Wars & Conflicts - World War I
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The First World War: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBy 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- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Howard, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: April 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0199205590
- Language: English
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Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers’ War 1914-18
$45.95 Read moreThe result of over twenty-five years of research, Beneath Flanders Fields reveals how this intense underground battle was fought and won. The authors give the first full account of mine warfare in Wor… [more below]
- Author: Barton, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0773543015
- Language: English
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By the Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families
$28.00 Read moreFrom one of Canada’s most beloved performing artists comes an audacious work of non-fiction that explores the stories that shape us and the reach that the past can have across generations.
Growing up- Author: Thomson, R. H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1039008380
- Language: English
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The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
$21.00 Add to cartA searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath–from the prizewinning economist and author of Shutdown, Crashed and The Wages of Destruction
Winner of the L- Author: Tooze, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127977
- Language: English
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Sprinting Through No Man’s Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France
$14.95 Read moreThe inspiring, heart-pumping true story of soldiers turned cyclists and the historic 1919 Tour de France that helped to restore a war-torn country and its people.
On June 29, 1919, one day after the Tr
- Author: Dobkin, Adin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1542018838
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Fought an Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring
$42.95 Add to cartThough she lived only to twenty-seven, Sarah Aaronsohn led a remarkable life. The Woman Who Fought an Empire tells the improbable but true odyssey of a bold young woman–the daughter of Romanian-born
- Author: Wallance, Gregory J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1612349439
- Language: English
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Unraveling the Myth of Sgt. Alvin York: The Other Sixteen
$32.95 Read moreOn October 8, 1918, seventeen soldiers from the 82nd Division, American Expeditionary Force, led by acting Sgt. Bernard Early, flanked a German machine gun nest that had inundated their unit with wit
- Series: C. A. Brannen
- Author: Gregory, James Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: December 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1648430759
- Language: English
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The Zimmermann Telegram: America Enters the War, 1917-1918; Barbara W. Tuchman’s Great War Series
$21.00 Add to cart“A tremendous tale of hushed and unhushed uproars in the linked fields of war and diplomacy” (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August
In January 1917, the war- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 12 1985
- ISBN10: 0345324250
- Language: English
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July Crisis: The World’s Descent Into War, Summer 1914
$56.65 Add to cartThis is a magisterial new account of Europe’s tragic descent into a largely inadvertent war in the summer of 1914. Thomas Otte reveals why a century-old system of Great Power politics collapsed so dis… [more below]
- Author: Otte, T. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 558
- Publish Date: May 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1107695279
- Language: English
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Battleships of World War I & World War II: 1914-45
$27.99 Read moreA highly illustrated guide to the main battleships of the 20th century.
For centuries, battleships provided overwhelming firepower at sea. They were not only a major instrument of warfare, but also a- Series: Technical Guides
- Author: Martindale, E. V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1838862943
- Language: English
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The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
$22.00 Add to cartThe Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical aren
- Author: Lloyd, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324095113
- Language: English
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The Other Trench: The WW1 Diary and Photos of a German Officer
$30.99 Add to cart“This diary is not just a recollection of experiences written after the war, but literally the experiences I wrote down every day. They are therefore a genuine reflection of the heavy fighting against… [more below]
- Author: Pfeifer, Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1068609826
- Language: English
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First Over There
$21.99 Add to cartThe riveting true story of America’s first modern military battle, its first military victory during World War One, and its first steps onto the world stage
At first light on Tuesday, May 28th, 1918,- Author: Davenport, Matthew J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1250843499
- Language: English
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War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War
$18.99 Add to cartA “marvelous” (Sports Illustrated) portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston and the Spanish flu: baseball star Babe Ruth, symphony conductor Karl Muck, and Harvard … [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1541672682
- Language: English
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Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps
$19.95 Add to cartThe Battle of Belleau Wood, stunning in both its concentration and intensity, was the fiery furnace from which the modern United States Marine Corps emerged as America’s fiercest and most effective wa… [more below]
- Author: Axelrod, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1493032895
- Language: English
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The Treaty of Versailles: A Concise History
$20.99 Add to cartSigned on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treat… [more below]
- Author: Neiberg, Michael S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190659181
- Language: English
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Fall of the Double Eagle: The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary
$34.95 Add to cart“[A] must-read for students of history and historians alike.”—Washington Book Review
Although southern Poland and western Ukraine are not often thought of in terms of decisive battles in World War I,
- Author: Schindler, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1612347657
- Language: English
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Nursing Through Shot and Shell: A Great War Nurse’s Story
$24.95 Read moreThis recently discovered memoir gives an intimate glimpse into the Great War service of Beatrice Hopkinson, a Territorial Forces Nursing Service Sister, who remained steadfastly and true to her profes… [more below]
- Author: Newman, Vivien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1399023217
- Language: English
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Always with Honor: The Memoirs of General Wrangel
$18.95 Add to cartThe memoirs of acclaimed Russian cavalry general Pyotr Wrangel. Recounts Wrangel’s service during WWI, experiences during the Russian Revolution, and command of the anti-communist White Army during th
- Author: Wrangel, Pyotr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: February 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1959403206
- Language: English
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Harlem’s Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I
$21.95 Add to cartWhen the United States entered World War I in 1917, thousands of African-American men volunteered to fight for a country that granted them only limited civil rights. Many from New York City joined the… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 301
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574886355
- Language: English
