The Huns Have Got my Gramophone!: Advertisements from the Great War by Amanda Jane Doran, Andrew McCarthy ISBN: 1851243992
Published by Bodleian Library on June 1st 2014
Genres: Design, Advertising
Pages: 112
Len's Summary: British merchants wasted no time in using the war to promote their products; these are some of their cleverest efforts.
Irishmen in the Great War: Reports from the Front 1914
Irishmen in the Great War: Reports from the Front 1914 by Tom Burnell ISBN: 9781473838611
Published by Pen & Sword Books on August 31st 2014
Pages: 252
Len's Summary: Thousands of Irishmen volunteered for the BEF. Based on contemporary Irish press accounts. The citizens of the Irish republic have conflicted sentiments about their ancestors participation in The Great War: pride in their service mixed with patriotic remembrances of the 1916 Easter Uprising.
The 104th Field Artillery Regiment of the New York National Guard, 1916-1919: From the Mexican Border to the Meuse-argonne
The 104th Field Artillery Regiment of the New York National Guard, 1916-1919: From the Mexican Border to the Meuse-argonne by Pamela A. Bakker ISBN: 9780786479153
Published by McFarland on May 20th 2014
Genres: Military, United States
Pages: 228
Len's Summary: This regiment was incorporated into the AEF’s 27th Division.
The Aesthetics of Loss: German Women’s Art of the First World War
The Aesthetics of Loss: German Women's Art of the First World War by Claudia Siebrecht ISBN: 9780199656684
Published by Oxford University Press on September 19th 2013
Genres: Social History, Art, Gender Studies, Women
Pages: 208
Len's Summary: The unique responses of German women to wartime tragedy.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk by Edward Erickson ISBN: 9781780965901
Published by Osprey Publishing on August 20th 2013
Pages: 64
Len's Summary: Ataturk led the Ottomans to victory at Gallipoli and forged the Turkish Republic from the ashes of WWI.
Ottomans and Armenians: A Study in Counterinsurgency
Ottomans and Armenians: A Study in Counterinsurgency ISBN: 9781137362209 Published by Palgrave Macmillan on November 12th 2013
Pages: 316
Len's Summary: Adduces evidence that Ottoman relocation of Armenian citizens was in response to military necessity.
If England Were Invaded
If England Were Invaded by William Le Queux ISBN: 9781851244027
Published by Bodleian Library on April 1st 2014
Genres: Fiction, War & Military, Alternative History
Pages: 274
Len's Summary: Originally published in 1906, this popular novel in the vein of Erskine Childers’ The Riddle of the Sands frightened many Britons at the height of the Anglo-German naval armaments race.
The Dawn’s Chorus
The Dawn's Chorus by Martin Richardson ISBN: 9781849635950
Published by Midpoint Trade Books Incorporated on January 31st 2015
Pages: 253
Len's Summary: A wartime love story which opens with the Battle of Mons.
First World War Poems from the Front
First World War Poems from the Front by Paul O'Prey ISBN: 9781904897880
Published by Imperial War Museum on June 1st 2014
Genres: Poetry, Literary
Pages: 144
Len's Summary: An anthology with brief biographical sketches.
The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914
The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914 by Bela Zombory-Moldovan ISBN: 9781590178096
Published by New York Review of Books on August 5th 2014
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 184
Len's Summary: A gentle Hungarian painter is thrust into the furnace of war. // Reminiscence of a young artist, a rediscovery.
Billy Mitchell’s War with the Navy: The Interwar Rivalry Over Air Power
Billy Mitchell's War with the Navy: The Interwar Rivalry Over Air Power by Thomas Wildenberg ISBN: 0870210386
Published by US Naval Institute Press on October 15th 2013
Pages: 288
The First World War in Colour
The First World War in Colour by Peter Walther ISBN: 9783836554183
Published by Taschen on September 5th 2014
Genres: Photography, Photojournalism
Pages: 383
Len's Summary: Original color photos from both sides of the lines.
Hidden Stories of the First World War
Hidden Stories of the First World War by Jackie Storer ISBN: 0712357386
Published by British Library on September 15th 2014
Pages: 176
Len's Summary: Thirty two true stories of women and men at war.
Lingo of No Man’s Land: A World War I Slang Dictionary
Lingo of No Man's Land: A World War I Slang Dictionary by Lorenzo N. Smith ISBN: 9780712357340
Published by British Library on June 1st 2014
Genres: Language Arts & Disciplines, Linguistics
Pages: 112
Len's Summary: The author was an American volunteer in the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Posters of the First World War
Posters of the First World War by Richard Slocombe ISBN: 9781904897873
Published by Imperial War Museum on May 1st 2014
Genres: Art
Pages: 91
Len's Summary: The war years fell into heyday of advertising poster art, here turned to propaganda purposes.
Get Tough Stay Tough: Shaping the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918
Get Tough Stay Tough: Shaping the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918 by Kenneth Radley ISBN: 9781909982864
Published by Helion on October 30th 2014
Genres: History, Canada, Military, World War I
Pages: 424
Len's Summary: How “the shock troops of the British Empire” were trained and motivated.
In Battle and Captivity 1916-1918: A British Officer’s Memoirs of the Trenches and a German Prison Camp
In Battle and Captivity 1916-1918: A British Officer's Memoirs of the Trenches and a German Prison Camp by Henry Gilbert Nobbs ISBN: 1783463120
Published by Pen & Sword Books on September 1st 2014
Pages: 160
Len's Summary: Captain Nobbs was grievously wounded leading his company on the Somme, captured and later exchanged after three months in a German POW camp.
Behind the Lines: WWI’s little-known story of German occupation, Belgian resistance, and the band of Yanks who helped save millions from starvation
Behind the Lines: WWI's little-known story of German occupation, Belgian resistance, and the band of Yanks who helped save millions from starvation by Jeffrey B. Miller ISBN: 9780990689300
Published by Milbrown Press on September 16th 2014
Pages: 442
Len's Summary: The story of the start-up operations of the Committee on Belgian Relief headed by Herbert Hoover which fed more than nine million Belgians and French trapped behind German lines.
Briffault’s Passchendaele: Arts, Empathy, and the First World War
Briffault's Passchendaele: Arts, Empathy, and the First World War by Phil McCray ISBN: 9780945213345
Published by Rudi Publishing on November 11th 2014
Pages: 222
Len's Summary: An attempt to find meaning in The Great War and the world it created.
‘A Moonlight Massacre’ – The Night Operation on the Passchendaele Ridge, 2 December 1917: The Forgotten Last Act of the Third Battle of Ypres
'A Moonlight Massacre' - The Night Operation on the Passchendaele Ridge, 2 December 1917: The Forgotten Last Act of the Third Battle of Ypres by Michael LoCicero ISBN: 9781909982925
Published by Helion on December 4th 2014
Pages: 432
Len's Summary: The final, climactic act in the Third Ypres Battle.
Attack on Orleans: The World War I Submarine Raid on Cape Cod
Attack on Orleans:: The World War I Submarine Raid on Cape Cod by Jake Klim ISBN: 9781626194908
Published by The History Press on June 10th 2014
Pages: 128
Len's Summary: The first attack in American shores since the War of 1812 occurred when a long-range U-Boat shelled a string of coastal barges off Nauset Beach.
Anzac: The Unauthorised Biography
Anzac: The Unauthorised Biography by Carolyn Holbrook ISBN: 9781742241814
Published by NewSouth on September 1st 2014
Pages: 280
Len's Summary: A history of how Australians remember WWI.
Catching the Torch: Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I
Catching the Torch: Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I by Neta Gordon ISBN: 9781554589869
Published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press on March 25th 2014
Genres: Literary Criticism, Canadian, History, Military, World War I
Pages: 222
Len's Summary: Examines recently published plays and novels about Canada’s contribution to WWI.
Doughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed their Military Experience
Doughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed Their Military Experience by Edward A. Gutièrrez ISBN: 9780700619900
Published by University Press of Kansas on September 19th 2014
Pages: 308
Len's Summary: Illuminates the war through veterans’ own statements. // Remembrances of America soldiers written in 1919 when memories were fresh.
Fighting the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactics and Technology
Fighting the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactics and Technology by Norman Friedman ISBN: 9781591141884
Published by Naval Institute Press on October 15th 2014
Genres: History, Military, Naval, Strategy
Pages: 416
Len's Summary: Written by a premier American naval historian. While not the decisive front in WWI, the war at sea was vital to Allied victory.
Send in the Alabamians: World War Fighters in the Rainbow Division,
Send the Alabamians: World War I Fighters in the Rainbow Division by Nimrod T. Frazer ISBN: 9780817318383
Published by University of Alabama Press on May 13th 2014
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, 20th Century, State & Local
Pages: 344
Len's Summary: index, ISBN 978 0 8173 1838 3, 34.95 hb. The story of the 167th Infantry Regiment, Alabama National Guard. It is not only Pen & Sword that can publish regimental histories.
Behind the Gas Mask: The U. S. Chemical Warfare Service in War And Peace
Behind the Gas Mask: The U. S. Chemical Warfare Service in War And Peace by Thomas I. Faith ISBN: 9780252080265
Published by University of Illinois Press on October 10th 2014
Genres: History, Military, Biological & Chemical Warfare, United States, General, Social Science, Media Studies
Pages: 149
Len's Summary: An examination of the U. S. Army’s use of chemical warfare in WWI and the ultimate rejection during the 1920s of its future use.
Remembering World War I: An Engineer’s Diary of the War
Remembering World War I: An Engineer's Diary of the War by Charles Edward Dilkes ISBN: 9780692028612
Published by Juliet Publishing on August 27th 2014
Pages: 192
Len's Summary: A volunteer AEF engineer sergeant tells his story.
The First Battle of the First World War: Alsace-Lorraine
The First Battle of the First World War: Alsace-Lorraine by Karl Deuringer ISBN: 0752460862
Published by The History Press on November 1st 2014
Pages: 400
Len's Summary: Fought two weeks before First Marne, this battle resulted in the repulse of the attacking French Army. // Translation of the official Bavarian Army history of this campaign. Zuber, a retired US Army officer, is author of The Battle of the Frontiers: Ardennes 1914, The History Press, 2013.
The First World War Galleries
The First World War Galleries by Paul Cornish ISBN: 9781904897835
Published by Imperial War Museums on June 26th 2014
Genres: Art, Permanent Collections, History, Military, World War I
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: The author uses artifacts at the IWM to trace the course of the war.
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher ISBN: 9780802123251
Published by Grove Press on June 3rd 2014
Genres: History, Europe, Eastern, Military, World War I, Austria & Hungary
Pages: 326
Len's Summary: The story of Gavrilo Princip whose assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked WWI. A history Book Club selection.
The Old Front Line: The Centenary of the Western Front,
The Old Front Line: The Centenary of the Western Front in Pictures by Stephen Bull ISBN: 9781612002309
Published by Casemate on July 19th 2014
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Travel
Pages: 192
Len's Summary: A profusely illustrated then-and-now look at the Western Front then and now; monuments, markers, and cemeteries of all nationalities. The author is Curator for Military History & Archeology for Lancashire Museums. // Examines the Western Front geographically, the scars left by battle and the cemeteries, war memorials and statues erected by the victors.
Torpedo: The Complete History of the World’s Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon
Torpedo: The Complete History of the World's Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon by Roger Branfill-Cook ISBN: 1591141931
Published by US Naval Institute Press on August 15th 2014
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: The greatest single game-changer in naval warfare allowing small, inexpensive torpedo-firing ships to menace dreadnoughts.
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter ISBN: 9780062221407
Published by Harper Perennial on April 15th 2014
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Europe, France, Travel
Pages: 416
Len's Summary: Paris and Parisians survive and even thrive during WWI as the City of Lights blazes brightly.
The Major Battles of the First World War
The Major Battles of the First World War by Bill Price ISBN: B00DUHI55W
Published by RW Press on July 8th 2013
Pages: 77
Len's Summary: A quick, introductory summary of major encounters.
Gallipoli
Gallipoli by LA Carlyon ISBN: 0553815067
Published by Bantam on October 1st 2003
Pages: 752
Len's Summary: Based on the authors detailed personal walking examination of the battlefield.
Major & Mrs. Holt’s Concise Illustrated Battlefield Guide to the Western Front – North
Major & Mrs. Holt’s Concise Illustrated Battlefield Guide to the Western Front - North by Tonie Holt, Valmai Holt ISBN: 1781593973
Published by Pen & Sword Books on August 19th 2014
Pages: 368
Len's Summary: An excellent Guidebook to the Ypres, Yser, Vimy Ridge, Arras and other Flanders battlefields with concise descriptions of the battles from 1914 to 1918 and directions for tours and routes.
Salient Points Four (Cameos of the Western Front)
Salient Points Four (Cameos of the Western Front) by Tony Spagnoly ISBN: 0850529328
Published by Pen & Sword Books on September 1st 2005
Pages: 146
Len's Summary: Another battlefield guide in the Cameos of the Western Front Series written by two experienced WWI historians and covering the Ploegsteert and Neuve Eglise sectors of the BEF line in Belgium.
Walking the Somme
Walking the Somme by Paul Reed ISBN: 9781848844735
Published by Casemate Publishers on 2011
Pages: 246
Len's Summary: A popular battlefield guide.
The Somme: Ninety Years on – A Visual History
The Somme: Ninety Years on - A Visual History by Duncan Youel, David Edgell ISBN: 9781405317474
Published by Dorling Kindersley on June 1st 2006
Pages: 226
Len's Summary: A then-and-now photo history with a synopsis of the battle.
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
