Distant Thunder: Canada's Citizen Soldiers on the Western Front by Joyce M. Kennedy ISBN: 9780897452434
Published by Sunflower University Press on March 2000
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: Dr.Kennedy is a member of WFA, daughter of a Canadian Great War veteran and, herself, a retired Canadian Air Force flying officer.
Turbulence in the Pacific: Japanese-U.S. Relations During World War I
Turbulence in the Pacific: Japanese-U.S. Relations During World War I by Noriko Kawamura ISBN: 9780275968533
Published by Greenwood Publishing Group on January 1st 2000
Genres: History, Asia, General, Japan, Military, World War I, United States, 20th Century
Pages: 173
Len's Summary: The author is Assistant Professor of History at Washington State University; she was educated both in Japan and the US. An active and troubled period in bilateral relations marked by American efforts to maintain an “open door” in China in the face of persistent Japanese expansionism. See Camaraderie for a full review. Things went downhill from here. . .
The Lost Battalion
The Lost Battalion by Thomas M. Johnson, Fletcher Pratt, Edward M. Coffman ISBN: 0803276133
Published by Bison Books on May 1st 2000
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States
Pages: 364
Len's Summary: Reprint of a 1938 classic with a new introduction by the dean of American WWI historians Edward M. "Mac" Coffman. The Meuse-Argonne from a ground-level infantry view. A November 2000 selection of the History Book Club.
The Great War Reader
The Great War Reader by James Hannah ISBN: 9780890969441
Published by Texas A&M University Press on 2000
Pages: 504
Len's Summary: An ambitious and entertaining anthology of prose and poetry, fact and fiction about WWI. To order call (800) 826-8911, or e-mail WJL@tampress.tamu.edu.
The Balkan Wars 1912-1913: Prelude to the First World War
The Balkan Wars 1912-1913: Prelude to the First World War by Richard C. Hall ISBN: 9780415229470
Published by Routledge on 2000
Genres: History, Europe, Eastern, Military, Other, Technology & Engineering, Military Science
Pages: 176
Len's Summary: Written mainly from Bulgarian sources, but still a valuable history if not a definitive operational or tactical recounting of these conflicts that still haunt us today.
The Second Battle of the Marne
The Second Battle of the Marne by Paul Greenwood ISBN: 9781840370089
on 2000
Pages: 211
Len's Summary: French, African, British, Dominion, Italian and American troops combine to defeat Ludendorf’s great gamble.
War and Punishment: The Causes of War Termination and the First World War
War and Punishment: The Causes of War Termination and the First World War by H. E. Goemans ISBN: 9780691049441
Published by Princeton University Press on August 20th 2000
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Political Science
Pages: 355
Len's Summary: A scholarly examination of war aims, the interplay of domestic and international factors, how and why the combatants ended The Great War, but failed to make peace.
Ordered to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War
Ordered to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War ISBN: 9780313315169 Published by Greenwood Publishing Group on November 30th 2000
Pages: 265
Len's Summary: The author is a retired U.S. Army officer and Turkish speaker who worked from Turkish Army archives not routinely accessible to civilian researchers.
French Women and the First World War: War Stories of the Home Front
French Women and the First World War: War Stories of the Home Front by Margaret H. Darrow ISBN: 9781859733660
Published by Bloomsbury Academic on August 1st 2000
Genres: History, Europe, France, Military, World War I, Social Science, Women's Studies
Pages: 341
The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds
The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds by Mark Cornwall ISBN: 9780312231514
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on September 2nd 2000
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Historiography, Europe, General
Pages: 503
Len's Summary: A welcome addition to English monographs on the Central Powers.
Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918
Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Roger Chickering, Stig Forster ISBN: 0521773520
Published by Cambridge University Press on September 11th 2000
Genres: History, Europe, General, Military, World War I
Pages: 584
Len's Summary: Drawn from a 1996 conference in Switzerland this volume has papers from many leading German historians. Something for everyone specialist and generalist alike.
About Face: A Daughter Looks Back at a Soldier and the Great War
About Face: A Daughter Looks Back at a Soldier and the Great War by Eleanor Elliot Brownell ISBN: 9780967978406
Published by World War I Press on 2000
Pages: 113
Len's Summary: The story of the campaign of soldier of the Fourth Division, AEF, in France based on his letters home.
Coronel and the Falklands
Coronel and the Falklands by Geoffrey Bennett ISBN: 1841580457
Published by Birlinn Publishers on March 1st 2001
Genres: History, Military, Vietnam War, World War I
Pages: 192
Len's Summary: The re-release in paperback of a classic 1962 study of two major naval actions in the South Atlantic and Pacific. Most useful for its description of the ships involved.
A Military Atlas of the First World War
A Military Atlas of the First World War by Arthur Banks ISBN: 9780850527919
Published by Leo Cooper on September 13th 2000
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Reference
Pages: 337
Len's Summary: First paperback edition of a fine standard reference work with 250 maps.
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson by Louis Auchincloss ISBN: 9780670889044
Published by Penguin on 2000
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Presidents & Heads of State, Political Science, Political Process, Leadership
Pages: 128
Len's Summary: A brief, well-crafted biography by one of America’s most acclaimed novelists and critics about one of America’s most complicated and controversial political personalities. Also available from Books on Tape at http://www.booksontape.com for $24.95.
Complete Idiot’s Guide to World War
Complete Idiot’s Guide to World War by Alan Axelrod, Walton H. Rawls ISBN: 0028639022
Published by Alpha on October 12th 2000
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, General
Pages: 432
Len's Summary: An expansion of the well-known Idiot’s Guides into WWI history. A useful reference, but one with many errors.
Death of an Army
Death of an Army by Anthony Farrar-Hockley ISBN: 9781853266980
on 2000
Pages: 195
Revolt in the Desert
Revolt in the Desert by T.E. Lawrence ISBN: 9781848856653
on 2001
Genres: History, Middle East, General, Travel, Special Interest, Literary
Pages: 352
The Great War
The Great War by John Terraine ISBN: 9781853266508
Published by Wordsworth Editions on 1998
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 400
1917 Spring Offensives: Arras, Vimy, le Chemin des Dames
The 1917 Spring Offensives by Yves Buffetaut ISBN: 290818267X
Published by Histoire & Collections on July 1st 1997
Gallipoli
Gallipoli by Alan Moorehead ISBN: 9780060937089
Published by HarperCollins on December 3rd 2002
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Europe, General
Pages: 416
Until the Last Trumpet Sounds: The Life of General of the Armies John J. Pershing
Until the Last Trumpet Sounds: The Life of General of the Armies John J. Pershing by Gene Smith ISBN: 1630262471
Published by John Wiley & Sons on October 1st 1999
Pages: 384
Len's Summary: The new one-volume biography of General John J. Pershing Until the Last Trumpet Sounds by Gene Smith (John Wiley & Sons) was panned by The New York Times, but got a better review from historian Rod Paschall writing for MHQ. Black Jack’s best biographies are multi-volume — Frank Vandiver’s and Donald Smythe’s come to mind — so this one is a handy, quick reference that captures the fundamentals of Pershing’s life.
The Great War and the Twentieth Century
The Great War and the Twentieth Century by Jay Winter, Geoffrey Parker, Jay Murray Winter ISBN: 0300081545
Published by Yale University Press on November 10th 2000
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 366
Len's Summary: Taken from a Yale University lecture series, this volume attempts to introduce recent scholarship on WWI drawing on both new historical approaches and newly-available Soviet archival materials. Heavy on traditional diplomatic issues.
The Netherlands and World War I: Espionage, Diplomacy and Survival
The Netherlands and World War I: Espionage, Diplomacy and Survival by Hubert P. Van Tuyll Van Serooskerken ISBN: 9004122435
Published by Brill on June 28th 2001
Genres: History, Military, General, Europe, World War I
Pages: 381
Len's Summary: Dr, van Tuyll teaches history at Augusta State University, Georgia. His article on this subject will appear shortly in Camaraderie.
Gallipoli 1915
Gallipoli 1915 by Timothy Travers ISBN: 9780752419756
Published by Tempus on 2001
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 287
Len's Summary: Travers, a distinguished military historian, is Professor of History at the University of Calgary.
The Western Front: Battleground and Home Front in the First World War
The Western Front: Battleground and Home Front in the First World War by Hunt Tooley ISBN: 9780333650639
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on August 16th 2003
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Modern, 20th Century
Pages: 368
Len's Summary: Synthesizes much earlier scholarship with particular analysis of the lasting social and political impact of the conflict on the home fronts of the belligerent powers. Dr. Tooley teaches history at Austin College, Texas and is the author of National Identity, and Weimar Germany: Upper Silesia and the Eastern Border, 1918-1922 (Nebraska, 1997).
Jutland: The German Perspective
Jutland: The German Perspective by V. E. Tarrant ISBN: 0304358487
Published by Cassell on December 31st 2001
Genres: History, Military, Naval
Pages: 320
Len's Summary: The paperback reissue of the 1995 analysis of a very near thing.
The Devil’s Chariots: The Origins and Secret Battles of Tanks in the First World War
The Devil's Chariots: The Origins and Secret Battles of Tanks in the First World War by John Glanfield ISBN: 0750927062
Published by Sutton Publishing on December 31st 2001
Pages: 336
German Anglophobia in the Great War, 1914-1918
German Anglophobia and the Great War, 1914-1918 by Matthew Stibbe ISBN: 9780521782968
Published by Cambridge University Press on May 3rd 2001
Pages: 282
Len's Summary: Scholarly analysis of German attitudes toward Great Britain during WWI and the related development of extreme right wing political networks in Munich and Berlin.
Forgotten Victory: The First World War – Myths and Realities
Forgotten Victory: The First World War - Myths and Realities by Gary Sheffield ISBN: 0747271577
Published by Headline on December 31st 2001
Pages: 298
Len's Summary: The is definitely worth reading as a revisionist look at the causes, strategy, leadership and consequences of The Great War in Great Britain and America. Not a survey history, but rather a first class series of essays.
A Grateful Heart: The History of a World War I Field Hospital
A Grateful Heart: The History of a World War I Field Hospital by Michael E. Shay ISBN: 9780313319112
Published by Greenwood Press on 2002
Pages: 237
Trench Art
Trench Art by Nicholas J. Saunders ISBN: 0850527937
Published by Pen & Sword Books on June 1st 2001
Genres: Art and war, Art metal-work, Found objects (Art), Popular Culture, Soldiers as artists, Art, Criticism & Theory, Subjects & Themes, General, History, Military, World War I
Pages: 192
Len's Summary: The first book we’ve seen on this subject of how front line soldiers passed the time between battles… Look for a review in the WFA newsletter The Field Memo later in 2001.
The First World War: The Outbreak, Events, and Aftermath
The First World War: The Outbreak, Events, and Aftermath by Keith Robbins ISBN: 9780192191632
on 2001
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 186
Len's Summary: A concise survey history of the military and political aspects of the conflict in paperback; a reissue of the 1984 version.
Kitchener
Kitchener by John Charles Pollock ISBN: 9780094803404
Published by Constable on February 3rd 2001
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Biography & Autobiography, Historical, Military, Political, World War I
Pages: 598
Len's Summary: All about a resolutely old-fashioned Field Marshall — an officer anda gentleman. Reviewed in the Financial Times, April 21, 2001.
Caporetto 1917: Victory or Defeat?
Caporetto 1917 Victory or Defeat by Mario Morselli ISBN: 0714650730
Published by Frank Cass Publishers on September 30th 2001
Genres: History, Military, General, Political Science, Security (National & International)
Pages: 171
Len's Summary: Given a mediocre review in War in History, April 2003.
The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I
The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I by John Mosier ISBN: 9780060084332
Published by Harper on April 24th 2001
Genres: History, Military, General, World War I, Strategy
Pages: 400
Len's Summary: Reviewed in the Financial Times and found wanting as a rehash of 1930s "blame it on the stupid generals" analysis. Mosher also asserts that America won the war for the Allies, a thesis certain to enrage our British cousins.
Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War
Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War by Annika Mombauer ISBN: 9780521791014
Published by Cambridge University Press on April 19th 2001
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Historical, History, Europe, General, Military, World War I, World War II, Juvenile Nonfiction, Military & Wars
Pages: 325
Pessimism and British War Policy, 1916-1918
Pessimism and British War Policy, 1916-1918 by Brock Millman ISBN: 0415761263
Published by Routledge on July 1st 2001
Pages: 336
Find and Destroy: Antisubmarine Warfare in World War I
Find and Destroy: Antisubmarine Warfare in World War I by Dwight R. Messimer ISBN: 1557504474
on September 2001
Genres: History, Military, Weapons
Pages: 312
Len's Summary: Messimer is a lecturer in History at San Diego State University and a specialist in WWI and early American aviation. His research benefited from his knowledge of German…
Ireland, the Great War and the Geography of Remembrance
Ireland, the Great War and the Geography of Remembrance by Nuala C. Johnson ISBN: 9780521826167
Published by Cambridge University Press on May 29th 2003
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Ireland, Modern, 20th Century, Historical Geography, Science, Earth Sciences, Geography
Pages: 192
Len's Summary: Also recommended: Dr. Edward Brynn’s article on The Conscription Debate in Ireland during the First World War presented at the September 2005 WFA national seminar at Newport News and available from Carl Barna at kmbarna@msn.com
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
