Rob - World War I 1

The Webley .455in service revolver is among the most powerful top-break revolvers ever produced. First adopted in 1887, in various marques it was the standard-issue service pistol for British and Co……続きを見る

For nearly fifty years the hard-hitting, mobile Browning Automatic Rifle, or BAR, served in US infantry units as a light squad automatic “base of fire” weapon, providing quick bursts of concentrated……続きを見る

This book offers new methodological approaches that contextualize the lives of German First World War aviators through the iconography that created their image, the act of killing and rituals of dea……続きを見る

An in-depth, authoritative account of the autumn of 1914 on the Western Front and the First Battle of Ypres, a true turning point in modern warfare. The final months of 1914 were the bloodiest inter……続きを見る

In London, the world's foremost financial centre, the week before the outbreak of the First World War saw the breakdown of the markets, culminating with the closure for the first time ever of the Lo……続きを見る

The importance of the Australian contribution to the Allied war effort during World War I should never be underestimated. Some 400,000 Australians volunteered for active duty, an astonishing 13 per ……続きを見る

“A monumental piece of work . . . an amazing accomplishment and a pleasure to read.” ーDavid Michaelis, author of Eleanor**, the bestselling biography of Eleanor Roosevelt** One of the most notoriou……続きを見る

A searing farewell to innocence, Goodbye to All That is Robert Graves’s unflinching, unforgettable memoir of youth, war, and disillusionment. Written in the aftermath of World War I, this literary c……続きを見る

This book explores the war writings of Patrick MacGill, James Hanley, and Liam O’Flaherty, working class, Roman Catholic Irishmen, all of whom fought in the First World War as privates and who, coll……続きを見る

L'anthologie intitulée "La Première Guerre Mondiale et Ses Conséquences en 4 Œuvres Classiques" capture un large éventail de perspectives littéraires sur un événement qui a profondément marqué l'his……続きを見る

How Tennessee reformers reconciled Southern heritage with rising nationalism, weaving the Lost Cause into the fabric of American progress and identity The Lost Cause and the Great War tells the stor……続きを見る

La pugna por los océanos resultó decisiva para el desenlace de la Primera Guerra Mundial, por más que haya quedado opacada por las grandes batallas terrestres que, entre trincheras y gases, han adqu……続きを見る

The all-metal Junkers Ju 52/3m enjoyed a solid – indeed, revered – reputation amongst its crews and the troops and paratroopers who used and depended on it. For more than ten years, it saw service a……続きを見る

In A Minor Apocalypse**, Robert Blobaum explores the social and cultural history of Warsaw's "forgotten war" of 1914–1918**. Beginning with the bank panic that accompanied the outbreak of the Great ……続きを見る

Cet ouvrage propose une histoire globale de la Grande Guerre, en réglant la focale sur deux échelles distinctes　: celle du monde d’un côté, celle des Balkans de l’autre, où, à partir de l’attentat ……続きを見る

The word “prohibition” tends to conjure up images of smoky basement speakeasies, dancing flappers, and hardened gangsters bootlegging whiskey. Such stereotypes, a prominent historian recently noted ……続きを見る

The book "The Amazing Interlude" by way of Mary Roberts Rinehart is a riveting story set towards the history of World War I. It gives a fascinating mix of affection, spying, and the power of the hum……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

World War I continued with fury in the spring of 1918 as American Yanks endeavored to play the key role in stemming the German tide. Montana's Marines suffered the bloodiest day in their history as ……続きを見る

Bill Slim was one of the greatest British generals of World War II. In a career that stretched from 1914 until 1958, his greatest triumphs came in India and Burma in the long war against the Japanes……続きを見る

A military biography of one of the most successful and popular German generals of World War II. This volume details the military career and accomplishments of Walther Model, the youngest Generalfeld……続きを見る

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

World War I continued with fury in the spring of 1918 as American Yanks endeavored to play the key role in stemming the German tide. Montana's Marines suffered the bloodiest day in their history as ……続きを見る

From Bedales to the Boche charts the history of two brothers, born into late Victorian England, who were sent by their idealistic, Germanophile father to Britain's most progressive secondary school,……続きを見る

The Robert Wichard Pohl letters, which are the basis of this book, have never before been translated or published. Pohl provides a rare personal account of life aboard a WWI airship This was the fi……続きを見る

New York Times, USA Today, Amazon, and Publishers Weekly bestseller Aspects of History, The Critic, Octavian, and Modern War Institute Book of the Year.** Two leading authoritiesーan acclaimed histo……続きを見る

To know what life was like for someone in the past, we must read their story in a way that we can understand. Steve Cornish was born in 1887 and killed in action in 1917, one of the millions of vict……続きを見る

Based upon extensive archival research and bringing to life the words and actions of extraordinary individuals from the early 20th century, this book calls into question contemporary assumptions abo……続きを見る

Siegfried Sassoon is mostly remembered for the devastating poetry he wrote during World War One as a result of leading his troops "over the top" to certain death. This episode in his life--when he w……続きを見る

Blood on the Thistle is an examination of the life and times of a remarkable Scottish family, the Cranstons of Haddington, East Lothian. It focuses on a period from about 1880, when the young, hard-……続きを見る