Wars & Conflicts - World War I
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The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
$19.99 Read more“Before the Greatest Generation, there was the Forgotten Generation of World War I . . . wonderfully engaging.” – KirkusReviews, starred review
“Richard Rubin has done something that w- Author: Rubin, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0544290488
- Language: English
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Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War.
$42.99 Add to cartA new theory on how World War I started–not with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, but rather 10 years earlier, by power-hungry men whose lies have infiltrated history
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- Author: Docherty, Gerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1780576307
- Language: English
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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
$19.99 Add to cartNamed “One of the 100 best books ever published in Canada” (Literary Review of Canada), Rites of Spring is a brilliant and captivating work of cultural history from the internationally acclaimed schol… [more below]
- Author: Eksteins, Modris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0395937582
- Language: English
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An Illustrated Introduction to the Somme 1916
$25.99 Read moreThe Battle of the Somme epitomised the cruelty of the Western Front. 1 July 1916 witnessed the opening round of the British Army’s attempt to break through an eighteen-mile front of heavily defended G… [more below]
- Series: Illustrated Introduction to …
- Author: Parker, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1445644428
- Language: English
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Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion
$19.99 Read moreA visually stunning look at innovative and eye-popping measures used to protect ships during World War I.
During World War I, British and American ships were painted with bold colors and crazy patter
- Author: Barton, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1512410144
- Language: English
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Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
$29.99 Add to cartMichael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War not in any conventional way but through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets who came to describe
- Author: Korda, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1631496883
- Language: English
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The Great War and Modern Memory
$23.99 Add to cartWinner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century’s 100 Best Non-Fiction Books, Paul Fussell’s The Great Wa… [more below]
- Author: Fussell, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0199971951
- Language: English
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The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
$19.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
The “riveting” (National Post) tick-tock account of the largest manmade explosion in history prior to the atomic bomb, and the equally astonishing tales of survival and heroism that
- Author: Bacon, John U.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0062666541
- Language: English
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War
$34.99 Add to cartThe 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 … [more below]
- Series: Oxford Illustrated History
- Author: Strachan, Hew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198743122
- Language: English
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Intimate Voices from the First World War
$18.99 Add to cartThe story of World War I is brought to life through the gripping personal narratives of those at the center of the storm.
World War I was waged by young people from twenty-eight countries in an era wit
- Author: Palmer, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 381
- Publish Date: January 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0060584203
- Language: English
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A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914 to 1918
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Drawing on exhaustive research, this intimate account details how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the fo… [more below]
- Author: Meyer, G. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0553382403
- Language: English
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
$25.00 Add to cartNational Bestseller
New York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award
of the Council on Foreign Rela- Author: MacMillan, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0375760520
- Language: English
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War is a Racket
$10.00 Add to cartCritics of war are often labeled treasonous lunatics. Even those who are critical of the government are scrutinized and dragged through the mud. Young men and women volunteer to fight wars on their na
- Author: Butler, Smedley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: October 15, 2021
- ISBN10: 1737668629
- Language: English
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The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman’s Great War Series
$25.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – “A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill’s statement that the first month of World War I was ‘a drama never surpassed.’
- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books
- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 08, 1994
- ISBN10: 034538623X
- Language: English
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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
$28.99 Add to cartThis instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the hidden history Rudolf Diesel, one of the world’s greatest inventors, and his mysterious disappearance… [more below]
- Author: Brunt, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1982169907
- Language: English
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The World War I Book
$29.99 Add to cartDiscover the key battles, tactics, technologies, and turning points of the First World War – the epic conflict that was supposed to be “the war to end all wars.”
Combining authoritative, exciting text- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0744091977
- Language: English
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The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic about the Outbreak of World War I
$10.99 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – “A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill’s statement that the first month of World War I was ‘a drama never surpassed.’… [more below]
- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0345476093
- Language: English
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
$23.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania
“Both terrifying and enthralling.”–Entertainm- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0307408876
- Language: English
