cis - World War I 1

This Side of Paradise - Francis Scott Fitzgerald - F. Scott Fitzgerald's cherished debut novel announced the arrival of a brilliant young writer and anticipated his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Pu……続きを見る

Fifty years after Jefferson County found itself wedged between the Union and the Confederacy, President Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany and the Central Powers. Suddenly towns like Shepherdsto……続きを見る

A battlefield guide to the scene of an Austro-Hungarian attack on the British Corps sector of the Allied front line on the Asiago Plateau, forty miles north of Venice in Northern Italy, on 15/16 Jun……続きを見る

Born in poverty in Slane, County Meath, Ledwidge worked as a farm hand, copper miner and road labourer. In his twenties he would become a rising star in the Irish literary scene, although he lived o……続きを見る

Historian, critic, and horticulturist Francis Parkman was renowned for his analytical acuity and narrative skill. In A Half Century of Conflict: France and England in North America, Volume 1, Parkma……続きを見る

"Father Duffy's Story...is the most human and lovable book of personal experience that has come out of the war." -NY Times, Jan. 4, 1920 "A graphic picture of American heroism in Europe." The Fortni……続きを見る

The Battle of the Somme was the largest and most devastating battle of the First World War. On its first day it killed more British soldiers than in any previous battle. Yet the conflict would rage ……続きを見る

This rare primary source account is the story of the hard fighting battalion of the 7th Northumberland Fusiliers, which saw action on the Somme, Passchendaele and in the Battle of Arras. This wonder……続きを見る

The guide describes the ground and operations covered by the British, French and US Expeditionary Forces deployed from France to the area North of Venice between November 1917 and Spring 1919. These……続きを見る

Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter's "The Blocking of Zeebrugge" presents a meticulous account of the daring naval operation during World War I aimed at obstructing the German U-boat threat in the cr……続きを見る

Decades before Americans became familiar with the term “embedded journalist,” a young cartoonist named Francis Webster embodied that role when he served as a volunteer infantryman during World War I……続きを見る

Here, from New York Times bestselling historian Richard Russell, is the dramatic story of Germany - from the rise of Charlemagne to the age of Martin Luther, from the Thirty Years' War to the iron r……続きを見る

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos "If future generations desire to know what the British Regular officer was like at his best in the days ……続きを見る

The Struggle' is a very readable account of an interesting life. The author was born in a rather poor peasant family in Poland. Through his own effort he made his way into the elite, becoming an off……続きを見る

This is a popular narrative history of the world's greatest war. Written frankly from the viewpoint of the United States and the Allies, it visualises the bloodiest and most destructive conflict of ……続きを見る

Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1876 - 1960) was born Francis William Wheeler in Forest Hills, England. He lived with his family, in England, until some time before 1901. He crossed the Atlantic where he beca……続きを見る

Preface Two influences have urged me to make a study of the subject of the prisoners of war in Britain. First: the hope that I might be able to vindicate our country against the charge so insistentl……続きを見る

In "Q.6.a and Other Places: Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918," Francis Buckley offers a poignant exploration of the experiences during the tumultuous years of World War I, framed through his per……続きを見る

In "Ten Years Near the German Frontier: A Retrospect and a Warning," Maurice Francis Egan offers a poignant reflection on a decade spent in close proximity to German society, encapsulating the profo……続きを見る

This is the fourth volume in a wonderful series of publications covering the history of the First World War. It includes the chapters 'Zeppelins Attack London', 'The Battle of Verdun', 'Bulgarian At……続きを見る

The classic story of an Indian army officer's experience on the North West Frontier of the British Indian Empire and subsequent adventures in World War 1 and Mesopotamia! 続きを見る

The events of the past four years have been of such magnitude that the various steps, the numberless battles, and the growth of Allied power which led up to the final victory are not clearly defined……続きを見る

Poland was in ruins after World War I. The fighting front had rolled through some areas more than seven different times, and the result was the almost complete destruction of the roads, railways, br……続きを見る

On September 4, 1914, the bugler of Destiny sounded the "Halt!" to the retreat of the armies of the Allies from the Belgian frontier. The marvelous fighting machine of the German armies, perhaps the……続きを見る

Arising seemingly out of nowhere, Armenian terrorist groups in the last two decades have carried out over 200 attacks in some two dozen countries around the world. Although this wave of terror at fi……続きを見る

Tras la I Guerra Mundial y al centro de fuertes tensiones políticas, Berlín se convierte en un foco de creatividad y transgresión El Berlín de entreguerras fue un hervidero artístico. Y su epicentro……続きを見る

"Classic memoir of the Great War by a General who was not afraid to show his face in the front line - or even in No Man's Land. One of the best-known memoirs of the First World War written by a seni……続きを見る

[Includes 8 photograph illustrations] On the northern half of Times Square in the heart of New York is a square named after Father Francis Patrick Duffy, a priest whose faith in God was only matched……続きを見る