Ballplayers in the Great War: Newspaper Accounts of Major Leaguers in World War I Military Service by Gary Mitchem, Mark Durr, Jim Leeke ISBN: 9780786475469
Published by McFarland & Company on September 15th 2013
Genres: Sports & Recreation, Baseball, General, History, Military, World War I, Language Arts & Disciplines, Journalism
Pages: 258
Len's Summary: Annotated accounts of major leaguers who interrupted their careers to serve.
Somme Intelligence: Fourth Army HQ 1916
Somme Intelligence: Fourth Army HQ 1916 by William Langford ISBN: 9781781590829
Published by Pen and Sword on August 5th 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 160
Len's Summary: Based on a soldier’s handwritten journal of documents, intercepted messages, prisoner interrogations and other materials.
Defending Neutrality: The Netherlands Prepared for War 1900-1925
Defending Neutrality: The Netherlands Prepared for War 1900-1925 by Wim Klinkert ISBN: 9789004227477
Published by Brill on June 1st 2013
Genres: History, Europe, General, Military, World War I
Pages: 328
Len's Summary: Neutral Holland’s experience of WWI, when its army was mobilized against German invasion, its colonial trade largely cut off by British blockade, and its social fabric stressed almost to the breaking point.
The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World
The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World by Greg King, Sue Woolmans ISBN: 9781250000163
Published by Macmillan on September 3rd 2013
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Royalty, History, Military, World War I, Europe, Austria & Hungary
Pages: 432
Len's Summary: Tells the story of the act that sparked WWI while examining the family life, personality and politics of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the context of the Habsburg ruling house of a fissiparous multi-national empire.
The Legacies of Two World Wars: European Societies in the Twentieth Century
The Legacies of Two World Wars: European Societies in the Twentieth Century by Lothar Kettenacker, Torsten Riotte ISBN: 9781782381150
Published by Berghahn Books on December 1st 2013
Genres: History, Europe, General, Modern, 20th Century, Social History
Pages: 332
Len's Summary: The relation between public opinion and war in Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany. -- Illustrates that distinctions between enthusiasm for war and concern for its consequences are seldom clear cut.
Poetry of the First World war: An Anthology
Poetry of the First World war: An Anthology by Tim Kendall ISBN: 9780198703204
Published by Oxford University Press on July 15th 2014
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Poetry, Anthologies (multiple authors)
Pages: 312
The First World War: The War to End All Wars
The First World War: The War to End All Wars by Geoffrey Jukes ISBN: 9781782002802
Published by Osprey Publishing on June 18th 2013
Genres: History, Military, General, World War I, Pictorial
Pages: 364
Len's Summary: A narrative survey history of the conflict summarizing action on all fronts including Italy and Palestine.
Militarism and the British Left, 1902-1914
Militarism and the British Left, 1902-1914 by Matthew Johnson ISBN: 9781137274120
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on January 18th 2013
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Military, Other, Modern, 20th Century, Social History
Pages: 247
Len's Summary: Prior to 1914, British socialists, Liberals and Laborites displayed ambivalent attitudes toward the military services.
The Battleship Builders: Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships
The Battleship Builders: Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships by Ian Johnston, Ian Buxton ISBN: 9781591140276
Published by US Naval Institute Press on April 15th 2013
Genres: History, Military, Naval, Transportation, Ships & Shipbuilding
Pages: 352
Len's Summary: How the Royal Navy designed, built, armed and powered HMS Dreadnought and, in little more than a decade, 50 more of her type.
The New Death: American Modernism and World War I
The New Death: American Modernism and World War I by Pearl James ISBN: 9780813934075
Published by University of Virginia Press on April 22nd 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Literary Criticism, American, General
Pages: 259
Len's Summary: The author explores the changing meaning of death in America following WWI through an examination of the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner among others.
Behind the Wire: Prisoners of War 1914-1918
Behind the Wire: Prisoners of War 1914-1918 by Robert Jackson ISBN: B00BYWCLPU
Published by Osprey on April 20th 2013
Pages: 173
Len's Summary: The capture, internment, escape attempts, punishments and day-to-day boredom of prisoners of War. Another more scholarly treatment may be found in Prisoners, Diplomats and the Great War: A Study in the Diplomacy of Captivity, Richard B. Speed, III (Greenwood 1990).
Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening
Making the World Safe: The American Red Cross and a Nation’s Humanitarian Awakening by Julia Irwin ISBN: 9780199766406
Published by OUP USA on May 23rd 2013
Genres: History, United States, 20th Century, Modern, South, Political Science, International Relations, General, NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)
Pages: 273
Len's Summary: The rise of the American Red Cross from Julia Ward Howe and the Civil War through WWI when it became our official private voluntary aid agency.
1913: The Year Before the Storm
1913: The Year Before the Storm by Florian Illies, Shaun Whiteside, Jamie Lee Searle ISBN: 1612193919
Published by Melville House on October 7th 2014
Genres: Art, History, Europe, General, Modern, 20th Century
Pages: 272
Len's Summary: A snapshot approach to the war month by month emphasizing cultural changes propelling Europe toward conflict. Engaging.
A Doctor on the Western Front: The Diaries of Henry Owens 1914-1918
A Doctor on the Western Front: The Diaries of Henry Owens 1914-1918 by Henry Owens, John Hutton ISBN: 9781781593066
Published by Pen & Sword Military on July 1st 2013
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, History, Military, World War I, Literary Collections, Diaries & Journals
Pages: 201
Len's Summary: The diaries of a Norfolk medical doctor who volunteered for the Royal Medical Corps in 1914. -- War diary of a British physician who spent four years behind the front treating the wounded of three armies.
Germany’s Western Front: Translations from the German Official History of the Great War, 1915
Germany’s Western Front: Translations from the German Official History of the Great War, 1915 by Mark Osborne Humphries, John Maker ISBN: 155458051X
Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press on March 1st 2010
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Military, World War I, Strategy
Pages: 413
Len's Summary: Offers German perspective on the battles of 1915.
Gabriele d’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
Gabriele d’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett ISBN: 9780307276551
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on May 6th 2014
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Literary, History, Modern, 20th Century, Poetry, European, Italian
Pages: 608
Len's Summary: Italian irredentist, protofacist, poet and WWI pilot, d’Annunzio led a short-lived 1919 filibustering expedition against Fiume, which had been awarded to Yugoslavia under the Versailles Treaty.
Woodbine Willie: Unsung Hero of World War One
Woodbine Willie: Unsung Hero of World War One by Robert Holman, Geoffrey A. Studdert Kennedy ISBN: 9780745955612
Published by Lion Books on March 22nd 2013
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Historical
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: The story of Rev. Geoffrey Studdart Kennedy who ministered to both the physical and spiritual needs of is flock and repeatedly risked his life to rescue wounded soldiers.
The Great War (Imperial War Museums)
The Great War (Imperial War Museums) by Mark Holborn, Hilary Roberts ISBN: 0385350708
Published by Knopf on October 29th 2013
Genres: History, Europe, General, Military, World War I, Modern, 20th Century
Pages: 504
Len's Summary: A large-format coffee table pictorial history of the conflict with 380 period photographs; issued to commemorate the 1914-18 centennial.
Transforming 1916: Meaning, Memory and the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Easter Rising
Transforming 1916 by Roisín Higgins ISBN: 9781859184868
Published by Cork University Press on April 23rd 2012
Genres: History, Historiography, Europe, Ireland
Pages: 275
Len's Summary: Discusses the significance of the Rising to Irish politics, north and south.
Luxembourgers in the First World War: An Inventory
Luxembourgers in the First World War: An Inventory by David Heal ISBN: B00UJV70GM
Published by David Heal on March 10th 2015
Pages: 478
Len's Summary: An inventory of Luxembourgers who fought in all armies including the German, as well as Luxembourg civilians shot by the Germans and French.
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings ISBN: 9780307597052
Published by Random House Incorporated on September 24th 2013
Genres: History, Europe, General, Military, World War I, Modern, 20th Century
Pages: 688
Len's Summary: One of a spate of recent books tracing the road to war in 1914. See also The Origins of the War of 1914 (in three volumes), Luigi Albertini (Enigma Books, 2005 reprint). An acclaimed and lengthy analysis written in the 1930s by an Italian historian.
The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War
The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War by Peter Hart ISBN: 9780199976270
Published by Oxford University Press on May 9th 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 522
Len's Summary: A new narrative survey history of the conflict finds that Britain tipped the balance with a crucial assist from America. Hart is the author if earlier books on Gallipoli and the Somme, as well as on the Irish Republican Army and Irish patriot Michael Collins.
The Economics of World War I
The Economics of World War I by Stephen Broadberry, Mark Harrison, Hugh Rockoff, Albrecht Ritschl, Max-Stephan Schulze, Şevket Pamuk, Peter Howlett, Peter Gatrell, Herman de Jong, Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur, Francesco Galassi ISBN: 0521107253
Published by Cambridge University Press on April 1st 2009
Pages: 364
Len's Summary: A series of essays looking at the economies and finances of the major belligerents including the Ottoman Empire, the US. England, France, Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary and Italy. See also Financing The First World War by Hugh Strachan, Oxford, 2004. // An analytical examination of the economies, economic mobilization and war finance of the principal belligerents: Germany, Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire, France, the UK, Russia, Italy and the United States; as well as the neutral Netherlands. Contributors from England, the US, Germany, France, Holland and Turkey include Peter Gatrell and Hugh Rockoff.
A Journalist’s Diplomatic Mission: Ray Stannard Baker’s World War I Diary
A Journalist’s Diplomatic Mission: Ray Stannard Baker’s World War I Diary by Ray Stannard Baker ISBN: 9780807144237
Published by LSU Press on February 1st 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 504
Len's Summary: Baker was a well-known muck-raking journalist and key Wilson campaign staffer tasked by the President with assessing the European situation in 1917-18; Baker was also Wilson’ press secretary at the Paris peace conference of 1919.
1913: the Eve of War
1913: The Eve of War by Paul Ham Published by Endeavour Press Ltd. on November 5th 2013
Len's Summary: A simplistic overview; save your money. There are several other new and far better treatments of this theme including The Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark
Posters of the Great War
Posters of the Great War by Frederick Hadley, Martin Pegler ISBN: 9781781592892
Published by Pen & Sword Books Limited on August 19th 2013
Genres: Art, Prints, History, Military, World War I
Pages: 160
Len's Summary: In the days before radio and TV, the large-format poster was a prime means of advertising. These posters were produced to inspire patriotism and support for WWI.
The Battle for Syria, 1918-1920
The Battle for Syria, 1918-1920 by John D. Grainger ISBN: 9781843838036
Published by Boydell Press on January 1st 2013
Genres: History, Middle East, General, Modern, Technology & Engineering, Military Science
Pages: 261
Len's Summary: Detailed narrative of the desert war and the post-war peace conferences; a timely reminder of how the clash of French and British imperial ambitions with Arab nationalism shaped modern Syria.
The German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War in History and Memory
The German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War in History and Memory by Tim Grady ISBN: 9781846318511
Published by Liverpool University Press on February 15th 2013
Genres: History, Europe, Germany
Pages: 260
Len's Summary: Suspect even during the war, Jews' loyal service (12 thousand died) to Germany was further denigrated by Nazi politics and propaganda. -- More than 100,000 German Jews fought in WWI and 12,000 died. The book focuses on the multifaceted ways in which these men are remembered.
Listening to Ludendorff: A Clandestine Belgian military Wireless Station Behind German Lines, 1915-1919
Listening to Ludendorff: A Clandestine Belgian military Wireless Station Behind German Lines, 1915-1919 by Paul Goldschmidt, Brendan Richard Whyte ISBN: 9781908336712
Published by Tommies Guides on July 1st 2013
Pages: 187
Len's Summary: Translation of a Belgian work on a secret radio station used for warning of Zeppelin raids and German troop movements.
Slaughter on the Somme, 1916: Complete War Dairies of the British Army’s Worst Day
Slaughter on the Somme, 1916: Complete War Dairies of the British Army’s Worst Day by Martin Mace, John Grehan ISBN: 9781848847705
Published by Pen & Sword Military on July 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 514
Len's Summary: Never-ending fascination with the mud and blood of the Somme. -- The raw material of history.
War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War
War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War by Robert Gerwarth, John Horne ISBN: 9780199686056
Published by OUP Oxford on October 3rd 2013
Genres: History, Europe, General, Former Soviet Republics, Military, World War I, Revolutionary, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Modern, 20th Century, Social History, Political Science, Political Freedom
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: Conflicts lasting through 1923 broke out in Ireland, Italy, Eastern and Central Europe, and Turkey.
Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin
Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin by Raphael Lemkin, Donna-Lee Frieze ISBN: 9780300186963
Published by Yale University Press on June 24th 2013
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Historical, Political, Lawyers & Judges, Personal Memoirs, History, Holocaust, Law, International
Pages: 293
Len's Summary: Though not strictly speaking about WWI, this is the biography of the Polish lawyer who coined the term “genocide” (racial or religious murder) as a result of his study of the Armenian massacres of 1915. Thanks to Lemkin’s efforts, the United Nations in 1948 adopted the Convention the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Mapping the First World War Battlefields of the Great Conflict from Above
Mapping the First World War Battlefields of the Great Conflict from Above by Simon Forty ISBN: 9781844862184
Published by Bloomsbury USA on January 7th 2014
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 144
Len's Summary: Over 120 illustrations with more than 100 maps and charts representing the best in wartime cartography, most of it drawn from aerial reconnaissance.
Abandoning American Neutrality: Woodrow Wilson and the Beginning of the Great War, August 1914 – December 1915
Abandoning American Neutrality: Woodrow Wilson and the Beginning of the Great War, August 1914 – December 1915 by M. Ryan Floyd ISBN: 9781137334114
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on September 5th 2013
Genres: History, Europe, General, Military, World War I, United States, 20th Century, Political Science
Pages: 262
Len's Summary: Traces Wilson’s ultimately unsuccessful efforts to keep America out of war in the face of political, economic and financial imperatives.
From the Front Line: The Extraordinary Life of Sir Basil Clarke
From the Front Line: The Extraordinary Life of Sir Basil Clarke by Richard Evans ISBN: 9780752494296
Published by History Press Limited on September 1st 2013
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, Europe, Great Britain
Pages: 240
Len's Summary: An intrepid war correspondent reported on the war from Flanders and on the Somme, covered the Irish Easter Rising of 1916, became the UK’s first public relations officer in 1917, and in 1924 founded the first British public relations firm.
Victory on the Western Front: The Final Battles of World War One
Victory on the Western Front: The Final Battles of World War One by Martin Marix Evans ISBN: 1782122362
Published by Arcturus Publishing Limited on August 1st 2013
Pages: 208
Len's Summary: The final hundred days by a formidable British historian and author.
The Short Story and the First World War
The Short Story and the First World War by Ann-Marie Einhaus ISBN: 9781107038431
Published by Cambridge University Press on July 31st 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Modern, 20th Century, Literary Criticism, General, European
Pages: 219
Len's Summary: By focusing on other than poetry, this study challenges conventional cultural perceptions. See also The Penguin Book of First World War Stories, Penguin Classics, 2007
Pubs and Patriots: The Drink Crisis in Britain during World War One
Pubs and Patriots: The Drink Crisis in Britain during World War One by Robert Duncan ISBN: 9781846318955
Published by Liverpool University Press on November 15th 2013
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain
Pages: 262
Len's Summary: Lloyd George flirts with prohibition and limits pub opening hours ostensibly to keep munitions and other war industries workers sober. Restricted pub opening hours remained in effect into the 1980s.
The Great War and Veterans’ Internationalism
The Great War and Veterans’ Internationalism by Julia Eichenberg, John Paul Newman ISBN: 9781137281623
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on November 20th 2013
Genres: History, General, Military, World War I, Veterans, World, Modern, 20th Century, Essays, Social History
Pages: 248
Len's Summary: A collection of essays presenting portraits of the ex-soldiers and women who banded to together in a world-wide network aimed at defending their rights, families, and their commitment to peace.
Trench Talk: Words of the First World War
Trench Talk: Words of the First World War by Peter Doyle, Julian Walker ISBN: 9780752471549
Published by History Press on January 1st 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Language Arts & Disciplines, Linguistics, Etymology
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: How soldiers’ slang merged into everyday language.
President’s Quarterly Update—April 2024
Dear Members and Friends,
I’m extremely pleased with the level of WW1HA’s activities, some of which may be unseen by you.
Our Journal, “World War One Illustrated,” is now published three times a year with an average length of 48 pages. Each issue is filled with high-quality articles covering a variety of topics, including the popular “My Kin in the Great War” series.
Our electronic newsletter, “Here and There with the WW1HA” is published monthly, with an assortment of Association events and articles covering WW1 topics.
Sal Compagno’s San Francisco Bay Area Chapter continues to hold monthly meetings via Zoom, while Mark Benbow’s Eastern Chapter is holding quarterly meetings.
As President, I am also hosting a quarterly “Fireside Chat” online. The last one emphasized WW1 poetry. The next one will emphasize WW1-era music.
If you’re already a member, I thank you for your membership and encourage you to take part in these activities. If you’re not a member, I ask you to join and participate in these activities. Participate in the events and consider submitting an article for the journal or newsletter.
Reach out to me with your comments: lavarennes@meuse-argonne.com.
Regards,
Randy Gaulke
