The Desert Baron: Friedrich: A Warrior for All Seasons by Conrad Crease ISBN: 9781439221006
Published by BookSurge Publishing on May 4th 2009
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Germany, Aviation, Biography & Autobiography
Pages: 241
Len's Summary: Biography of the German officer who led the 1916 Turkish attack on the Suez Canal, defended Armenians against Turkish genocide and Georgia from both the Turks and the Bolsheviks. Order from www.booksurge.com
The Germans on the Somme (Images of War)
The Germans on the Somme (Images of War) by David Bilton ISBN: 9781844158652
Published by Pen & Sword Books on 2009
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Military, Pictorial, World War I, Illustrated
Pages: 222
Len's Summary: Images of the German army on the River Somme from 1914 to 1918. A view of events through German eyes.
Hitler’s First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War
Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War by Thomas Weber ISBN: 9780199226382
Published by Oxford University Press on September 29th 2011
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Political, History, Europe, Germany, World War I
Pages: 450
Len's Summary: Draws on the writings of Hitler’s fellow soldiers of the List Regiment to offer a different view that that presented in Mein Kampf; challenges common wisdom that WWI was a seminal catastrophe for Gemany. See also: Corporal Hitler and the Great War.
The First Battle of the Marne 1914: The French ‘miracle’ halts the Germans
The First Battle of the Marne 1914: The French 'miracle' halts the Germans by Ian Sumner, Graham Turner ISBN: 9781846035029
Published by Osprey Publishing on May 25th 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Europe, France, Germany, Illustrated
Pages: 96
Len's Summary: A brief, illustrated history of the battle.
British Dreadnought vs German Dreadnought: Jutland 1916
British Dreadnought vs German Dreadnought: Jutland 1916 by Mark Stille, Ian Palmer, Howard Gerrard ISBN: 1849081670
Published by Osprey Publishing on October 19th 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Naval, Illustrated, Germany
Pages: 80
Len's Summary: Contrasts the differing crew training and weapons systems of the two fleets and details the action at Jutland shot by shot.
The Impossible Border: Germany and the East, 1914-1922
The Impossible Border: Germany and the East, 1914-1922 by Annemarie H. Sammartino ISBN: 9780801479465
Published by Cornell University Press on September 27th 2010
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Eastern, Social Science, Emigration & Immigration
Pages: 248
Len's Summary: At Versailles, Germany lost 12% of her territory, mainly to a recrudescent Poland. The immense movement of ethnic Germans and Jews from the East helped destabilize the fragile Weimar Republic and stoked the racist proclivities of German conservatives.
Gunther Pluschow: Airmen, Escaper and Explorer
Gunther Pluschow: Airmen, Escaper and Explorer by Anton Rippon ISBN: 9781848841321
on March 2010
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, Political, History, World War I, Germany, Aviation
Pages: 194
Len's Summary: Plüschow flew against the British and Japanese out of Tsing Tao and was the only POW to escape England and make his way back to Germany.
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power by Sean McMeekin ISBN: 9780674057395
Published by Harvard University Press on September 15th 2010
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Military, World War I, Middle East, Turkey & Ottoman Empire
Pages: 460
Len's Summary: Part of the so-called Great Game portrayed in John Buchan’s fiction trilogy this is the true story of Germany’s attempt to penetrate of the Middle East and, wording through the Ottoman Empire, threaten the British position in Persia and the Indian subcontinent.
The Wolf: How One German Terrorized The Allies in the Most Epic Voyage of World War One
The Wolf: How One German Terrorized The Allies in the Most Epic Voyage of World War One by Richard Guilliatt, Peter Hohnen ISBN: 1416576118
Published by Free Press on May 3rd 2011
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Modern, 20th Century, General, Naval, Germany
Pages: 400
Len's Summary: The German commerce raider Wolf, a six thousand-ton armed freighter, left Kiel in November 1916, sailed some 64 thousand miles capturing over 400 mariners and sinking some 29 vessels before returning home 15 months later.
When Money Dies: the Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany
When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany by Adam Fergusson ISBN: 9781586489946
Published by PublicAffairs on 2010
Genres: Business & Economics, Economic History, Finance, General, Inflation, History, Europe, Germany
Pages: 269
Len's Summary: The post-WWI deadly hyperinflation that ruined the German middle class and brought the Weimar Republic near to collapse until rescued by the Dawes Plan of 1924.
Youth in a Fatherless Land: War Pedagogy, Nationalism, and Authority in Germany, 1914-1918
Youth in a Fatherless Land: War Pedagogy, Nationalism, and Authority in Germany, 1914-1918 by Andrew Donson ISBN: 9780674049833
Published by Harvard University Press on April 1st 2010
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Military, World War I, Social History
Pages: 329
Len's Summary: Social history: a study of German youth in wartime at the dawn of an era of mobilization of teenagers and schoolchildren for experiments in state building and creation of extreme political movements. Covers crime, work, sexuality, gender practices, sexuality, family life, recreation, novels and magazines and everyday life.
Breakthrough: The Gorlice-Tarnow Campaign
Breakthrough: The Gorlice-Tarnow Campaign by Richard L. DiNardo ISBN: 0275991105
Published by Praeger Publishers on May 20th 2010
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Military, World War I, Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Pages: 215
Len's Summary: The first extensive study in English of the major German victory on the Eastern Front which resulted in a 200-mile Russian retreat accompanied by a scorched-earth policy and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Polish, White Russian and Jewish civilians.
War Under the Red Ensign, 1914-1918
War Under the Red Ensign, 1914-1918 by Bernard Edwards ISBN: 9781848842298
Published by Pen & Sword Books on August 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Other, Naval, Great Britain, Germany
Pages: 208
Len's Summary: Atrocious actions of German U-boat commanders against torpedoed merchant ship’s crew and passengers.
Burden of Guilt: How Germany Shattered the Last Days of Peace, Summer 1914
Burden of Guilt: How Germany Shattered the Last Days of Peace, Summer 1914 by Daniel Allen Butler ISBN: 9781935149279
Published by Casemate Publishers on July 27th 2010
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Military, World War I
Pages: 330
Len's Summary: Working from primary sources, the author asserts Germany bears the responsibility for starting the war. See also: The Lions of July: Prelude to War, 1914, Wm. Jannen, Random House, 1996.
This Carnival of Hell: German Combat Experience on the Somme, 1916
This Carnival of Hell: German Combat Experience on the Somme, 1916 by Richard A. Baumgartner ISBN: 9781885033369
Published by Blue Acorn Press on January 10th 2010
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Military, World War I
Pages: 427
Len's Summary: Drawing on personal narratives, the book tells the story of the Battle of the Somme from the German perspective.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Lion and the Eagle: Anglo-German Naval Confrontation in the Imperial Era – 1815-1919
The Lion and the Eagle: Anglo-German Naval Confrontation in the Imperial Era - 1815-1919 by David J. Gregory ISBN: 9780957286412
Published by David J. Gregory on August 1st 2012
Pages: 490
Len's Summary: First in a planned three-volume set on the Anglo-German naval race.
The Surplus Woman: Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
The Surplus Woman: Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 by Catherine L. Dollard ISBN: 9780857453136
Published by Berghahn Books on January 1st 2012
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Social Science, Gender Studies
Pages: 272
Len's Summary: Feminist social history.
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.
Karl Hanssen’s Samoan War Diaries, August 1914-May 1915: A German Perspective on New Zealand’s Military Occupation of German Samoa
Karl Hanssen's Samoan War Diaries, August 1914-May 1915: A German Perspective on New Zealand's Military Occupation of German Samoa by James N. Bade ISBN: 363163174X
Published by Peter Lang on December 30th 2011
Genres: Germany, History
Pages: 266
Len's Summary: One of a very few works on the loss of German Pacific colonies; written by a resident German copra trader.
Martin Heidegger and the First World War: Being and Time as Funeral Oration
Martin Heidegger and the First World War: Being and Time as Funeral Oration by William H. F. Altman ISBN: 9781498516259
Published by Lexington Books on March 25th 2015
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Philosophy, History & Surveys, Modern
Pages: 350
Len's Summary: An examination of Heidegger’s theories against the background of The Great War.
The Downfall of Money: Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class
The Downfall of Money: Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class by Fred Taylor ISBN: 9781620402368
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA on September 17th 2013
Genres: Business & Economics, Finance, General, Inflation, Money & Monetary Policy, History, Europe, Germany
Pages: 416
Len's Summary: Traces the hyperinflation of 1923 back to 1914 and war-time inflationary financing, and finds that what doomed the first German democracy (the Weimar Republic) was deflation, not inflation.
Magic Lantern Empire: Colonialism and Society in Germany
Magic Lantern Empire: Colonialism and Society in Germany by John Phillip Short ISBN: 9780801450945
Published by Cornell University Press on November 20th 2012
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Social History, Social Science, Popular Culture
Pages: 248
Len's Summary: An examination of the intersection of imperialism, modern mass culture, politics and public restructuring in Wilhelmine Germany. -- A multi-source study of German colonialism as a mass cultural and political phenomenon; nuanced accounting of how ordinary Germans understood and articulated the concept of overseas empire.
Prisoners of Britain: German Civilian and Combatant Internees During the First World War
Prisoners of Britain: German Civilian and Combatant Internees During the First World War by Panikos Panayi ISBN: 9780719078347
Published by Manchester University Press on February 5th 2013
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Great Britain, Military, World War I
Pages: 272
Len's Summary: By the end of the war, Britain held prisoner an unprecedented number of POWs and enemy aliens: over half a million worldwide including some 160,000 at one camp on the Isle of Man.
Germany’s Western Front: Translations from the German Official History of the Great War, 1915
Germany’s Western Front: Translations from the German Official History of the Great War, 1915 by Mark Osborne Humphries, John Maker ISBN: 155458051X
Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press on March 1st 2010
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Military, World War I, Strategy
Pages: 413
Len's Summary: Offers German perspective on the battles of 1915.
The German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War in History and Memory
The German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War in History and Memory by Tim Grady ISBN: 9781846318511
Published by Liverpool University Press on February 15th 2013
Genres: History, Europe, Germany
Pages: 260
Len's Summary: Suspect even during the war, Jews' loyal service (12 thousand died) to Germany was further denigrated by Nazi politics and propaganda. -- More than 100,000 German Jews fought in WWI and 12,000 died. The book focuses on the multifaceted ways in which these men are remembered.
Prelude to Blitzkrieg: The 1916 Austro-German Campaign in Romania
Prelude to Blitzkrieg: The 1916 Austro-German Campaign in Romania by Michael B. Barrett ISBN: 9780253008657
Published by Indiana University Press on October 23rd 2013
Genres: History, Europe, General, Germany, Military, World War I, Other
Pages: 399
Len's Summary: Analysis of a little-known lightening campaign of conquest against Romania, which entered the war on the side of the Entente in 1916. Professor Barrett of the Citadel is the author of Operation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands (IUP, 2008). See also the Tomlinson Prize-winning The Romanian Battlefront in World War I, Glenn E. Torrey (Kansas, 2012).
2CM “Big Bertha” and German Siege Artillery of World War I
2CM “Big Bertha” and German Siege Artillery of World War I by Marc Romanych ISBN: 9781780960173
Published by Osprey Publishing on January 20th 2014
Genres: History, General, Europe, Germany, Military, Weapons, Technology & Engineering, Military Science, World War I
Pages: 48
Len's Summary: Describes all German siege artillery from 28 to 42 centimeters and its role in WWI, particularly the destruction of the Liege and Namur forts in 1914.
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
