Among the Americans who joined the ranks of the Doughboys fighting World War I were thousands of America's newest residents. Good Americans examines the contributions of Italian and Jewish immigrant……続きを見る
Jack's Journey is the moving and extraordinary story of an unknown ANZAC action at Gallipoli during the period of the Landing on 1 and 2 May, 1915. Kit Cullen began tracing Jack Collyer's story usin……続きを見る
The German Empire was founded in January 1871 not only on the basis of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's 'blood and iron' policy but also with the support of liberal nationalists. Under Bismarck and Ka……続きを見る
著者:Mustafa Aksakal
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war's devastations had become clear? Were its leaders 'simple-minded,' 'below-average' individuals, as the……続きを見る
In the first part of the book, Professor Kolb provides a clear historical narrative of the political, social, economic and cultural developments of the Weimar Republic, setting it within the interna……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Marr
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2009年10月02日
In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the B……続きを見る
For almost 43 years three school notebooks lay in obscurity in the County Armagh home of sixty two-year old James McRoberts. The closely filled pages recorded just over two years in his life in unif……続きを見る
The twentieth century saw two world wars and countless other conflicts whose effects on society have been well documented. Here you will find the less familiar story of how these international strug……続きを見る
This fifth volume of Letters by John Seymour Lindsay takes us from the end of May 1916 to December 1917. From Bienvilliers to the presentation of his Distinguished Conduct Medal and Commission in th……続きを見る
著者:Louisa Thomas
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年06月02日
Norman Thomas and his brothers' upbringing prepared them for a life of service-but their calls to conscience threatened to tear them apart
Conscience is Louisa Thomas's beautifully written account o……続きを見る
This volume covers the history of the Deutschland to Osfriesland classes of German battlecruisers, beginning with the last of the pre-dreadnought battleships and explaining the revolutionary develop……続きを見る
Groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed, Tommy is the first history of World War I to place the British soldier who fought in the trenches centre-stage.
Tommy tells the story of an epic and terrible……続きを見る
著者:David Traxel
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
In this absorbing history of progressive-era America, acclaimed historian David Traxel paints a vivid picture of a tumultuous time of change that was the foundation for the twentieth century.. With ……続きを見る
In the spring and summer of 1938, a third-generation German Canadian took an unforgettable road trip in Europe. Franklin Wellington Wegenast drove through Austria, Italy, France, Luxembourg, and Ger……続きを見る
著者:George L. Mosse
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
At the outbreak of the First World War, an entire generation of young men charged into battle for what they believed was a glorious cause. Over the next four years, that cause claimed the lives of s……続きを見る
著者:Susan R. Grayzel
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Although the Blitz has come to symbolize the experience of civilians under attack, Germany first launched air raids on Britain at the end of 1914 and continued them during the First World War. With ……続きを見る
The Gallipoli campaign has been written about by many authors. However, few have been as well placed to offer eyewitness testimony of the higher echelons of command as the famed War Correspondent El……続きを見る
The First World War examines the outbreak, events themselves and aftermath of the Great War, and the political, social and economic effects on the European countries involved. Important themes explo……続きを見る
This is the first truly definitive history of the First World War, the war that has done most to shape the twentieth century. The first generation of its historians had access to only a limited rang……続きを見る
著者:John Mosier
出版社: Henry Holt and Co.
発売日: 2007年04月01日
A riveting account of the origins and development of the German army that breaks through the distortions of conventional military history
Acclaimed for his revisionist history of the German Army in ……続きを見る
Drawing on unpublished letters and rare primary sources, King and Woolmans tell the true story behind the tragic romance and brutal assassination that sparked World War I
In the summer of 1914, thre……続きを見る
著者:Richard Overy
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年11月30日
From a leading British historian, the story of how fear of war shaped modern England
By the end of World War I, Britain had become a laboratory for modernity. Intellectuals, politicians, scientists,……続きを見る
Albert John ('Jack') Martin was a thirty-two-year-old clerk at the Admiralty when he was called up to serve in the army in September 1916. These diaries, written in secret, hidden from his colleague……続きを見る
著者:Laura Doan
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2013年04月11日
For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced powerful narratives by tracing the homosexual or ……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Roberts
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2010年05月06日
Part of the ‘Making History Series’ – ‘Waterloo’ is an exciting retelling of one of the moments that shook the world – Waterloo, one of the truly decisive battles of history.
The illustrious ‘Making……続きを見る
One of the best first-hand accounts of air combat in World War I, by an American “ace of aces.” Eddie Rickenbacker had an extraordinary career: inventor, race car driver, fighter ace, Medal of Honor……続きを見る
A controversial book by a controversial commander.
Although many historians have disagreed with Sir John French - and his account of the Great War - over the years there have been few writers who ha……続きを見る
In genteel Epsom, Surrey in the summer of 1919 a score of semi-rural police officers fought a rioting mob of 400 Canadian soldiers in a battle of Rorke's Drift proportions. At the end of it the depe……続きを見る
The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world history
In this magnum opus, critically-acclaimed historian Peter Hart examines the conflict in every arena arou……続きを見る