First World War Books
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Days of Perfect Hell The US 26th Infantry
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd With a Weapon and a Grin Postcard Images of
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£28.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Forgotten Soldiers of World War I
Book SynopsisThis book covers the entire spectrum of military service during World War I. It gives examples, including many photographs, from almost every ethnic and national group in the United States during this time. Including draft registration, induction and training, stateside service, overseas service, combat, return home, and discharge, learn the history of America's foreign-born soldiers during World War I and how they adapted to military service to become part of the successful American Expeditionary Forces.
£23.79
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. The Africa Ship
£30.39
Royal British Columbia Museum Once Well Beloved Remembering a British Columbia
Book Synopsis'Our well beloved dead who died that we might live.' In the town of Merritt, in British Columbia's Nicola Valley, stands a granite cenotaph erected in memory of 44 men who died soldiering in the First World War. Those men came from a Nicola Valley that had been suddenly and dramatically settled just a decade before by the will of railway executives and the arrival of British colliers. Twelve of those soldiers are the subject of these pages--and through them, we meet the men, women and children of the Nicola Valley, the dead and their survivors: the people who built and were built by a Canadian community that was also distinctly British Columbian.Trade Review"For many small towns around the world, World War I was a seismic event, and the Canadian town of Merritt in British Columbia's Nicola Valley is a prime example. A town that even today only has a few thousand residents lost forty-four men in the Great War, and Michael Sasges tells a few of their stories in Once Well Beloved . This short volume includes five stories covering a dozen soldiers whose names appear on Merritt's memorial cenotaph: the first three to die; an Indigenous soldier; those who fell in the battle of Vimy Ridge; a soldier who earned a Distinguished Service Order; and the last three to fall. These accounts rely on contemporaneous local newspaper reporting and other archived documents and read like a string of newspaper features; some were previously published in that format. Numerous photographs of Nicola Valley soldiers, from studio portraits and family pictures to group shots of them in uniform and stills of their memorials, are a welcome addition. So are the quotes from soldiers describing their experiences at the front, taken from their correspondence to loved ones back in British Columbia. These help to further humanize and differentiate the soldiers. Sasges provides additional context throughout the book, detailing what Merritt was like at the time, the kinds of careers the young men left behind when they shipped off, and how Canada's obligation to fight as part of the United Kingdom helped to prompt discussions of independence. He also tracks how some of the men's families arrived in the area and, through the story of Tommy Charters, explains the added challenges faced by Indigenous soldiers. Once Well Beloved is a well reported historical document about the great impact of World War I on a small Canadian community." Jeff Fleischer, Foreword Reviews
£13.25
Park Row Books The Ambassadors Daughter
£25.19
Henry Holt & Company Inc The First World War A Complete History
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£36.74
University of Oklahoma Press The Last Cavalryman The Life of General Lucian
Book SynopsisIn this biography of Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., author Harvey Ferguson tells the story of how Truscott - despite his hardscrabble beginnings, patchy education, and questionable luck - made the rank of army lieutenant general, earning a reputation as one of World War II's most effective officers.Trade ReviewIn The Last Cavalryman, the remarkable ride of the Oklahoma schoolteacher, horse soldier, polo player and commanding general is presented the way the general would have wanted it: effective, honest and quietly charming."" - Wall Street Journal
£23.36
The University Press of Kentucky The Schlieffen Plan International Perspectives on
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£69.20
The University Press of Kentucky The Christmas Truce Myth Memory and the First
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£27.00
The University Press of Kentucky With Utmost Spirit
Book SynopsisFirsthand accounts from young officers and men draw a vivid picture of the war at sea and off the beaches.Table of ContentsIntroduction A New Chapter in the Struggle for the Mediterranean Operation Torch Operation Torch The Race to Tunis The Tunisian Campaign Gearing up for Operation Husky Operation Husky The Sicilian Campaign The Race to Messina Operation Avalanche
£32.00
The University Press of Kentucky John J. Pershing and the American Expeditionary
Book SynopsisCorrespondence of American General John J. Pershing.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Collection Introduction to Volume 2 October 1917 November 1917 December 1917
£59.00
Syracuse University Press Ottoman Children and Youth during World War I
Book SynopsisAdding a new dimension to the historiography of World War I, Maksudyan explores the variegated experiences and involvement of Ottoman children and youth in the war. Rather than simply passive victims, children became essential participants as soldiers, wage earners, farmers, and artisans.
£19.76
University of Missouri Press Argonne Days in World War I
Book SynopsisProvides an insight about the ordinary doughboys who fought in the European trenches. This work conveys the spirit of a man who did his duty in a time of trouble - and is a testament to the spirit shared by thousands like him.
£999.99
University of Missouri Press Five Days in October
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£999.99
Crecy Publishing Forgotten Airfields of World War I British
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£29.23
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The History of the Panzer Troops 19161945
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£20.69
Schiffer Publishing Ltd âœHermann GÃringâ
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£23.79
Big Sky Publishing Battle of Fromelles 1916
Book SynopsisThe Battle of Fromelles - until recently largely forgotten in the accounts of Australia’s experiences in World War One- remains the single bloodiest day in terms of numbers of soldiers killed, wounded or missing, in Australia’s military history.
£999.99
Random House USA Inc The White Guard
Book SynopsisBulgakov's brilliant novel, first published in 1925, portrays his beloved city of Kiev as it is torn apart during a few crucial weeks in 1918, seen through the eyes of a family fleeing the Russian revolution.With cinematic vividness, Bulgakov puts us on the streets of a gracious, historic city as it is successively besieged by invading Germans, Ukrainian nationalists, the Red Guard of the Bolsheviks, and the White Guard loyal to the recently executed tsar. The Turbin siblings, once wealthy and secure in Russia, have fled to Kiev to escape the ongoing civil war, but find themselves surrounded by chaos and danger. As Bulgakov depicts their devotion to a doomed cause and the surreal horrors they face, he provides a view of history that is both grandly panoramic and movingly intimate. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpape
£22.40
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group A Farewell to Arms
Book SynopsisA Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Hemingway’s masterpiece—a classic novel of World War I that is also a tender, haunting love storyErnest Hemingway drew from his own war experiences when he crafted this remarkable story of an American ambulance driver serving on the Italian front and his love for a beautiful English nurse. The novel, Hemingway’s first best seller, is marked by vivid depictions of the horrors of the battlefield—but also by the heartrending vicissitudes of a passionate affair of the heart between his protragonists, Frederic and Catherine, leading up to a tragic ending that is all the more powerful for its famously understated expression.Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
£19.65
St. Martin's Griffin Meet Me in Bombay
Book SynopsisJenny Ashcroft''s Meet Me in Bombay is a powerful, poignant and deeply emotional tale of love, mystery, loss and joy.Kate Furnivall, New York Times bestselling author.All he needs is to find her. First, he must remember who she is.It''s New Year''s Eve in Bombay, 1913, and Madeline Bright, new to the sweltering heat of colonial India, is yearning for all she has left behind in England. Then, at the stroke of midnight, Maddy meets Luke Devereaux, and as the year changes so do both their lives.Bold and charismatic, Luke opens her eyes to the wonders of Bombay, while Maddy''s beauty and vivacity captures his heart. Only her mother disapproves, preferring the devoted Guy Bowen as a match for her daughter.But while Maddy and Luke are falling in love, the world is falling apart. World War I is on the horizon, and Luke will be given no choice but to fight. They will be continents apart, separated by danger and devastating loss, but bound
£17.09
Picador USA The Facemaker
Book SynopsisA New York Times BestsellerEnthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park. Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the VileLindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery.From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. The First World War claimed millions of lives and left millions more wounded and disfigured. In the midst of this brutality, however, there were also those who strove to alleviate suffering. Lindsey Fitzharris's The Facemaker tells the extraordinary story of such
£17.00
WW Norton & Co The Air We Breathe A Novel
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Barrett’s powers of historical evocation, especially her knowledge of the scientific preoccupations of the time, are impressive." -- The New Yorker"Barrett eloquently blends scientific elements…with her diverse characters’ hopes and heartbreaks to bring the book to crackling life." -- Allyssa Lee - People"[The Air We Breathe] thoughtfully examines xenophobia during wartime, the manner in which political events impinge on personal lives and related attendant issues.…The book’s most winning aspect, however, is the manner in which Barrett keeps the narrator’s identity a mystery." -- Tim Follos - Washington Post"[Barrett’s] gift for story, for mining America’s past, and her ability to construct a specific moment in the quest for knowledge are remarkable." -- Karen Heller - Philadelphia Inquirer"Barrett enriches her story with science…In fact, her style, always stylish and exact, is at its most compelling when she’s describing her characters’ engagement in their scientific studies." -- Atlantic"A careful researcher and an even more deliberate writer.…This expertly paced and thoughtfully written book is ample testament to her gifts." -- Corrie Pikul - Elle"This novel is like an elegant ghost story, narrated by a chorus of not-quite-innocent spectral bystanders." -- Washington Post Book World"An evocative panorama of America…on the cusp of enormous change." -- Newsday"Richly detailed…A marvel of intelligent design, and a truly original cautionary tale, from one of the most interesting and unconventional of all contemporary American writers." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"A deft and quietly wrenching tale of human misunderstanding." -- Library Journal"Vivid and engrossing." -- Publishers Weekly
£12.34
Pen & Sword Books Ltd With the British Cavalry in 1914
Book SynopsisExplores the experience of the British cavalry from Mons to Ypres.
£32.19
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Great War Ace The Red Baron and Beyond
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£25.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Laugh or Cry
Book SynopsisA fresh approach to researching day to day life in trench warfare.
£31.87
Large Print Press The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
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£19.54
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers German Submarine Warfare in World War I The Onset
Book SynopsisThis compelling book explores Germanyâs disastrous campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare in WWI, which marked the onset of total war at sea. Sondhaus shows how the undersea campaign, intended as an antidote to Britainâs more conventional blockade of German ports, ultimately brought the United States into the war, leading to Germanyâs defeat.Trade ReviewSondhaus, professor of history at the University of Indianapolis, concisely and perceptively analyzes Germany’s U-boat campaign during WWI. He correctly describes the genesis of total war at sea as a response to a British surface blockade that, from the war’s beginning, was an ever-tightening noose around the Reich’s economic windpipe. The German navy’s relative ineffectiveness against its opponent further encouraged the German high command to seek an alternative—even at the risk of offending the U.S., whose economic interests were linked to the principle of freedom of the seas. Germany’s submarine force was small; its primary objective was intercepting warships, not merchantmen. Doctrine and policy for the projected campaign were embryonic, and, as Sondhaus shows, the resulting false start culminated in the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania and significantly antagonized America without seriously troubling Britain. By 1916, with the war stalemated, the German government saw ‘no alternative’ to unrestricted submarine warfare, whatever the risks of U.S. intervention. The results were immediate, Sondhaus notes: America’s declaration of war and the Royal Navy’s adaptation of ‘convoys, countermeasures, and [mine] barrages.’... [Sondhaus] persuasively demonstrates how Germany’s submarine policy cost them the war. * Publishers Weekly *In this compelling study of the impact of the law on warfare, Lawrence Sondhaus demonstrates how the German decision to adopt unrestricted submarine warfare failed to win the First World War, brought the United States into the conflict, and ultimately sank Imperial Germany. -- Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History, King's College, LondonIn yet another gem from one of naval history's finest practitioners, Sondhaus offers a brilliant thesis, flawless research, and perfect readability.This investigation into Germany’s choice of unrestricted submarine warfare as one of the earliest applications of total-war thinking and its devastating miscalculations should be widely read and discussed. -- Eric Rust, Baylor UniversityLawrence Sondhaus has given us a lucid, engrossing, and well-documented examination of a portentous development in the history of warfare. Those in search of the operational history of German U-boat operations in World War I, accompanied by a pithy analysis of the fateful political and strategic decisions that led to their employment against unarmed merchant vessels, need look no further. -- John Beeler, University of AlabamaThe German military’s WW I decision to develop and mobilize the new submarine weapon against Britain and, eventually, all Allied and neutral shipping, dramatically altered the course of the war and, according to noted historian Sondhaus (Univ. of Indianapolis), led to Germany’s defeat. Beginning with the cumbersome technical and political evolution of the Unterseeboote (U-boat) from gasoline and kerosene engines to electricity and batteries, the wartime use of the German U-boat fleet was accepted as a moral equivalent to Britain’s so-called Hunger Blockade of German ports. As happened so many times during the war, Berlin placed the development of technology ahead of tactics and policy. When Germany unleashed submarine warfare, it began the delicate dance that eventually brought the US into the war while failing to prevent the mass transport of US troops to France. Sondhaus, author of more than a dozen highly regarded books on naval history and strategy, writes elegantly and in great detail about Germany’s misuse of its submarine fleet and how it helped to bring about Germany’s defeat, one of the greatest military blunders of the century. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Origins Chapter 2: False Start Chapter 3: Interlude Chapter 4: Preparation Chapter 5: The Sharpest Weapon Chapter 6: Falling Short Chapter 7: Anxious Months Chapter 8: Defeat Chapter 9: Aftermath Bibliography Index
£46.30
Amberley Publishing 1917 The First World War at Sea in Photographs
Book Synopsis1917, the fourth year of the war to end all wars, is documented in archive photographs in this series covering the naval war in detail.
£18.99
Amberley Publishing Kitcheners New Army
Book SynopsisA new postscript tells the story of Kitchenerâs Army in action.
£21.73
Amberley Publishing Great Writers on The Great War Conan Doyles War
Book SynopsisStriking descriptions of the Western Front by the most famous writer of the day
£12.12
Amberley Publishing Ordinary Heroes
Book SynopsisThe major unsung humanitarian role of British civilians and charities in the Great War and the tremendous bravery and suffering of the volunteers.
£20.00
Amberley Publishing 1919 A Land Fit for Heroes
Book SynopsisAfter a brief period of celebration, reality began to sink in. Britain was exhausted and consumed by grief. There was a growing fear of revolution.
£20.00
Formac Publishing,Canada Valour at Vimy Ridge
Book SynopsisAn illustrated short history of the Great Canadian victory at Vimy Ridge in the First World War.
£13.65
Formac Publishing,Canada Mysteries Legends and Myths of the First World
Book SynopsisA short history of Canadian soldiers in the First World War, illustrated with photos and war art from the Group of Seven
£13.51
Formac Publishing,Canada Billy Bishop
Book SynopsisA new illustrated biography of Canada's great flying ace
£13.73
Formac Publishing,Canada Halifax Explosion
Book SynopsisAn extensively illustrated short account of the moments before and after the largest man-made explosion to date, all in the bustling harbour city of Halifax
£999.99
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Missouri in World War I Images of America
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing World War I Minnesota Military
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£18.69
Arcadia Publishing World War I Montana The Treasure State Prepares
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£20.39
Arcadia Publishing Montanans in the Great War Open Warfare Over
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£21.24
History Press Long Islands Gold Coast Elite and the Great War
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£18.69
History Press Florida in World War I Military
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£18.69
History Press Japanese in Wyoming
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£21.24
History Press World War I Oklahoma
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£19.99
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Hull Rifles
Book SynopsisA reprint of the one of the best battalion histories written by the men who experienced it.
£25.00
Sourcebooks Landmark Mystery of Mrs Christie
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£22.94
