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U.S. Marine participation in World War I is known as a defining moment in the Marine Corps' great history. It is a story of exceptional heroism and significant operational achievements, along with l……続きを見る

The work of six great scientists and its impact on the war is described for general readers in this book. Lawrence Bragg pinpointed the position of enemy artillery pieces with sound ranging, which e……続きを見る

Er war einer der Architekten des modernen Amerika und eine der prägenden Figuren des 20. Jahrhunderts: Woodrow Wilson inspirierte zu seiner Zeit weltweit jene Menschen, die nach einer gerechteren We……続きを見る

Illustrated with more than 25 photos and 3 maps. In these gripping battlefield memoirs of Lt.-Col Weston, he recounts his experiences of the bloody fighting that the New Zealanders experienced fight……続きを見る

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. To read this combined collection from the diary of Captain Henry Evans is to relive with……続きを見る

The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the ……続きを見る

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. An important history installment in the U.S. Army Campaigns of World War I series, it ch……続きを見る

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Gathered here for the first time is a rare and carefully chosen collection that depicts ……続きを見る

This book is a six volume history of the World War I, written during the war by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle interviewed army generals, read their papers and diaries, and he also talked to numerous sol……続きを見る

During World War I, the American Merchant Marine meant dangerous duty. Sailors on cargo ships faced the daily threat of enemy submarines, along with the usual hazards of life at sea, and help was ra……続きを見る

Between 1918 and 1933 the German interwar avant-garde was a primary force driving European cultural innovation and modernism. These innovations continue to influence artistic practice, theory, and a……続きを見る

The fact that governments lie is generally accepted today, but World War I was the first global conflict in which millions of young men were sacrificed for hidden causes. They did not die to save ci……続きを見る

Before AIDS or coronavirus, there was the Spanish Flu ー Catharine Arnold's gripping narrative, Pandemic 1918, marks the 100th anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history. In January 1918,……続きを見る

Aerial warfare which has dominated western war-making for over 100 years, and despite regular announcements of its demise, it shows no sign of becoming obsolete. Frank Ledwidge offers a sweeping loo……続きを見る

In the winter trenches and flak-filled skies of World War I, captured soldiers and pilots narrowly avoided death only to find themselves imprisoned in Germany's archipelago of brutal POW camps. Afte……続きを見る

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier, is considered to be one of the greatest poets of WWI. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and ……続きを見る

Winged Victory is a 1934 novel by English World War I fighter pilot Victor Maslin Yeates that is widely regarded as a classic description of aerial combat and the futility of war. The novel concerns……続きを見る

This collection of 17 Poems from the Great War represented the free offering of English poets to the cause of National Relief during WWI. Most of these poems appeared in the Press at the outbreak of……続きを見る

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The Treaty of Versailles imposed conditions upon Germany that led directly to the collap……続きを見る

William Le Queux was an Anglo-French journalist and author. Le Queux wrote bestsellers in many genres including mysteries and historical thrillers around the time of World War I. This edition of Ger……続きを見る

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation. "Nothing of Importance", Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion is considered one of the fin……続きを見る

The British Navy's failed attempt to capture Constantinople and secure a sea route to Russia in 1915 marked a turning point of World War I. Acclaimed naval military historian Dan van der Vat argues ……続きを見る

Captain William Henry Lowe Watson (1891-1932) was the British author of Adventures of a Despatch Rider (1915). (Excerpt) "This book is not a history, a military treatise, an essay, or a scrap of aut……続きを見る

"Night Bombing with the 'Bedouins'" by Lt. Robert H. Reece, 1919, describes the brutal realities of his life as a night bomber pilot during WWI. (Goodreads) 続きを見る

September 13, 1918 Got no sleep at all last night. About two o'clock in the morning Col. Heintzelman, chief of staff of the corps, came out and he was much pleased with what the division had accompl……続きを見る

Autor: Frank Baranowski, Festeinband 24 x 17 cm, 596Seiten, 273 Abbildungen, darunter 260 Fotos. Das E-Book Rüstungsproduktion in der Mitte Deutschlands 1929 – 1945 wird angeboten von Verlag Rockstu……続きを見る

A close look at Woodrow Wilson’s political thought and international diplomacy In the widely acclaimed To End All Wars, Thomas Knock provides an intriguing, often provocative narrative of Woodrow Wi……続きを見る

Since the mid-1990s, political, legal, and historical debates about Nazi theft and confiscation of property, the use of slave labor during World War II, and restitution and compensation have reemerg……続きを見る

We want to honour the memory of the men who had their lives taken away as they fought to ensure our freedom. But how can we properly honour them when we don’t know who they were? This book is a coll……続きを見る

In 1917, British, New Zealander and Australian troops stationed at the Étaples Training Camp in northern France protested against the inhuman conditions. The mutineers commandeered the camp's weapon……続きを見る