ISBN: 0807826669
Published by University of North Carolina Press on November 11th 2002
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, Europe, Western, World War I
Pages: 232
The World War I Databook: The Essential Facts and Figures for all the Combatants
ISBN: 1854107666
Published by Aurum Press on October 1st 2001
Genres: History, Military, General
Pages: 324
The Last Crusade: The Palestine Campaign in the First World War
ISBN: 0719554322
Published by John Murray Publishers on January 1st 2002
Pages: 299
Freeing the Baltic
ISBN: 9781843410010
Published by Birlinn on August 2002
Genres: History, Europe, Baltic States, Great Britain, Military, General, Naval
Pages: 263
1914-1918: Understanding the Great War
ISBN: 1861973527
Published by Profile Books on 2002
Pages: 280
World War I in Photographs
ISBN: 9789036618717
Published by Rebo Pub. on 2002
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Photography, Photoessays & Documentaries
Pages: 600
The Battle of Tanga, 1914
ISBN: 9780752423494
Published by Tempus on January 1st 2002
Pages: 158
The Halifax Explosion and the Royal Canadian Navy: Inquiry and Intrigue
ISBN: 9780774808903
Published by UBC Press on May 1st 2002
Genres: History, Canada, General, Military, Naval
Pages: 248
Russian Sideshow: America’s Undeclared War, 1918-1920
ISBN: 9781574884296
Published by Brassey's on November 30th 2003
Pages: 352
Race to the Front: The Materiel Foundations of Coalition Strategy in the Great War
ISBN: 9780275972998
Published by Greenwood Publishing Group on January 1st 2002
Pages: 373
Britain, France and the Naval Arms Trade in the Baltic, 1919 -1939: Grand Strategy and Failure
ISBN: 9780415646192
Published by Routledge on July 21st 2004
Pages: 256
The Cross and the Trenches: Religious Faith and Doubt among British and American Great War Soldiers
ISBN: 9780313318382
Published by Praeger Publishers on January 1st 2003
Genres: History, Historiography, Military, World War I, Religion
Pages: 311
Westcountry Regiments on the Somme
ISBN: 9781844150182
Published by Casemate Publishers on November 1st 2003
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 288
Dream Of Civilized Warfare: World War 1 Flying Aces and the American Imagination
ISBN: 0816642702
Published by Univ Of Minnesota Press on October 8th 2003
Pages: 502
Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War
ISBN: 0814766935
Published by New York University Press on June 1st 2003
Pages: 224
Foch: Supreme Allied Commander in the Great War
ISBN: 9781574886726
Published by Brassey's on October 1st 2003
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, Europe, France, World War I
Pages: 124
The Great War: An Imperial History
ISBN: 9780415204392
Published by Routledge on October 15th 2003
Pages: 352
The Kaiser: New Research on Wilhelm II’s Role in Imperial Germany
ISBN: 0521824087
Published by Cambridge University Press on November 17th 2003
Genres: History, Europe, General, Biography & Autobiography, Historical, World, Military, World War I, Modern, 20th Century
Pages: 299
Captain Staniland’s Journey: The North Midland Territorials Go to War
ISBN: 0850529964
Published by Pen & Sword Books on September 1st 2003
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Military, World War I
Pages: 224
The U-boats of World War I
ISBN: 0-9663091-0-3
on 2003
Pages: 125
Wielding the Dagger: The MarineKorps Flandern and the German War Effort, 1914-1918
ISBN: 9780313324758
Published by Praeger on October 30th 2003
Genres: History, Europe, General, Germany, Military, World War I
Pages: 268
Researching World War I: A Handbook
ISBN: 031328850X
Published by Greenwood Publishing Group on December 30th 2003
Genres: History, Military, General, World War I, Reference, Research
Pages: 496
Harlem’s Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I
ISBN: 9781574883862
on June 6th 2003
Genres: History, Military, General, World War I, Social Science, Ethnic Studies
Pages: 302
The Maritime Blockade of Germany in the Great War: The Northern Patrol, 1914-1928
ISBN: 0754635368
Published by Ashgate Publishing on August 28th 2003
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Naval
Trial by Fire: Command and the British Expeditionary Force in 1914
ISBN: 9780313324734
Published by Greenwood Publishing Group on August 30th 2003
Genres: History, Europe, General, Great Britain, Military, World War I
Pages: 259
Europe’s Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?
ISBN: 9780375411564
Published by Knopf on March 23rd 2004
Genres: History, Europe, General, Military, World War I, Political Science, Security (National & International)
Pages: 349
Alfred Von Schlieffen’s Military Writings
ISBN: 0714649996
Published by Frank Cass Publishers on October 31st 2002
Genres: History, Military, General, Political Science, Security (National & International)
Pages: 280
Illusion of Victory: America in World War I
ISBN: 9780465024674
Published by Basic Books on May 28th 2003
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 543
Defeat in Detail: The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912-1913
ISBN: 9780275978884
Published by Greenwood Publishing Group on February 28th 2003
Genres: History, Europe, Baltic States, Military, Other
Pages: 403
Magnificent But Not War: The Second Battle of Ypres 1915
ISBN: 9781844150021
Published by Casemate Publishers on September 1st 2003
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 370
The Great War: Perspectives on the First World War
ISBN: 0375509097
Published by Random House (NY) on June 3rd 2003
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 509
Paths of Glory: The French Army, 1914-1918
ISBN: 0304359491
Published by Cassell on May 28th 2003
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 238
The Newfoundlanders in the Great War: The Western Front, 1916-1918: A Social History and Battlefield Tour
ISBN: 9781896979236
Published by CEF Books on 2003
Pages: 130
Tunnelmaster and Arsonist of the Great War: The Norton-Griffiths Story
ISBN: 0850529956
Published by Pen & Sword Books on October 1st 2003
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Historical, Military, History, World War I
Pages: 224
The Home Front in the Great War
ISBN: 1844150682
Published by Leo Cooper on December 2003
Pages: 256
Featured Review
Soldiers’ Song and Slang of the Great War is an update and enlargement of a book first published in 1931. The current book includes phrases that were deemed inappropriate in earlier editions. The slang is both mystifying and well known. For example, a “goo wallah” is the sanitary man. Other items such as a “flapper’s delight” for a young officer are self-explanatory even now.
The songs lack any musical notations and only the lyrics are printed. Many use melodies set to well-known tunes—those by Gilbert and Sullivan seem to be popular as are folk melodies from the British countryside. The lyrics are commentaries on life at the front, the memories of home, and patriotic themes. By war’s end parodies are widespread. Songs from America and France are included, even “Adieu la Vie” (Chanson of Craonne) which was banned in France until 1974. The English translation is buried in the appendix, but is worth finding. The song is an indictment by the soldiers in the field of their treatment by the French army and government.
The Home Front in the Great War covers the British home front and the Hull area in detail. There is a chronological section at the beginning that provides an overview of events back in “Blighty,” followed by short essays on the efforts by groups from the Royals to the YMCA to support of the war effort. The report on the Boy Scouts is especially laudatory.
Both books use a good variety of images and are entertaining to read. Unfortunately, neither book has an index, making it almost impossible to use them for reference purposes.
Anne Merritt
War Underground: The Tunnellers of the Great War
ISBN: 1862270813
Published by The History Press on 2003
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 272
World War I In Photographs
ISBN: 1842222775
Published by Carlton Publishing Group on October 28th 2002
Pages: 320
A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War
ISBN: 9781920694890
Published by University of Western Australia Press on March 1st 2007
Pages: 243
War Experiences in Rural Germany: 1914-1923
ISBN: 9781845202453
Published by Berg on January 15th 2007
Pages: 302
Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919, Volume 2: A Cultural History
ISBN: 0521870437
Published by Cambridge University Press on September 6th 2007
Genres: History, Europe, General, France, Great Britain, Military, World War I, Modern, 20th Century, Social History, Social Science, Anthropology, Cultural
Pages: 545