Recent Releases
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War
at Sea
by Robert K. Massie
Listed under Naval Operations of
the First World War
The
Illusion of Victory: America in World War I
by Thomas Fleming
(Hardcover - May 2003)
Female
Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War
by Tammy M. Proctor
(Hardcover - June 2003)
The
Great War: Perspectives on the First World War
by Robert Cowley (Editor)
(Hardcover - June 2003)
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
by Diana Preston
Listed under The Lusitania
World
War I
by H. P. Willmott
Hardcover from DK Publishing
Book Published: October, 2003
A
Storm in Flanders : The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918, Tragedy and Triumph on
the Western Front
by Winston Groom
Hardcover: 272 pages
Atlantic Monthly Pr; ISBN: 0871138425; 1 Ed edition (May
2002)
The
Road To Verdun: World War I's Most Momentous Battle and the Folly of Nationalism
by Ian Ousby
"If you haven't seen Verdun, you haven't seen anything of war," said
one veteran infantryman of the First World War, referring to a particularly
gruesome episode in a four-year clash known for its monotonous brutality.
More than 300,000 men were killed at Verdun, out of more than 700,000 total
casualties. "By any standards, the figures are formidable: almost one death
a minute, day and night, for the ten months that the battle lasted," writes
Ian Ousby, who expresses astonishment at "how much suffering was expended
and how many lives were lost over strips of ground so small, so insignificant."
It began in February, 1916, when the Germans launched an offensive against
the French. Neither army made much headway against the other, even as the
deaths on both sides rose to staggering proportions. This was typical of
the trench warfare of the time. In one sense, Verdun was not much different
from other battles in the war; Ousby even calls it a "microcosm" of the
larger conflict. Yet, he also argues that it was the war's bleakest and
most hopeless scene of engagement. Ousby offers a chronicle of the fighting,
and writes from the French perspective--much of the book, in fact, ruminates
on the meaning of French nationalism. This combination of military and
intellectual history makes The Road to Verdun a top-rate addition to First
World War literature. --John Miller - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 416 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.39 x
9.61 x 6.48
Publisher: Doubleday; (May 14, 2002)
ISBN: 0385503938
Recommended Reading
All
Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
Probably the best known of all WW1 books, and with good reason.
Paperback Reissue edition (June 1995)
Fawcett Books; ISBN: 0449213943
The
Guns of August
by Barbara W. Tuchman
A Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the first 30 days of the War to
end Wars, beautifully written and skilfully researched. Db.
Paperback / Published 1994
Her Privates We
by Frederic Manning.
Listed under WWI Memoirs
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T. E. Lawrence
A superbly written account of desert warfare against the Ottoman Turk
in WWI by one one of the most intriguing characters of the modern era,
this ranks as one of the great classics of 20th century literature..
Listed under Lawrence of Arabia
Death's
Men : Soldiers of the Great War
by Denis Winter
Universally acclaimed as an outstanding work on the horrors of the
First World War. Db.
Paperback Reprint edition (March 1993)
Penguin USA
(Paper); ISBN: 0140168222
WWI - Alphabectical Listing
Allied Artillery of World War One
by Ian V. Hogg
Listed under Artillery
1915
: The Death of Innocence
by Lyn MacDonald, Robert Cowley
Paperback - 640 pages (April 2000)
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801864437
The
1917 Spring Offensives : Arras, Vimy, Le Chemin Des Dames
by Yves Buffetaut
Hardcover - 200 pages (July 1997)
Combined Books; ISBN: 290818267X
1918
: War and Peace
by Gregor Dallas, Peter Mayer (Editor)
American
Women in World War I : They Also Served
by Lettie Gavin
Hardcover - 304 pages (April 1997)
Univ Pr of Colorado; ISBN: 087081432X
More books on Women at War
The
Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War
(Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)
David G. Herrmann
Europe's adoption of new 20th-century weaponry increased its land-based
military power and influenced international affairs during the series of
diplomatic crises that led to the First World War. Historian David Herrmann
draws on documentary research in military and state archives in Germany,
France, Austria, England, and Italy to provide the most complete study
of this subject to date.
Paperback - 322 pages (March 3, 1997)
Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN: 0691015953
Armistice 1918
by Bullitt Lowry
Hardcover (January 1997)
Kent State Univ Pr; ISBN: 0873385535
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At
Belleau Wood
Robert B. Asprey
On June 15, 1918, the 2nd U.S. Division soldiers and combat-ready troops
recruited from the Marine Corps by General Pershing to supplement limited
American forces defeated their German opponents at Belleau Wood, affording
a much-needed psycholgical boost for allied morale.
Paperback - 376 pages Reprint edition (November 1996)
University of North Texas Press
Atlas
for the Great War
by Thomas E. Griess (Editor), Edward Krasnaborski (Illustrator)
Paperback - 52 pages Spiral edition (October 1986)
Avery Pub Group; ISBN: 089529303X
Special order
Back
to the Front : An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War
I
Stephen O'Shea
An evocative fusion of past and present, Back to the Front will
resonate as no other book on World War I ever has. Journalist Stephen O'Shea
walked the 750 kilometers along the Western Front - the sinuous, deadly
line of trenches that stretched from the Belgian coast to Switzerland -
to create this remarkable combination of vivid history and eloquent travel
writing.
Hardcover - 216 pages (May 1997)
Walker & Co; ISBN: 0802713297
Battle
of the Somme
by Gerald Gliddon
Paperback - 512 pages 1 edition (January 2000)
Sutton Publishing; ISBN: 0750919833
Battle
Tactics of the Western Front : The British Army's Art of Attack,1916-18
by Paddy Griffith
Hardcover - 286 pages (July 1994)
Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300059108
Bismarck,
the Man and the Statesman
by Alan John Percivale Taylor
Usually ships promptly.
Paperback (October 1975)
Random House
(Paper); ISBN: 0394703871
British Tommy : 1914-18 (Warrior , No 16)
Martin Pegler, Mike Chappell (Illustrator)
Listed under WW1 Uniforms
Devil
Dogs : Fighting Marines of World War I
by George B. Clark
Hardcover - 416 pages (January 1999)
Presidio Pr; ISBN: 0891416536
The
Doughboys : America and the First World War
by Gary Mead
Hardcover - 478 pages (November 4, 2000)
Overlook Press; ISBN: 1585670618
Dreadnought
by Robert K. Massie
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Robert K. Massie has written
a richly textured and gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries
that led to the twentieth century's first great arms race. Massie brings
to vivid life, such historical figures as the single-minded Admiral von
Tirpitz, the young, ambitious, Winston Churchill, the ruthless, sycophantic
Chancellor Bernhard von Bulow, and many others. Their story, and the story
of the era, filled with misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and events
leading to unintended conclusions, unfolds like a Greek tragedy in his
powerful narrative. Intimately human and dramatic, DREADNOUGHT is history
at its most riveting. The Publisher
The author of the international bestseller Nicholas and Alexandra
and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Peter the Great has written a richly
textured and gripping chonicle of the personal and national rivalries that
led to the 20th century's first great arms race. Massie brings to life
glittering figures from Winston Churchill and Sir Edward Grey to Jacky
Fisher, the eccentric admiral who brought forth the first true battleship,
H.M.S. Dreadnought.
Paperback: 1007 pages
Ballantine Books (Trd Pap); ISBN: 0345375564; Reprint
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The
End of the Age of Innocence : Edith Wharton and the First World War Vol
1
Alan Price
While America as a nation stayed out of the early years of World War
I, with many Americans judging it to be strictly a European affair, the
American writer Edith Wharton believed nothing less than that civilization
hung in the balance in the allied battle against the Germans. Driven by
a passion to save Europe from German domination, Wharton went to France
and Belgium and involved herself with a number of war relief and charity
activities. She raised funds, distributed medicine to the troops, and organized
work projects for women. Most interestingly, she wrote a series of influential
essays that sought to influence American opinion on the war and hasten
U.S. involvement. She also edited an anthology of writings about and illustrations
of the war by prominent writers and artists, the profits of which benefited
war charities. Alan Price's book chronicles Wharton's wartime involvements
and considers her wartime writings in an interesting view of an overlooked
piece of literary history. Amazon.com
Hardcover: 238 pages
Palgrave Macmillan; ISBN: 0312129386; (May 1996)
The
Enormous Room
E. E. Cummings
A fictional account of the author's experience as a guest of the French
authorities prior to WWI. "One of the very best of the war-books" T.
E. Lawrence
Paperback: W.W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0871401509; Reissue edition (January1994)
Eye-Deep
in Hell : Trench Warfare in World War I
John Ellis
Paperback - 215 pages Reprint edition (October 1989)
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801839475
The
European Powers in the First World War : An Encyclopedia
by Spencer C. Tucker (Editor), et al
(Library Binding - March 1996)
The
First World War : Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1918 (Modern Wars)
Holger H. Herwig
Paperback / Published 1997
The
First World War : A Complete History
Martin Gilbert
Paperback / Published 1996
The
First World War
by John Keegan
The author has a gift for talking the lay person through the twists
and turns of a complex narrative in a way that is never less than accessible
or engaging. Read more...
The
First World War : To Arms
by Hew Strachan
Hardcover - 1180 pages Vol 1 (May 2001)
Oxford Univ Press; ISBN: 0198208774
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Gallipoli
by Alan Moorehead
Australia - as a nation - saw the first battle of its first war at
Galipoli, where it had sent the fittest and ablest of its youth to aid
the Empire. The cream of a generation was lost in one of the worst military
blunders of all time. Dropbears.com
Listed under Australia at War
The
Great War: Walk in Hell
by Harry Turtledove
Mass Market Paperback from Del Rey
Book Published: 05 July, 2000
The
Great War and Modern Memory
by Paul Fussell
The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication
of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book
Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the
Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books.
Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today
as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great
War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and
revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon,
Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred
Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers
who most effectively memorialized WWI as an historical experience with
conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning. For this special edition,
the author has prepared a new introduction and afterword. The Publisher.
(Paperback -- April 2000)
Good-Bye to All That : An Autobiography
by Robert Graves
This quintessential memoir of the generation of Englishmen who suffered
in World War I is among the most bitter autobiographies ever written
Listed under WWI Memoirs
The
Great War in Africa, 1914-1918
Byron Farwell
The African front comprised a series of conflicts, schemes, maneuvers,
heroics, disasters, inhospitable climate and geography, and insects--as
the Allies sought to conquer four German colonies.
Paperback / Published 1989
An
Illustrated History of the First World War
by John Keegan
(Hardcover)
Jutland
1916 - Campaign #72 : The Last Great Clash of Fleets (Campaign
Series, 72)
by Charles London.
Paperback (August 2000)
Kaiserschlacht
1918 : The Final German Offensive (Campaign Series, 11)
by Randal Gray, et al.
The
Last Days of Innocence : America at War 1917-1918
Meirion Harries, Susie Harries
Hardcover / Published 1997
The Last Voyage of the Lusitania
by A. A. Hoehling, Mary Hoehling (Contributor)
Listed under The Lusitania
Like
Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire
by Peter Hopkirk
Paperback: 448 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.32 x
8.74 x 5.87
Publisher: Kodansha International; (May 1997)
ISBN: 1568361270
The
Lions of July : Prelude to War, 1914
by William Jannen Jr
Paperback - 480 pages (September 1997)
Presidio Pr; ISBN: 0891416374
The
Long Fuse : An Interpretation of the Origins of World War I
by Laurence Lafore
Paperback 2nd edition (May 1997)
Waveland Press; ISBN: 0881339547
Machine Guns of World War I : Live Firing Classic Military Weapons
in Colour Photographs
by Robert Bruce
Listed under Military Weapons
Military
Strategy and the Origins of the First World War (International Security
Readers)
Steven E. Miller, et al
Paperback / Published 1991
Mons
1914 : The BEF's Tactical Triumph (Campaign Series)
by David Lomas, et al. Paperback (October 1997)
The
Myth of the Great War : A New Military History of World War 1
by John Mosier, Literary Group (Editor)
A
Naval History of World War I
Paul G. Halpern
Hardcover / Published 1994
(Also in Paperback)
Origins
of the First World War
Leonard Charles Frederick Turner
Paperback / Published 1970
Over
There : A Marine in the Great War
Carl Andrew Brannen, et al
Hardcover / Published 1996
Over There! : The American Soldier in World War I
(G.I. Series. the Illustrated History of the American Soldier, His
Uniform and His Equipment)
Listed under WW1 Uniforms
The
Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War
by Hew Strachan (Editor)
Paris
1919: Six Months That Changed the World
by Margaret Olwen Macmillan, Richard Holbrooke
(Hardcover - October 2002)
Passchendaele
: The Untold Story
by Robin Prior, Trevor Wilson
Paperback - 256 pages (March 1998)
Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300072279
The
Penguin Book Of First World War Poetry
by Jon Silkin
Synopsis A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction
Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through
anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The book includes
work by Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy and Lawrence.
Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper); 2nd Revision edition
(August 1997)
The
Pity of War: Explaining World War I
by Niall Ferguson
If someone less distinguished than Jesus College, Oxford, fellow Niall
Ferguson had written The Pity of War, you could be forgiven for thinking
the book was out for a few cheap headlines by contradicting almost every
accepted orthodoxy about the First World War. Ferguson argues that Britain
was as much to blame for the start of the war as Germany, and that, had
Britain sacrificed Belgium to Germany, the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution would
never have happened. Germany, he continues, would have created a united
European state, and Britain could have remained a superpower. He also contends
that there was little enthusiasm for the war in Britain in 1914; on the
other hand, he claims the war was prolonged not by clever manipulation
of the media, but by British soldiers' taking pleasure in combat. If that
isn't enough, he further maintains that it wasn't the severity of the conditions
imposed on Germany at Versailles in 1919 that led inexorably to World War
II, and blames instead the comparative leniency and the failure to collect
reparations in full.
The Pity of War, with no pretensions to offering a grand narrative
of the war, goes over its chosen questions like a polemical tract. As such
it is immensely readable, well researched, and controversial. You may not
end up agreeing with all of Ferguson's arguments, but that should not deter
you from reading it. All of us need our deeply held views challenged from
time to time, even if only to remind us why we've got them. --John Crace,
Amazon.co.uk
Paperback from Basic Books
Book Published: 10 March, 2000
A Photohistory of World War One
Philip J. Haythornthwaite
Listed under Wartime Photography
The
Price of Glory : Verdun 1916
Alistair Horne
Paperback - 371 pages Reissue edition (January 1994)
Usually ships promptly.
Penguin USA
(Paper); ISBN: 0140170413
Retreat,
Hell! We Just Got Here! : The American Expeditionary Force in France 1917-1918
by Martin Marix Evans
Hardcover - 112 pages (October 1998)
Osprey Pub Co; ISBN: 1855327775
Rommel and Caporetto
by Eileen Wilks, John Wilks
Listed under Rommel
Seven Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph
T. E. Lawrence
Listed under Lawrence of Arabia
Short
History of World War I
James L. Stokesbury
Paperback / Published 1981
Highly Recommended
Silent
Night: The Remarkable 1914 Christmas Truce
by Stanley Weintraub Hardcover
History is peppered with oddments and ironies, and one of the strangest
is this. A few days before the first Christmas of that long bloodletting
then called the Great War, hundreds of thousands of cold, trench-bound
combatants put aside their arms and, in defiance of their orders, tacitly
agreed to stop the killing in honor of the holiday.
That informal truce began with small acts: here opposing Scottish and
German troops would toss newspapers, ration tins and friendly remarks across
the lines; there ambulance parties, clearing the dead from the barbwire
hell of no man's land, would stop to share cigarettes and handshakes. Soon
it spread, so that by Christmas Eve the armies of France, England and Germany
were serenading each other with Christmas carols and sentimental ballads
and denouncing the conflict with cries of "Ã bas la guerre!" and
"Nie wieder Krieg!" The truce was, writes Stanley Weintraub, a remarkable
episode, and though "dismissed in official histories as an aberration of
no consequence" it was so compelling that many who observed it wrote in
near-disbelief to their families and hometown newspapers to report the
extraordinary event.
In the end, writes Weintraub, the truce ended with a few stray bullets
that escalated into total war, and that would fill the air for just shy
of four more Christmases to come. Further, isolated attempts at informal
peacemaking would fail, but what, Weintraub wonders at the close of this
inspired study, would have happened if the soldiers on both sides had refused
to take up arms again? His counterfactual scenarios are intriguing, and
well worth pondering. -- Gregory McNamee - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 224 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.81 x
8.74 x 5.82
Publisher: Free Press; (October 30, 2001)
ISBN: 0684872811
Sites
of Memory, Sites of Mourning : The Great War in European Cultural History
(Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare , No
1)
Jay Winter
Paperback / Published 1996
Special Order
Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany, 1914-1916
by Reinhard R. Doerries
Listed under Sir Roger Casement
Somme
Battlefields : A Comprehensive Guide from Crecy to the Two World Wars
by Martin and Mary Middlebrook
Paperback (June 1999)
Penguin Uk; ISBN: 0140128476
Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die : Memoirs of a World War I Marine
by Elton E. MacKin
Listed under First World War Memoirs
Tannenberg
: Clash of Empires
Dennis E. Showalter
An account of the battle between Russian and outnumbered German forces
in August 1914.
Hardcover / Published 1993
The
Test of Battle : The American Expenditionary Forces in the Meuse-Argonne
Campaign
by Paul F. Braim
Hardcover - 266 pages 2 Rev edition (June 1998)
White Mane Pub; ISBN: 1572490853
Three
Soldiers (Signet Classics)
John dos Passos
Paperback / Published 1997
Based on the author's experiences in World War I, a gritty antiwar
novel traces the struggle of three American recruits to preserve their
humanity in the face of the army's brutal regimentation. Ingram
US Marine Corps Aviation: 1912 to the Present
Peter B. Mersky
Listed under US Marines
Victory
1918
by Alan Palmer
Images of World War I are usually dominated by the spectacle of romantic
youth being mercilessly ground up in the mud of Ypres and the Somme. Even
histories of the Great War tend to focus on the Western Front with, perhaps,
a look at the massive battles on the Russian Front while declaring the
Middle Eastern, African and Balkan theaters to be mere "sideshows". Distinguished
historian Alan Palmer revises this received wisdom in his excellent book
"Victory 1918".
Historians have usually argued that the German Army exhausted itself
in its final gambit, a titanic push toward Paris in the late months of
1918. Palmer disagrees, contending that Allied offensives in Italy, Greece,
Mesopotamia and France kicked the props out from under the German Empire
in the early months of the war's final year. A comprehensive survey of
Allied military and diplomatic actions throughout the war, "Victory 1918"
reveals many global issues that weighed on the minds of British and French
war planners. For instance, Field Marshal Earl Kitchner, England's colonial
enforcer, squelched a possible jihad throughout India, the Middle East
and Africa by appealing to Mecca's spiritually powerful Sherif Hussein
in 1914. This diplomatic coup severely reduced the impact of Sultan Mehmed
V's call to arms from Constantinople, meaning Britain could then field
more divisions in Flanders. Lucid and entertaining, "Victory 1918" is a
fresh portrait of a conflict that established the political and military
contours of the 20th century. --James Highfill - Amazon.com
Paperback: 384 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.07 x
8.96 x 5.98
Publisher: Grove Press; (February 27, 2001)
ISBN: 0802137873
The
War to End All Wars : The American Military Experience in World War I
by Edward M. Coffman
Paperback - 440 pages (December 1998)
Univ Pr of Kentucky; ISBN: 0813109558
World
War I Posters
by Gary A. Borkan
(Hardcover - March 2002)
Yanks
: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I
by John S. D. Eisenhower, Joanne Thompson Eisenhower (Contributor)
The
Zimmermann Telegram
Barbara W. Tuchman
Paperback / Published 1985
The Zimmermann telegram was a coded message, intercepted and decoded
by the British, inviting Mexico to join Germany and Japan in an attack
on the United States. It was the timely revelation of this message by the
British which, moreso than the sinking of the Lusitania (which, incidentally,
was carrying munitions and was therefore a valid target for the Germans),
brought America into the war. Dropbears.com |
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Between Mutiny and Obedience : The Case of the French Fifth Infantry
Division During World War I
by Leonard V. Smith
Hardcover - 274 pages (May 1994)
Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN: 0691033048
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The Irish Guards in the Great War : The First Batallion : Edited and
Compiled from Their Diaries and Papers
Rudyard Kipling
Hardcover / Published 1996
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The German High Command at War : Hindenburg and Ludendorff Conduct World
War I
Robert B. Asprey
Paperback / Published 1993
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The first day on the Somme, 1 July 1916
by Martin Middlebrook
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The Historical Atlas of World War I (A Henry Holt Reference Book)
Anthony Livesey, H.P. Willmott
Hardcover / Published 1994
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Echoes of Distant Thunder : Life in the United States, 1914-1918
(Kodansha Globe)
by Edward Robb Ellis, Philip Turner (Editor)
Paperback - 510 pages Reprint edition (June 1996)
Kodansha; ISBN: 1568361491
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The Storm of Steel : From the Diary of a German Stormtroop Officer
on the Western Front
by Ernst Junger
Paperback Rep edition (October 1996)
Howard Fertig; ISBN: 0865274231
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