World War I category: 3312 books
by Jason C. Libby, Earle G. Shettleworth Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
With the same patriotic fervor as Maine's response to a call for troops in the Civil War, more than 35,000 men and women across the state joined the armed forces in 1917-1918 to fight in aid of America's European allies against Germany, as well as to redress German destruction of American vessels...
Blood and Thunder
The Boys of Eton College and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
A photograph of three friends on the football field, taken in 1912. Less than five years later all three would be killed and buried beneath the fields of Belgium. This story is typical of many schoolboys across Britain who signed up for or were conscripted to fight in World War I. In this groundbreaking...
Portsmouth's World War One Heroes
Stories of the Fallen Men and Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Over 5,000 men from Portsmouth are believed to have been killed during World War —the greatest loss of life that the city has ever known. Not only were thousands of Portsmouth soldiers killed on the Western Front, but Portsmouth-based ships were sunk throughout the war, causing massive loss of...
Silent Night
The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2001
It was one of history's most powerful -- yet forgotten -- Christmas stories. It took place in the improbable setting of the mud, cold rain and senseless killing of the trenches of World War I. It happened in spite of orders to the contrary by superiors; it happened in spite of language barriers. And...
Sergeant Stubby
How a Stray Dog and His Best Friend Helped Win World War I and Stole the Heart of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Meet Sergeant Stubby: World War I dog veteran, decorated war hero, American icon, and above all, man's best friend. Stubby's story begins in 1917 when America is about to enter the war. A stowaway dog befriends Private James Robert "Bob" Conroy at the Connecticut National Guard camp at Yale...
by Dorothy Gilding
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2013
“There were dead men everywhere, and a good number of our cavalry. We passed Fritz artillery with dead horses attached to their limbers. I come across a wounded Fritz. He was just a young boy and our tanks had run over him. A crew of five had a gun mounted in a shell-hole and the tank had flattened...
by Viktors Duks
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
The snake, half a meter long, was twisted around the handle of the pail from which I had just dumped 10 liters of swamp water and peat moss, as we worked to release a fuselage. I looked at it for a while and then grabbed it by one end and removed it from the bucket. "Guys, look! Arent these the intestines...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
This anthology of poems written during the First World War brings together 26 poems from the period by 23 different poets, both the well known and those sometimes forgotten. The collection includes poetry from soldiers on the front lines and from those who remained at home.
The poems...
by Felix Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2019
The Clever Teens' Guide to World War One: The perfect guide for background reading or revision.
It lasted over 1,500 days and was without parallel. World War One threw the globe into a war of unprecedented horror, fought with terrifying new weapons, and of death on an industrial magnitude,...
Loyalty in Time of Trial
The African American Experience During World War I
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Nearly 370,000 black soldiers served in the military during World War I, and some 400,000 black civilians migrated from the rural South to the urban North for defense jobs. Following the war, emboldened by their military service and their support of the war on the home front, African Americans were...
We Were Pirates
A Torpedoman's Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
A sailor’s extraordinary experiences on an American submarine in the Pacific are candidly reported in this eyewitness account of war from a torpedoman’s perspective. Robert Hunt managed to survive twelve consecutive war patrols on the submarine USS Tambor. During the course of the war, Hunt was everywhere...
The Great Famine & Genocide in Iran
1917-1919
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
At least 8–10 million Iranians out of a population of 18–20 million died of starvation and disease during the famine of 1917–1919. The Iranian holocaust was the biggest calamity of World War I and one of the worst genocides of the 20th century, yet it remained concealed for nearly a century....
Hell in the Holy Land
World War I in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
In the modern popular imagination, the British Army's campaign in the Middle East during World War I is considered somehow less brutal than the fighting on European battlefields. A romantic view of this conflict has been further encouraged by such films as Lawrence of Arabia and The Light Horsemen....
Narrow Gauge in the Arras Sector
Before, During & After the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The Arras sector of the Western Front in World War I (WW1) was held partly by the British and Dominions 1st Army from September 1915, and almost wholly by the 1st and 3rd Armies from March 1916. No less than in the Ypres sector to the north and the Somme sector to the south, the struggles of the French...