Royal Naval Air Service Pilot, 1914-1918 by Mark Barber, Adam Hook ISBN: 9781846039492
Published by Osprey Publishing on November 23rd 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Europe, Great Britain, Aviation, Illustrated
Pages: 64
Len's Summary: Operations of the RNAS in against zeppelins over England, in Flanders and over Gallipoli.
A Michigan Polar Bear Confronts the Bolsheviks: A Memoir
A Michigan Polar Bear Confronts the Bolsheviks: A Memoir ISBN: 9780802865205 Published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing on September 14th 2010
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, World War I, World War II, United States, Other, Europe, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 187
Len's Summary: Memoir of a member of the 337th Field Hospital part of a 5,000-man American Army unit in Northern Russia from 1918 to 1919.
The 500 Best Cockney War Stories
The 500 Best Cockney War Stories by Ian Hamilton ISBN: 9781848684249
Published by Amberley on February 2010
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Military, World War I, Veterans
Pages: 223
Len's Summary: First published in the early 1920s, this collection of humorous tales masks the grimness of the war in the trenches. Such tales served to help men keep their sanity.
The Real German War Plan, 1904-1914
The Real German War Plan, 1904-1914 by Terence Zuber ISBN: 9780752456645
Published by History Press on June 1 2011
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Military, Strategy, World War I
Pages: 190
Len's Summary: The author argues, as he has in several articles published in prestigious scholarly journals and at WFA seminars, that the Schlieffen Plan never existed.
German Soldiers in the Great War: Letters and Eyewitness Accounts
German Soldiers in the Great War: Letters and Eyewitness Accounts by Bernd Ulrich, Benjamin Ziemann ISBN: 1848841418
on March 1st 2011
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Military, World War I, Veterans
Pages: 212
Len's Summary: Primary source material on the perceptions of German front line soldiers. // A look at the lives of German front-line soldiers based on their own writings.
Desert Hell: the British Invasion of Mesopotamia
Desert Hell: the British Invasion of Mesopotamia by Charles Townshend ISBN: 9780674059993
Published by Harvard University Press on February 22nd 2011
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Europe, Great Britain, Middle East, General
Pages: 623
Len's Summary: A cautionary tale of imperial overreach.
With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat, 1918
With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat, 1918 by David Stevenson ISBN: 9780674062269
Published by Harvard University Press on September 19th 2011
Genres: History, Europe, General, Military, World War I, United States, Political Science, International Relations
Pages: 688
Len's Summary: A broad, sagely crafted political-military analysis of the 1918 end game of WWI focusing on the basis for the Allies’ incomplete victory and implications for peace. The author also wrote the excellent Armaments and the Coming of War, 1904-1914 (Oxford, 1996).
Britain and World War One
Britain and World War One by Alan G. V. Simmonds ISBN: 9781136629976
Published by Routledge on March 1st 2013
Genres: History, General, History, Europe, Western, Great Britain, Military, World War I
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: Another of Sheldon’s works that draws on German regimental histories to trace the opening battles from the German perspective.
The German Army at Ypres 1914 and the Battle for Flanders
The German Army at Ypres 1914 and the Battle for Flanders by Jack Sheldon ISBN: 9781848841130
on June 2011
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Military, World War I
Pages: 382
Len's Summary: Another of Sheldon’s works that draws on German regimental histories to trace the opening battles from the German perspective. // The author draws on regimental histories and memoirs in another of his series of studies of the German army on the Western Front.
Aftermaths of War: Women’s Movements and Female Activists, 1918-1923
Aftermaths of War: Women’s Movements and Female Activists, 1918-1923 by Ingrid Sharp, Matthew Stibbe ISBN: 9789004191723
Published by Brill on February 14th 2011
Genres: Social Science, Women's Studies, Feminism & Feminist Theory, History, Europe, General
Pages: 428
Len's Summary: An interdisciplinary work of eighteen chapters covering the countries of Europe examining the importance of women and their causes in creating a post war agenda.
Landscapes of the Western Front: Materiality during the Great War
Landscapes of the Western Front: Materiality during the Great War by Ross J. Wilson ISBN: 9780415808057
Published by Routledge on October 24th 2012
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Military, World War I, Modern, 20th Century
Pages: 244
Len's Summary: Historical anthropology: A multidisciplinary study of how British soldiers responded to the war landscape building a sense of place in a hostile, unpredictable environment.
Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908-1918
Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908-1918 by Michael A. Reynolds ISBN: 9780521149167
Published by Cambridge University Press on January 27th 2011
Genres: Political Science, History, Europe, General, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Social Science, Islamic Studies, Middle East
Pages: 324
Len's Summary: The confrontation in the Russo-Ottoman hinterlands from the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 through the Russian Revolution to the end of WWI. A study in imperial policy-making and warfare.
The Great War in Russian Memory
The Great War in Russian Memory by Karen Petrone ISBN: 9780253356178
Published by Indiana University Press on July 14th 2011
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Revolutionary, Europe, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Literary Criticism, Russian & Former Soviet Union
Pages: 385
Len's Summary: Though the war was never commemorated by the Soviet Union, it became the subject of lively discourse starting in the 1930s as war with Germany loomed once again.
German Soldier Newspapers of the First World War
German Soldier Newspapers of the First World War by Robert L. Nelson ISBN: 9781107695733
Published by Cambridge University Press on January 30th 2014
Genres: History, Military, General, World War I, Europe
Pages: 282
Len's Summary: Soldiers’ newspapers held a mirror to life on the Western Front.
Our Fritz: Emperor Frederick III and the Political Culture of Imperial Germany
Our Fritz: Emperor Frederick III and the Political Culture of Imperial Germany by Frank Lorenz Müller ISBN: 9780674048386
Published by Harvard University Press on October 10th 2011
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Historical, History, Europe, Germany, Modern, 19th Century
Pages: 366
Len's Summary: The story of Kaiser Frederick, father of Wilhelm II, who died of cancer after reigning for only 99 days. If he survived, he might have ushered in new era in Anglo-German relations, thus avoiding the hecatombs of WWI.
Captured Memories: Across the Threshold of War
Captured Memories: Across the Threshold of War by Peter Liddle ISBN: 9781848842342
on February 2011
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Military, World War I
Pages: 313
Len's Summary: A look at the famous and not so famous men and women who served on several fronts. The author is a distinguished British historian of both world wars whose collection of WWI documents and memorabilia is permanently housed at the University of Leeds.
Violence Against Prisoners of War in the First World War: Britain, France and Germany, 1914-1920
Violence Against Prisoners of War in the First World War: Britain, France and Germany, 1914-1920 by Heather Jones ISBN: 1107638267
Published by Cambridge University Press on June 2nd 2011
Genres: History, Europe, General, Military, Modern, 20th Century
Pages: 451
Len's Summary: A scholarly study of how the war radicalized captivity treatment undermining international law protecting POWs. As the war wore on and manpower grew scarce, increasing numbers of captives were not sent to the home front, but rather retained as laborers near the Western Front. See also Prisoners, Diplomats, and the Great War: A Study in the Diplomacy of Captivity, Richard G. Speed III, Greenwood, 1990.
Gallipoli
Gallipoli by Peter Hart ISBN: 9780199361274
Published by Oxford University Press on March 5th 2014
Genres: History, Australia & New Zealand, Europe, General, Military, World War I
Pages: 534
Len's Summary: British oral historian Hart reexamines the failed Gallipoli campaign drawing on letters and memoirs of soldiers on both sides. Lively and very readable.
Foch in Command: The Forging of a First World War General
Foch in Command: The Forging of a First World War General by Elizabeth Greenhalgh ISBN: 9781107633858
Published by Cambridge University Press on January 30th 2014
Genres: History, Military, General, World War I, Modern, 20th Century, Europe
Pages: 570
Len's Summary: A new look at the life and achievements of the allied generalissimo of WWI.
The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism
The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism by Casper W. Erichsen, David Olusoga ISBN: 9780571231423
Published by Faber & Faber on August 1st 2011
Genres: History, Africa, South, General, Europe, Germany, Military, Other, Political Science, Political Process
Pages: 394
Len's Summary: An indictment of German colonialism in South West Africa (present-day Namibia); the 1905 massacres of Herero and Nama tribesmen.
The Murder of the Romanovs
The Murder of the Romanovs by Andrew Cook ISBN: 9781848681033
Published by Amberley on March 2010
Genres: History, Europe, Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: Reinvestigation of a familiar tragedy.
The Imperial German Eagles in World War I: Their Postcards And Pictures
The Imperial German Eagles in World War I: Their Postcards And Pictures by Lance J. Bronnenkant ISBN: 9780764324406
Published by Schiffer Military History on April 2006
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, Europe, Germany, World War I, Pictorial
Pages: 348
Len's Summary: Volume three of a valuable reference work that includes some Austro-Hungarian airman. // The second in a planned three-part series looks at the collectible Sanke, Liersch and NPG postcards featuring German WWI aviators. Available in April 2008.
The Balkans: Revolution, War and Political Violence since 1878
The Balkans: Revolution, War and Political Violence since 1878 by Mark Biondich ISBN: 9780199299058
on February 17th 2011
Genres: History, Europe, General, Political Science, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Genocide & War Crimes
Pages: 400
Len's Summary: From the Ottoman Balkans and the 1878 Treaty of Berlin through the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and beyond; a primer in Balkan politics. This arrived just in time for the centenary of the Balkan Wars.
Indigenous Peoples of the British Dominions and the First World War
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Civil War in Europe, 1905-1949
Civil War in Europe, 1905-1949 by Stanley G. Payne ISBN: 9781107648159
Published by Cambridge University Press on September 30th 2011
Genres: History, Europe, General, Modern, 20th Century, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Military
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: Treats the world wars as a single conflict.
Essays on World War I
by Peter Pastor, Graydon Allen Tunstall ISBN: 9780880336864
Published by Columbia University Press on July 31st 2012
Genres: History, Europe, General, Eastern, Military, World War I, Essays
Pages: 188
Len's Summary: Selected papers from the February 2008 World War One Historical Association’s Florida and Gulf Coast Chapter seminar at Tampa. These focus largely on the war in Eastern and Central Europe. In addition to the editors, contributors include Richard DiNardo, Laurence Lyons, Timothy Dowling and Kees Boterbloem.
Men of War: Masculinity and the First World War in Britain
Men of War: Masculinity and the First World War in Britain by Jessica Meyer ISBN: 9780230302327
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on February 15th 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Europe, Great Britain, Modern, 20th Century, Social Science, Gender Studies
Pages: 232
Len's Summary: Social history; psychological investigation of men at war. // A scholarly examination of masculinity among British soldiers based in part on their correspondence.
Imperial Germany Revisited: Continuing Debates and New Perspectives
Imperial Germany Revisited: Continuing Debates and New Perspectives by Cornelius Torp, Sven Oliver Müller ISBN: 9780857459008
Published by Berghahn Books on October 15th 2012
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Modern, 19th Century, Essays
Pages: 362
Len's Summary: Essays on continuities and discontinuities in modern German History. -- An exploration of the German Empire, its structure and its dynamic development from 1871 to 1918.
Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain: The National War Aims Committee and Civilian Morale
Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain: The National War Aims Committee and Civilian Morale by David Monger ISBN: 9781781380130
Published by Liverpool University Press on March 1st 2014
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Modern, 20th Century
Pages: 310
Len's Summary: Demonstrates the significant role played by the War Arms Committee after July 1917 in combating war growing weariness among a civilian population worn down by years of total war.
Contested Frontiers in the Balkans: Ottoman, Habsburg and Communist Rivalries in Eastern Europe
Contested Frontiers in the Balkans: Ottoman, Habsburg and Communist Rivalries in Eastern Europe by Irina Marin ISBN: 9781780761053
on December 11th 2012
Genres: History, Europe, Eastern, Social History, Political Science, International Relations, General, Social Science, Anthropology, Cultural
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: Good background reading for the Great War, its aftermath and post WWII.
From Boer War to World War: Tactical Reform of the British Army, 1902–1914
From Boer War to World War: Tactical Reform of the British Army, 1902–1914 by Spencer Jones ISBN: 9780806144153
Published by University of Oklahoma Press on September 1st 2013
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Military, Strategy, Modern, 19th Century, Africa, South, Republic of South Africa
Pages: 312
Len's Summary: Key tactical lessons learned on the veldt and applied by the British Army during the interwar years, 1902-1913.
Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm
Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm by Harold James ISBN: 9780691153407
Published by Princeton University Press on February 26th 2012
Genres: Business & Economics, Economic History, History, Europe, Germany, Modern, General
Pages: 360
Len's Summary: Alfred Krupp and Big Bertha in peace and war.
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
