ISBN: 0297846752
Published by George Weidenfeld & Nicholson on April 1st 2005
Pages: 207
Len's Summary: The dictatorship of the duumvirate and their impact on German society, economy and politics from 1916 to 1918 and beyond.
1914-1918, Regard D’Un Medecin Militaire
1914-1918, Regard D'Un Medecin Militaire by Leon Lecerf
ISBN: 291441725X
Published by Indo Editions on May 1st 2005
Pages: 125
ISBN: 291441725X
Published by Indo Editions on May 1st 2005
Pages: 125
Len's Summary: Memories of a French military doctor along with his photographs. In French.
Finding the Lost Battalion: Beyond the Rumors, Myths and Legends of America’s Famous WW1 Epic
Finding the Lost Battalion: Beyond the Rumors, Myths and Legends of America's Famous WW1 Epic by Robert Laplander
ISBN: 1411676564
Published by Lulu.com on October 13th 2007
Pages: 616
ISBN: 1411676564
Published by Lulu.com on October 13th 2007
Pages: 616
Len's Summary: With a foreword by WFA member Taylor Beattie.
The Unwanted: Great War Letters from the Field
The Unwanted: Great War Letters from the Field by John McKendrick Hughes
ISBN: 0888644361
Published by University of Alberta Press on May 19th 2001
Pages: 416
ISBN: 0888644361
Published by University of Alberta Press on May 19th 2001
Pages: 416
Len's Summary: Highlights the efforts of the BEF to cultivate abandoned land back of the front lines in France and Flanders. Written by a Canadian officer closely involved in this project beginning in 1917.
Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany
Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany by Isabel V. Hull
ISBN: 9780801472930
Published by Cornell University Press on January 12th 2006
Genres: Germany, Military
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9780801472930
Published by Cornell University Press on January 12th 2006
Genres: Germany, Military
Pages: 400
Len's Summary: An institution's descent from administrative murder into genocide - unchecked by civilian control -- traced from German Southwest Africa into Belgium and France to Armenia, and the final Western Front battles of World War I.
The Little Field Marshall: Sir John French
The Little Field Marshall: Sir John French by Richard Holmes
ISBN: 0224015753
on 2005
Pages: 427
ISBN: 0224015753
on 2005
Pages: 427
Len's Summary: The first commander of the BEF, a 19th century officer, fights a 20th century war. The author is a well-known historian and reserve Brigadier in the British Army.
This Great Harbor: Scapa Flow
This Great Harbor: Scapa Flow by W.S. Hewison
ISBN: 1843410265
Published by Birlinn on October 1st 2005
Pages: 379
ISBN: 1843410265
Published by Birlinn on October 1st 2005
Pages: 379
Len's Summary: The development of the harbor from the time of the Vikings through two world wars, the scuttle and inter-war salvage of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet.
Australian Hawk Over the Western Front – A Biography of Major R. S. Dallas
Australian Hawk Over the Western Front - A Biography of Major R. S. Dallas by Adrian Hellwig
ISBN: 1904943349
Published by Grub Street on August 1st 2006
Pages: 221
ISBN: 1904943349
Published by Grub Street on August 1st 2006
Pages: 221
Len's Summary: The story of Australia's leading air ace.
No Ordinary Determination: Percy Black and Harry Murray of the First AIF
No Ordinary Determination: Percy Black and Harry Murray of the First AIF by Jeff Hatwell
ISBN: 9781459673755
on March 1st 2014
Pages: 492
ISBN: 9781459673755
on March 1st 2014
Pages: 492
Len's Summary: The story of the campaigns of two Australian volunteers who rose from the ranks to field grade command in the AIF of 1915-18 fighting at Gallipoli and on the Western Front.
Bloody April: Slaughter in the Skies Over Arras, 1917
Bloody April: Slaughter in the Skies Over Arras, 1917 by Peter Hart
ISBN: 9780304367191
Published by Cassell Military on April 1st 2007
Genres: Military, Aviation
Pages: 381
ISBN: 9780304367191
Published by Cassell Military on April 1st 2007
Genres: Military, Aviation
Pages: 381
Len's Summary: Battle of Arras resulted in devastating losses for RFC and RNAS observers and spotters for BEF artillery, and marked the apogee of Germany's premier air ace, Manfred von Richthofen. The author is a member of The Western Front Association.
Decisions for War, 1914-1917
Decisions for War, 1914-1917 by Richard F. Hamilton, Holger H. Herwig
ISBN: 0521545307
Published by Cambridge University Press on December 13th 2004
Pages: 284
ISBN: 0521545307
Published by Cambridge University Press on December 13th 2004
Pages: 284
Len's Summary: Continuation and expansion of Hamilton & Herwig's fine study The Origins of World War I (Cambridge, 2003) this time focussing on key individual actors - monarchs, ministers, military men, political leaders - with divergent agendas.
Douglas Haig Diaries and Letters 1914–1918
Douglas Haig Diaries and Letters 1914–1918 by Gary Sheffield, John M. Bourne, John Bourne
ISBN: 0753820757
Published by Orion Publishing on October 1st 2006
Pages: 560
ISBN: 0753820757
Published by Orion Publishing on October 1st 2006
Pages: 560
Len's Summary: Advertised as offering previously unpublished material some of it -- not surprisingly -- unflattering to Asquith and Lloyd George. Sheffield and Bourne are both authors of several earlier histories of The Great War.
Balloon-Busting Aces of World War I
Balloon-Busting Aces of World War I by Jon Guttman, Harry Dempsey
ISBN: 1841768774
Published by Osprey Publishing on July 13th 2005
Pages: 96
ISBN: 1841768774
Published by Osprey Publishing on July 13th 2005
Pages: 96
Len's Summary: WFA members will recall Jon Guttman's talks at Baltimore seminars. Guttman is an editor at Aviation History and Military History magazines for the Primedia Group.
Victory through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War
Victory through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War by Elizabeth Greenhalgh
ISBN: 0521096294
Published by Cambridge University Press on January 11th 2009
Pages: 324
ISBN: 0521096294
Published by Cambridge University Press on January 11th 2009
Pages: 324
Len's Summary: A broad look at coalition warfare with wide use of private correspondence and diaries. // The development of a winning civil-military relationship central to victory in 1918.
The Gold Star Mother Pilgramages of the 1930s: Overseas Grave Visitations By Mothers And Widows of Fallen U.S. World War I Soldiers
The Gold Star Mother Pilgramages of the 1930s: Overseas Grave Visitations By Mothers And Widows of Fallen U.S. World War I Soldiers by John W. Graham
ISBN: 078642138X
Published by McFarland & Company on May 1st 2005
Pages: 229
ISBN: 078642138X
Published by McFarland & Company on May 1st 2005
Pages: 229
Len's Summary: Between 1930 and 1930 the US Government paid the travel expenses of over six thousand Gold Star wives and mothers to visit their son's and husband's graves in England, France and Flanders. See the section on videos for a recent video on this subject.
Blood in the Argonne: The “Lost Battalion” of World War I
Blood in the Argonne: The "Lost Battalion" of World War I by Alan D. Gaff
ISBN: 0806136960
Published by University of Oklahoma Press on October 17th 2005
Pages: 384
ISBN: 0806136960
Published by University of Oklahoma Press on October 17th 2005
Pages: 384
Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia
Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia by Alison Fleig Frank
ISBN: 0674025415
on September 15th 2007
Pages: 366
ISBN: 0674025415
on September 15th 2007
Pages: 366
Len's Summary: At the opening of the 20th Century Austria ranked third among the world's petroleum-producing states (surpassed by only the USA and Russia) accounting for five percent of global production. Yet, by 1918, the Central Powers did not have enough oil to maintain military operations. This book tells the story of what went wrong economically, socially, financially and politically in an ethnically diverse and often embattled area of Europe unfamiliar to most of us in North America.
German Strategy and the Path to Verdun
German Strategy and the Path to Verdun by Robert T. Foley
ISBN: 0521044367
Published by Cambridge University Press on November 19th 2007
Pages: 316
ISBN: 0521044367
Published by Cambridge University Press on November 19th 2007
Pages: 316
Len's Summary: Did Falkenhayn actually plan to wage a battle of attrition at Verdun? Draws on previously unavailable German documents held in Russian archives since WWII. Look for a full review in Camaraderie.
Mimi and Toutou’s Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika
Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden
ISBN: 1400075262
Published by Vintage on March 14th 2006
Pages: 272
ISBN: 1400075262
Published by Vintage on March 14th 2006
Pages: 272
Len's Summary: The Royal Navy attacks Germany in Central Africa, the events that inspired C. S. Forester's The African Queen.
Five Days in October: The Lost Battalion of World War I
Five Days in October: The Lost Battalion of World War I by Robert H. Ferrell
ISBN: 0826215947
Published by University of Missouri on June 1st 2005
Pages: 152
ISBN: 0826215947
Published by University of Missouri on June 1st 2005
Pages: 152
Len's Summary: Contains new material. Dr. Ferrell, who spoke at the April 2005 GWS seminar in Los Angeles, is a Professor-emeritus at the University of Indiana and the author of many books on WWI.
Between Two Worlds: A Rajput Officer in the Indian Army, 1905-21: Based on the Diary of Amar Singh of Jaipur
Between Two Worlds: A Rajput Officer in the Indian Army, 1905-21: Based on the Diary of Amar Singh of Jaipur by DeWitt C. Ellinwood Jr.
ISBN: 0761831134
Published by Hamilton Books on February 28th 2005
Pages: 694
ISBN: 0761831134
Published by Hamilton Books on February 28th 2005
Pages: 694
Len's Summary: A veteran of the Boxer Rebellion, Singh was granted a restricted commission in 1905. Given a regular commission in 1917, Singh's diaries offer an unusual look at the British Indian Army in the period of The Great War. Dr. Ellinwood, professor-emeritus at SUNY Albany, spoke at the 2005 WFA national seminar at Plattsburgh.
An American Soldier in World War I
An American Soldier in World War I by Robert Sherwood Dillon
ISBN: 9781892379238
Published by Five and Ten Press on 2005
Pages: 49
ISBN: 9781892379238
Published by Five and Ten Press on 2005
Pages: 49
Len's Summary: The story of the author's father's experience as an engineer in the 35th Division (Kansas National Guard) which had a rough initiation into battle in the Meuse-Argonne. Harry Truman commanded an artillery battery in this division.
Loos 1915: The Unwanted Battle
Loos 1915: The Unwanted Battle by Gordon Corrigan
ISBN: 1862272395
Published by Spellmount on November 2005
Pages: 262
ISBN: 1862272395
Published by Spellmount on November 2005
Pages: 262
Len's Summary: Story of an unsuccessful British attack that finished off many of the few remaining "Old Contemptibles"and provided lessons for future BEF commander Douglas Haig. Corrigan is the author of Sepoys in the Trenches about the experience of the British Indian Army Corps on the Western Front in 1914-1915, also from Spellmont.
Blindfold and Alone: British Military Executions in the Great War
Blindfold and Alone: British Military Executions in the Great War by Cathryn Corns, John Hughes-Wilson
ISBN: 0304353973
Published by Cassell on December 31st 2001
ISBN: 0304353973
Published by Cassell on December 31st 2001
Len's Summary: Based in part on newly available official records.
British Artillery 1914-19: Heavy Artillery
British Artillery 1914-19: Heavy Artillery by Dale Clarke
ISBN: 1841767883
Published by Osprey Publishing on August 10th 2005
Pages: 48
ISBN: 1841767883
Published by Osprey Publishing on August 10th 2005
Pages: 48
Len's Summary: Many of the guns used by American Coast Artillery units on the Western Front were ob British design and manufacture.
The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918
The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918 by Roger Chickering, Paul Kennedy, Jay Murray Winter
ISBN: 0521852560
Published by Cambridge University Press on February 26th 2007
Pages: 646
ISBN: 0521852560
Published by Cambridge University Press on February 26th 2007
Pages: 646
Len's Summary: A social history by a distinguished historian of World War I and professor at Georgetown University.
Most Unfavourable Ground: The Battle of Loos, 1915
Most Unfavourable Ground: The Battle of Loos, 1915 by Niall Cherry
ISBN: 1874622035
Published by Helion & Company on June 1st 2005
Pages: 366
ISBN: 1874622035
Published by Helion & Company on June 1st 2005
Pages: 366
Len's Summary: A 90th anniversary reexamination of the unsuccessful culmination of the badly depleted BEF's 1915 Western Front campaign.
Master Mind: The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare
Master Mind: The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare by Daniel Charles
ISBN: 0060562722
Published by Ecco on August 2nd 2005
Pages: 336
ISBN: 0060562722
Published by Ecco on August 2nd 2005
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: Haber won the Nobel Prize for his work to extract nitrogen from the atmosphere and convert it into fertilizer. Though almost forgotten today, he was the chemical genius behind German war-time explosives production and the initiation of poison gas warfare in April 1915. Imperial Germany, blockaded by the Royal Navy, desperately needed his inventions in order to survive an industrialized conflict. Reviewed by Martin Sieff in the October St. Mihiel Trip-Wire. The author is a science correspondent for NPR.
1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs–The Election that Changed the Country
1912 by James Chace
ISBN: 9781439188262
Published by Simon and Schuster on November 24th 2009
Genres: United States, Political Science, Campaigns & Elections
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9781439188262
Published by Simon and Schuster on November 24th 2009
Genres: United States, Political Science, Campaigns & Elections
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: The story of the bitterly fought four-party 1912 presidential race won with a 42% plurality by T. Woodrow Wilson. Socialist candidate Debs garnered a record number of votes (some 900 thousand) for the Socialist Party, and was later jailed for his vociferous opposition to American entry into WWI. Proof that George W. Bush was not America's first minority President. Indeed, Wilson never won 50% of the vote in either 1912 or 1916. The 1912 election set the stage for a remarkable spate of progressive measures than included, during Wilson's first term, the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, creation of the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Income Tax, and the Federal Reserve System, as well as a constitutional amendment providing for the direct election of Senators.
Grasping Gallipoli: Terrain, Maps and Failure at the Dardanelles, 1915
Grasping Gallipoli: Terrain, Maps and Failure at the Dardanelles, 1915 by Peter Chasseaud, Peter Doyle
ISBN: 0750962267
Published by The History Press on June 1st 2015
Pages: 364
ISBN: 0750962267
Published by The History Press on June 1st 2015
Pages: 364
Len's Summary: The authors contend that the lessons from this campaign have been overdrawn by military historians.
Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I
Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I by Carol R. Byerly
ISBN: 0814799248
Published by New York University Press on April 5th 2005
Pages: 251
ISBN: 0814799248
Published by New York University Press on April 5th 2005
Pages: 251
Len's Summary: Examines the Army's response to the influenza pandemic of 1918-19.
The Lion and the Poppy: British Veterans, Politics, and Society, 1921-1939
The Lion and the Poppy: British Veterans, Politics, and Society, 1921-1939 by Niall Barr
ISBN: 0313324743
Published by Praeger Publishers on August 1st 2005
Pages: 228
ISBN: 0313324743
Published by Praeger Publishers on August 1st 2005
Pages: 228
Len's Summary: The British Legion, dominated by the officer class, had a narrow agenda focusing mainly on domestic bread-and-butter issues and limited membership in the interwar years.
Seize the Trident: The Race for the Superliner Supremacy and How it Altered the Great War
Seize the Trident: The Race for the Superliner Supremacy and How it Altered the Great War by Douglas R. Burgess Jr.
ISBN: 0071430091
Published by International Marine Publishing on June 1st 2005
Pages: 296
ISBN: 0071430091
Published by International Marine Publishing on June 1st 2005
Pages: 296
Len's Summary: Big liner competition on the Atlantic in peace and war.
T.E. Lawrence in War and Peace: An Anthology of the Military Writings of Lawrence of Arabia
T.E. Lawrence in War and Peace: An Anthology of the Military Writings of Lawrence of Arabia by Malcolm Johnston Brown, Michael Clarke
ISBN: 1853676535
Published by Greenhill Books on February 2nd 2006
Pages: 280
ISBN: 1853676535
Published by Greenhill Books on February 2nd 2006
Pages: 280
Len's Summary: The author specializes in WWI at the Imperial War Museum in London and is the author of biography (NY University Press, 2003) and several other anthologies of Lawrence's papers. A 2006 History Book Club selection for $27.99
The German Revolution, 1917-1923
The German Revolution, 1917-1923 by Pierre Broué, Brian Pearce, Ian Birchall, Eric D. Weitz
ISBN: 1931859329
Published by Historical Materialism on May 1st 2006
Genres: Germany
Pages: 980
ISBN: 1931859329
Published by Historical Materialism on May 1st 2006
Genres: Germany
Pages: 980
Len's Summary: New translation of a work first published in 1971 as La Revolution ne Allemagne, 1917-1923.
Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control
Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control by John Brooks
ISBN: 9780415407885
Published by Routledge on September 1st 2006
Pages: 321
ISBN: 9780415407885
Published by Routledge on September 1st 2006
Pages: 321
Len's Summary: Gunnery, a subject that has fascinated naval historians for centuries, is also covered in Joh T. Sumuda's In Defense of Naval Supremacy: Financial Limitation, Technological Innovation and British Naval Policy, 1899-1914, Routledge, 1989 (hardback) and 1993 (paper).
The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians
The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians by Donald Bloxham
ISBN: 9780199226887
Published by Oxford University Press on 2007
Pages: 329
ISBN: 9780199226887
Published by Oxford University Press on 2007
Pages: 329
Len's Summary: A non- partisan account of the genocide and the impact of Ottoman relations with German, the Entente and America. Published to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the beginning of the massacre of Armenians, April 24, 1915, a newly relevant date given the impending negotiations for Turkish entry in the European Union.
Fire Power: The British Army Weapons & Theories of War 1904-1945
Fire Power: The British Army Weapons & Theories of War 1904-1945 by Shelford Bidwell, Dominick Graham
ISBN: 1844152162
Published by Pen & Sword Books on March 1st 2005
Genres: Weapons, Artillery, Military, Great Britain
Pages: 327
ISBN: 1844152162
Published by Pen & Sword Books on March 1st 2005
Genres: Weapons, Artillery, Military, Great Britain
Pages: 327
Len's Summary: Development of the artillery arm in two world wars.
Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers’ War 1914-18
Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers' War 1914-18 by Peter Barton, Peter Doyle, Johan Vandewalle
ISBN: 0773543015
on January 1st 2014
Pages: 304
ISBN: 0773543015
on January 1st 2014
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: A story of a cat-and-mouse game of mine warfare which is still relevant since several mines remain unexploded deep beneath the former Western Front. A good companion volume to the CD video Miners at War available from www.puddleproductions.co.uk or phone (866) 991-3627 toll-free from the US or Canada.
Spies of the Kaiser: German Covert Operations in Great Britain during the First World War Era
Spies of the Kaiser: German Covert Operations in Great Britain during the First World War Era by Thomas Boghardt
ISBN: 9781403932488
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on January 15th 2005
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9781403932488
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on January 15th 2005
Pages: 248
Len's Summary: Written by a historian at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. He begins his survey with a look at the pre-war period of Anglo-German naval rivalry finding that German espionage before and during the conflict produced few tangible results and practically nothing on the British Expeditionary Force.