著者:Antony Beevor
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2022年09月20日
**“Riveting . . . There is a wealth of new information here that adds considerable texture and nuance to his story and helps to set Russia apart from previous works.”ーThe Wall Street Journal
An epi……続きを見る
Une vie de légende.
La vie d'Eugène Bullard (1895-1961), aviateur afro-américain, jazzman, activiste et francophile, est une suite ininterrompue de défis et de luttes contre les préjugés raciaux. Né……続きを見る
"One of the most thrilling and most eloquent appeals that has ever been written." T. P. O'Connor.
"Authoritative account of the massacres in Armenia, and of the relation of German officials thereto.……続きを見る
American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the lines, including hospitals, ravaged villages, and trenches. ……続きを見る
The period spanning the two World Wars was unquestionably the most catastrophic in Europe's history. Despite such undeniably progressive developments as the radical expansion of women's suffrage and……続きを見る
著者:Ian Jones
出版社: Pen & Sword Books
発売日: 2020年01月31日
An examination of the uses of explosive traps in a military context and the measures that have been taken to negate their effects and to neutralize them.
War has always provided a stimulus to techno……続きを見る
Steamship Nationalism is a cultural, social, and political history of the S.S. Imperator, Vaterland, and Bismarck. Transatlantic passenger steamships launched by the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahr……続きを見る
National Bestseller • One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfiction
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast Company
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The story of the enigmatic Jozef Pilsudski, the founding father of modern Poland: a brilliant military leader and high-minded statesman who betrayed his own democratic vision by seizing power in a m……続きを見る
This revealing historical examination looks at the pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War, when all sidesーGermany, Britain, and Americaーbelieved the war could have been concluded ……続きを見る
A winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature gives “an excellent overview of the problems involved in shooting at airplanes from ships.” (Coast Defense Journal).
This book does fo……続きを見る
This book explores the ways in which the emergence of the ‘new’ daily mass press of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries represented a hugely significant period in histories of both the……続きを見る
**Winner of the 2014 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for the Best Work of History
"Brilliant…the most challenging and intelligent book on the Great War and our perceptions of it that any of us will read."……続きを見る
This book provides a concise set of thirteen essays looking at various aspects of the British left, movements of protest and the cumulative impact of the First World War. There are three broad areas……続きを見る
著者:Jörn Leonhard
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2018年04月16日
Winner of the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize
“The best large-scale synthesis in any language of what we currently know and understand about this multidimensional, cataclysmic conflict.”
ーRichard J.……続きを見る
Rudyard Kipling's "The Eyes of Asia" takes the reader on a remarkable journey of discovery into the heart and soul of four soldiers of the Indian Army who fought for King and the British Empire in t……続きを見る
Der Erste Weltkrieg sprengte alles, was sich die Welt vor 1914 hatte vorstellen können. Er wirkte wie die Büchse der Pandora – jenes mythische Schreckensgefäß, aus dem alle Übel der Welt entwichen, ……続きを見る
著者:Hermann Balck
出版社: The University Press of Kentucky
発売日: 2015年05月01日
German general Hermann Balck (1897–1982) was considered to be one of World War II's greatest battlefield commanders. His brilliantly fought battles were masterpieces of tactical agility, mobile coun……続きを見る
著者:Ian Kershaw
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2015年11月17日
**"Chilling... To Hell and Back should be required reading in every chancellery, every editorial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics do their thinking…. Kershaw documents each and eve……続きを見る
No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Pass……続きを見る
In "The A. E. F.: With General Pershing and the American Forces," Heywood Broun masterfully chronicles the experiences of American soldiers during World War I, specifically focusing on their involve……続きを見る
著者:Paul Kendall
出版社: Pen and Sword
発売日: 2015年11月30日
Much controversy has surrounded the Somme offensive relating to its justification and its impact upon the course of the war. General Sir Douglas Haig's policies have been the subject of considerable……続きを見る
When Congress declared war in April 1917, the Europeans had already deployed their third generation of fighters, equipped with machine guns and capable of speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour, whi……続きを見る
著者:Robert Bickers
出版社: Penguin Random House Australia
発売日: 2014年07月23日
After 1914, between tiffin and a day at the race track, the British in Shanghai enjoyed a life far removed from the horrors of the Great War. Shanghai's status as a treaty port – with its foreign co……続きを見る
This book explores the lives and social histories of Indians soldiers who fought in the First World War. It focuses on their motivations, experiences, and lives after returning from service in Europ……続きを見る
These are the diaries of Gerald Achilles Burgoyne, wrote from the trenches just south of Ypres while he was with the Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War.The author's daughter, Claudia Davison, was n……続きを見る
In the final year of World War I, Germany made its first attempt to wage submarine warfare off faraway shores. Large, long-range U-boats (short for unterseeboot or "undersea boat") attacked Allied s……続きを見る
著者:T. E. Lawrence
出版社: Penguin Books Ltd
発売日: 2000年03月30日
Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of T.E. Lawrence - also known as 'Lawrence of Arabia' - of his service in the Arab Revolt during the First World War, published in Penguin Mod……続きを見る
In "Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918," Sir C. E. Callwell offers a poignant and visceral account of his experiences during World War I, melding personal narrative with broader historical context.……続きを見る