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A visceral and accurate firsthand account of flying with the Imperial German Air Force during WWI. The airborne fighting squadrons of the Imperial German Luftstreitkräfteーknown as the Jagdstaffel o……続きを見る

"Everything you need to know to get you started on the subject of the men of the British Army who found themselves in the trenches in WWI. Superb." ー Books Monthly British soldiers have been known ……続きを見る

"McScotch" himself describes his book and pays tribute to a colleague in this note, which appears at the front of the volume: "This book consists of the reminiscences of an ordinary fighter pilot of……続きを見る

A classic memoir of the early days of aviation by a longtime Royal Air Force pilot, including his harrowing, exhilarating adventures in the Great War. Ira "Taffy" Jones was a well-known air fighter ……続きを見る

"Written with great accuracy, detail, enthusiasm, and insight . . . a new perspective on the well-trodden story of the Arab Revolt" ( Military History Matters on its Book of the Year, Silver Award–w……続きを見る

"A gripping new history of the British naval raid in April 1918 on the German-held Belgian port of that name" ( Chronicles). The combined-forces invasion of the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on April 23……続きを見る

The first full study of the US Army's World War I Tank Corpsーand how it inspired future American generals. Tanks caused havoc among the Germans when they first appeared on the battlefields of Europ……続きを見る

Dramatic true stories of air combat featuring Germany's greatest pilots: "A World War I aviation history classic" ( Over the Front). In these riveting accounts, Manfred von Richthofen, Max Immelmann……続きを見る

A rare day-to-day account by a young German squadron leader in Jagdstaffel 35 during the grim last year of World War I. Originally published in 1933, Wings of War provides minute descriptions of kil……続きを見る

"An amazingly detailed account of the American Expeditionary Force at Belleau Wood in 1918" from the authors of Tanks in Hell ( Books Monthly). "Retreat, hell! We just got here!" The words of Capt. ……続きを見る

"Moves quickly; it entertains and provides a decent overview of the life of an American Doughboy" on the Western Front during the Great War ( San Francisco Book Review). The American Doughboys of Wo……続きを見る

The Republic of Turkey was founded in 1923 as a modern nationーstate. The years preceding this, 1919 to 1922, are seen by the Turks as the years of their struggle for independence (millî mücadele), ……続きを見る

Nel 1919 non si era ancora spenta l'eco delle esplosioni che già un nuovo contingente, senza uniformi, prendeva possesso di trincee e baraccamenti abbandonati dal nemico in ritirata. I protagonisti ……続きを見る

Il volume raccoglie i dati di cento musei sparsi nel territorio italiano, un numero di collezioni tematiche non riscontrabile in altre nazioni, a testimonianza di quanto sia tenuta tuttora in consid……続きを見る

By the winter of 1916/17, World War I had reached a deadlock. While the Allies commanded greater resources and fielded more soldiers than the Central Powers, German armies had penetrated deep into R……続きを見る

As close as you can get to the reality of war. Three generations of front line soldiers recount their experiences. Few people today experience a live war situation; even professional soldiers can se……続きを見る

This is naval action adventure with a difference - thirteen naval engagements in which gunboats won the day against every kind of enemy, large and small Britain, like other colonial powers, establis……続きを見る

One of the greatest tragedies in Australian military history occurred at Gallipoli on 7 August 1915, when hundreds of Australian light horsemen were repeatedly ordered to charge the massed rifles an……続きを見る

World War I describes how the major power struggles of Europe (supported by various colonial holdings and the British alliance with Japan) erupted into a global war that was marked by new forms of c……続きを見る

World War I explores the secrets of World War I. As in all wars, each side needed to keep secrets from the enemy. At the same time, they tried to discover the enemy's secrets, using spies and code-b……続きを見る

In World War I, significant battles, treaties, conferences and other dramatic events during World War I are explored, including: the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand; the first Zeppelin raid on L……続きを見る

When careful consideration is given to Nietzsche’s critique of Platonism and to what he wrote about Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm, and to Germany’s place in “international relations” (die Große Politik),……続きを見る

FREELANCE WRITER AND PLAYWRIGHT Joan Sullivan’s book In the Field is a work of non-fiction that tells the story of one young Newfound〓lander soldier, Stephen Norris, lost in WWI, and how his death ……続きを見る

This collection of essays is one of the few pieces of work on the overseas possessions of the Second Reich. 続きを見る

The Great War of 1914-18 was a conflict which engulfed the whole world, directly or indirectly. It was an imperialist world war that tugged the new Union of South Africa and its people into a series……続きを見る

This is a long-overdue study of Sir Frederick H. Sykes, Chief of the Air Staff of Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) during the First World War. Historians, for the most part, have either overlooked Sy……続きを見る

This book is written in the belief that the time has come to reassess Titoism: from its Western-sponsored seizure of power and its Western-assisted development since 1939, to its present and resente……続きを見る

The soldier-horse relationship was nurtured by The British Army because it made the soldier and his horse into an effective fighting unit. Soldiers and their Horses explores a complex relationship f……続きを見る

Tatiana L. Dubinskaya’s autobiographical novel of life in the Russian army marked the first major work published by a female World War I soldier in the Soviet Union. Often compared to All Quiet on t……続きを見る

The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the 20th century, Speyer was the t……続きを見る