The Battle of Heligoland Bight by Eric W. Osborne ISBN: 9780253347428
Published by Indiana University Press on June 13th 2006
Genres: Great Britain, Military, Naval
Pages: 141
Len's Summary: A new history of the first naval battle of WWI between Germany and England.
Churchill’s Crusade: The British Invasion of Russia, 1918-1920
Churchill's Crusade: The British Invasion of Russia, 1918-1920 by Clifford Kinvig ISBN: 9781847250216
Published by A&C Black on November 23rd 2007
Pages: 400
Len's Summary: An account of armed British intervention in Russia following the Bolshevik revolution and an analysis of why intervention failed. Available from the Scholars Bookshelf. See also American Sideshow: America's Undeclared War in Russia, 1918-1920, Robert L. Willet, Brassey's (now Potomac), 2002.
Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: A Political Soldier
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.
Through German Eyes: The British & The Somme, 1916
Through German Eyes: The British & The Somme, 1916 by Christopher Duffy ISBN: 0753822024
Published by Phoenix on September 1st 2007
Pages: 384
Len's Summary: One of several new studies of the Somme published to coincide with the 90th anniversary of that battle. Also available in the US from Casemate Publishing. Duffy is a prolific British military historian.
Rats Alley: Trench Names of the Western Front, 1914-1918
Rats Alley: Trench Names of the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Peter Chasseaud ISBN: 9781862272767
Published by Spellmount on March 1st 2006
Pages: 416
If Love Were All: The Story of Frances Stevenson and David Lloyd George
If Love Were All: The Story of Frances Stevenson and David Lloyd George by John Campbell ISBN: 0224074644
Published by Jonathan Cape on July 25th 2006
Pages: 356
Len's Summary: The relationship between the British WWI-era Prime Minister and his long-time mistress; a story of a politician misbehaving in which Lloyd George comes out badly. Favorably reviewed by History Today.
Distant Victory: The Battle of Jutland and the Allied Triumph in the First World War
Distant Victory: The Battle of Jutland and the Allied Triumph in the First World War by Daniel Allen Butler ISBN: 9780275990732
Published by Greenwood Publishing Group on January 1st 2006
Pages: 251
Len's Summary: A new, revisionist analysis of a controversial battle which the author asserts was a major British strategic victory rather than a tactical draw or narrow German triumph. Command leadership styles, he says, were more important to the outcome than technical idiosyncrasies of the various classes of dreadnoughts engaged. Most importantly, the battle set in motion the decisions by both sides that materially affected the outcome of the conflict.
British Battlecruisers, 1914-18
British Battlecruisers, 1914-18 by Lawrence Burr, Tony Bryan ISBN: 1846030080
Published by Osprey Publishing on August 29th 2006
Genres: Military, Great Britain, Naval, Pictorial
Pages: 48
Len's Summary: A richly illustrated companion volume to German Battlecruisers.
The Home Front 1914-1918: How Britain Survived the Great War
The Home Front 1914-1918: How Britain Survived the Great War by Ian F.W. Beckett ISBN: 9781472908896
Published by A&C Black on December 31st 2013
Genres: Great Britain, Military, Social History
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: The author suggests Britain survived by working hard and keeping a stiff upper lip.
Wales and World War One
Wales and World War One by Robin Barlow ISBN: 9781848518858
Published by Gomer Press on November 24th 2014
Pages: 248
Len's Summary: A political and social history to be published in February 2006 and available on advance order from www.amazon.co.uk. If this book interests you, you may also want to obtain Hedd Wyn, a motion picture directed by Paul Turner, Northern Arts, 1992, 123 minutes, color in Welsh with English subtitles. This tale of a Welsh poet whose dreams of winning his country's most coveted literary prize are shattered by WWI was nominated for an Academy Award as best foreign film. The video is available from www.amazon.co.uk for £20 in PAL format.
Last Post: The Final Word From Our First World War Soldiers
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.
Nation, Memory and Great War Commemoration: Mobilizing the Past in Europe, Australia and New Zealand
Nation, Memory and Great War Commemoration: Mobilizing the Past in Europe, Australia and New Zealand by Shanti Sumartojo, Ben Wellings ISBN: 3034309376
Published by Peter Lang on April 23rd 2014
Pages: 329
Len's Summary: Social history.
Murderous Tommies
Murderous Tommies by Julian Putkowski ISBN: 9781459688117
on October 13th 2014
Pages: 504
Len's Summary: Thirteen British soldiers convicted, and the only ones hanged, for murder during WWI.
The British Imperial Army in the Middle East: Morale and Military Identity in the Sinai and Palestine Campaigns, 1916-18
The British Imperial Army in the Middle East: Morale and Military Identity in the Sinai and Palestine Campaigns, 1916-18 by James E. Kitchen ISBN: 9781472509284
Published by A&C Black on February 25th 2014
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: A soldiers’ eye view of the war in the Middle East. British forces there comprised many different nationalities from the colonies and dominions.
Britain’s Forgotten Fighters of the First World War
Britain's Forgotten Fighters of the First World War by Paul R. Hare ISBN: 9781781551974
Published by Fonthill Media on March 1st 2014
Pages: 160
Len's Summary: Details on the construction and performance of such aircraft as the Sopwith Camel and the SE5a by one of England’s premier aviation historians.
Peace and War: Britain in 1914
Peace and War: Britain in 1914 by Nigel Jones ISBN: 1781853355
Published by Head of Zeus on September 1st 2015
Pages: 272
Len's Summary: Still another look at politics and society in England just before the war.
Memoirs from the British Expeditionary Force 1914-1915
Memoirs from the British Expeditionary Force, 1914-1915 by Lord Edward Gleichen ISBN: 9781783462490
on August 31st 2014
Pages: 154
British Posters of the First World War
British Posters of the First World War by John Christopher ISBN: 9781445633169
Published by Amberley Publishing on May 28th 2014
Pages: 192
Len's Summary: Posters, aimed mainly at the semi-literate working class were the prime medium of social mobilization (propaganda) in WWI.
Margot Asquith’s Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street
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.
Dublin Burning: The Easter Rising From Behind the Barricades: The Only Eye-Witness Account of the Easter Rising written by a senior participant
Dublin Burning: The Easter Rising From Behind the Barricades: The Only Eye-Witness Account of the Easter Rising written by a senior participant by W. J. Brennan-Whitmore ISBN: 0717159302
Published by Gill & Macmillan on September 6th 2013
Genres: Ireland, Great Britain
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: A primary source eye witness account by an Irish participant.
The British Army Cook Book, 1914
The British Army Cook Book, 1914 by The War Office ISBN: 1445643421
Published by Amberley on February 19th 2015
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: How the Old Contemptibles messed.
The German Army in the Spring Offensives 1917: Arras, Aisne and Champagne
The German Army in the Spring Offensives 1917: Arras, Aisne and Champagne by Jack Sheldon ISBN: 9781783463459
on January 30th 2015
Genres: Great Britain, Military, Germany
Pages: 352
Len's Summary: Battle from the British perspective.
Bully Beef and Biscuits – Food in the Great War
Bully Beef and Biscuits - Food in the Great War by John Hartley ISBN: 9781473827455
on February 28th 2015
Genres: Military, Cooking, Great Britain
Pages: 384
Len's Summary: What Tommy Atkins ate.
Shell Shocked Britain: The First World War’s Legacy for Britain’s Mental Health
Shell Shocked Britain: The First World War's Legacy for Britain's Mental Health by Suzie Grogan ISBN: 9781781592656
on October 31st 2014
Pages: 160
Len's Summary: Exploring the myth of a nation of ‘broken men’ and ‘spare women.’
Reporting from the Front: War Reporters during the Great War
Reporting from the Front: War Reporters during the Great War by Brian Best ISBN: 9781473821170
on November 30th 2014
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: The British free press takes on British military censorship.
Your Country Needs You: Volunteering to Fight in the Great War
Your Country Needs You: Volunteering to Fight in the Great War ISBN: 1473828856 Published by Pen & Sword Books on May 19th 2015
Genres: Great Britain, Military
Pages: 120
Len's Summary: A compilation of articles taken from other Pen & Sword books on WWI.
Kitchener’s New Army: Your Country Needs You!
Kitchener's New Army: Your Country Needs You! by Edgar Wallace, Campbell McCutcheon ISBN: 1445622920
Published by Amberley on September 19th 2015
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: How a volunteer army was trained
Hospital Ships and Troop Transport of the First World War
Hospital Ships and Troop Transport of the First World War by Campbell McCutcheon ISBN: 9781445638676
Published by Amberley on August 28th 2015
Pages: 128
Len's Summary: Under Royal Navy command these merchant vessels played a vital role in prosecuting the war.
Warships of the Great War Era (A History of Ship Models)
Warships of the Great War Era (A History of Ship Models) by David Hobbs ISBN: 1591141907
Published by Seaforth Publishing on October 15th 2014
Pages: 128
Len's Summary: Photographs highlighting design details of dozens of WWI Royal navy scale models from dreadnoughts to motor torpedo boats in the collection of The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Amazing detail for the modeler or student of naval architecture. Five stars.
Trial by Gas: The British Army at the Second Battle of Ypres
Trial by Gas: The British Army at the Second Battle of Ypres by George H. Cassar ISBN: 1612346901
Published by Potomac Books on December 15th 2014
Pages: 344
Len's Summary: Focuses on the second half of this April 1915 battle: the engagements at Frezenberg Ridge and Bellewaard Ridge. The author teaches at Eastern Michigan University and specializes in WWI.
Britons Experience the Great War: Life at Home and Abroad 1914-1918
Britons Experience the Great War: Life at Home and Abroad 1914-1918 by Peter Liddle ISBN: 1473821169
Published by Pen & Sword Books on October 19th 2014
Pages: 232
Len's Summary: Draws on previously unpublished material on the war and home fronts from the Liddle Collection at the University of Leeds. // Social history. The author is founder of the Liddle Collection on WWI at Leeds University.
British Army Uniform and the First World War: Men in Khaki
British Army Uniform and the First World War: Men in Khaki by Jane Tynan ISBN: 9781137318312
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on November 27th 2013
Genres: Fashion, Great Britain, Military, Social History
Pages: 232
Len's Summary: Weaves the themes of soldiers’ wartime clothing requirements, home front propaganda, and psychology with contemporary politics.
The Great War and Modern Memory
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell ISBN: 9780199971954
on August 8th 2013
Pages: 384
Len's Summary: A canonical work first published in 1970. Winner of The National Book Award and The Critics Circle Award.
The Long Silence: The Tragedy of Occupied France in World War I
The Long Silence: The Tragedy of Occupied France in World War I by Helen McPhail ISBN: 9781784530532
Published by I.B.Tauris on August 30th 2014
Genres: France, Great Britain, World War I
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: Based on primary sources, this is the story of the often brutal German regime in occupied France. First published by I. B. Tauris in 2011.
From Downing Street to the Trenches: First-hand Accounts from the Great War, 1914-1916
From Downing Street to the Trenches: First-hand Accounts from the Great War, 1914-1916 by Mike Webb ISBN: 9781851243938
Published by Bodleian Library on September 15th 2014
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: Eyewitness accounts from British soldiers and civilians.
Blighty’s Railways: Britian’s Railways in the First World War
Blighty's Railways: Britian's Railways in the First World War by Alexander J. Murray ISBN: 9781445638577
Published by Amberley Publishing on June 19th 2014
Pages: 160
Len's Summary: One of a handful of recent works on British wartime rail. Recall that the Director General of Military Railways in the BEF 1915-16 was Sir Eric Geddies, a railway executive given an honorary commission as a Major General.
Secrets in a Dead Fish: The Spying Game in the First World War
Secrets in a Dead Fish: The Spying Game in the First World War by Melanie King ISBN: 9781851242603
Published by Bodleian Library on September 15th 2014
Pages: 102
Len's Summary: The covert communications methods of eight spies.
Reporting the Great War
Reporting the Great War by Stuart Hylton ISBN: 9781783463572
on August 18th 2014
Genres: Military, Great Britain
Pages: 166
Len's Summary: The British home front as seen through the pages of contemporary newspapers.
Politicians, the Press, and Propaganda: Lord Northcliffe and the Great War, 1914-1919
Politicians, the Press, and Propaganda: Lord Northcliffe and the Great War, 1914-1919 by J. Lee Thompson ISBN: 9780873386371
Published by Kent State University Press on 2000
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Military, World War I, Language Arts & Disciplines, Journalism
Pages: 319
Leadership in the Trenches: Officer-Man Relations, Morale and Discipline in the British Army in the Era of the First World War
Leadership in the Trenches: Officer-Man Relations, Morale and Discipline in the British Army in the Era of the First World War by G. D. Sheffield ISBN: 9780312226404
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on October 6th 2000
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Military, World War I, Social Science, General, Technology & Engineering, Military Science
Pages: 270
Len's Summary: Kitchener’s army in the field.
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
