Indigenous Peoples of the British Dominions and the First World War by Timothy C. Winegard ISBN: 9781107014930
Published by Cambridge University Press on November 3rd 2011
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Military, General, World War I, Modern, 20th Century, Social Science, Anthropology, Cultural
Pages: 312
Len's Summary: Comparative study if the war experiences of the aborigines of the five self-governing Dominions of the British Empire. By the author of For King and Kanata (University of Manitoba Press, 2012) about the WWI service of Canadian “first nations” Indians. -- Study of the widely varying participation of the native peoples of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland and South Africa in WWI.
Soldiers of Song: The Dumbells and Other Canadian Concert Parties of the First World War
Soldiers of Song: The Dumbells and Other Canadian Concert Parties of the First World War by Jason Wilson ISBN: 9781554588442
Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press on November 6th 2012
Genres: History, Canada, Post-Confederation (1867-), Performing Arts, Comedy, Music, Genres & Styles, Military & Marches
Pages: 248
Len's Summary: Soldier-entertainers boost troop morale and mounted the first Canadian production to score a hit on Broadway. An important piece of Canadian cultural history.
An Anzac on the Western Front: Personal Recollections of an Austrian Infantryman from 1916 to 1918
An Anzac on the Western Front: Personal Recollections of an Austrian Infantryman from 1916 to 1918 by H. R. Williams ISBN: 9781848847675
on October 2012
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, World War I, Veterans, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 208
Len's Summary: First published in the 1920s, this memoir describes the horrors of the battlefield in graphic terms.
Rommel and Caporetto
Rommel and Caporetto by John Wilks, Eileen Wilks ISBN: 9781848848832
on June 30th 2012
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, Political, History, World War I
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: First examination in English of Rommel’s leadership in this resounding defeat of Italian arms. Written by two British historians specializing in the Italian Front.
The Western Front 1917-1918: From Vimy Ridge to Amiens and the Armistice
The Western Front 1917-1918: From Vimy Ridge to Amiens and the Armistice by Andrew A. Wiest ISBN: 9781906626136
Published by Amber Books on January 2009
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: A narrative history by one of America’s leading military historians shows how the British gained the upper hand in the west.
German Assault Troops of World War I: Organization Tactics Weapons Equipment Orders of Battle Uniforms
German Assault Troops of World War I: Organization Tactics Weapons Equipment Orders of Battle Uniforms by Thomas Wictor ISBN: 9780764340369
on April 28th 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Pictorial
Pages: 339
Len's Summary: Much information presented herein is gleaned from German archives not previously published in English; profusely illustrated with period photos. .
The Other Side of the Wire Volume 2: The Battle of the Somme With the German XIV Reserve Corps, 1 July 1916
The Other Side of the Wire Volume 2: The Battle of the Somme With the German XIV Reserve Corps, 1 July 1916 by Ralph Whitehead ISBN: 1907677127
Published by Helion & Company on January 15th 2013
Pages: 656
Len's Summary: Second of two volumes following the XIV corps from the 1914 invasion to the Battle of the Somme in 1916. -- The Somme from the German perspective. // How the Germans created a formidable defensive system to meet the BEF offensive starting in July 1916.
The Forgotten General: New Zealand’s World War 1 Commander Major-General Sir Andrew Russell
The Forgotten General: New Zealand's World War 1 Commander Major-General Sir Andrew Russell by Jock Vennell ISBN: 9781877505447
Published by Allen & Unwin on April 1st 2014
Pages: 338
Len's Summary: New Zealand in The Great War.
To the Fourth Shore: Italy‘s War for Libya (1911-1912)/Verso la Quarta Sponda: la Guerra Italiana per la Libia (1911-1912)
To the Fourth Shore: Italy‘s War for Libya (1911-1912)/Verso la Quarta Sponda: la Guerra Italiana per la Libia (1911-1912) by Bruce Vandervort ISBN: 9788896260296
on 2012
Pages: 363
Len's Summary: History of an almost forgotten conflict that helped spark the Balkan Wars.
Live Bait Squadron: Three Mass Graves off the Dutch Coast, 22 September 1914
Live Bait Squadron: Three Mass Graves off the Dutch Coast, 22 September 1914 by Henk Linden ISBN: 9789461532602
Published by Gazelle Book Services on August 1st 2012
Pages: 206
Len's Summary: The sinking of three obsolete British cruisers the Cressy, Houge and Aboukir by U-9 with the loss of 1459 men.
The Romanian Battlefront in World War I
The Romanian Battlefront in World War I by Glenn E. Torrey ISBN: 9780700620173
Published by University Press of Kansas on August 1st 2014
Genres: History, Europe, Eastern, Military, World War I, Romania
Pages: 440
Len's Summary: Combined German and Austro-Hungarian attacks quickly defeated the Romanian Army in 1916 obliging her allies to devote considerable force to staving off total Romanian collapse and attempting to prevent the Germans from seizing Romanian oil. One of a growing number books available in English on the Eastern Front and the Balkan Peninsula in WWI.
The Military Papers of Lieutenant-General Frederick Stanley Maude, 1914-1917
The Military Papers of Lieutenant-General Frederick Stanley Maude, 1914-1917 by Sir Stanley Maude, Andrew Syk ISBN: 9780752486192
Published by History Press for the Army Records Society on 2012
Pages: 312
Len's Summary: Maud, who died of cholera in 1917, served in Europe and the Middle East. This book concentrates on his important service in Mesopotamia.
They Shall Not Pass: The French Army on the Western Front 1914-1918
They Shall Not Pass: The French Army on the Western Front 1914-1918 by Ian Sumner ISBN: 9781848842090
on May 19th 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War I, France
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: A survey history of the French Army.
On Dupont Circle: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Progressives Who Shaped Our World
On Dupont Circle: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Progressives Who Shaped Our World by James Srodes ISBN: 9781619021655
Published by Counterpoint LLC on 2013
Genres: History, United States, General
Pages: 325
Len's Summary: Meeting informally in 1916 at various houses on Dupont Circle in Washington, DC, a group of young Progressives including the Roosevelts, Walter Lippman, Felix Frankfurter Allen, John Foster and Eleanor Dulles, and Herbert Hoover began to formulate the ideas which led to the New Deal and policies for winning World War II.
The Great War Explained
The Great War Explained by Philip Stevens ISBN: 9781783461868
on October 30th 2014
Pages: 240
Len's Summary: A primer of WWI for the non-specialist.
Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force
Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force by Peter Stanley ISBN: 9781741964806
Published by Pier 9 on August 1st 2010
Pages: 287
Len's Summary: Dirty Rotten Diggers: A survey of indiscipline in the always boisterous Australian Imperial Force. // A survey of indiscipline in the Australian forces of WWI; good soldiers acting badly. . .
At War with the 16th Irish Division, 1914-1918: The Letters of J H M Staniforth
At War with the 16th Irish Division, 1914-1918: The Letters of J H M Staniforth by John Staniforth, Richard Grayson ISBN: 9781848846340
on November 2012
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, World War I, Literary Collections, Letters
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: Graphic and evocative record of a soldier’s life.
The Devil’s Carnival: The First Hundred Days of Armageddon 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers August – December 1914
The Devil's Carnival: The First Hundred Days of Armageddon 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers August - December 1914 by John Mason Sneddon ISBN: 9781908336354
Published by Tommies Guides on October 1st 2012
Pages: 252
Len's Summary: The opening days of war for a typical British battalion of “contemptables.”
Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith ISBN: 9781250037794
Published by Picador on September 24th 2013
Genres: History, Europe, Former Soviet Republics, Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Pages: 528
Len's Summary: How Russian nobility coped with revolution chronicling the fate of two great Russian families the Sheremetevs and the Golitsyns. The author is former president of the Eastern Front Association. A History Book Club selection.
Carnage: The German Front in World War One- Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Images of War)
Carnage: The German Front in World War One- Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives (Images of War) by Alistair Smith ISBN: 9781848846821
Published by Pen & Sword Books on June 1st 2012
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Military, Pictorial, World War I
Pages: 128
Len's Summary: Photos from German collections depicting life in and around the trenches.
America’s Black Sea Fleet: The U.S. Navy Amidst War and Revolution, 1919-1923
America's Black Sea Fleet: The U.S. Navy Amidst War and Revolution, 1919-1923 by Robert Shenk ISBN: 9781612510538
Published by Naval Institute Press on 2012
Genres: History, Military, Other, Naval, Europe, Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Pages: 365
Len's Summary: In the turbulent aftermath of WWI, a US Navy squadron (based in Constantinople) was active in rescuing White Russians from the Crimea, transporting food to famine-stricken Russia and in evacuating Armenian and Greek refugees from Turkey.
The German Army on the Western Front, 1915
The German Army on the Western Front, 1915 by Jack Sheldon ISBN: 9781783032266
Published by Casemate Publishers on October 24th 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Germany
Pages: 348
Len's Summary: The other side of the wire. One of a series by Jack Sheldon.
The Western Front Experience: 1914-1918
The Western Front Experience: 1914-1918 by Gary Sheffield ISBN: 9781847329172
on February 7th 2012
Genres: History, Military, Pictorial, World War I
Pages: 63
Len's Summary: Billed as a basic guide to the Western Front; for the non specialist. // Heavily illustrated work describing the development of trench warfare spotlighting the appalling conditions endured by troops as well as specific actions and major battles. A coffee table book recommended by History Today.
The Great Game, 1857-1907: Russo-British Relations in Central and East Asia
The Great Game, 1857-1907: Russo-British Relations in Central and East Asia by Evgeny Sergeev ISBN: 1421415577
Published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press on August 25th 2014
Pages: 552
Len's Summary: The Russo-British competition for dominance in Asia drawing on the archives of regional actors, as well as those in Moscow and London. This cold war-like confrontation was muted for a time by the 1907 Entente which led to a WWI alliance between the two powers and France, the Triple Entente. The author is a Russian academic who has also written on the Russo-Japanese War.
Home Before the Leaves Fall: A New History of the German Invasion of 1914
Home Before the Leaves Fall: A New History of the German Invasion of 1914 by Ian Senior ISBN: 9781849088435
Published by Osprey Publishing on July 24th 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Europe, France, Germany
Pages: 392
Len's Summary: Germany’s near victory in World War One reexamined in detail. A History Book Club selection.
Spies in Uniform: British Military and Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the First World War
Spies in Uniform: British Military and Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the First World War by Matthew S. Seligmann ISBN: 9780199261505
Published by Oxford University Press on February 9th 2006
Pages: 272
Len's Summary: The author argues the thesis that Great Britain had good and sufficient reason, based on solid intelligence, to suspect aggressive German intentions in the years leading up to 1914.
The Royal Navy and the German Threat 1901-1914: Admiralty Plans to Protect British Trade in a War Against Germany
The Royal Navy and the German Threat 1901-1914: Admiralty Plans to Protect British Trade in a War Against Germany by Matthew S. Seligmann ISBN: 9780199574032
on May 24th 2012
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Military, World War I, Naval, Modern, 20th Century
Pages: 186
Len's Summary: A politico-military history delving into an important, but often ignored aspect of the Anglo-German naval race that preoccupied the Admiralty throughout the Edwardian period. A good companion to Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War by Nicholas Lambert (Harvard, 2012).
War Surgery, 1914-1918
War Surgery, 1914-1918 by Thomas Scotland, Steven Heys ISBN: 9781909384408
Published by Helion on December 19th 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Medical, Surgery, General, Essays
Pages: 287
Len's Summary: Ten essays ranging over the field of surgery as practiced in The Great War.
Business in the Trenches: Win Using the Lessons of War
Business in the Trenches: Win Using the Lessons of War by David Schroeder ISBN: 0982882904
on March 2nd 2011
Pages: 400
Len's Summary: Offers suggestions for successful business strategies based on WWI experience on the Western Front. Unique.
Deliver Us from Evil: A Southern Belle in Europe at the Outbreak of World War I
Deliver Us from Evil: A Southern Belle in Europe at the Outbreak of World War I by Mary W. Schaller, Nancy Johnson Crawford ISBN: 9781570039508
Published by University of South Carolina Press on January 1st 2011
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Women, History, Military, World War I, Social Science, Women's Studies
Pages: 170
Len's Summary: Letters from American women travelers caught in Europe in August 1914. // Traveling on the traditional Grand Tour in August 1914, the 25-year-old daughter of a Kentucky Congressman struggles to find a way home as railways are commandeered for troop movements, trans-Atlantic liners scurry for home ports, banks suspend foreign exchange operations and the lights go out all over Europe.
Raiding on the Western Front
Raiding on the Western Front by Anthony Saunders ISBN: 9781848844858
Published by Pen & Sword Books on July 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 209
Len's Summary: Explaining how trench raiding was employed to maintain aggressive spirit among the troops, as well as to gather intelligence from prisoners and dominate no man’s land.
A Prayer for Gallipoli: The Great War Diaries of Chaplain Kenneth Best
A Prayer for Gallipoli: The Great War Diaries of Chaplain Kenneth Best by Gavin Roynon ISBN: 9781849833677
Published by Simon & Schuster UK on November 6th 2012
Genres: History, Military, General, World War I, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: Chaplain Best was attached to the 42nd East Lancastrian Territorial Division. Also published under the title A Chaplain at Gallipoli.
Alix and Nicky: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina
Alix and Nicky: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina by Virginia Rounding ISBN: 9780312381004
Published by Macmillan on January 17th 2012
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Royalty, History, Europe, Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Pages: 368
Len's Summary: History Book Club selection. A devoted but tragically flawed couple.
A Gunner’s War: An Artilleryman’s Experience in the First World War
A Gunner's War: An Artilleryman's Experience in the First World War by Ian Ronayne ISBN: 9781848846081
Published by Pen & Sword Books on December 2012
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, Personal Memoirs, History, World War I
Pages: 192
Len's Summary: Memoirs of Clarence Ahler, a Channel Islander, who volunteered in 1914 and served with the BEF artillery on the Western Front.
The Kaiser’s Reluctant Conscript
The Kaiser’s Reluctant Conscript by Dominik Richert, David Carrick Sutherland ISBN: 9781781590331
Published by Pen & Sword Books on January 1st 2013
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, Personal Memoirs, History, World War I
Pages: 288
Len's Summary: Adventures of an Alsatian conscript who fought for Germany on both the Eastern and Western Fronts, finally deserting to the French in 1918.
When the United States Invaded Russia: Woodrow Wilson and the Siberian Disaster
When the United States Invaded Russia: Woodrow Wilson and the Siberian Disaster by Carl J. Richard ISBN: 9781442219892
Published by Rowman & Littlefield on December 1st 2012
Genres: History, Military, United States, Other, Europe, Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Pages: 195
Len's Summary: In one of America’s earliest counterinsurgency campaigns outside the Western Hemisphere, US troops (along with British, Canadian, Japanese, French and Italian contingents) invaded Siberia in 1918 in part to support White Russian forces against Bolshevik revolutionaries, and in part to rescue the Czech Legion, but most importantly to frustrate suspected Japanese plans for territorial expansion.
The Black Book: Woodrow Wilson’s Secret Plan for Peace
The Black Book: Woodrow Wilson's Secret Plan for Peace by Wesley J. Reisser ISBN: 9780739185391
Published by Lexington Books on 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Political Science, International Relations, Treaties, Peace, Social Science, Human Geography, United States
Pages: 204
Len's Summary: American involvement in negotiating the breakup of European empires with particular reference to redrawing national borders in Central and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. These frontiers remain a living problem for diplomacy today.
Strategy and Command: The Anglo-French Coalition on the Western Front, 1914
Strategy and Command: The Anglo-French Coalition on the Western Front, 1914 by Roy A. Prete ISBN: 0773540792
Published by McGill-Queen's University Press on August 20th 2012
Pages: 280
Len's Summary: First published in hardcover in 2009, this is the first of three planned volumes on the Franco-British military alliance. // First of three planned volumes on the ever-evolving Anglo-French alliance in WWI.
Bill the Bastard
Bill the Bastard by Roland Perry ISBN: 9781743312629
Published by Allen & Unwin on 2012
Pages: 274
Len's Summary: If you liked War Horse, you will enjoy this tale of the bond between an Australian Light Horse officer and his cantankerous mount.
A Kingdom United: Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in Britain and Ireland
A Kingdom United: Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in Britain and Ireland by Catriona Pennell ISBN: 0198708467
Published by Oxford University Press on September 24th 2014
Pages: 326
Len's Summary: In the days before public opinion surveys no statistical estimates of popular opinion were possible. This study attempts to approximate such a survey using diaries, journals, letters and newspaper accounts over the first five months of conflict. -- A wide variety of responses, not all positive, drawn from personal correspondence, diaries and the popular press.
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
