History / World War I

Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?

by David Fromkin

When war broke out in Europe in 1914, it surprised a European population enjoying the most beautiful summer in memory. For nearly a century since, historians have debated the causes of the war. Some have cited...

Hat in the Ring: The Birth of American Air Power in the Great War

by Bert Frandsen

When Congress declared war in April 1917, the Europeans had already deployed their third generation of fighters, equipped with machine guns and capable of speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour, while the American...

The Diary of an Artillery Officer: The First Canadian Divisional Artillery on the Western Front

by Arthur Hardie Bick & Peter Hardie Bick

In the First World War the Canadian Field Artillery led the way in artillery technology and tactics by coordinating the intelligence reports from ground observation teams. The Diary of an Artillery Officer covers...

Albatros D.I-D.II

by James Miller

In 1916 German aerial domination had been lost to the French and British fighters. German fighter pilots requested an aircraft that was more powerful and more heavily armed, and the Albatros design bureau set...

Mark IV vs A7V: Villers-Bretonneux 1918

by David Higgins & Peter Dennis

The German A7V and the British Mark IV were similar in weight, size, and speed, but differed significantly in armour, armament and maneuverability. The A7V had thicker armour, and had nearly double the horsepower...

Austro-Hungarian Aces of World War 1

by Chris Chant & Mark Rolfe

Starting the war with only 35 aircraft, Austro-Hungarian industry went on to produce only moderate numbers of poor quality aircraft. The fliers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire operating on the Serbian and Russian...

The Canadian Corps in World War I

by Rene Chartrand & Gerry Embleton

In 1914 with a regular army of only 3,110 men Canada was ill-prepared to enter World War I (1914-1918). Yet, in a display of incredible unanimity thousands of young Canadians volunteered to fight for the Allied...

The Road to Verdun: World War I's Most Momentous Battle and the Folly of Nationalism

by Ian Ousby

On February 21, 1916, the Germans launched a surprise offensive at Verdun, an important fortress in northeastern France, sparking a brutal and protracted conflict that would claim more than 700,000 victims....

Fire in the Sky: The Australian Flying Corps in the First World War

by Michael Molkentin

The first book in 90 years dedicated to the daring and courage of the airmen and mechanics of the Australian Flying Corps - a tale of a war fought thousands of feet above the trenches from which only one in...

Cross of Iron

by John Mosier

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 World War...

Three Armies on the Somme: The First Battle of the Twentieth Century

by William Philpott

For decades, the Battle of the Somme has exemplified the horrors and futility of trench warfare. Yet in Three Armies on the Somme, William Philpott makes a convincing argument that the battle ultimately gave...

Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation

by Paul Kriwaczek

Paul Kriwaczek begins this illuminating and immensely pleasurable chronicle of Yiddish civilization during the Roman empire, when Jewish culture first spread to Europe. We see the burgeoning exile population...

The Battle to Save the Houston: October 1944 to March 1945

by John Grider Miller

A World War II adventure story of epic proportions, this book tells the heroic tale of a dedicated band of men who refused to let their crippled ship sink to the bottom of the Pacific in late 1944. Based on...

The Grand Scuttle: The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919

by Dan van der Vat

At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built, was deliberately sent to the bottom of the British Grand Fleet's...

Memorial to the Missing of the Somme

by Gavin Stamp

Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect in the...

The First World War

by John Keegan

The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as...

VCs of the First World War: Cambrai 1917

by Gerald Gliddon

Featuring the careers of forty-three men, this volume tells the story of the Battle of Cambrai, famous for being the first occasion when tanks were used en masse in battle. Its first day was so successful that...

The Zimmermann Telegram: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America's Entry into World War I

by Thomas Boghardt

By the winter of 1916/17, World War I had reached a deadlock. While the Allies commanded greater resources and fielded more soldiers than the Central Powers, German armies had penetrated deep into Russia and...

The Englishman's Daughter

by Ben Macintyre

"I have a rendezvous with death, at some disputed barricade." Alan Seeger, 1916

In the first days of World War I four soldiers, left behind as the British army retreated through northern France under the first...

American Women In World War I

by Lettie Gavin

Interweaving personal stories with historical photos and background, this lively account documents the history of the more than 40,000 women who served in relief and military duty during World War I. Through...