World War I category: 3312 books
by Richard Baber
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Note that this is the same compendium that was previously published by Shilka Publishing.
It began in Sarajevo in 1914, in a cascade of treaty obligations following an assassination. It ended in the mirrored halls of Versailles in 1918, in a treaty that would lead directly to an even more catastrophic...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Gathered here for the first time is a rare and carefully chosen collection that depicts the rich and varied experiences of Army nurses during the First World War as recorded by U.S. Army Signal...
World War I: Part One
1914: The Early Stages
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the beginning of World War I in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the outbreak and early stages of World War I. In the summer of 1914, Europe’s main powers embarked...
Chaos and Identity
from World War I to Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For over a thousand years, kings and emperors ruled the European peninsula of the greater Asian continent. In 1914, by complete accident, these rulers started a suicidal war that destroyed their way of life and cast hundreds of millions of people into a new world. The eastern battle line of World War...
by S.L.A. Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
"In the Bosnian town of Sarajevo on the morning of June 28, 1914, a chauffeur misunderstood his instructions, made the wrong turn, tried too late to correct his blunder, and in so doing, delivered his passengers to a point where a waiting assassin did not have to take aim to gun them down. Two...
Pennsylvanian Voices of the Great War
Letters, Stories and Oral Histories of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
“I guess you all are wondering where I am May. Well many miles away and settled at last and ready for some hard work. The sooner we get into it the quicker it is going to be over and all admit that it is up to America to finish the job and what I have been able to hear, they think it will be over...
The Failure to Prevent World War I
The Unexpected Armageddon
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
World War I represents one of the most studied, yet least understood, systemic conflicts in modern history. At the time, it was a major power war that was largely unexpected. This book refines and expands points made in the author’s earlier work on the failure to prevent World War I. It provides...
Cross of Iron
The Rise and Fall of the German War Machine, 1918-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
A riveting account of the origins and development of the German army that breaks through the distortions of conventional military history
Acclaimed for his revisionist history of the German Army in World War I, John Mosier continues his pioneering work in Cross of Iron, offering an intimate...
The Remains of Company D
A Story of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
"Not since Flags of Our Fathers—no, make that, Not since Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory—no, make that, *Not ever—*has an American nonfiction writer reached into history and produced a testament of young men in terrible battle with the stateliness, the mastery of cadence,...
The Zimmermann Telegram
Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America's Entry into World War I
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
By the winter of 1916/17, World War I had reached a deadlock. While the Allies commanded greater resources and fielded more soldiers than the Central Powers, German armies had penetrated deep into Russia and France, and tenaciously held on to their conquered empire. Hoping to break the stalemate on the...
The End of Tsarist Russia
The March to World War I and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
**An Economist Best Book of the Year
AFinancial TimesBest Book of the Year
Winner of the the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize
Finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize
An Amazon Best Book of the Month (History)
One of the world’s leading scholars offers a fresh interpretation of the linked origins...
by Major William M. Campsey
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This study investigates the original needs for and development of counterfire techniques in World War I. Concentrating on the experiences of the British and the Americans, the examination explores techniques of counterfire and their failures or successes.
The first chapter investigates why World War...
Rock of the Marne
The American Soldiers Who Turned the Tide Against the Kaiser in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The stirring account of the Third U.S. Infantry Division in the Second Battle of the Marne—where the tide of World War I was finally turned…
The soldiers of the Third U.S. Infantry Division in World War I were outnumbered and inexperienced young men facing hardened veterans, but their actions...
Wilson's War
How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War I I
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The fateful blunder that radically altered the course of the twentieth century—and led to some of the most murderous dictators in history
President Woodrow Wilson famously rallied the United States to enter World War I by saying the nation had a duty to make “the world safe for democracy.”...