Naval Weapons of World War One: Guns, Torpedoes, Mines, and ASW Weapons of All Nations: An Illustrated Directory by Norman Friedman ISBN: 9781848321007
Published by Seaforth Publishing on December 12th 2011
Pages: 320
Len's Summary: A valuable resource book on naval weapons used by all the belligerents and by several neutral powers, as well.
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.
Royal Flying Corps Technical Notes on the Airplanes and Engines of 1916
Royal Flying Corps Technical Notes on the Airplanes and Engines of 1916 by Patrick Ellam ISBN: 9781450299480
Published by iUniverse on March 11th 2011
Genres: History, Military, Aviation, Transportation, General
Pages: 132
Len's Summary: How airplanes of 1916 were built and how to fly them, by a British pursuit pilot.
Haig: Master of the Field
Haig: Master of the Field by John Davidson ISBN: 9781848843622
on November 15th 2010
Genres: History, Military, General
Pages: 192
Len's Summary: Concentrates on the dramatic events of 1917 and 1918 and Haig’s conduct of operations in the final two years of war.
Race, Empire and First World War Writing
Race, Empire and First World War Writing by Santanu Das ISBN: 9781107664494
Published by Cambridge University Press on January 20th 2014
Genres: Literary Criticism, European, General, History, Military, World War I, Social Science
Pages: 350
Len's Summary: Using primary sources, Das looks at the experiences of various ethnic groups during WW1.
Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials
Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials by Vahakn N. Dadrian, Taner Akçam ISBN: 0857452517
Published by Berghahn Books on December 1st 2011
Genres: History, Middle East, Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Law, Criminal Law, General
Pages: 376
Len's Summary: Analysis of the official Ottoman record Turkish military tribunals concerning crimes against Armenians during WWI. One of a number of new analyses of the 1915 Armenian massacres as the centenary of those events approaches.
Edward Thomas: Prose Writings: A Selected Edition, Volume 1: Autobiographies
Edward Thomas: Prose Writings: A Selected Edition, Volume 1: Autobiographies by Guy Cuthbertson ISBN: 9780199586950
on March 31st 2011
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Literary, Literary Criticism, Poetry, General
Pages: 400
Len's Summary: Best remembered for his poetry which was published posthumously, Thomas (killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917) was appreciated by contemporaries for his prose.
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography by John Milton Cooper ISBN: 9780307277909
Published by Vintage Books on April 5th 2011
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Presidents & Heads of State, History, General
Pages: 702
Len's Summary: Pulitzer Prize finalist. Cooper is the leading living Wilson scholar. He writes on a President who remains controversial to this day a hundred years after he was elected by a plurality (defeating Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft) to the first of two terms in office. Remembered principally for leading America in to WWI, Wilson also deserves to be remembered for important amounts of progressive legislation enacted during his first term. // The first bio of the 28th President in some 20 years written by the noted historian John Milton Cooper, author of several books on the Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, the Progressive Era and WWI. A sympathetic examination of the life and politics of the 28th President by a master historian and reigning expert on Wilson’s career.
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.
In a Strange Land: The American Occupation of Germany 1918-1923
In a Strange Land: The American Occupation of Germany 1918-1923 by Alexander Barnes ISBN: 9780764337611
on July 28th 2011
Genres: History, Military, General, Pictorial, United States, Germany
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: Heavily illustrated popular history of the brief US occupation of the Rhineland as compared to British and other occupiers.
Camp and Combat on the Sinai and Palestine Front: The Experience of the British Empire Soldier, 1916-18
Camp and Combat on the Sinai and Palestine Front: The Experience of the British Empire Soldier, 1916-18 by Edward Woodfin ISBN: 9780230303768
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on July 3rd 2012
Genres: History, Middle East, General, Military, World War I, Modern, 20th Century
Pages: 220
Len's Summary: A portrait of life in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force drawing on soldiers’ letters and diaries.
For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War
For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War by Timothy C. Winegard ISBN: 9780887557286
Published by University of Manitoba Press on January 15th 2012
Genres: History, Canada, General, Military, World War I, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: How national politics and international forces shaped the experiences of some 4,000 native Canadians who served in the Canadian forces from 1914 to 1919.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The March on Paris: The Memoirs of Alexander von Kluck, 1914-1918
The March on Paris: The Memoirs of Alexander von Kluck, 1914-1918 by Alexander Von Kluck ISBN: 1848326394
Published by Frontline Books on April 19th 2012
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, General, History, Military, World War I, Modern, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 134
Len's Summary: By the commander of the extreme right flank of the German attack in 1914.
The Will to Believe: Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America’s Strategy for Peace and Security
The Will to Believe: Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America's Strategy for Peace and Security by Ross A. Kennedy ISBN: 9780873389716
Published by Kent State University Press on March 13th 2009
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, General, 20th Century, Political Science, International Relations
Pages: 291
Len's Summary: A nuanced look at the debate surrounding Wilson’s national security policy and the shadow this casts across contemporary foreign policy formulation. // The author, an Assistant Professor of History at Illinois State University, takes a new, sophisticated look at how three competing groups — pacifists, liberal internationalists and Atlanticists — addressed national security issues during the Wilson Administration. // A fresh analysis of Wilson’s foreign policy focusing on three competing groups: pacifists, liberal internationalists, and Atlanticists.
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.
The Hounds of Ulster: A History of the Northern Irish Regiments in the Great War
The Hounds of Ulster: A History of the Northern Irish Regiments in the Great War by Gavin Hughes ISBN: 9783034308335
Published by Peter Lang on May 21st 2012
Genres: History, Europe, General, Ireland
Pages: 305
Len's Summary: The Ulstermen fought in two cavalry and three infantry regiments, as well as the Irish Guards. A political, military and social history.
A Companion to World War I
A Companion to World War I by John Horne ISBN: 9781119968702
Published by John Wiley & Sons on January 30th 2012
Genres: History, General, Military, World War I, Essays
Pages: 724
Len's Summary: First published in hard cover in 2011, this volume contains 38 essays by leading scholars on military, social, economic, political, technical and cultural aspects of the conflict. Also available as an e-book. Horn won the Tomlinson Book Prize in 2002. -- Thirty-eight analytical essays by leading scholars who represent the cutting edge of research on WWI and its legacy. Holger Herwig’s essay on the War in the West is of particular interest. Both Horn and Herwig are winners of the WFA’s Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize. -- Essays on the world before, during and after The Great War edited by a winner of the WFA Annual Tomlinson Book Prize. Military, diplomatic and cultural legacies of the war; war crimes, film and gender issues. A less expansive paperback version is promised. Order from www.blackwellreference.com.
Strategy and War Planning in the British Navy, 1887-1918
Strategy and War Planning in the British Navy, 1887-1918 by Shawn T. Grimes ISBN: 9781843836988
Published by Boydell Press on February 16th 2012
Genres: History, Military, Strategy, World War I, Naval, Modern, General
Pages: 263
Len's Summary: The author takes the stance that the Admiralty in no way exaggerated a very real German threat. See also The Royal Navy and the German Threat, 1901-1914, Matthew S. Seligmann (Oxford, 2012).
Shoulder Sleeve Insignia of the American Expeditionary Forces 1918-1919
Shoulder Sleeve Insignia of the American Expeditionary Forces 1918-1919 by H. Ross Ford ISBN: 9780764340444
Published by Schiffer Publishing on April 28th 2012
Genres: History, Military, General, Illustrated
Pages: 208
Len's Summary: Many of these distinguishing unit markings are still in use today.
Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918
Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918 by Richard S. Fogarty ISBN: 9781421407661
Published by Johns Hopkins University Press on December 5th 2012
Genres: History, Europe, France, Military, World War I, General, Strategy, Social History
Pages: 400
Len's Summary: Paperback version of an excellent social-military-political history first published by Johns Hopkins in 2008. How French egalitarianism was challenged by the conscription of more than half a million colonial troops during WWI, a “blood tax” levied on her African and Asian subjects. // An excellent scholarly analysis of colonial troops at war; a study of contradictory and paradoxical French policies on race, culture and religion in wartime drawing on individual experiences among the half million African, Arab and Asian soldiers who served France in WWI. Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta First Book Prize. The author teaches at SUNY Albany.
Riders of the Apocalypse: German Cavalry and Modern Warfare, 1870-1945
Riders of the Apocalypse: German Cavalry and Modern Warfare, 1870-1945 by D. R. Dorondo ISBN: 9781612510866
Published by Naval Institute Press on May 15th 2012
Genres: History, Military, General, World War II, Other, Technology & Engineering, Military Science
Pages: 312
Len's Summary: A history of the German cavalry from the Franco-Prussian War to the end of World War Two.
A Nurse at the Front: The Great War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton. Edited by Ruth Cowen
A Nurse at the Front: The Great War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton. Edited by Ruth Cowen by Ruth Cowen, Edith Appleton ISBN: 9780857202246
Published by Simon and Schuster on March 1st 2012
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, General, Personal Memoirs, World War I
Pages: 320
Len's Summary: War diaries of a British nurse.
German Colonialism: A Short History
German Colonialism: A Short History by Sebastian Conrad ISBN: 9781107400474
Published by Cambridge University Press on November 17th 2011
Genres: History, Europe, General, Modern, Political Science, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Pages: 246
Len's Summary: A succinct survey history of German colonial expansion and policies from 1885 until it lost its colonial possessions in the Pacific, Asia and Africa as a result of WWI. Unlike several recent studies, this one contends that German colonial policy, though undeniably harsh and racially biased, did not necessarily fore shadow the Holocaust and was not dissimilar to that of France and Britain. (Originally published in German in 2008.)
Empires, Soldiers, and Citizens: A World War I Sourcebook
Empires, Soldiers, and Citizens: A World War I Sourcebook by Marilyn Shevin Coetzee, Frans Coetzee ISBN: 9780470655825
Published by Wiley-Blackwell on September 17th 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War II, General
Pages: 408
Len's Summary: Offers eyewitness perspectives on the war on the front lines and at home.
The World War I Memoirs of Robert P. Patterson: A Captain in the Great War
The World War I Memoirs of Robert P. Patterson: A Captain in the Great War by Robert Porter Patterson, Gary J. Clifford ISBN: 9781572338821
Published by Univ. of Tennessee Press on February 7th 2012
Genres: History, General, Military, World War II, World War I, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 136
Len's Summary: Under Secretary of War during WWII and later Secretary of War; Patterson won the DSC as a WWI infantry officer.
Her Voice, Her Century: Four Plays About Daring Women
Her Voice, Her Century: Four Plays About Daring Women by David Cheoros, Karen Simonson, Debbie Marshall ISBN: 1926972996
Published by Brindle and Glass on September 25th 2012
Genres: Drama, Canadian, Women Authors, History, Canada, General
Pages: 240
Len's Summary: Four plays about Canadian women including one about a journalist covering WWI.
American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic by Nancy K. Bristow ISBN: 9780199811342
Published by Oxford University Press on April 30th 2012
Genres: History, United States, State & Local, General, Modern, 20th Century, South, Medical, Public Health
Pages: 280
Len's Summary: The global flu pandemic of 1918-1920 sickened mainly young adults killed some 50 million people, half a million in America alone, shaking new-found confidence in medicine and having a profound effect on society.
The Edwardian Army: Manning, Training, and Deploying the British Army, 1902-1914
The Edwardian Army: Manning, Training, and Deploying the British Army, 1902-1914 by Timothy Bowman ISBN: 0199542783
Published by Oxford University Press on September 26th 2012
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Modern, 20th Century, Military, General
Pages: 288
Len's Summary: The shock of the Boer War led to massive reform in the British Army increasing its readiness, but not necessarily preparing it for The Great War
Winning and Losing on the Western Front: The British Third Army and the Defeat of Germany in 1918
Winning and Losing on the Western Front: The British Third Army and the Defeat of Germany in 1918 by Jonathan Boff ISBN: 9781107449022
Published by Cambridge University Press on November 20th 2014
Genres: History, Military, General, Europe, Great Britain, Modern, 20th Century
Pages: 310
Len's Summary: The final 100 days’ battles drawing on British and German archival material.
Churchill and Sea Power
Churchill and Sea Power by Christopher M. Bell ISBN: 9780199693573
Published by OUP Oxford on October 25th 2012
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Historical, Military, History, Europe, Great Britain, General, World War I, World War II, Naval, Modern, 20th Century
Pages: 429
Len's Summary: Analysis of Churchill’s controversial role in as political head of the Royal Navy in two world wars.
The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began
The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began by Jack Beatty ISBN: 9780802778116
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA on February 14th 2012
Genres: History, General, Military, World War I, World
Pages: 392
Len's Summary: A History Book Club Selection. The author argues that WWI was by no means inevitable, mapping five possible paths that lead away from war.
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle That Shaped the Middle East
A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle That Shaped the Middle East by James Barr ISBN: 9781847394576
Published by Simon & Schuster on April 26th 2012
Genres: History, General, Middle East
Pages: 454
Len's Summary: Starting with the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, the author traces Anglo-French rivalries in and around the Levant through the 1940s.
Field Grey Uniforms of the Imperial German Army, 1907-1918
Field Grey Uniforms of the Imperial German Army, 1907-1918 by Michael Baldwin, Malcolm Fisher ISBN: 0764340336
Published by Schiffer Publishing on May 1st 2012
Genres: History, Military, General, Illustrated, Germany
Pages: 271
Len's Summary: The book presents profuse illustrations and reflects Schiffer’s usual attention to detail; for the collector of uniforms.
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
