Ten Days in August: The Siege of Liège, 1914 by Terence Zuber ISBN: 9780752491448
Published by History Press on November 1st 2014
Pages: 272
Len's Summary: Erich Ludendorff made his reputation by reducing the forts of Liege which were delaying the German advance into France. The author is a retired US Army officer who also wrote the controversial The Real German War Plan 1904-1914 (The History Press. 2011).
Germany and Propaganda in World War I: Pacifism, Mobilization and Total War
Germany and Propaganda in World War I: Pacifism, Mobilization and Total War by David Welch ISBN: 9781780768274
Published by I.B.Tauris on July 30th 2014
Genres: Germany, Military
Pages: 384
Len's Summary: Fist published in 2000, this revised edition helps explain why the German people supported the war effort despite mounting privations.
Behind the Lines: WWI’s little-known story of German occupation, Belgian resistance, and the band of Yanks who helped save millions from starvation
Behind the Lines: WWI's little-known story of German occupation, Belgian resistance, and the band of Yanks who helped save millions from starvation by Jeffrey B. Miller ISBN: 9780990689300
Published by Milbrown Press on September 16th 2014
Pages: 442
Len's Summary: The story of the start-up operations of the Committee on Belgian Relief headed by Herbert Hoover which fed more than nine million Belgians and French trapped behind German lines.
The German Offensive of 1918
The German Offensive of 1918 by Martin Kitchen ISBN: 9780752417998
Published by Tempus on October 2001
Pages: 283
Len's Summary: Dr. Kitchen of Simon Frazier University is a leading expert on the German Army.
The Kaiser’s Army: The Politics of Military Technology in Germany during the Machine Age, 1870-1918
The Kaiser's Army: The Politics of Military Technology in Germany during the Machine Age, 1870-1918 by Eric Dorn Brose ISBN: 0195143353
Published by Oxford University Press on 2001
Pages: 336
Wielding the Dagger: The MarineKorps Flandern and the German War Effort, 1914-1918
Wielding the Dagger: The MarineKorps Flandern and the German War Effort, 1914-1918 by Mark D. Karau ISBN: 9780313324758
Published by Praeger on October 30th 2003
Genres: History, Europe, General, Germany, Military, World War I
Pages: 268
Len's Summary: Two divisions made up of naval reservists were formed and deployed as infantry and artillerymen on the Flanders coast in 1914. Many of them and their officers are buried at Vladslo and other German cemeteries in Belgium which we visited on our April 2003 tour of the Ypres Salient. // The little known story of a two-division-sized German submarine-destroyer and naval infantry-artillery group operating in Belgian Flanders.
War Experiences in Rural Germany: 1914-1923
War Experiences in Rural Germany: 1914-1923 by Benjamin Ziemann ISBN: 9781845202453
Published by Berg on January 15th 2007
Pages: 302
Len's Summary: Social history. // Challenges many widespread preconceptions of the effect of WWI on veterans and their communities.
A People’s War: Germany’s Political Revolution, 1913-1918
A People's War by Jeffrey R. Smith ISBN: 076183642X
Published by University Press of America on December 21st 2006
Genres: History, Europe, Germany
Pages: 213
Len's Summary: The author sees WWI in Germany as the occasion for the assertion of popular sovereignty, a movement that unified Germans across social and political lines shattering the monarchy.
The German Army at Passchendaele
The German Army at Passchendaele by Jack Sheldon ISBN: 1844155641
Published by Pen & Sword Books on October 1st 2007
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: A history of the Third Battle of Ypres, 1917, from the German point of view. One of several new histories marking the 90th anniversary of this battle of attrition that fell far short of its original objective of overrunning German naval bases at Ostend and Zeebrugge.
Conservative Party and Anglo-German Relations, 1905-1914
Conservative Party and Anglo-German Relations, 1905-1914 by Frank McDonough ISBN: 9780230517110
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on June 15th 2007
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Germany
Pages: 184
Len's Summary: A scholarly corrective to the traditional depiction of the Conservatives as “scaremongers” and the chief source of anti-German views in the pre-war period.
Rehearsals: The German Army in Belgium, August 1914
Rehearsals: The German Army in Belgium, August 1914 by Jeff Lipkes ISBN: 9789058675965
Published by Leuven University Press on October 1st 2007
Pages: 815
Len's Summary: A revisionist historian looks at German looting, arson and executions of Belgian civilians asserting that these were neither figments of Entente propaganda, nor simply results of collective paranoia (fear of franc tireurs), but rather part of a deliberate campaign of terrorism ordered by military authorities. The author is a Princeton Ph.D. Another in a lengthening series of books examining German military government and occupation policies in World War One. // Detailed narrative of the German invasion of Belgium and the violence against civilians that accompanied it. See also German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial winner of the Tomlinson Prize for 2002.
The Great War and Medieval Memory: War, Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940
The Great War and Medieval Memory: War, Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940 by Stefan Goebel ISBN: 0521123062
Published by Cambridge University Press on November 12th 2009
Pages: 357
Len's Summary: The author believes that people in Britain and Germany grappled with the horrors of industrialized war by arranging the sacrifices of its victims on a historical continuum stretching back to and emphasizing the Middle Ages. // A comparative history of the cultural impact of war.
The Red Baron’s Last Flight: An In-Depth Investigation into what Really Happened on the Day Von Richthofen was Shot Down
The Red Baron's Last Flight: An In-Depth Investigation into what Really Happened on the Day Von Richthofen was Shot Down by Norman Franks, Alan Bennett ISBN: 1904943330
Published by Grub Street on February 1st 2007
Pages: 144
Len's Summary: Franks is a premier historian of WWI aviation, but even he can’t settle this never-ending argument.
Julius Buckler: “Malaula” the Battle Cry of Jasta 17
Julius Buckler: “Malaula” the Battle Cry of Jasta 17 by Julius Buckler, Norman Franks ISBN: 1904943802
Published by Grub Street on September 1st 2007
Pages: 190
Len's Summary: First published in Germany in 1939 this is the story of a German 36-victory ace and his mates.
The War from Within: German Women in the First World War
The War from Within: German Women in the First World War by Ute Daniel, Jay Winter, Margaret Ries ISBN: 085496892X
Published by Berg Publishers on November 1st 1997
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Military, World War I, Social Science, Women's Studies
Pages: 343
Len's Summary: Examination of the roles of working class women in Germany during WWI.
Our Friend “The Enemy”: Elite Education in Britain and Germany before World War I
Our Friend "The Enemy": Elite Education in Britain and Germany before World War I by Thomas Weber ISBN: 9780804700146
Published by Stanford University Press on 2008
Pages: 338
Len's Summary: A scholarly look at Oxford and Heidelberg University, as well as the character of European society on the eve of WWI. Challenges the concept that pre-1914 Europe was bound to collapse.
British civilian internees in Germany: The Ruhleben camp, 1914-1918
British civilian internees in Germany: The Ruhleben camp, 1914-1918 by Matthew Stibbe ISBN: 9780719070853
Published by Manchester University Press on September 30th 2008
Genres: Civilians in war, Prisoners of war, History, General, Europe, Germany, Great Britain, Military, World War I, World War II, Social Science, Sociology, Penology
Pages: 210
Len's Summary: Germany’s largest WWI internment camp for enemy aliens.
Battle for the Baltic Islands, 1917: Triumph of the Imperial German Navy
Battle for the Baltic Islands, 1917: Triumph of the Imperial German Navy by Gary Staff ISBN: 9781844157877
on 2008
Pages: 178
Len's Summary: Successful German amphibious invasion, Operation Albion. See also: Operation Albion, Michael Barrett, Indiana, 2008.
The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire
The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire by Jan Rüger ISBN: 0521114616
Published by Cambridge University Press on June 25th 2009
Pages: 354
Len's Summary: An analysis of the Anglo-German naval race. // Anglo-German antagonism fanned by popular pro-naval sentiments.
The German Offensives of 1918: The Last Desperate Gamble
The German Offensives of 1918: The Last Desperate Gamble by Ian Passingham ISBN: 1844156362
on September 1st 2008
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Germany
Pages: 208
Len's Summary: Another assessment of German doctrine, military thinking and the effectiveness of storm troop tactics, and how the poor state of military morale and civilian unrest contributed to defeat.
War by Revolution: Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I
War by Revolution: Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I by Donald M. McKale ISBN: 0873389727
Published by Kent State University Press on September 1st 2008
Pages: 332
Len's Summary: A reprint of a 1998 publication analyzing one segment the so-called “Great Game” for Mid East domination.
Contesting the German Empire, 1871 – 1918
Contesting the German Empire, 1871 - 1918 by Matthew Jefferies ISBN: 1405129972
Published by Wiley-Blackwell on January 3rd 2008
Genres: Germany, History, General, Europe, Historiography, Modern, 19th Century
Pages: 242
Len's Summary: A bottom-up examination of the dynamics of politicization under Bismarck and Wilhelm II; “democracy in an undemocratic state.” Germany had universal male suffrage from 1871, but lacked parliamentary control over anything but the budget as government as ministers remained responsible only to the Kaiser who often became a spanner in the works.
Immelmann: The Eagle of Lille
Immelmann: The Eagle of Lille by Frantz Immelmann ISBN: 9781932033984
Published by Casemate Publishers on July 1st 2009
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: Originally published in the 1930s, this is the story of the ace after whom the “Blue Max” is named written by his brother.
First Blitz
First Blitz by Neil Hanson ISBN: 0385611706
Published by Doubleday on May 19th 2008
Pages: 448
Len's Summary: Popular history of the German Gotha bomber offensive against England in 1917-1918.
The German Infantryman, 1914-1918
The German Infantryman 1914-1918 by Jean-Claude Laparra ISBN: 2352500710
Published by Histoire & Collections on July 1st 2008
Pages: 66
Len's Summary: A view of the war as experienced by a typical German infantryman based on memorabilia and notes left by an unidentified infanterist found in a Berlin flea market. // Explores the life of the German infantryman. In French.
Tirpitz: Architect of the German High Seas Fleet
Tirpitz: Architect of the German High Seas Fleet by Michael Epkenhans ISBN: 9781574887327
Published by Potomac Books on March 30th 2008
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, Europe, Germany, World War I, Naval
Pages: 107
Len's Summary: A biography of Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930) whose long career took him from naval command to the postwar Reichstag.
The Germans at Arras
The Germans at Arras by David Bilton ISBN: 9781844157686
Published by Pen & Sword Military on 2008
Pages: 208
Len's Summary: German photographs of the Arras region in 1917.
Operation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands
Operation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands by Michael B. Barrett ISBN: 9780253349699
Published by Indiana University Press on February 19th 2008
Genres: History, Europe, Baltic States, Germany, Military, World War I
Pages: 298
Len's Summary: This Eastern Front battle featured action between German dreadnoughts and a Russian battleship, the use of aircraft and zeppelins, and the most successful amphibious landing of WWI on the islands of Dago, Osel and Moon at the head of the Gulf of Riga. A History Book Club selection. The author teaches at The Citadel and spoke at our 2006 WFA seminar in Tampa.
Uniforms of the German Colonial Troops, 1884-1918
Uniforms of the German Colonial Troops, 1884-1918 by Charles Woolley ISBN: 9780764333576
Published by Schiffer Military History on 2009
Genres: History, Military, General, Uniforms, Illustrated, Germany
Pages: 187
Len's Summary: Also see Uniforms of the Schutztruppen, the Expedition Corps and III, the Batallion of the Imperial Marines assigned to protect Germany’s far-flung pre-WWI colonial possessions.
Banned in Berlin: Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
Banned in Berlin: Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 by Gary D. Stark ISBN: 9781845455705
Published by Berghahn Books on March 2009
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Political Science, Censorship, Social Science, General
Pages: 316
Len's Summary: Imperial Germany took a broad view of measures permissible and necessary to maintain moral and religious norms and political order, but this did not stifle literary life.
The German Army at Cambrai
The German Army at Cambrai by Jack Sheldon ISBN: 9781844159444
on September 2009
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Military, World War I
Pages: 338
Len's Summary: The see-saw November-December 1917 battle from the German point of view based on German archival material.
Shot in the Tower: The Story of Spies Executed in the Tower of London During the First World War
Shot in the Tower: The Story of Spies Executed in the Tower of London During the First World War by Leonard Sellers ISBN: 9781848840263
on July 19th 2009
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Germany, Great Britain
Pages: 212
Len's Summary: None of the men had any proper training for espionage, but their lives were forfeit despite their amateur status.
The Ordeal of Peace: Demobilization and the Urban Experience in Britain and Germany, 1917-1921
The Ordeal of Peace: Demobilization and the Urban Experience in Britain and Germany, 1917-1921 by Adam R. Seipp ISBN: 9780754667490
Published by Ashgate Publishing on April 1st 2009
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Germany
Pages: 291
Len's Summary: Victorious and vanquished soldiers home from the war. How two societies dealt with returning war veterans and how these veterans, in turn, changed these societies.
Handbook of Imperial Germany
Handbook of Imperial Germany by Janet Robinson, Joe Robinson ISBN: 1449021131
Published by AuthorHouse on September 23rd 2009
Genres: History, Military, General, Germany, World War I
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: A summary overview of Imperial German government, the constituent states and kingdoms and the organization of the armies of Prussia and the several kingdoms, including an order of battle for August 1914. Appendices contain a timeline, notes on the Imperial Constitution, and on tactics. An outstanding and affordable reference source on Imperial German government, society and military.
Scorched Earth: The Germans on the Somme 1914-18
Scorched Earth: The Germans on the Somme 1914-18 by Gerhard Hirschfeld, Gerd Krumeich ISBN: 1844159736
Published by Pen & Sword Books on July 1st 2009
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Military, World War I, Technology & Engineering, Military Science
Pages: 217
Len's Summary: A detailed examination of German warfare.
Gas Attacks: Ypres, 1915
Gas Attacks: Ypres, 1915 by John Lee ISBN: 9781844159291
on June 18th 2009
Pages: 192
Len's Summary: A new book on the first German use of poison gas.
Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War
Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War by Anton Kaes ISBN: 9780691008509
Published by Princeton University Press on October 2nd 2011
Genres: Art, Film & Video, History, Europe, General, Germany, Performing Arts, Social Science
Pages: 328
Len's Summary: Weimar Republic culture and the wounds of war. // Interpretative history of Weimar-era German cinema and how it reflected the memory of The Great War.
The Somme: The Darkest Hour on the Western Front
The Somme: The Darkest Hour on the Western Front by Peter Hart ISBN: 1605980811
Published by Pegasus Books on March 1st 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Great Britain, Germany
Pages: 624
Len's Summary: Popular British historian Hart argues that the Somme battle was hardly senseless and that its participants were by no means “helpless victims.” Hart is also the author of many other books on the WWI era including A Very British Victory, Aces Falling and Bloody April.
On the Far Western Front: Britain’s First World War in South America
On the Far Western Front: Britain’s First World War in South America by Phillip A. Dehne ISBN: 9780719080050
Published by Manchester University Press on March 15th 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Europe, Great Britain, Germany, Essays
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: Economic warfare; an analysis of largely successful British efforts to stifle German trade with Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay during WWI. Available in the US from Palgrave Macmillan.
The Great War and German Memory: Society, Politics and Psychological Trauma, 1914-1945
The Great War and German Memory: Society, Politics and Psychological Trauma, 1914-1945 by Jason Crouthamel ISBN: 9780859898423
Published by University of Exeter Press on 2009
Genres: History, Europe, General, Psychology, Germany
Pages: 278
Len's Summary: An account of psychological, political and social chaos in post-war Germany
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
