Pen & Sword Military, 2014. — 201 p. In 1917, the Germans launched a major air campaign against the British mainland, which shocked the whole nation and terrorized the southeast of England. These attacks by German bombers caused hundreds of deaths and injuries, but until now, the full details of these raids have NEVER before been told. These range from the massacre of Canadian...
Pen & Sword Military, 2014. — 178 p. In 1917, the Germans launched a major air campaign against the British mainland, which shocked the whole nation and terrorized the southeast of England. These attacks by German bombers caused hundreds of deaths and injuries, but until now, the full details of these raids have NEVER before been told. These range from the massacre of Canadian...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. — 471 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-26267-6; 978-90-04-26268-3 — (Historical Materialism, Volume 89) Cataclysm 1914 brings together leftist scholars from a variety of fields to explore the many different aspects of the origins, trajectories and consequences of the First World War. The collection seeks to visualise the conflict and all its immediate...
US Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle. — 937 p. Wars, at least those wars waged and documented since the beginning of recorded history, usually are fought at least twice: once on the battlefield and again, for what often seems like an eternity, in oral tradition, written text and imagery. The era of the Great War (1914-1918), perhaps better known by today’s generation...
London: Macmillan Press, 1980. - 265 pgs. Tony Ashworth researched this topic based upon diaries, letters, and testimonies of veterans from the war. He discovered that 'live and let live' was widely known about, at the time, and was common usually at specific times and places. It was often to be found when a unit had been withdrawn from battle and was sent to a rest sector....
A. J. Barker. The Bastard War. The Mesopotamian Campaign of 1914-1918 The Dial Press. New York. First printing, 1967 Copyright 1967 by A. J. Barker Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 66-2739. Printed in the United States of America. This story is offered as a humble tribute to the valor of the British and Indian troops who took part in the Mesopotamian Campaign between...
Indiana University Press, 2013. — 399 p. In contrast to the trench-war deadlock on the Western Front, combat in Romania and Transylvania in 1916 foreshadowed the lightning warfare of WWII. When Romania joined the Allies and invaded Transylvania without warning, the Germans responded by unleashing a campaign of bold, rapid infantry movements, with cavalry providing cover or...
Brill Academic Pub., 2016. — 304 p. This edited volume examines the experience of World War I of small nations, defined here in terms of their relative weakness vis-a-vis the major actors in European diplomacy, and colonial peripheries, encompassing areas that were subject to colonial rule by European empires and thus located far from the heartland of these empires. The...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 464 p. The story of the highly controversial First World War campaign that nearly destroyed Churchill's reputation for good and of his decades-long battle to set the record straight - a battle which ultimately helped clear the way for Churchill's appointment as Prime Minister in Britain's 'darkest hour'. Churchill and the Dardanelles: A Riddle...
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1918. The Theory of the Old Turks. The Theory of the New Turks. The End of the Armenian Question. The Question of Syria and Palestine. Deutschland Uber Allah. "Thy Kingdom is Divided". The Grip of the Octopus.
Pen & Sword, 2008. — 113 p. — ISBN: 9781844157686. During the Great War a German publisher produced a number of photographic books that are of considerable interest to the modern-day reader. These were based on the photographs taken by the German regiments that found themselves stationed there during the War.This, the first book, covers the Battle of Arras in 1917, one of the...
Pen & Sword, 2008. — 113 p. — ISBN: 9781844157686. During the Great War a German publisher produced a number of photographic books that are of considerable interest to the modern-day reader. These were based on the photographs taken by the German regiments that found themselves stationed there during the War.This, the first book, covers the Battle of Arras in 1917, one of the...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 176 p. — ISBN: 184884445X. The book follows in photographs, captions and text the German Army's presence in Flanders from its arrival in September 1914 until the summer of 1916.It looks at the Kaiser's Army's battles with the French, Belgians and British, concentrating mostly on the latter and the battles for Ypres (1st Ypres - 1914 and 2nd Ypres - 1915...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 176 p. The book covers the actions of the German Army in the Low Countries during 1915 and 1916. In its broad compass it looks at the battles with the French, Belgians and British, concentrating mostly on the latter. Both 1915 and 1916 were very active years for the Central Powers and the Allies. After a quiet start with minor fighting April 1915 saw gas...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 176 p. The book covers the actions of the German Army in the Low Countries during 1915 and 1916. In its broad compass it looks at the battles with the French, Belgians and British, concentrating mostly on the latter. Both 1915 and 1916 were very active years for the Central Powers and the Allies. After a quiet start with minor fighting April 1915 saw gas...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 208 p. The third volume covers the battles in Flanders against the Belgians, French and British over a twenty-three month period. Written using primary and secondary sources, it covers all the engagements.
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 208 p. The third volume covers the battles in Flanders against the Belgians, French and British over a twenty-three month period. Written using primary and secondary sources, it covers all the engagements.
The History Press, 2014. — 256 p. Winston Churchill called it ‘the unknown war’. Unlike the long stalemate of the Western Front, the conflict 1914–18 between the Russian Empire and the Central Powers was a war of movement spanning a continent – from the Arctic to the Adriatic, Black and Caspian seas and from the Baltic in the west to the Pacific Ocean. The appalling scale of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 256 p. — ISBN: 1526710293. Although the French fielded the largest number of Allied troops on the Western Front in the First World War, the story of their soldiers is little known to English readers. The immense size of the French armies, the number of battles they fought, and the enormous losses they incurred, make it difficult for us to...
L.: Hodder Education, 2009. - 162 p. This title examines the First World War from a European viewpoint, but it also gives an account of the fighting in other parts of the world and looks at the role of non-Europeans. The causes of the war and the aims, strengths and weaknesses of the major combatants are discussed. The western, eastern, Italian and imperial fronts are examined...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — xvi, 345 p. This unique volume offers a definitive new history of European economies at war from 1914 to 1918. It studies how European economies mobilised for war, how existing economic institutions stood up under the strain, how economic development influenced outcomes, and how wartime experience influenced postwar economic growth. Leading...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 594 p. This is a major new account of the Battle of Jutland, the key naval battle of the First World War in which the British Grand Fleet engaged the German High Seas Fleet off the coast of Denmark in 1916. Beginning with the building of the two fleets, John Brooks reveals the key technologies employed, from ammunition, gunnery and...
Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 272 p. Going up Beek trench on a dark night was no picnic. You started along a long narrow alley winding uphill, your hands feeling the slimy sandbag walls, your feet wary for broken duck boards… round corners you dived under narrow tunnels two or three feet high, finally emerging into the comparative open of the front line trench.' Soldier, 1/4th...
Pen & Sword History, 2019. — 224 p. Nineteen-year-old Lionel Morris left the infantry for the wood and wires of the Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front in 1916, joining one of the world's first fighter units alongside the great ace Albert Ball. Learning on the job, in dangerously unpredictable machines, Morris came of age as a combat pilot on the first day of the Battle of...
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 480 p. At the beginning of 1917, the three empires fighting on the Eastern Front were reaching their breaking points, but none was closer than Russia. After the February Revolution, Russia's ability to wage war faltered and her last desperate gamble, the Kerensky Offensive, saw the final collapse of her army. This helped trigger the Bolshevik...
Pocket Essentials, 2007 - 160 p. ISBN10: 1842432125 ISBN13: 9781842432129 (eng) In this historical work, the events that led to war and the naval arms race between Britain and Germany are examined. It details the significant arena of war: the battle for control of the sea. At the beginning of the war in 1914, Britain's maritime supremacy had remained unchallenged for 100 years,...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. — 528 p. — eISBN: 978-0-307-59302-3. In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the world had ever...
Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2014. — 344 p. : illustrations, maps. In May 1915 the long and bloody Second Battle of Ypres gained notoriety for the participants’ use of poison gas, the first time the weapon had been used in battle. With both sides realizing the importance of victory in Ypres, moral considerations were set aside....
Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2014. — 344 p. : illustrations, maps. In May 1915 the long and bloody Second Battle of Ypres gained notoriety for the participants’ use of poison gas, the first time the weapon had been used in battle. With both sides realizing the importance of victory in Ypres, moral considerations were set aside....
Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2014. — 344 p. : illustrations, maps. In May 1915 the long and bloody Second Battle of Ypres gained notoriety for the participants’ use of poison gas, the first time the weapon had been used in battle. With both sides realizing the importance of victory in Ypres, moral considerations were set aside....
Leo Cooper Books, 1999. — 176 p. Cambrai is most well known for the tank battle which took place in 1917. Although initially successful it soon became disastrous, and, as on other occasions throughout the War, the area changed hands many times. Illustrated with then and now pictures, this book unravels the history of the area for those either visiting or exploring it from their...
London, Leo Cooper, 1997. — 208 p. — (Battleground Europe). Where others had failed, Canada's citizen army won its greatest victory on Vimy Ridge in 1917. This, the latest in the "Battleground Europe" series, features a detailed account of the World War I engagement, and a full description of the battlefield and monuments as they are today.The historical narrative covers the...
Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2003. — 176 p. — (Battleground Europe). — ISBN10: 0850529239, ISBN13: 978-0850529234. This book concentrates on Gully Ravine and its immediate area on the western side of the Helles battlefield, Gallipoli. "...Death was at work there...Death lived there...Death wandered up and down there and fed on Life." (John Masefield). Here trench fighting...
Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2018. - 191 p. In 1915, the German government published a book entitled 1915 in an attempt to portray the Germans as a civilized people who were destined to win the war, and who would treat their prisoners with care and compassion. The Kaiser’s First POWs is the first book to compare the ‘official’ German view to the grim reality of captivity, as...
Andrzej Chwalba. Samobójstwo Europy. Wielka Wojna 1914-1918. Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2014. Książka z rozmachem, ale nie stroniąc też od anegdot, opisuje I wojnę światową chronologicznie - od tragicznie zakończonej wizyty cesarskiego bratanka w Sarajewie po 11 listopada 1918 roku. Osobne rozdziały autor poświęca specyfice wojny lądowej, morskiej i powietrznej oraz losom cywilów,...
Gloucestershire: Windrush Press, 1971. - 109 pgs. On the outbreak of war in 1914, the armies of the Western Front soon became bogged down in the mud of Flanders and it is these events that many people associate most strongly with the First World War - but its origins and the strategy which governed all but its closing months lay in the East. For three years the fighting swung...
HarperCollins, 2013. — ISBN: 978-0-06-114665-7; 978-0-06-219922-5. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself, but on the complex events and...
Walker Books, 2007. — 432 p. The extraordinary family story of George V, Wilhelm II, and Nicholas II: they were tied to one another by history, and history would ultimately tear them apart. Known among their families as Georgie, Willy, and Nicky, they were, respectively, the royal cousins George V of England, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Nicholas II of Russia--the first...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 297 + viii p. — ISBN13: 978-0-521-81923-7. Argument: the organization of intimacy Definitions and choices: modernism, modernity, literary authority Structure: four sites of masculine bonding 1 Victorian dreams, modern realities: Forster’s classical imagination Hellenism and the beautiful body: Carpenter, Pater, Symonds The fall of...
William Collins, 2013. — 239 p. — (History in an Hour). In 1914 the world changed. Europe’s great powers were dragged, one by one, into a war by Serbian conflict which affected very few of them directly. At least it would resemble the short sharp battles of the previous century, many thought – fought with military bands, horsemen, and swift victories. But 1914 proved to be...
William Collins, 2013. — 239 p. — (History in an Hour). In 1914 the world changed. Europe’s great powers were dragged, one by one, into a war by Serbian conflict which affected very few of them directly. At least it would resemble the short sharp battles of the previous century, many thought – fought with military bands, horsemen, and swift victories. But 1914 proved to be...
UBC Press, 2001. — 304 p. Historians of the First World War have often dismissed the important role of poison gas in the battles of the Western Front. In No Place to Run, however, Tim Cook shows that the serious threat of gas did not disappear with the introduction of gas masks. By 1918, gas shells were used by all armies to deluge the battlefield, and many soldiers were...
Pen and Sword, 2005. — 144 p. By Christmas 1914 Britain's Regular Army had virtually ceased to exist. Four months of hard fighting had drained its manpower and the Territorial Army were called on to plug the gaps. The part-timers leapt at the chance to serve their country overseas and were soon on their way to the trenches and the harsh realities of war on the Western Front....
London: The Society for Army Historical Research, 2018. — 175 p. (Special Publication No. 18) 'The Mad Minute': Rapid Rifle Fire, and It's Place in the Edwardian Army - Harlow War, Epidemics, and Empire: British Military Government in the Middle East, 1914-18 - Harrison Padres and Missionaries: The War Diary of the Senior Catholic Chaplains, East Africa, 1916-19 - Hagerty...
Pen and Sword Military, 2006. — 240 p. In 1914 there were only two machine guns supporting a British infantry battalion of 800 men, and in the light of the effectiveness of German and French machine guns the Machine Gun Corps was formed in October 1915. This remarkable book, compiled and edited by C E Crutchley, is a collection of the personal accounts of officers and men who...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1936. — 682 p. This vivid, detailed history of World War I presents the general reader with an accurate and readable account of the campaigns and battles, along with brilliant portraits of the leaders and generals of all countries involved. Scrupulously fair, praising and blaming friend and enemy as circumstances demand, this has become...
Overlook Books, 2001. — 680 p. In 1918, renowned historian Gregor Dallas traces the transition from war to peace across Europe. In Berlin, the cabarets and beer halls are open while there is still shooting in the streets. In Paris, the peacemakers have assembled to draft the Treaty of Versailles and create the League of Nations. Washington is divided between those who want to...
London - New York - Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. Here the flow of the tide is followed in the succession of events. The first decisive breach in the hostile front occurred in Mesopotamia. It was emphasised by the Turkish-German debacle in Syria. Then in quick succession came the Bulgarian rout in the Balkans and the Austrian overthrow in Italy. The wind-up was...
New York; London: Harpers & Brothers Publishers, 1920. — 526 p. The city of the Conference Signs of the times The delegates Censorship and secrecy Aims and methods The lesser states Poland's outlook in the future Italy Japan Attitude toward Russia Bolshevism How Bolshevism was fostered Sidelights on the Treaty The treaty with Germany The treaty with Bulgaria The covenant and...
New York; London: Harpers & Brothers Publishers, 1920. — 526 p. The city of the Conference Signs of the times The delegates Censorship and secrecy Aims and methods The lesser states Poland's outlook in the future Italy Japan Attitude toward Russia Bolshevism How Bolshevism was fostered Sidelights on the Treaty The treaty with Germany The treaty with Bulgaria The covenant and...
Barnsley, South Yorkshire, U.K.: Pen & Sword Military, 2009. — 388 p. The book is a detailed account of the fighting around Ypres during April and May 1915. It is essentially a day-by-day record of the Second Battle of Ypres which draws heavily upon personal accounts, regimental histories and war diaries to present a comprehensive study of the battle in which Germany became the...
Mainstream Publishing Company (Edinburgh) Ltd., 2013. — 464 p. — ISBN: 978-1780576305. Hidden History uniquely exposes those responsible for the First World War. It reveals how accounts of the war’s origins have been deliberately falsified to conceal the guilt of the secret cabal of very rich and powerful men in London responsible for the most heinous crime perpetrated on...
Mainstream Publishing, 2013. — 407 p. The Secret Society South Africa – Disregard the Screamers The Edward Conspiracy – First Steps and New Beginnings Testing Warmer Waters Taming the Bear The Changing of the Guard 1906 – Landslide to Continuity Alexander Isvolsky – Hero and Villain Scams and Scandals Creating the Fear Preparing the Empire – Alfred Milner and the Round Table...
Sydney: New Century Press, 1918. — 138 p. Nothing that occurred during the Great War so closely touched Australia as the operations of the Germain raider "Wolf." Though there were, during the progress of the war, particularly in the earlier stages, many rumours and alarms of enemy invasion, Avhile many estimable citizens were able to furnish the straight tip about visitations...
New York: Springer, 2016. — 284 p. When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, it was woefully unprepared to wage a modern war. Whereas their European counterparts already had three years of experience in using code and cipher systems in the war, American cryptologists had to help in the building of a military intelligence unit from scratch. This book relates...
Lucknow Books, 2016. — 644 p. The War the Infantry Knew 1914-1919 is a remarkably coherent narrative, in diary form, of an infantry battalion's experience on the Western Front. A moving, truthful historical record, it deserves to be added to the select list of outstanding accounts of the First World War.
Osprey Publishing, 2015. — 289 p. — ISBN10: 1472806697. The strategic setting The opposing campaign plans The naval assault, 19 February–18 March 1915 Arms and men: institutions, organizations and command The amphibious assault, 19 March–30 April 1915 The Ottoman counter-offensives, 1 May–5 August 1915 The ANZAC breakout, 6–28 August 1915 The ending of the campaign, 29 August...
The History Press, 2011. — 285 p. — ISBN: 9780752480022. Even after the passage of almost a century, the name Passchendaele has lost none of its power to shock and dismay. Writing after the war, General Hermann von Kuhl memorably described this battle as 'The Greatest Martyrdom of the World War' and so it must have seemed to the men who fought and died there, floundering in the...
The History Press, 2011. — 285 p. — ISBN: 9780752480022. Even after the passage of almost a century, the name Passchendaele has lost none of its power to shock and dismay. Writing after the war, General Hermann von Kuhl memorably described this battle as 'The Greatest Martyrdom of the World War' and so it must have seemed to the men who fought and died there, floundering in the...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 334 p. Many extraordinary female scientists, doctors, and engineers tasted independence and responsibility for the first time during the First World War. How did this happen? Patricia Fara reveals how suffragists, such as Virginia Woolf's sister, Ray Strachey, had already aligned themselves with scientific and technological progress, and that...
Chalfond Stroud: The History Press, 2008. — 166 p. This book comprises a full introduction to the history and archaeology of the first strategic bombing campaign in history — the Zeppelin raids over Britain in 1915–1918 — based on pioneering new excavations and archive research. This is the story of the initial Blitz and the first Battle of Britain, featuring a full report on...
Mondadori, 2014 -. 590 pagine , ISBN: 8804638346 Porta d'accesso al "secolo breve", guerra che avrebbe dovuto porre fine a tutte le guerre, "inutile strage": il primo conflitto mondiale fu una tragedia che costò la vita a oltre nove milioni di persone. La Grande guerra fu lo sbocco finale della corsa agli armamenti perseguita dalle principali potenze europee (in particolare...
Penguin Group, 2012. — 360 p. — ISBN 978-1-101-61620-8 (EPUB). Excerpted from Niall Ferguson’s sprawling bestseller The War of the World , The Abyss now stands on its own as one of the most thrilling short histories of World War I ever written. This is not a conventional military history about battles and generals. Rather, The Abyss examines how World War I saw the birth of...
Allen Lane. The Penguin Press, 1998. — 672 p. — ISBN 0713992468. In The Pity of War , Niall Ferguson makes a simple and provocative argument: that the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England’s fault. Britain, according to Ferguson, entered into war based on naïve assumptions of German aims — and England’s entry into the war transformed a Continental conflict...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 120 p. Rise of the Tank willbe concentrated on the period of the development of the tank and its use in the First World War. This will appeal to those interested in new developments in war and those interested in the First World War generally. The book will be especially relevant due to the forthcoming centenary of the beginning of the war and for this...
Clarion Books, 2010. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0547026862. Nonfiction master Russell Freedman illuminates for young readers the complex and rarely discussed subject of World War I. The tangled relationships and alliances of many nations, the introduction of modern weaponry, and top-level military decisions that resulted in thousands upon thousands of casualties all contributed to the...
New York: Random House, Alfred A Knopf Division, 2004. - 350 pgs. Author David Fromkin provides an intelligently written and deeply researched of the political situation and diplomatic relations that unfolded in Europe in the summer of 1914. There are many key and novel insights in Fromkin’s book. One is the conclusion that Germany sought war with Russia out of fear that...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 414 + xviii p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-997195-4. Introduction by Jay Winter Chapter 1 A Satire of Circumstance Chapter 2 The Troglodyte World Chapter 3 Adversary Proceedings Chapter 4 Myth, Ritual, and Romance Chapter 5 Oh What a Literary War Chapter 6 Theater of War Chapter 7 Arcadian Recourses Chapter 8 Soldier Boys Chapter 9 Persistence and Memory
Osprey Publishing. Year: 2003. Number of pages: 352. ISBN: 9781841767383. Language: English. Author: Geoffrey Jukes, Peter Simkins, Michael Hickey Title: The First World War - The war to end all wars Raging for over four years across the tortured landscapes of Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the First World War changed the face of warfare forever. Characterised by slow,...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. — 302 p. Empires at War, 1911-1923 offers a new perspective on the history of the Great War, looking at the war beyond the generally-accepted 1914-1918 timeline, and as a global war between empires, rather than a European war between nation-states. The volume expands the story of the war both in time and space to include the violent...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 482 p. Until now scholars have looked for the source of the indomitable Tommy morale on the Western Front in innate British bloody-mindedness and irony, not to mention material concerns such as leave, food, rum, brothels, regimental pride, and male bonding. However, re-examining previously used sources alongside never-before consulted...
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994. - 615 pgs. Gilbert's book covers WWI on all major fronts-domestic, diplomatic, military-as well as such bloody events as the Armenian massacre of 1915. He describes the introduction of new instruments of war like the submarine, airplane, tank, machine gun and poison gas, explaining how each was employed in great military confrontations...
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994. - 615 pgs. Gilbert's book covers WWI on all major fronts-domestic, diplomatic, military-as well as such bloody events as the Armenian massacre of 1915. He describes the introduction of new instruments of war like the submarine, airplane, tank, machine gun and poison gas, explaining how each was employed in great military confrontations...
The Boydell Press, 2006. — 300 p. Three battles for the control of the key fortress-city of Gaza took place in 1917 between the `British' force (with units from across the Empire, most notably the ANZACs) and the Turks. The Allies were repulsed twice but on their third attempt, under the newly-appointed General Allenby, a veteran of the Western Front where he was a vocal critic...
The Boydell Press, 2013. — 270 p. This book charts the continuing war between Britain and France on the one side and the Turkish Empire on the other following the British capture of Jerusalem in 1917. It outlines how the British prepared for their advance, bringing in Indian and Australian troops; how the Turks were defeated at the great Battle of Megiddo in September 1918; and...
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1971. — 276 p. This book covers, primarily from the British side, the development of submarine tactics and policy. This is not a book for people interested in technical details about WWI submarines. This is a book for people interested in the political environment where submarines became a viable weapon system. The book is written in a narrative format...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. - 304 p. Germanys invasion of France in August 1914 represented a threat to the great power status of both Britain and France. The countries had no history of cooperation, yet the entente they had created in 1904 proceeded by trial and error, via recriminations, to win a war of unprecedented scale and ferocity. Elizabeth Greenhalgh...
University Press of Kentucky, 2018. — 404 p. 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 the major combatants in the east...
University Press of Kentucky, 2018. — 404 p. 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 the major combatants in the east...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2006, -399 p. This book provides the most comprehensive examination of American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) combat doctrine and methods ever published. It shows how AEF combat units actually fought on the Western Front in World War I. It describes how four AEF divisions (the 1st, 2nd, 26th, and 77th) planned and conducted their battles and...
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2017. — 275 + xx p. — ISBN 978-0-19-965819-0. There is no single volume that shines a light on Asia's collective involvement in the First World War, and the impact that war had on its societies. Moreover, no volume in any language explores the experiences Asian countries shared as they became embroiled, with divergent results, in the war and...
Indiana University Press, 2010. — 240 p. With the transfer of German units to the western front in the spring of 1918, the position of the Central Powers on the Macedonian front worsened. Materiel became scarce and morale among the Bulgarian forces deteriorated. The Entente Command perceived in Macedonia an excellent opportunity to apply additional pressure to the Germans, who...
Naval Institute Press, 2012 This book aims to provide a definitive work on the First World War at sea. It aims to cover, in a single volume, many aspects of the naval war and to treat the conflict, from the viewpoints of "all" the participants rather than just the Anglo-German perspective.A Naval History of World War I represents a major contribution to our understanding of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 280 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-511-64054-4, 978-0-521-11096-9. The major European powers drafted war plans before 1914 and executed them in August 1914; none brought the expected victory by Christmas. Why? This tightly focused collection of essays by international experts in military history reassesses the war plans of 1914 in a broad diplomatic,...
Leo Cooper, 2001. — 193 p. — (Battleground Europe). The battle of Bazentin Ridge was important for a number of reasons. It was the first night attack allowing British troops to establish a foothold on the strategically important Bazentin Ridge. Second, it allowed the Australian allies to punch a way through the Pozieres Ridge a few miles on the left flank. However, the Somme...
Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2016. — 160 p., 80 b&w and color illus. "Take up the sword of justice," commands a vengeful, blade-wielding sea goddess, while a ship resembling the Lusitania hovers on the horizon "Keep all Canadians busy. Buy 1918 victory bonds," advises a poster bearing a pair of industrious beavers "Must children die and Mothers plead in vain? Buy more...
Oxford: University Press, 2013. A truly thorough account of the Great War. The development of new technologies and the way tactics changed to take advantage of, or overcome them, as the war progressed is thoroughly covered. The options and actions of the generals from all the combatant nations (and in many cases their stunning disregard of their own high command) is well...
Harvey Broadbent, Macquarie University, Sydney The Ottoman Army response in the Gallipoli Campaign: From English translations of documents in Turkish Military Archives and other sources by the Gallipoli Centenary Research Project. Third International Gallipoli Symposium April 20-25, 2012 Istanbul-Çanakkale TURKEY BAĞLARBAŞI KONGRE VE KÜLTÜR MERKEZİ / ÜSKÜDAR
Bd. I. — Berlin: Ullstein & Co, 1919. — 230 s. Inhalt. Vorwort. Vom Dreibund zum Dreiverband. Die Verschiebung der Mächtegruppierung seit Bismarcks Abgang. Die treibenden Kräfte. Die Etappen zum Weltkrieg. Vorbemerkung. Die bosnische Krisis. Verständigungsversuche mit Frankreich und Rußland. Die Marokkokrisis von 1911. Lord Haldancs Mission. Der Tripoliskrieg. Die beiden...
Obuolys, 2017. — 467 p. — (Sensacingi faktai) — ISBN: 9786090402481. 1914 m. birželio 28 d. Austrijos erchercogo Franco Ferdinando žmogžudystė išprovokuoja virtinę diplomatinių nesutarimų, kurie virsta aršiu kariniu konfliktu, o galiausiai – pasauliniu karu. Šis karas – tai raktas į nacizmo šaknis, Sovietų Sąjungą, Viduriniųjų Rytų konfliktus ir JAV virtimą viena galingiausių...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 496 p. The Great War toppled four empires, cost the world 24 million dead, and sowed the seeds of another worldwide conflict 20 years later. This is the only book in the English language to offer comprehensive coverage of how Germany and Austria-Hungary, two of the key belligerents, conducted the war and what defeat meant to them. This new edition...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 224 p. Available for the first time in years, this is a new edition of the classic account by the adventurer and big game hunter who developed and ran the British Army sniping programme in the First World War. When the war started in 1914, Germany's edge in the sniping duel on the Western Front cost thousands of British casualties. Sniping in France...
Schiffer Publishing, 2014. — 339 p. Great War Railwaymen details the incredible achievement of the railways & railway workers during the first world war, exploring not only the vast infrastructure, but also those who operated it.
Shippenburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Books, 1996. - 148 pgs. This autobiography of American army Sergeant First Class Ernest H. Hinrichs reflects the story of the beginnings of modern electronic intelligence gathering. An early radio deception plan, sophisticated for its time, the interception of German trench communications, and the work of the French-American interception...
Ashgate Publishing Company, 2015. — 208 p. Recent studies of the British Army during the First World War have fundamentally overturned historical understandings of its strategy and tactics, yet the chain of command that linked the upper echelons of GHQ to the soldiers in the trenches remains poorly understood. In order to reconnect the lines of communication between the General...
Scarecrow Press, 1998. — 265 p. One of the most devastating armed conflicts in history, World War I (1914-1918) completely transformed the social and political landscape of the world in four short years. It also marked the appearance of the new modern lifestyle, one that always contained the grim prospect of the possible recurrence of war. Ian V. Hogg's The A to Z of World War...
Carlton Books, 2001. — 328 p. It was the war to end all wars, a conflict without precedent in which millions perished — and it was also one of the first conflagrations captured comprehensively in photographs. These carefully selected images capture World War One in all its haunting detail. From the mud of Flanders to the beaches of Gallipoli, all the great battles, all the...
Harper Press, 2008. — 240 p. — ISBN: 000727548X. A handsomely illustrated photographic account, by the bestselling author of 'Tommy' (2003), of the human experience of war as directly witnessed by British soldiers in the First World War. Richard Holmes, one of Britain's best-known military historians (and President of the British Commission of Military History), has selected...
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. -368 pgs. The Battle of Verdun has long been regarded as perhaps the sharpest Schwerpunkt of the Great War. In an attempt to bleed the French Army dry, the Germans launched an offensive on the strategic fortress of Verdun. There was no other aim than to lure the French into losing so many men that they could not carry on the war. In fact, the Somme...
Leo Cooper, 2000. — 193 p. — (Battleground Europe). In the context of the whole war, Battle off Mons (in 1914) on the start of World War I was a small-scale affair, but its importance was crucial partly because, it was the first time in nearly 100 years that the British Army had been engaged in warfare on the European continent.
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 138 p. — (Very Short Introductions). By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the Great War-from the state of Europe in 1914, to the role of the US, the collapse...
Second edition. — Washington, D. C., 1939. — 428 p. This book treats of the tactics of small units as illustrated by examples drawn from the World War. It checks the ideas acquired from peacetime instruction against the experience of battle. There is much evidence to show that officers who have received the best peacetime training available find themselves surprised and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. - 254 p. Drawing on examples from Britain, France, and the United States, this book examines how scholars and scholarship found themselves mobilized to solve many problems created by modern warfare in World War I, and the many consequences of this for higher education which have lasted almost a century. The University Goes to War. The Application of...
Jihad and Islam in World War I (Studies on the Ottoman Jihad on the Centenary of Snouck Hurgronje’s “Holy War Made in Germany”). Edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher ISBN: 978-90-8728-239-4 e-ISBN: 978-94-0060-233-5 (e-PDF) The conference ‘Jihad and other uses of Islam in World War i. Instrumentalization of religion by the Ottoman Empire, its allies and its enemies’ took place in Leiden...
John Still. A Prisoner in Turkey. Printed in Great Britain by R. Clay and Sons, Ltd., 1920. In order to fortify the facts, and so that it may be clearly seen that the opinions are justified, a number of extracts from the "Report on the Treatment of British Prisoners of War in Turkey," which was pre-sented to Parliament in November, 1918, are included here by the special...
London: John Hamilton, 1935. — 90 p. Lectures expressing the view that aircraft were of no military value were common before the War, and even experts were divided in their opinions. Obvious though it appears in the light of subsequent events, few foresaw the amav-ing development of the Air Arm, or the neck-to-neck race for aerial supremacy which was to start in 1914 and last...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. — 471 p. Complex, brutal and challenging, the First World War continues to inspire dynamic research and debate. The third volume to emerge from the pioneering work of the International Society for First World War Studies, this collection of new essays reveals just how plural the conflict actually was – its totalizing tendencies are shown here to...
Pen & Sword, 2010. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1844159628. Simon Jones's graphic history of underground warfare during the Great War uses personal reminiscences to convey the danger and suspense of this unconventional form of conflict. He describes how the underground soldiers of the opposing armies engaged in a ruthless fight for supremacy, covers the tunneling methods they employed,...
Vintage, 2000. — 528 p. — ISBN: 0-676-97224-1. Despite the avalanche of books written about the First World War in recent years, there have been comparatively few books that deliver a comprehensive account of the war and its campaigns from start to finish. The First World War fills the gap superbly. As readers familiar with Keegan's previous books (including The Second World...
Leiden: Brill, 2011. — 363 p. Representing the best of cutting-edge scholarship in First World War studies, this anthology demonstrates the possibity of finding common ground in how cultural, social, and military historians study the war. Essays focus on the decisions of commanders, inter-allied negotiations, trench culture, prisoners of war, the sailors' war, key developments...
Spellmount, 2012. — 285 p. The Battle of the Aisne fought during September 1914 was a savage engagement and a complete shock for the soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force who were trained to fight mobile wars. When they reached the north bank of the Aisne the «Old Contemptibles» would be stopped by the Germans entrenched on high ground armed with machine guns, supported...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2016. — 456 p. What really happened on the first day of the Somme? Much controversy has surrounded the Somme offensive relating to its justification and its impact upon the course of the war. General Sir Douglas Haig's policies have been the subject of considerable debate about whether the heavy losses sustained were worth the small gains that were achieved...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2016. — 456 p. What really happened on the first day of the Somme? Much controversy has surrounded the Somme offensive relating to its justification and its impact upon the course of the war. General Sir Douglas Haig's policies have been the subject of considerable debate about whether the heavy losses sustained were worth the small gains that were achieved...
Allen & Unwin (September 1, 2003), 185 p., ISBN: 1-74114-045-5 Language: English Offering interviews with Turkish survivors of the Gallipoli campaign, insights from their descendants, and more than 50 photographs from the Turkish side of the trenches, this is the story of the infamous World War I battle from the Turkish perspective. This portrayal of the Battle of Canakkale, as...
Scribe, 2014. — 448 p. Hidden under the shadow of Gallipoli for decades, the breathtaking story of what really happened on the Western Front has finally been brought into the bright light of day. Five times greater than Gallipoli, the Western Front had: five times more soldiers (250 000 rather than 50 000), more than five times the amount of men killed (46 000 compared to...
London, U.K.: Aurum Press, 2016. — 368 p., illus. Using a narrative approach, Jutland 1916 - Twelve Hours that Decided the Great War tells the story of the Battle of Jutland, the greatest naval clash of the First World War. Drawing on a wealth of first-hand accounts, some of which were previously unknown, it weaves a highly original narrative, which intertwines original...
Paris: Tallandier, 2005. — 640 p. — ISBN: 2-84734-235-4 Part 1 — p. 1-361. Translation into French is based on the book: Horne J., Kramer A. German atrocities, 1914. A history of denial - New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Août 1914. Les armées allemandes envahissent la Belgique neutre. Quelques jours après apparaissent les premières rumeurs d'atrocités :exécutions, prizes...
Paris: Tallandier, 2005. — 640 p. — ISBN: 2-84734-235-4 Part 2 — p. 362-640. Translation into French is based on the book: Horne J., Kramer A. German atrocities, 1914. A history of denial - New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Août 1914. Les armées allemandes envahissent la Belgique neutre. Quelques jours après apparaissent les premières rumeurs d'atrocités :exécutions,...
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2009. — 448 p. — ISBN10: 0199543771; ISBN13: 978-0199543779 — (Making of the Modern World) On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops. The international community reacted in horror and the behavior of the Germans at Louvain came to be seen as the beginning of...
Istanbul: ARBA Yayinlari, 1997. - 237 pgs. This is Eşref Bey's memoir of an engagement during World War I in Arabia. His assignment was to take funds to the Ottoman forces cut off in Yemen by Sharif Husayn's revolt in 1916. The battle at Khaybar ended in Eşref Bey's capture by the Arab forces and eventual interrogation by the British in Cairo. The bulk of this book was written...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 368 p. — ISBN: 978-1781593462. First of a series of five titles which will cover each year of the war graphically. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to become part of post war archives...
Pen and Sword, 2015. Second of a series of five titles which will cover each year of the war graphically. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to become part of post war archives and have appeared, and continue...
Crown Publishers, 2015. - 430 p. From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The...
Pen & Sword, 2017. — 196 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78346-306-0. Beneath the Killing Fields of the Western Front still lies a hidden landscape of industrialized conflict virtually untouched since 1918. This subterranean world is an ambiguous environment filled with material culture that that objectifies the scope and depth of human interaction with the diverse conflict landscapes of...
Pen & Sword, 2014. — 232 p. — ISBN: 1473821169. Expertly written and beautifully presented, this book of outstanding photographs, documents and art work captures the spirit of the British people as they faced and successfully came through the prolonged challenge of the First World War. Using previously unpublished material from the Liddle Collection in the University Library at...
Pen & Sword, 2016. — 224 p. Twenty-four years after the publication of his classic study of the Somme, Peter Liddle reconsiders the battle in the light of recent scholarship. The battle still gives rise to fierce debate and, with Passchendaele, it is often seen as the epitome of the tragic folly of the First World War. But is this a reasoned judgment? Peter Liddle, in this...
Pen & Sword, 2016. — 224 p. Twenty-four years after the publication of his classic study of the Somme, Peter Liddle reconsiders the battle in the light of recent scholarship. The battle still gives rise to fierce debate and, with Passchendaele, it is often seen as the epitome of the tragic folly of the First World War. But is this a reasoned judgment? Peter Liddle, in this...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004, -320 p. War Land on the Eastern Front is a study of a hidden legacy of World War I: the experience of German soldiers on the Eastern Front and the long-term eVects of their encounter with Eastern Europe. It presents an ‘‘anatomy of an occupation,’’ charting the ambitions and realities of the new German military state there. Using...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 203 p. — (Balkan Studies Library 17). This volume presents a series of chapters about the Great War and memory in Central and South-Eastern Europe which will widen the insufficient and spotty representations of the Great War in that region. The contributors deliver an important addition to present-day scholarship on the more or less unknown...
3rd Edition. — Future Publishing Limited, 2018. — 180 p. World War 1 inflicted hitherto unseen violence on Europe and entangled the entire planet in the conflict — the first time a war was so far reaching. It broke empires, launched new nations onto the international stage, and caused humanity to question its innate goodness. Collects stories of events during the First World...
Manchester: Centre for Regional History, 2014. — 155 p. — ISBN: 978-1-85936-226-6 North-West infantry battalions and local patriotism in the First World War Helen B. McCartney Labour failure and Liberal survival: the impact of the Great War on the labour movement in Mossley Neil Redfern The Women’s War Interest Committee in Manchester and Salford: a snapshot of feminist...
1919. By Francis A. March, in collaboration with Richard J. Beamish ; with an introduction by General Peyton C. March ; with reproductions from the official photographs of the United States, British, French, Canadian, and Italian governments. This is a popular narrative history of the world's greatest war. Written frankly from the viewpoint of the United States and the Allies,...
The History Press, 2013. — 289 p. The struggle between Germany and the Allies along the Western Front is for many the most familiar element of World War I. However, many less well-known theaters of conflict, key to the overall progress and conduct of the war, hold as much relevance to both the traveler and the armchair enthusiast. In this work, the author sheds light on the...
Book Sales, 2003. — 242 p. The early Battles of the First World War during the autumn and winter of 1914 were open, mobile affairs of the kind long familiar to professional soldiers. By early 1915, however, a new type of war had emerged - trench warfare. Over the Top offers an innovative examination of trench warfare on the Western Front and Gallipoli during 1914-1918 in the...
Vintage, 2007. Quality: originally electronic This is a very good narrative of the relationship between Britain and Germany in the run up to the First World War, tracing events back a whole century to the post-Napoleonic War Congress of Vienna and the marriage of Victoria and Albert. The arms race of the construction of the titular dreadnoughts forms only a relatively small...
University Press of Kentucky, 2018. — 456 p. In July 1918, sensing that the German Army had lost crucial momentum, Supreme Allied Commander Ferdinand Foch saw an opportunity to end the First World War. In drafting his plans for a final grand offensive, he assigned the most difficult sector - the dense Argonne forest and the vast Meuse River valley - to the American...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 275 + xv p. — ISBN 9780521848008. — (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare. 22). The popular image of the British soldier in the First World War is of a passive victim, caught up in events beyond his control, and isolated from civilian society. This book offers a different vision of the soldier's experience of...
Barnsley, South Yorkshire, U.K.: Pen & Sword Military, 2010. — 240 p. — (Battleground Europe Series - Battleground Ypres). In the aftermath of the War the war-ravaged countryside was restored and the trenches of the Western Front were filled in. 75 years after the War a group of Belgians, known as the Diggers, excavated a classic trench system at Boesinghe, discovering many...
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. — ISBN: 978-0-674-06210-8. The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany has been viewed as the primary culprit. Now, in a major reinterpretation of the conflict, Sean McMeekin rejects...
New York: Delacorte Press, 2007. — 816 p. — ISBN10: 0553382403; ISBN13: 978-0553382402. The First World War is one of history’s greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the...
New York: Delacorte Press, 2007. — 816 p. — ISBN10: 0553382403; ISBN13: 978-0553382402. The First World War is one of history’s greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the...
Pen and Sword, 2017. — 140 p. — (Images of War). — 1473862116, 978-1473862111. Animals in the Great War throws a spot light on the experience of creatures great and small during the First World War, vividly telling their stories through the incredible archival images of the Mary Evans Picture Library. The enduring public interest in Michael Morpurgos tale of the war horse...
Pen and Sword, 2017. — 140 p. — (Images of War). — 1473862116, 978-1473862111. Animals in the Great War throws a spot light on the experience of creatures great and small during the First World War, vividly telling their stories through the incredible archival images of the Mary Evans Picture Library. The enduring public interest in Michael Morpurgos tale of the war horse...
Pen & Sword, 2017. — 161 p. — (Images of war). — ISBN: 978-1-47386-211-1. Animals in the Great War throws a spot light on the experience of creatures great and small during the First World War, vividly telling their stories through the incredible archival images of the Mary Evans Picture Library. The enduring public interest in Michael Morpurgos tale of the war horse reveals an...
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2013. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 067472593X; ISBN13: 978-0674725935 The common explanation for the outbreak of World War I depicts Europe as a minefield of nationalism, needing only the slightest pressure to set off an explosion of passion that would rip the continent apart. But in a crucial reexamination of the...
Pen and Sword, 2011. — 208 p. When the First World War froze into a static line of trenches stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss border, the most obvious means of protection against the murderous machine-gun fire which both sides inflicted upon each other was some form of shell-proof shelter which from which fire could be returned in safety, hence the development of the...
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. - 239 pgs. Seeking Victory on the Western Front examines how, in the face of the devastating firepower advantages that modern weapons offered the Germans, the British army developed the means to reclaim the offense and break the stalemate of the western front to defeat their enemy. Within this context, Albert Palazzo demonstrates the...
Constable, 2017. — 288 p. Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace', but in 1914 the town, and the Salient, the 35-mile bulge in the Western Front, of which it is part, saw a 1500-day military campaign of mud and blood at the heart of the First World War that turned it into the devil's nursery. Distinguished biographer and historian of modern Europe Alan Palmer tells the...
Sutton Publishing ltd., 2003. — 286 p. Deep research of everyday life in tranches of the Western front of WWI from German point of view with documentally based historical background.
History Press, 2012. — 280 p. Gentlemen, we may not make history tomorrow, but we shall certainly change the geography. So said General Plumer before 600 tons of explosives were detonated under the German positions on Messines Ridge in 1917. First published in 1998 and featuring first-hand accounts from the combatants of both sides, Pillars of Fire looks at the action from all...
Pegasus Books, 2018. — 428 p. — ISBN: 1681778785. A chronicle of the American experience during World War I and the unexpected changes that rocked the country in its immediate aftermath — the Red Scare, race riots, women’s suffrage, and Prohibition. The Great War’s bitter outcome left the experience largely overlooked and forgotten in American history. This timely book is a...
U.X.L., 2001 - 600 p. ISBN10: 0787654752 This resource presents comprehensive coverage of the Globe War I period. Globe War I: Almanac contains 12 chapters covering main topics related to the period, which includes the roots of the war; causes of U.S. involvement; the Espionage Act and Sedition Act; weapons of mass destruction; and much more. Globe War I: Biographies profiles...
Cassel, 1999. — 225 p. Chronology The coming of war First thoughts The variety of historical explanation Making a choice Germany faces west The Entente makes decisions Supplying the armies Verdun Brusilov The Somme End of the day Reconsideration The issue of compensation Disappointments and accomplishments The failure of enforcement Final thoughts Choices The V-boat campaign...
Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne, 2009. — 213 p. When the First World War finally ended with the Armistice on 11 November 1918, the nations involved had lost millions of citizens, of whom at least 744,000 were British and Irish soldiers (Harris, 2003, ch. 8). To this number must be added 14,661 merchant seamen and 1,117 civilians,...
Brill, 2005. — 433 p. The essays collected here suggest some of the ways in which an interdisciplinary perspective may contribute to our understanding of the Great War. Contributors examine the relationship between the character of the war and the nature of belligerent societies, and present original research on the comparative history of the First World War. In 1914-1918, the...
Verlag Ges.m.b.H & Co. KG, 2014. — 1118 p. On the Eve The Ballhausplatz and the Deficit of War (16) – The Powder Keg (21) – The Socialisation of Violence (33) – Poor State, Wealthy Businesses (43) Two Million Men for the War The ‘entire armed force’ (51) – Dual Alliance and Triple Alliance (62) – The Military Accords (67) – Pre-emptive War: Yes or No? (77) Bloody Sundays The...
Barnsley, South Yorkshire, U.K.: Pen & Sword Military, 2011. (Second edition) (Battleground Europe Series). — 246 p. : illustrations, maps. This new edition of Paul Reed’s classic book Walking the Somme is an essential traveling companion for anyone visiting the Somme battlefields of 1916. His book, first published over ten years ago, is the result of a lifetime’s research into...
With the Twenty-Ninth Division in Gallipoli. A Chaplain's Experience by Rev. O. Greighton, C.V. Church of England Chaplain to the 86th Brigade. London, New York, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras. 1916 To the Memory of many new-found Friends, whose bodies lie on the Gallipoli Peninsula, but the fruits of whose devotion and sacrifice are ours, and in honour of every officer and man of...
Basic Books, 2015. — 512 p. — ISBN 978-0-465-05669-9. In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nationalist and Italian forces. But in the aftermath of the assassination in Sarajevo, the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and not even the Middle East could escape the vast and enduring consequences of one of...
Basic Books, 2015. — 512 p. — ISBN 978-0-465-05669-9. In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nationalist and Italian forces. But in the aftermath of the assassination in Sarajevo, the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and not even the Middle East could escape the vast and enduring consequences of one of...
Publish America, 2008. — 351 p. Far removed from the bloody battles of attrition in the rain and mud of northern France, there raged another desperate struggle between two of Europe’s strongest yet most underrated powers, the Kingdom of Italy and the Empire of Austria-Hungary. Here, along a twisting, curving 475-mile-long battle line, fierce fighting was conducted among the...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012 — 134 p. — ISBN10: 1479234796; ISBN13: 978-1479234790. More than any other single period, World War I was the critical watershed for the American business system. It was a "war collectivism," a totally planned economy run largely by big-business interest through the instrumentality of the central government, which served as the...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 464 p. The Indian Army which was the bulwark of the British Empire in South Asia functioned as an imperial fire brigade force during the Great War. The 'brown warriors' of the Raj defended the British Empire from Belgium and France in the west to Singapore in the east. The Indian Army fought the Kaiser-heer and the Ottoman Army in diverse...
Officer-Man Relations, Morale and Discipline in the British Army in the Era of the First World War. — New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 2000. — 270 + xxiv p. — ISBN 978-0-312-22640-4. Foreword by Peter Simkins. Introduction. Officer-Man Relations and Discipline in the Regular Army, 1902-14. The Prewar Army: the Auxiliary Forces and Debates on Discipline. The British Officer...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 272 p. World War I stands as a watershed in the evolution of modern warfare, with the development of sophisticated trench systems forming a battlefield over 400 miles long, notable improvements in weaponry and equipment and the first example of tanks being used in battle. This book examines the day-to-day lives of the British Tommy, the German...
Pen and Sword, 2011. — 400 p. This book will be the first complete account of the operations of the German army in the battles north of Lille in the late autumn of 1914. The main emphasis will be placed on the battles around Ypres against the Old Contemptibles of the BEF, but the fighting against the French and Belgian armies will also be featured, thus providing fresh and...
Potomac Books Inc., 2004. — 432 p. The battle of Tannenberg (August 27–30, 1914) opened World War I with a decisive German victory over Russia — indeed the Kaiser’s only clear-cut victory in a non-attritional battle during four years of war. In this first paperback edition of the classic work, historian Dennis Showalter analyzes this battle’s causes, effects, and implications...
New York: Ballantine Books, 1971. - 158 pgs. Ballantine's Illustrated History of a Violent Century. Campaign Book No.20. "His strength of character, his drive and outstanding professional ability were the major factors in one of the most successful guerrilla campaigns ever waged." This is the consensus of opinion, then and now, on Germany's General Paul von Lettow Vorbeck, one...
Dorling Kindersley, 2004. — 74 p. Divided Europe. The fatal shot. War in the west. Fighting men. Joining up. Digging the trenches. Life in the trenches. Ready to fight. Communication and supplies. Observation and patrol. Bombardment. Over the top. Casualty. Women at war. War in the air. Zeppelin. War at sea. Gallipoli. Verdun. Gas attack. The Eastern Front. War in the desert....
Sir Archibald Murray's Dispatches (June 1916 — June 1917) London-Toronto. 1920. The following four Despatches have until now never been published in their full original text. This is especially true of the fourth of this series, dated 28th June, 1917. This Despatch General Sir Archibald Murray is now permitted to publish on the condition that the following letter is published...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 144 p. — ISBN: 1848846827. These amazingly well preserved photographs originate from German collection. They cover the full gamut of the dreadful conditions that all troops involved in that ghastly war experienced between 1914 and 1918. The collection portrays life and conditions in the German trenches, the carnage of the wrecked villages and buildings in...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 144 p. — ISBN: 1848846827. These amazingly well preserved photographs originate from German collection. They cover the full gamut of the dreadful conditions that all troops involved in that ghastly war experienced between 1914 and 1918. The collection portrays life and conditions in the German trenches, the carnage of the wrecked villages and buildings in...
Vienna, Publisher of Military Science Releases, 1930. — 888 p. Of all the countries which bordered Austria-Hungary, it had been obvious since at least 1909 that three were open enemies: Russia and its two Balkan client states Serbia and Montenegro. However, the Austrian General Staff could not restrict its wartime planning merely to these three states. There was a possibility...
London, Leo Cooper, 1998. — 161 p. — (Battleground Europe). The battle for Guillemont raged throughout August 1916. Like so many of the battles into which the 'Big Push' degenerated, the struggle centred around a wood, Trones, and a heavily fortified village. It was in this battle that Noel Chavasse won the first of his two Vcs.
Casemate, 2018. — 304 p. Striking where the enemy is weakest and melting away into the darkness before he can react. Never confronting a stronger force directly, but willing to use audacity and surprise to confound and demoralize an opponent. Operations driven by good intelligence, area knowledge, mobility, speed, firepower, and detailed planning executed by a few specialists...
New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1997. - 70 pgs. Studies in European History. This book examines why, in 1914, a Balkan conflict escalated into a general European war. It focuses on the decision-making of each Power during the July-August crisis, and analyzes the role of domestic politics, economics, cultural factors, militarism, imperialism, and the international political...
Penguin Books Ltd., 2004. — 784 p. This a very comprehensive and complete book about the First World War. In its wide and ample outlook nothing is left outside so you can bet for whatever topic you want and I can assure you that it is there. The book is organized in four parts, Outbreak, Escalation, Outcome and Legacy. Inside every part the themes are organized in chapters and...
Harvard University Press, 2011. — 747 p. With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper — an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than four years of desperate fighting, with victories sometimes measured in feet and inches, why did the Allies reject the option of advancing into Germany in 1918 and...
Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2015. — 97 p. Historical aerial photographs are an often overlooked source of information for archaeological, historical and landscape research. This monograph provides an overview and introduction to the collections which found their origin in the First World War and which are amongst the earliest systematic aerial collections. Along the Western Front...
New York: The Century Co, 1918. – 377 p. This book sets forth in a concise and readable form the relevant facts in respect to every country whose condition is likely to be the subject of consideration by the powers who shall make the treaty of peace for the great war and construct the machinery for the maintenance of future peace. Alsace-Lorraine, the Trentino, the country...
New York: The Century Co, 1917. — 322 p. This book resolved itself from the first into a series of choices. The problem was, how to portray within the limits of a single volume the war psychology of the various European nations. That problem was not an easy one. The portrayal of national states of mind requires treatment differing radically from that employed in a narrative of...
London: Penguin, 1975. - 351 pgs. This groundbreaking study was the first authoritative account of the Russian Front in the First World War to be published in the West. The battles fought on the Eastern Front were decisive to the course of the war. As well as reconstructing events, Norman Stone explores the factors that influenced their outcome and draws some unexpected...
Allen Lane, 2007 World War One: A Short History by Norman Stone was a book I definately would reccomend to someone that wants to learn some backround information on World War I. In this book Norman Stone elaborates and presents the collapses of the four empires: Hapsburg, German,Tsarist, and The Ottoman Empire collapsed. He also challenges the current understandings of treaties...
Allen Lane, 2007 World War One : A Short History by Norman Stone was a book I definately would reccomend to someone that wants to learn some backround information on World War I. In this book Norman Stone elaborates and presents the collapses of the four empires: Hapsburg, German,Tsarist, and The Ottoman Empire collapsed. He also challenges the current understandings of...
Allen Lane, 2007 World War One : A Short History by Norman Stone was a book I definately would reccomend to someone that wants to learn some backround information on World War I. In this book Norman Stone elaborates and presents the collapses of the four empires: Hapsburg, German,Tsarist, and The Ottoman Empire collapsed. He also challenges the current understandings of...
2nd ed. — Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014. — ISBN: 9781442226821. In a compact but comprehensive and clear narrative, this book explores the First World War from a genuinely global perspective. Putting a human face on the war, William Kelleher Storey takes into account individual decisions and experiences as well as environmental and technological factors such as food,...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 400 p. — (Oxford Illustrated Histories). The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in 1918, millions lay dead. Three major empires lay shattered by defeat, those of Germany, Austria-Hungary,...
Penguin, 2007. — 385 p. — ISBN: 978-1-101-15341-3. It will soon be close to a century since the outbreak of the First World War, yet as military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative one-volume history, the legacy of the “war to end all wars” is with us still. Written in crisp, compelling prose and enlivened with vivid photographs — including early...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 235 p. To Arms is Hew Strachan's most complete and definitive study of the opening of the First World War. Now, key sections from this magisterial work are published as individual paperbacks, each complete in itself, and with a new introduction by the author. The First World War was not just fought in the trenches of the western front. It...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 392 p. — ISBN: 0198206143. The First World War has shaped the history of the twentieth century. It was the first conflict in which airplanes, submarines, and tanks played a significant role, the first in which casualties on the battlefield outnumbered those from disease. It precipitated the collapse of the empires of Austria-Hungary and Turkey,...
Osprey Publishing, 2013. — 272 p. 2014 sees the centenary of the start of World War I, the Great War - the war to end all wars. This four-year conflict saw the major powers of the world commit their forces on an unparalleled scale, principally in the trenches of the Western Front, but also throughout the world from the colonies of Africa to the Chinese city of Tsingtao. This...
Suvla Bay And after by Juvenis London- New York-Toronto. [1916]. If it helps a soldier, here and there, to remember his own campaign, and a civilian or two to realise something of a soldier's life in war, better than disconnected tales of valour and of pathos, the author will feel that he was justified.
Ottawa, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1938. — 524 p. The material in this volume has been selected, or written, and arranged with a view to reinforcing and elaborating upon the text. It consists of a chronology, a collection of appendices, a list of abbreviations, and maps in a pocket at the end. The appendices include copies of original documents, references to...
The Defense of Gallipoli. A General Staff Story. Prepared pursuant to instructions from Major-General Hugh A. Drum, The Department Commander. by G.S. Patton, Jr. Lt. Col., General Staff Headquaters Hawaiian Department, Fort Shafter, T.H. August 31, 1936.
New York: Woodward & Van Slyke, 1921. — 366 p. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Excerpt from History of the War: The Battlefield of EuropeAs has been. Their efforts have combined to make the foreign pages of the times probably the most accurate review of current foreign affairs published in any paper in Europe. Equally well known are the military and...
Basic Books, 2009. — 465 p. — ISBN: 978-0-465-01329-5. The Western Front dominates our memories of the First World War. Yet a million and half men died in North East Italy in a war that need never have happened, when Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire in May 1915. Led by General Luigi Cadorna, the most ruthless of all the Great War commanders, waves of Italian conscripts...
Vintage, 2017. — 607 p. — ASIN: B075PX2C2Q, ISBN: 1568520093. 1918: The end of the war to end all wars. The end of an era for victors and vanquished alike. When Germany launched the Ludendorf Offensives — the most massive military bombardment of World War I — they seemed certain to win. But when American troops began arriving in droves, the Allies' certain defeat became a...
Barnsley, South Yorkshire, U.K.: Pen & Sword Military, 2011. — 192 p. — (Battleground Europe Series - Battleground Ypres). The battles fought at Estaires and Givenchy, just south of Ypres, in April 1918 were critical episodes in the larger Battle of Lys which determined the outcome of the ultimate German offensive on the Western Front. The massive assault of Ludendorff's armies...
Publication details not specified, 2015. - 24 p. Soldiers are Dreamers Trench Conditions Comforts of the Trench? No-mans land Artillery Problems with Artillery Technology Break down the trench Catch-22 Rats Lice Latrines (Toilets) Trench foot Mass Death Gas! Constant Death Defense of Trench Your Task/Homework
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 451 p. Questioning whether the Germans were actually as influential or dominant in the Ottoman empire as most standard works suggest, the author attacks the myths surrounding Turkey's role in the war. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously...
Macmillan, 1962ISBN: 0553254014550 pgs.PDF129MB This is the history of the outbreak of World War One and the first military campaigns, particularly the German invasion of Belgium and France. This was an attempt to win the war quickly but it failed. This book tells of the generals and politicians involved, their goals, preconceptions, expectations, and-for most of them-their...
Ballantine Books, 2009. — 608 p. — eISBN: 978-0-307-56762-8. The Proud Tower , the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August , and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War era . In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize–winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the...
London: Edward Arnold, 1919. — 288 p. This is an attempt to describe the great achievements during the war of our air services, and to present them in due relation to the rapid developments in the mechanics of flight and in the art of flying. It should, therefore, be more than a mere story of aerial adventure: it is an endeavour to present, but without technicalities, the...
Washington, The Chief of Naval operations, 1969. — 90 p. When the call to battle sounded in April 1917, the US Navy air arm could muster at its one air station only 48 officers and 239 enlisted men with some experience in aviation, and 54 aircraft none of which was fit for patrol service. The problems of building this small force to a effective fighting unit were enormous. Yet,...
Basic Books, 2014. — 472 p. — ISBN 978-0-465-02835-1; 978-0-465-08081-6. The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the...
Amber Books Ltd., 2014. — 461 p. The first truly total War, the ‘war to end all wars’, shocked the world with its scale and brutality. Men from both sides went to war in August 1914 expecting to be home by Christmas, but on the Western and Italian Fronts troops became locked in a grim stalemate of trench warfare. For the first time, advances in both agricultural and industrial...
Pen & Sword, 2016. The third in a series of five titles, which will cover each year of the war graphically. Many thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the events of the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to become part of post-war archives and have appeared,...
Pen & Sword, 2017. The forth in a series of five titles, which will cover each year of the war graphically. Many thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the events of the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to become part of post-war archives and have appeared,...
Pen and Sword, 2018. The final book in a series of five titles which graphically cover each year of the war. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to become part of postwar archives and have appeared, and...
N.-Y.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. - 638 p. This ambitious volume marks a huge step in our understanding of the social history of the Great War. The authors have compiled a vast array of data and have drawn an original and coherent portrait of European cities at war. Contributors from several fields bring an interdisciplinary approach to the book, and represent the best...
Remembering the War: The First World War between Memory and History in the 20th Century. Yale University, 2006. 351 p. English language. Memory of the World War 1914-1918 (World War, 1914-1918). Introduction: War, Memory, Remembrance Part One: War and Remembrance - The Setting: The Great War in the Memory Boom of the Twentieth Century - Shell Shock, Memory, and Identity Part...
Oxford University Press, 1958. — 157 p. A compilation of German official documents that enlights role of Germany in events of revolution in Russian empire.
Mississauga, ON: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd., 2008. — 289 + ix p. — ISBN 978-0-470-15416-8. Brave Battalion presents the story of four Canadian Highland regiments that were banded together as the 16th Battalion. Ninety years after the end of WWI, this work honours those soldiers and makes their stories a vivid reality. Focusing on the Canadian Scottish (Princess Mary’s)...
Istanbul: 100. Yıl Mah. MAS-SİT Matb. Sitesi, 2013. — 304 s. The second volume of the book consists of 150 subject headings which cover the events between July 1916 - October 1918 and the documents about the implementation of the Armistice of Mudros.
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