History / World War I

The Fortifications of Verdun 1874-1917

by Clayton Donnell & Brian Delf

The ring of fortifications protecting the city of Verdun on the Meuse River would become critical in the infamous battle of World War I. This book examines these fortifications, including the famous forts of...

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

by Margaret Macmillan & Richard Holbrooke

Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize

Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize

Between January and July 1919, after “the war to end all wars,” men and women from around the world...

Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War

by Neil Hanson

The First World War was a conflict of unprecedented ferocity. After the last shot was fired and the troops marched home, approximately three million soldiers remained unaccounted for. An unassuming English chaplain...

World War One, A Very Peculiar History

by Jim Pipe

With the centenary of the outbreak of the The Great War coming in 2014, 'World War One, A Very Peculiar History' commemorates the events of the time by looking at some of the incredible lengths, no matter how...

Enduring Freedom: An Afghan Anthology

by Ryan Gearing

This brand new anthology has been compiled to commemorate 10 years in Afghanistan. Announced in November 2010, contributions for a book of war poems were sought, and aided by appeals in the media, including...

A Major soldier: The military career of Frank Bailey DCM

by Ted Bailey

This is the story of Frank Bailey, a man whose ordinary demeanour in civilian life hid a record of active service and heroism in the Great War.He embarked on a 36-year long career with the Essex Regiment when...

Britain, France and Germany and the Treaty of Versailles: The Failure of Long Term Peace

by Nick Shepley

A helpful GCSE and A Level Guide to one of 20th Century History's most pivotal events. This guide discusses in a clear and concise manner the objectives of the British, French and Germans at the Treaty of Versailles....

VCs of the First World War Somme 1916: Somme 1916

by Gerald Gliddon

The Battle of the Somme, which lasted from 1 July to 18 November 1916, is remembered as one of the most horrific and tragic battles of the First World War. On the first day alone nearly 19,000 British troops...

VCs of the First World War

by Gerald Gliddon

Although covering the period January to July 1917, much of this book concentrates on the events of April - the month of the Battle of Arras, including the capture of Vimy Ridge by the Canadian Expeditionary...

VCs of the First World War Gallipoli: Gallipoli

by Stephen Snelling

The landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 represented the greatest amphibious operation carried out during the course of the First World War. What had initially been a purely naval enterprise...

VCs of the First World War 1915 The Western Front: 1915 The Western Front

by Peter F F Batchelor & Christopher Matson

The predictions of the war 'being over by Christmas' turned out to be far from the truth. By January 1915 the British Expeditionary Force found themselves trapped in the murderous stalemate of trench warfare....

VCs of the First World War 1914: 1914

by Gerald Gliddon

During the opening four months of the First World War no fewer than 46 soldiers from the British and Commonwealth armies were awarded Britain's highest award for gallantry, the Victoria Cross. In a series of...

Battle Story: Loos 1915

by Peter Doyle

The Battle of Loos saw a change in Allied strategy, which up until then had been a series of small-scale assaults that achieved little or no ground gained. Loos was to be different, Kitchener's Army was deployed...

Killing Time: Archaeology and the First World War

by Nicholas J J Saunders

The passage of time has all but extinguished any living memory of the Great War of 1914-1918 but the experiences of those who fought in the trenches of the Somme and Flanders have since become epic history and...

Cavalry of the Clouds: Air War Over Europe 1914-1918

by John Sweetman

In 1917, David Lloyd George declared that airmen were 'the cavalry of the clouds - the knighthood of this war.' This romantic image was fostered post-war by writers of adventure stories and the stunts of Hollywood...

Tea, Rum and Fags: Sustaining Tommy 1914-18

by Alan Weeks

It is said that 'an army marches on its stomach', but histories of the First World War usually concentrate on its political and military aspects. The gargantuan task of keeping the British Expeditionary Force...

The Real German War Plan: 1904-14

by Terernce Zuber

The Real German War Plan, 1904-14 fundamentally changes our understanding of German military planning before the First World War. On the basis of newly discovered or long-neglected documents in German military...

First World War Britain: 1914-1919

by Peter Doyle

When Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914, most expected the war to be over by Christmas, and only a handful forecast the length of the conflict, or the impact it would have on a civilian population...

Home Before the Leaves Fall: A New History of the German Invasion of 1914

by Ian Senior

The German invasion of France and Belgium in August 1914 came within an ace of defeating the French armies, capturing Paris, and ending the First World War before the autumn leaves had fallen. But the German...

Almanac of World War I

by David F. Burg & L. Edward Purcell

" Provides a day-by-day account of the action on all fronts and of the events surrounding the conflict, from the guns of August 1914 to the November 1918 Armistice and its troubled aftermath. Daily entries,...