ISBN: 1585442909
Published by Texas A&M University Press on May 14th 2004
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: Presents the war as seen through the eyes of a highly-decorated and badly-wounded subaltern in the famed Rainbow Division of General Douglas MacArthur.
Healing the Nation: Soldiers and the Culture of Caregiving in Britain during the Great War
Healing the Nation: Soldiers and the Culture of Caregiving in Britain during the Great War by Jeffrey S. Reznick
ISBN: 0719069750
Published by Manchester University Press on December 15th 2011
Pages: 192
ISBN: 0719069750
Published by Manchester University Press on December 15th 2011
Pages: 192
Len's Summary: Treatment, rehabilitation and recovery of wounded soldiers in the WWI Britain.
The Anzac Experience: New Zealand, Australia, and Empire in the First World War
The Anzac Experience: New Zealand, Australia, and Empire in the First World War by Christopher Pugsley
ISBN: 0790009412
on 2004
Pages: 356
ISBN: 0790009412
on 2004
Pages: 356
Len's Summary: A fine new book on Anzac participation in The Great War.
Tannenberg: Erich Ludendorff and the Defense of the Eastern German Border in 1914
Tannenberg: Erich Ludendorff and the Defense of the Eastern German Border in 1914 by Perry Pierik
ISBN: 9059111060
Published by Aspekt on October 1st 2003
Pages: 102
ISBN: 9059111060
Published by Aspekt on October 1st 2003
Pages: 102
Len's Summary: A new look at Germany's most famous victory in WWI. The best analysis of this battle was written by Dennis Showalter.
All the Kaiser’s Men: The Imperial Army on the Western Front 1914-1918
All the Kaiser's Men: The Imperial Army on the Western Front 1914-1918 by Ian Passingham
ISBN: 0752459503
Published by The History Press on June 1st 2011
Pages: 304
ISBN: 0752459503
Published by The History Press on June 1st 2011
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: An analysis of German strategy, tactics, and leadership as well as that leadership's limited ability to adapt to changing circumstances. Reviewed in the January 2005 edition of Stand To!
Over the Top: The Great War and Juvenile Literature in Britain
Over the Top: The Great War and Juvenile Literature in Britain by Michael Paris
ISBN: 0275975185
Published by Praeger on September 5th 2000
Pages: 216
ISBN: 0275975185
Published by Praeger on September 5th 2000
Pages: 216
Britain’s Economic Blockade of Germany, 1914-1919
Britain's Economic Blockade of Germany, 1914-1919 by Eric W. Osborne
ISBN: 0415646170
Published by Routledge on October 31st 2013
Pages: 215
ISBN: 0415646170
Published by Routledge on October 31st 2013
Pages: 215
Len's Summary: An examination of British policy on blockade, and its evolution and execution in light of shifting international law and advances in weaponry.
Gallipoli: Making History
Gallipoli: Making History by Jenny Macleod
ISBN: 0415647908
Published by Routledge on June 29th 2012
Pages: 210
ISBN: 0415647908
Published by Routledge on June 29th 2012
Pages: 210
Len's Summary: Papers from a symposium held in 2001 at the Centre for Australian Studies, Kings College, London. Contributors include the editor, Martin Gilbert, Niall Barr and Stuart Ward.
The Living Unknown Soldier: A Story of Grief and the Great War
The Living Unknown Soldier: A Story of Grief and the Great War by Jean-Yves Le Naour, Penny Allen
ISBN: 0805075224
Published by Metropolitan Books on September 1st 2004
Pages: 240
ISBN: 0805075224
Published by Metropolitan Books on September 1st 2004
Pages: 240
Len's Summary: The true story of a French soldier who survives the war with permanent loss of memory and who is never identified. Recommended by WFA Director-emeritus Norman B. Tomlinson., Jr. Reminiscent of Japrisco's novel A Very Long Engagement.
Fight or Pay: Soldiers’ Families in the Great War
Fight or Pay: Soldiers' Families in the Great War by Desmond Morton
ISBN: 0774811080
Published by UBC Press on October 1st 2004
ISBN: 0774811080
Published by UBC Press on October 1st 2004
Len's Summary: Dr. Morton, one of Canada's leading military historians, spoke to this subject at our WFA August 2004 seminar at SUNY Plattsburgh.
The Secrets of Rue St. Roch: Hope and Heroism Behind Enemy Lines in the First World War
The Secrets of Rue St. Roch: Hope and Heroism Behind Enemy Lines in the First World War by Janet Morgan
ISBN: 0141016833
Published by Penguin Books Ltd on August 4th 2005
ISBN: 0141016833
Published by Penguin Books Ltd on August 4th 2005
Len's Summary: An account of a British intelligence operation centered in Luxembourg and concentrating on German troop movements. Highly recommended by my European correspondents.
Portugal 1914-1926: From the First World War to Military Dictatorship
Portugal 1914-1926: From the First World War to Military Dictatorship by Filipe Ribeiro De Meneses
Published by TBS The Book Service on December 1st 2004
Pages: 200
Published by TBS The Book Service on December 1st 2004
Pages: 200
Len's Summary: An analysis of the impact of the war on Portugal which -- despite being gripped with political and economic chaos -- entered the conflict on the side of the Entente and fought on several fronts.
Uncovered Fields: Perspectives in First World War Studies
Uncovered Fields: Perspectives in First World War Studies by Pierre Purseigle, Jenny Macleod, J. MacLeod
ISBN: 9004132643
Published by Brill Academic Publishers on November 28th 2003
Pages: 308
ISBN: 9004132643
Published by Brill Academic Publishers on November 28th 2003
Pages: 308
Len's Summary: Fifteen essays by scholars from seven countries presented at a 2001 conference in Lyons, France.
The Gates of Memory: Australian People’s Experiences of Memories of Loss and the Great War
The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experiences of Memories of Loss and the Great War by Tanja Luckins
ISBN: 1920731741
Published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press on February 1st 2004
Pages: 304
ISBN: 1920731741
Published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press on February 1st 2004
Pages: 304
World War I Memories: An Annotated Bibliography of Personal Accounts Published in English Since 1919
World War I Memories: An Annotated Bibliography of Personal Accounts Published in English Since 1919 by Edward G. Lengel
ISBN: 0810850087
Published by Scarecrow Press on June 25th 2004
Pages: 321
ISBN: 0810850087
Published by Scarecrow Press on June 25th 2004
Pages: 321
Len's Summary: Contains a list of recommended books. Available from Rowman & Littlefield, 4501 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200, Lanham, MD 20706 (800) 462-6420, Fax (301) 429-5748. Post-war memoirs published in or translated to English from writers from Austria-Hungary, Australia and New Zealand, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, the USA and several others. The works of several noted veterans are included including those of America's most decorated Doughboy Alvin C. York, Belgian flying ace Baron Willie Coppins, British intelligence officer Richard Meinertzhagen, Liman von Sanders, Joseph Joffre and Benito Mussolini among a hosts of lesser-known participants. The author is associate editor at the University of Virginia. Useful for those seeking first-person accounts of the 1914-1918 conflict.
Trench Art: An Illustrated History
Trench Art: An Illustrated History by jane A. Kimball
ISBN: 0975597108
Published by Silverpenny Press on December 30th 2004
Pages: 402
ISBN: 0975597108
Published by Silverpenny Press on December 30th 2004
Pages: 402
Len's Summary: Recommended by WFA member Frank Howard of Miami. See Stand To! For a full review.
Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War
Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War by Jeanette Keith
ISBN: 0807828971
Published by University of North Carolina Press on November 1st 2004
Pages: 272
ISBN: 0807828971
Published by University of North Carolina Press on November 1st 2004
Pages: 272
Len's Summary: Anti-war sentiment, draft evasion racism, and the split between (predominantly) rural and urban southerners over World War I. Draws heavily oh local draft records to assert that Southern selective service boards often discriminated against poor whites to protect cheap black local sources of labor (sharecroppers) while at the same time drafting black landowners farming in competition with whites.
Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front
Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front by Richard Holmes
ISBN: 0007137524
Published by Harper Perennial on March 7th 2005
Pages: 752
ISBN: 0007137524
Published by Harper Perennial on March 7th 2005
Pages: 752
Len's Summary: The story individually and collectively of the over five million men who prevailed on the Western Front.
Germany and the Causes of the First World War
Germany and the Causes of the First World War by Mark Hewitson
ISBN: 1859738702
Published by Bloomsbury Academic on January 1st 2005
Pages: 224
ISBN: 1859738702
Published by Bloomsbury Academic on January 1st 2005
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: A response to revisionist historians who have allegedly attempted to refute Fritz Fischer's arguments, assertions and analyses that Imperial Germany's leaders were convinced they could win a continental war. Assumes a thorough knowledge of the historiography of WWI. Not for general readers.
Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I
Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I by Maureen Healy
ISBN: 0521042194
Published by Cambridge University Press on December 1st 2008
Pages: 333
ISBN: 0521042194
Published by Cambridge University Press on December 1st 2008
Pages: 333
Len's Summary: A good companion to Winter and Robert's Capital Cities at War: London, Berlin, Paris, 194-1919 (Cambridge 1997).
Aubers Ridge (Battleground Europe)
Aubers Ridge (Battleground Europe) by Edward Hancock, Nigel Cave
ISBN: 1844150933
Published by Pen & Sword Books on September 1st 2005
Pages: 192
ISBN: 1844150933
Published by Pen & Sword Books on September 1st 2005
Pages: 192
Len's Summary: New addition to the Battlefield Europe series edited by Nigel Cave. Analyses the action of May 9, 1915 when battalions of the First and Seventh Divisions and the Indian Army Corps attacked in support of an ultimately unsuccessful French drive against Vimy Ridge .
The Battle of the Otranto Straits: Controlling the Gateway to the Adriatic in World War I
The Battle of the Otranto Straits: Controlling the Gateway to the Adriatic in World War I by Paul G. Halpern
ISBN: 0253343798
Published by Indiana University Press on May 24th 2004
Pages: 208
ISBN: 0253343798
Published by Indiana University Press on May 24th 2004
Pages: 208
Len's Summary: By the author of A Naval History of WWI and The Naval War in the Mediterranean, 1914-1918. The story of the largest Mediterranean naval encounter of WWI involving surface and submarine vessels, mines and aircraft from five nations.
Out Here at the Front – The World War I Letters of Nora Saltonstall
Out Here at the Front - The World War I Letters of Nora Saltonstall by Nora Saltonstall
ISBN: 1555535984
Published by Northeastern University Press on February 19th 2004
Pages: 312
ISBN: 1555535984
Published by Northeastern University Press on February 19th 2004
Pages: 312
Len's Summary: Wartime letters of the younger sister of Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall, himself a WWI veteran, and member of a politically and socially prominent family. Miss Saltonstall was an American Red Cross volunteer serving in the British sector at the time of the German spring offensives.
America in World War I: The Story and Photographs
America in World War I: The Story and Photographs by Donald M. Goldstein
ISBN: 1574886150
Published by Potomac Books on May 3rd 2005
Pages: 208
ISBN: 1574886150
Published by Potomac Books on May 3rd 2005
Pages: 208
Len's Summary: The eighth in Brassey's "America Goes to War" series. Profusely illustrated, pedestrian text.
Tunnelling to Freedom and Other Escape Narratives from World War I
Tunnelling to Freedom and Other Escape Narratives from World War I by Hugh Durnford
ISBN: 0486434346
Published by Dover Publications on March 19th 2004
Pages: 320
ISBN: 0486434346
Published by Dover Publications on March 19th 2004
Pages: 320
Len's Summary: A reprint of Escapers All: Being the Personal Narratives of Fifteen Escapers from Wartime Prison Camps, 1914-1918, John Lane, London, 1932, available from www.doverpublications.com.
The Bonus Army: An American Epic
The Bonus Army: An American Epic by Paul Dickson, Thomas B. Allen
ISBN: 0802777384
Published by Walker Books on March 21st 2006
Pages: 370
ISBN: 0802777384
Published by Walker Books on March 21st 2006
Pages: 370
Len's Summary: A History Book Club selection. The story of the 1932 march on Washington by WWI veterans seeking bonuses promised, but not appropriated by Congress. Fearing a Communist-led insurrection, President Hoover order their eviction and Army Chief of Staff MacArthur overreacted with tragic and violent results seen in theatre newsreels throughout America.
The Old Army: A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime, 1784-1898
The Old Army: A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime, 1784-1898 by Edward M. Coffman
ISBN: 0195045556
Published by Oxford University Press on December 8th 1988
Pages: 560
ISBN: 0195045556
Published by Oxford University Press on December 8th 1988
Pages: 560
Len's Summary: This volume begins with the Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection and covers the major reforms instituted by War Secretary Elihu Root that created the modern general staff system and helped prepare the Army for World War One. Of particular interest to Western Front Association members is Coffman's analysis of the colonial Army's experience in the Philippines and later on the Western Front, as well as the postwar army.
The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941
The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941 by Edward M. Coffman
ISBN: 0674012992
Published by Belknap Press on April 30th 2004
Pages: 519
ISBN: 0674012992
Published by Belknap Press on April 30th 2004
Pages: 519
Len's Summary: The long awaited second volume of "Mac" Coffman's monumental study of the United States Army. Volume one entitled:
Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918
Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918 by Roger Chickering
ISBN: 0521547806
Published by Cambridge University Press on May 6th 2004
Pages: 248
ISBN: 0521547806
Published by Cambridge University Press on May 6th 2004
Pages: 248
Len's Summary: Revised edition of an excellent analytical treatment by an established WWI historian who teaches at Georgetown University.
Kitchener’s War: British Strategy from 1914-1916
Kitchener's War: British Strategy from 1914-1916 by George H. Cassar
ISBN: 1574887092
Published by Potomac Books on October 1st 2005
Pages: 368
ISBN: 1574887092
Published by Potomac Books on October 1st 2005
Pages: 368
Len's Summary: How Lord Kitchener, a British icon, built the army that contested and won The Great War.
National Army Museum Book of the Turkish Front 1914-18: The Campaigns at Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia & in Palestine
National Army Museum Book of the Turkish Front 1914-18: The Campaigns at Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia & in Palestine by Richard Michael Power Carver
ISBN: 0330491083
on June 30th 2004
Pages: 272
ISBN: 0330491083
on June 30th 2004
Pages: 272
An Illustrated Guide to the ’03 Springfield Service Rifle
An Illustrated Guide to the '03 Springfield Service Rifle by Bruce N. Canfield
ISBN: 1931464154
Published by Andrew Mowbray Inc. on December 31st 2004
Pages: 239
ISBN: 1931464154
Published by Andrew Mowbray Inc. on December 31st 2004
Pages: 239
Len's Summary: By the author of U.S. Infantry Weapons of the First World War.
The Imperial War Museum Book of 1914
The Imperial War Museum Book of 1914 by Malcolm Brown
ISBN: 1447270339
Published by Pan Macmillan on January 1st 2014
Pages: 337
ISBN: 1447270339
Published by Pan Macmillan on January 1st 2014
Pages: 337
Len's Summary: Also published as The Year of Lost Illusions. Part of a series of Imperial War Museum books on the Great War, many of them written by distinguished British historian and IWM staff member Malcolm Brown. These are all available online from Amazon.co.uk. // Draws on dairies and other personal materials the archives of the Imperial War Museum to delve into the minds of British soldiers serving in The Great War. A pastiche with no particular theme.
Evidence, History and the Great War: Historians and the Impact of 1914-18
Evidence, History and the Great War: Historians and the Impact of 1914-18 by Gail Braybon
ISBN: 1571817247
Published by Berghahn Books on December 12th 2003
Pages: 248
ISBN: 1571817247
Published by Berghahn Books on December 12th 2003
Pages: 248
Len's Summary: How the great war has influenced present-day historians.
The Advance from Mons 1914: The Experiences of a German Infantry Officer
The Advance from Mons 1914: The Experiences of a German Infantry Officer by Walter Bloem
ISBN: 1907677046
Published by Helion & Company on October 1st 2011
Pages: 128
ISBN: 1907677046
Published by Helion & Company on October 1st 2011
Pages: 128
Len's Summary: The memoir of a German reserve officer, a company commander, tracing his service from mobilization to the Marne and retreat to the Aisne. Recommended by WFA member Tom Jones.
Ypres: The First Battle 1914
Ypres: The First Battle, 1914 by Ian F.W. Beckett
ISBN: 1405836202
Published by Longman Publishing Group on October 1st 2006
Pages: 280
ISBN: 1405836202
Published by Longman Publishing Group on October 1st 2006
Pages: 280
Len's Summary: Contains careful explanations of command decisions taken on both sides.
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
ISBN: 0143036491
Published by Penguin Books on October 4th 2005
Pages: 560
ISBN: 0143036491
Published by Penguin Books on October 4th 2005
Pages: 560
Len's Summary: The "Spanish Flu" pandemic of 1918-19 claimed over 20 million lives worldwide, including half a million in America and three million in India.
Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War
Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War by Peter Barham
ISBN: 0300125119
Published by Yale University Press on August 21st 2007
Pages: 464
ISBN: 0300125119
Published by Yale University Press on August 21st 2007
Pages: 464
Len's Summary: Shell shock and its treatment; UK government reactions and public acceptance; written by a psychologist.
The Forgotten Front: The East African Campaign 1914-1918
The Forgotten Front: The East African Campaign 1914-1918 by Ross Anderson
ISBN: 0750958367
Published by The History Press on November 1st 2014
Pages: 368
ISBN: 0750958367
Published by The History Press on November 1st 2014
Pages: 368
Len's Summary: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0750958367/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0750958367&linkCode=as2&tag=worlwaroneh0a-20&linkId=RUACECCR5SGBKIJY
China and the Great War: China’s Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization
China and the Great War: China's Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization by Guoqi Xu
ISBN: 052128323X
Published by Cambridge University Press on September 22nd 2011
Pages: 342
ISBN: 052128323X
Published by Cambridge University Press on September 22nd 2011
Pages: 342
Len's Summary: A neglected topic; billed as the first full-length study of China's involvement in the conflict.