Leonard Wood: Rough Rider, Surgeon, Architect of American Imperialism by
Jack McCallum ISBN: 0814756999
Published by New York University Press on December 1st 2005
Pages: 357
Len's Summary: An almost forgotten Medal of Honor-winner Major General Leonard Wood (1860-1927), a Harvard Medical School graduate, was the first commander of the Rough Riders, Governor of Cuba, US Army commander in the Philippines, Theodore Roosevelt's personal White House physician, Army Chief of Staff, Governor General of the Philippines, and a key figure in creating the modern army, as well as unsuccessful candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1920.
Margaret Macdonald: Imperial Daughter by
Susan Mann ISBN: 0773538003
on September 1st 2010
Pages: 328
Len's Summary: Ms. Macdonald served as chief of Canadian overseas nursing during WWI with the rank of Major, the first such appointment for a woman in the British Empire. She also served as a nurse in the Spanish-American and Boer Wars, and during the building of the Panama Canal.
The Little Field Marshall: Sir John French by
Richard Holmes 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.
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
Len's Summary: The story of Australia's leading air ace.
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
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.
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
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.
George Browne: An American Soldier in World War I by
George Browne,
David L. Snead ISBN: 0803213514
Published by University of Nebraska Press on June 1st 2006
Genres: Military,
Biography & Autobiography,
Personal Memoirs Pages: 202
Len's Summary: The letters of George "Brownie" Browne, Doughboy of the 117th Engineers of the 42nd Rainbow Division sent to his fiance during his 18 months of service.
Twelve Days on the Somme: A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916 by
Sidney Rogerson ISBN: 9781848325340
Published by Frontline Books on July 2009
Pages: 172
Len's Summary: Memoirs of a British subaltern first published in 1933; vivid descriptions with out embellishment of life on the front lines written by a survivor of the 1916 Somme offensive. Unabashedly intended as an antidote to the usual downbeat 1930's war memoir.
Portrait of War: The U.S. Army's First Combat Artists and the Doughboys' Experience in WWI by
Peter Krass ISBN: 9780471670230
Published by Wiley on October 27th 2006
Genres: Art,
Biography & Autobiography,
Military,
Personal Memoirs Pages: 342
Len's Summary: The story of established artists and illustrators commissioned to make a pictorial record of America in WWI.
Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: A Political Soldier by
Keith Jeffery ISBN: 9780199239672
Published by Oxford University Press on January 1st 2008
Pages: 325
Len's Summary: The story of a passionate Irish unionist who was one of England's most influential soldiers before and during WWI. Wilson was BEF liaison to the French Army and Western Front corps commander before replacing Sir William Robertson as Chief of the Imperial General Staff in February 1918. He was assassinated by the IRA in 1922.
Theodore Roosevelt and World Order: Police Power in International Relations by
James R. Holmes ISBN: 1574888846
Published by Potomac Books on April 1st 2007
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: A new look at Roosevelt's "Big Stick" policies, the Roosevelt Corollaries to the Monroe Doctrine and American imperialism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author is a former naval officer and a Ph.D. graduate of the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House by
Godfrey Hodgson ISBN: 9780300092691
Published by Yale University Press Genres: Biography & Autobiography,
Political Science,
International Relations,
Diplomacy,
United States Pages: 335
Len's Summary: An important new biography of Wilson's alter ego and roving diplomatic emissary. How a Texas pol made to the center of the national and international political stages.
Duffy's War: Fr. Francis Duffy, Wild Bill Donovan, and the Irish Fighting 69th in World War I by
Stephen L. Harris ISBN: 1574886517
Published by Potomac Books on October 1st 2006
Genres: Biography & Autobiography,
Military Pages: 462
Len's Summary: A third book by Harris (a frequent speaker at WFA seminars) on New York National Guard regiments in on the Western Front.
Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War by
Martha Hanna ISBN: 0674030516
Published by Harvard University Press on September 1st 2008
Genres: Military,
Biography & Autobiography Pages: 341
Len's Summary: The author is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado-Boulder who spoke at the WFA 2006 National Seminar. This is highly personal, powerful and moving perspective on The Great War drawn from hundreds of letters exchanged by a French newlywed couple separated by the conflict. Dr. Hanna is also the author of The Mobilization of Intellect: French Scholars and Writers during the Great War (Harvard, 1996).
Thomas Boyd: Lost Author of the Lost Generation by
Brian Bruce ISBN: 1931968330
Published by University Of Akron Press on May 30th 2006
Genres: Biography & Autobiography,
Military Pages: 188
Len's Summary: First biography of the author of Through the Wheat (Nebraska, 2000), a novel of US Marines in World War One. A contemporary of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Boyd served with the Sixth Marines at Soissons, Belleau Wood, St. Mihiel, and Blanc Mont, where he was severely gassed. For a review, go to www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/thomasboyd.html
Lawrence of Arabia: The Life, the Legend by
Malcolm Brown ISBN: 0500512388
Published by Thames & Hudson on October 31st 2005
Genres: Biography & Autobiography Pages: 208
Len's Summary: 180 illustrations including photos taken by Lawrence compiled by the author, who is a distinguished historian of the Great War working at the Imperial War Museum in London. Several of the photos taken by Lawrence appeared in the summer 2006 edition of MHQ - The Quarterly Journal of Military History.
Last Post: The Final Word From Our First World War Soldiers by
Max Arthur ISBN: 1780227418
Published by Orion Publishing on June 1st 2014
Pages: 272
Len's Summary: One of several new books featuring interviews with a small and rapidly dwindling number of surviving British WWI veterans.
Sergeant Stubby: How a Stray Dog and His Best Friend Helped Win World War I and Stole the Heart of a Nation by
Ann Bausum ISBN: 9781426214653
Published by National Geographic Society on May 5th 2015
Pages: 240
Len's Summary: A doughboy’s pet becomes a decorated war hero. Light hearted history. A History Book Club selection.
Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed by
John F. Ross ISBN: 9781250033840
Published by St. Martin's Press on May 5th 2015
Genres: Military,
Aviation,
Biography & Autobiography Pages: 416
Len's Summary: A new biography tracing the larger than life career of the Indianapolis racing car owner- driver, 26-victory WWI ace, Medal of Honor winner, and founder of Eastern Airlines. The often crude and always irrepressible Rickenbacker cut a wide swath across the first half of the 20th century.
Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street by
Margot Asquith,
Michael George Brock,
Eleanor Brock ISBN: 0198229771
Published by Oxford University Press on August 1st 2014
Pages: 417
Len's Summary: The outspoken wife of UK Prime Minister Herbert Asquith tells almost all.
Douglas Haig As I Knew Him by
George S. Duncan ISBN: 9781473827707
on January 30th 2015
Genres: Biography & Autobiography,
Military Pages: 144
Len's Summary: A positive assessment of a controversial commander.
21st Century Sims: Innovation, Education, and Leadership for the Modern Era by
Benjamin Armstrong ISBN: 1612518109
Published by US Naval Institute Press on February 15th 2015
Genres: Biography & Autobiography,
Military,
Naval Pages: 176
Len's Summary: Admiral William S. Sims twice President of the US Naval War College, gunnery expert and commander of US Naval Forces in Europe during WWI was a true military intellectual.
Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Concise Life by
John Rohl ISBN: 9781107420779
Published by Cambridge University Press on August 21st 2014
Pages: 261
Len's Summary: A short version of Röhl’s multi-volume biography of a man emotionally and intellectually unfit to rule over Europe’s most powerful country.
Onward, Dear Boys: A Family Memoir of the Great War by
Philippe Bieler ISBN: 9780773544680
Published by McGill-Queen's University Press on November 7th 2014
Genres: Biography & Autobiography,
Military,
Canada Pages: 340
Len's Summary: Story of the wartime experiences of a Swiss Protestant family that immigrated to Montreal and sent their sons to war.
The First World War Diaries of Emma Duffin: Belfast Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse by
Trevor Parkhill,
Emma Duffin ISBN: 9781846825224
Published by Four Courts Press on July 25th 2014
Genres: Biography & Autobiography,
Personal Memoirs,
Ireland,
Military,
Women Pages: 256
Len's Summary: Nurse Duffin’s service in Egypt and France from 1915 to 1918. Until just recently such treatments of Irish service in WWI were rare.
Wilfred Owen: An Illustrated Life by
Jane Potter ISBN: 9781851243945
Published by Bodleian Library on January 7th 2014
Genres: Biography & Autobiography,
Literary Pages: 144
Len's Summary: A view of the connections between the poet and his life experiences.
Franz Joseph and Elisabeth: The Last Great Monarchs of Austria-Hungary by
Karen Owens ISBN: 9780786476749
Published by McFarland on November 6th 2013
Pages: 200
Len's Summary: Franz Joseph reigned from 1848 to 1916, taking Austria through three military defeats; Elizabeth was assassinated before war erupted.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Platoon: An Infantryman on the Western Front 1916-1918 by
Joseph Steward,
Andrew Robertshaw ISBN: 9781848843615
on 2011
Genres: Biography & Autobiography,
General,
History,
Military,
World War I Pages: 200
Len's Summary: A fictionalized account of John Joseph Steward’s wartime career published here for the first time.
A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne: A Memoir, 1917-1918 by
William S. Triplet,
Robert H. Ferrell ISBN: 0826212905
Published by University of Missouri Press on August 1st 2000
Genres: Biography & Autobiography,
Historical,
Military,
History,
Europe,
France,
World War I Pages: 344
Len's Summary: Another interesting Great War memoir produced by an important American regional publisher.
Ataturk – The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey by
Andrew Mango ISBN: 1585670111
Published by Overlook Books on April 3rd 2000
Len's Summary: The Author is sparing in his praise of Mustapha Kemal’s military prowess at Gallipoli, but unstinting in his admiration for Ataturk’s political and military skill in thwarting Allied plans to partition the Ottoman Empire. Based largely on Turkish sources.
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.
Churchill and the Dardanelles by Christopher M. Bell 
The Living Unknown Soldier: A Story of Grief and the Great War by 
Petain: How the Hero of France Became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History by 
Hobey Baker, American Legend by 
The Cruise of the Sea Eagle: The Amazing True Story of Imperial Germany's Gentleman Pirate by 
