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An international bestseller, this is a German soldier's first-hand account of life on Russian front during the second half of the Second World War. When Guy Sajer joins the infantry full of ideals i……続きを見る

Mildred Aldrich was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1853. After graduating from Everett High School in 1872, she taught elementary school in Boston, Massachusetts. Aldrich began her career as a……続きを見る

Herman Cyril McNeile MC (28 September 1888 – 14 August 1937) was a British author, who published under the pen name "Sapper". He was one of the most successful British popular authors of ……続きを見る

A fascinating look at the events of the Paris Peace Conference at the end of the First World War written by a man who was there: journalist Emile Joseph Dillon. The conference ran for just over a ye……続きを見る

Originally published in 1937 (and long out of print), this is a gripping, first hand account of a young soldier's experiences in France and Belgium during the First World War. '*In that hour was bor……続きを見る

The First World War changed the face of Europe - two empires (the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire) collapsed in its wake and as a result many of the boundaries of Europe were redrawn ……続きを見る

'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it and many of us die in it. We see it,……続きを見る

Presenting the Allied and German experience of war - both military and on a personal level - Victory on the Western Front is an immensely readable, visually striking account of the pivotal final sta……続きを見る

For nearly one hundred years, the 92nd Division of the U.S. Army in World War I has been remembered as a military failure. The division should have been historically significant. It was the only Afr……続きを見る

Ypres 1914 An Official Account Published by Order of the German General Staff This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS Introduction German Pr……続きを見る

Based on gripping first-hand testimony from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, this book reveals what it was really like to serve in the Royal Navy during the First World War. It was a period ……続きを見る

The First World War seems to have touched almost every family in Britain. Most people will have had a relative in their family tree that served in the armed forces between 1914 and 1918. Unfortunate……続きを見る

“There were dead men everywhere, and a good number of our cavalry. We passed Fritz artillery with dead horses attached to their limbers. I come across a wounded Fritz. He was just a young boy and ou……続きを見る

The battle for Ypres in October and November 1914 represented the last opportunity for open, mobile warfare on the Western Front. In the first study of First Ypres for almost 40 years, Ian Beckett d……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS I. ON THE XITH CORPS FRONT (October to December 1916.) II. FRED KARNO'S ARMY (January to April 1917.) III. B……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la bataille de Verdun en moins d’une heure ! Le 21 février 1916, il est 7 h 15 lorsqu’Erich von Falkenhayn lance l’assaut à Verdun. Son objectif est sim……続きを見る

Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann (Book One) by Chaim Weizmann (introduction by Abba Eban) Chaim Weizmann’s autobiography is a highly personal account of his life in the Zionist m……続きを見る

Qui mieux que le général Mordacq pouvait nous renseigner sur l’armistice du 11 novembre 1918. En effet, après de brillantes opérations militaires, il est nommé en 1917 chef de cabinet de Georges Cle……続きを見る

At seven o'clock in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next ten hours, twelve hundred German guns showered shells on a salient in French lines. T……続きを見る

Known as “the Great War,” the world’s first truly global conflict is remarkable in what might now be termed modern espionage. World War I was witness to plenty of ”firsts.” Apart from the contributi……続きを見る

What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914–18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how Bri……続きを見る

The course of events of the Great War has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However, this book moves beyond military narrative to offer a mu……続きを見る

At least 8–10 million Iranians out of a population of 18–20 million died of starvation and disease during the famine of 1917–1919. The Iranian holocaust was the biggest calamity of World War I and o……続きを見る

For the first time in any language, a book examines the life of Hans Luther, the German statesman whose career began at the tail end of the Second Empire and ended in the postwar years. Luther had a……続きを見る

Different international relations theorists have studied political change, but all fall short of sufficiently integrating human reactions, feelings, and responses to change in their theories. This b……続きを見る

Wild Socialism examines the rise, development, and decline of revolutionary councils of industrial workers in Berlin at the end of the First World War. This popular movement spread throughout German……続きを見る

Prior to the end of World War I, President Wilson gathered a group of expert geographers, historians, economists, and political scientists – The Inquiry – to make plans for the coming peace conferen……続きを見る

From the private papers of Winston Churchill to the tender notes of an unknown Tommy in the trenches, Love Letters of the Great War brings together some of the most romantic correspondence ever writ……続きを見る

The two world wars were amongst the most convulsive events in human history. Millions of people died, many millions more had their lives transformed, and the nature of warfare itself was changed for……続きを見る

TRAINING FOR THE TRENCHES A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK BASED UPON PERSONAL EXPERIENCE DURING THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF THE WAR IN FRANCE BY CAPTAIN LESLIE VICKERS LATE LIEUT. SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS LECTURER IN T……続きを見る