French/American...
Ludendorff's Own Story, August 1914-November 1918 The Great War - Vol. I
from the siege of Liège to the signing of the armistice as viewed from the Grand headquarters of the German army
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
As the German army moved swiftly into its start positions at the beginning of the First World War, efficiently and seamlessly forming up for the hammer blow that was to fall on France it must have been with some pride that General Ludendorff would look upon the first grand strategical plan that he...
German Machine Guns of World War I
MG 08 and MG 08/15
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
World War I's defining weapon for many, Germany's MG 08 machine gun won a formidable reputation on battlefields from Tannenberg to the Somme. Although it was a lethally effective weapon when used from static positions, the MG 08 was far too heavy to perform a mobile role on the battlefield. As the...
Oxfordshire
Remembering 1914-18
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
World War I claimed more than 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Oxfordshire offers an intimate portrayal of the county and its people living in the shadow of World War I for five years. A beautifully illustrated and highly accessible volume,...
Swindon
Remembering 1914-18
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
World War I claimed more than 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Swindon offers an intimate portrayal of the town and its people living in the shadow of World War I for five years. A beautifully illustrated and highly accessible volume, it...