World War I category: 3312 books
First World War Plays
Night Watches, Mine Eyes Have Seen, Tunnel Trench, Post Mortem, Oh What A Lovely War, The Accrington Pals, Sea and Land and Sky
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
The First World War (1914–1918) marked a turning point in modern history and culture and its literary legacy is vast: poetry, fiction and memoirs abound. But the drama of the period is rarely recognised, with only a handful of plays commonly associated with the war.
First World War Plays...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication is a collection of documents reflecting and illustrating various concepts of the functions of military aviation and ideas concerning the employment of aircraft as an instrument of warfare. The...
The Maritime Archaeology of a Modern Conflict
Comparing the Archaeology of German Submarine Wrecks to the Historical Text
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Over the last 30 years, hydrographical marine surveys in the English Channel helped uncover the potential wreck sites of German submarines, or U-boats, sunk during the conflicts of World War I and World War II. Through a series of systemic dives, nautical archaeologist and historian Innes McCartney...
Tank Hunter
World War One
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
World War I's fierce battles saw the need to develop military technology beyond anything previously imagined: as exposed infantry and cavalry were mowed down by relentless machine-gun attacks, tanks were developed. Here Tank Hunter Craig Moore presents every World War I tank, from the prototype "Little...
American Tactical Advancement in World War I
The New Lessons of Combined Arms and Open Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
The U.S. Army evolved into a truly modern fighting force during World War I. When the U.S. entered the war in 1917, the infantry was its primary offensive arm. Training focused mainly on target practice, bayonet charges and marching drills. Antiquated tactics emphasized massive attack waves relying...
Utah and the Great War
The Beehive State and the World War I Experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Copublished with the Utah State Historical Society. Affiliated with the Utah Division of State History, Utah Department of Heritage & Arts.
In time for the centennial of the United States’s entry into World War I, this collection of seventeen essays explores the war experience in Utah...
Patriot Priests
French Catholic Clergy and National Identity in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
After serving two and a half years as a stretcher-bearer on the Western Front, Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote that he would “a thousand times rather be throwing grenades or handling a machine gun than be supernumerary as I am now.” Mobilized by military laws dating to 1889 and...
by Bryan Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Failure to exploit the potential of an original idea is a recurring phenomenon in our national history. Few failures, however, can have been so costly in human life as that of our military commanders early in 1916 to appreciate that the tank was a war winning weapon. The slaughter of the Somme, Passchendaele...
by Avigdor Hameiri
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Hell on Earth is the second book written by Avigdor Hameiri (born Feuerstein; 1890–1970) about his experiences as a Russian prisoner of war during the second half of World War I. Translator Peter C. Appelbaum first became interested in Hameiri’s story after learning that one quarter of the Austro-Hungarian...
The American Expeditionary Force in World War I
A Statistical History, 1917-1919
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
In April 1917, the United States ended its nonintervention policy and entered World War I as an “Associated Power” to aid the Allies in their fight against the Central Powers. The American Expeditionary Force, fighting alongside French and British troops, provided vital manpower on the Western...
Storm of Steel
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
**One of the great war memoirs, now featuring a foreword by the New York Times bestselling author of Matterhorn in time for the centenary of World War I and the Battle of the Somme
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A worldwide bestseller published shortly after the end of World War I, Storm of Steel is a memoir of astonishing...
Master Mind
The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
FRITZ HABER -- a Nobel laureate in chemistry, a friend of Albert Einstein, a German Jew and World War I hero -- may be the most important scientist you have never heard of. The Haber-Bosch process, which he invented at the turn of the twentieth century, revolutionized agriculture by converting nitrogen...
by Stewart Ross
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Written in British English, World War I describes how the major power struggles of Europe (supported by various colonial holdings and the British alliance with Japan) erupted into a global war that was marked by new forms of combat that included trench warfare, strategies of attrition, and the first use of airpower.
by Winston S. Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
A volume in Churchill’s history of the First World War that is “essential reading, as fresh and compelling as ever” (Jon Meacham, bestselling author of Franklin and Winston).
This epic volume—third in a five-volume history of World War I from the eyewitness perspective of a highly-placed...