World War I 33

World War One: A Concise History - The Great War The First World War was supposed to be the war that ended all wars, hence the name, the Great War. The Great War was off to a bad start from the Germ……続きを見る

Diana Preston curates a spectacular and harrowing collection of voices from the Lusitania tragedy. Eyewitness accounts capture the ship's sinking in real-life detail as more than half the ship's cre……続きを見る

Presenting more than 150 never-before-published photographs of the campaign, many taken by the soldiers themselves, together with unpublished written material from British, Anzac, French and Turkish……続きを見る

This important new history of the development of a leadership corps of officers during World War I opens with a gripping narrative of the battlefield heroism of Cpl. Alvin York, juxtaposed with the ……続きを見る

Captain Claud Williams’ memoir tells, firsthand, what it was like to be a Light Car Patrol commander during the First World War, while Russell McGuirk’s commentary provides the historical background……続きを見る

This anthology of poems written during the First World War brings together 26 poems from the period by 23 different poets, both the well known and those sometimes forgotten. The collection includes ……続きを見る

'Wonderful ... I fell immediately into her world' Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun Kinta Beevor was five years old when she fell in love with her parents' castle facing the Carrara moun……続きを見る

“In Flanders Fields,” the iconic poem which gives its title to this collection of poems and selected prose, is one of Canada’s ー and the world’s ー best known poems of the Great War. It was written……続きを見る

Rediscover New Zealand’s hidden First World War history through the places where it happened. No battles were fought here, yet the First World War intruded into the daily life of every New Zealander……続きを見る

A detailed account of the carnage on the Western Front from 19161918. This is the third volume in the series ‘Doctors at War’ written by Colonel Robert Likeman CSM, recently retired from the post of……続きを見る

Stunning trade paperback edition of Grantlee Kieza's bestselling biography of Australia's greatest general It's December 1918 and the world war is over. General Sir John Monash attends a glittering ……続きを見る

Roland Dorgeles ( 1885 1973), born Roland Lecavele, was a French author. He is best known for Wooden Crosses , a study of World War I, which earned him the Prix Femina. A Table of Contents is also i……続きを見る

*Discusses the legends of Rasputin's life and death*Includes pictures of Rasputin and important people and places in his life.*Includes a Table of ContentsA lot of ink has been spilled covering the ……続きを見る

Bullards The Diplomacy of the Great War is a fascinating chronology of the political events that led to World War I. The text starts at the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, and chronicles the……続きを見る

This special ebook has been created by historian Saul David from his acclaimed work 100 Days to Victory: How the Great War was Fought and Won, which was described by the Mail on Sunday as 'Inspired'……続きを見る

"It is impossible to reproduce the state of mind of the men who waged war in 1917 and 1918," Edward Coffman wrote in The War to End All Wars. In Doughboys on the Great War the voices of thousands of……続きを見る

Through exploring the battle of ideas set in motion in August 1914, First World War: Still No End In Sight provides a framework for understanding the changing focus of political conflict from ideolo……続きを見る

The Great War had a profound impact on Britain. Not only did families risk their sons in active combat; every member of society was required to make a contribution to the war effort. National initia……続きを見る

The inspiration for the film Testament of Youth, this book from Mark Bostridge (Vera Brittain's biographer) tells the story of a remarkable woman and her extraordinary account of the destructive pow……続きを見る

Auch Hundert Jahre nach dem Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs sind seine Folgen gegenwärtig. DER SPIEGEL hat dieses Phänomen in einer Serie aufgenommen, die den Ersten Weltkrieg als Ausgangspunkt für Z……続きを見る

The Great War of 1914-1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history. It also left a residue of disruption and disillusion that spawned an even more ……続きを見る

Rupert Brooke (b. 1887) died on April 23, 1915, two days before the start of the Battle of Gallipoli, and three weeks after his poem "The Soldier" was read from the pulpit of St Paul's Cathedral on ……続きを見る

The Citizen Soldiers explores the military reform movement that took its name from the famous Business Men's Military Training Camps at Plattsburg, New York. It also illuminates the story of two exc……続きを見る

A full century later, our picture of World War I remains one of wholesale, pointless slaughter in the trenches of the Western front. Expanding our focus to the Eastern front, as David R. Stone does ……続きを見る

An epic tale of two ordinary individuals thrown into the extraordinary and surreal world of the Gallipoli campaign as soldiers of the First AIF in WWI. Percy Black and Harry Murray were plain hard-w……続きを見る

“Truscott was one of the really tough generals,” soldier-cartoonist Bill Mauldin of the 45th Infantry Division once wrote. “He could have eaten a ham like Patton for breakfast any morning and picked……続きを見る

Australia's contribution to the Great War has become part of the core of its national identity, and this work from the Australian War Memorial's Peter Burness offers a compact, thoroughly-illustrate……続きを見る

"Every man has two countries," Henri de Bornier once said, "his own and France." Indeed, France has captivated us for centuries. Here, in this compelling history from acclaimed historian Marshall B.……続きを見る

From bestselling author Max Brooks, the riveting story of the highly decorated, barrier-breaking, historic black regimentーthe Harlem Hellfighters In 1919, the 369th infantry regiment marched home t……続きを見る

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