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.
1911: Preliminary Moves: The 2011 Chief of Army Staff Conference
1911: Preliminary Moves: The 2011 Chief of Army Staff Conference by Peter Dennis, Jeffrey Grey ISBN: 978 1 9219 4155 9
Published by Big Sky on 2012
Pages: 308
Len's Summary: Fourteen essays examining the pivotal May and June 1911 meetings of the British Committee of Imperial Defense involving self-governing Dominion Prime Ministers and senior military officers of Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa which took place on the margins of the coronation of King George V. At this conclave, Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Gray made clear that Germany was a potential enemy and that Great Britain would probably not stand aside in a continental war.
Pour la France: A Guide to the Formations and Units of French Land Forces 1914-18
Pour la France: A Guide to the Formations and Units of French Land Forces 1914-18 by Michael Cox, Graham Watson ISBN: 9781907677144
Published by Helion on 2012
Genres: History, France, Military, World War I
Pages: 539
Len's Summary: A unique English language guide to the French Army detailing its expansion from 43 infantry divisions in 1914 to140 infantry divisions in 1918; with a list of general officers and other useful detail. -- A rare English language guide to the French army. // Builds on the work on the first volume’s coverage of French regiments and divisions. // The first of two volumes including as well a listing of those divisions of the British, Italian and America armies coming under French command. A useful reference.
The Russian Revolution: World War to Civil War 1917-1921
The Russian Revolution: World War to Civil War 1917-1921 by Nik Cornish ISBN: 9781848843752
Published by Pen and Sword on July 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Revolutionary, Europe, Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Pages: 144
Len's Summary: The Russo-German peace of Brest-Litovsk and subsequent civil war fought on many fronts and with much outside intervention. A History Book Club selection written by the former President of the Eastern Front Association.
The United States in World War I: A Bibliographic Guide
The United States in World War I: A Bibliographic Guide by James T. Controvich ISBN: 9780810883062
Published by Scarecrow Press on July 30th 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Reference, Bibliographies & Indexes
Pages: 649
Len's Summary: A research tool for students and scholars of WWI and American History.
Last Man Standing: The Memoirs of a Seaforth Highlander During the Great War
Last Man Standing: The Memoirs of a Seaforth Highlander During the Great War by Richard Van Emden, Norman Collins ISBN: 184884865X
Published by Pen and Sword on July 19th 2012
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, World War I, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 208
Len's Summary: Memoirs of a British infantry subaltern illustrated with his own photographs.
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.
Suvla: August Offensive – Gallipoli
Suvla: August Offensive - Gallipoli by Stephen Chambers ISBN: 9781848845435
Published by Pen and Sword on February 2012
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Military, World War I, Middle East, Turkey & Ottoman Empire
Pages: 250
Len's Summary: Battle analysis and tour guide wrapped into one volume. -- Story of a mismanaged initially unopposed landing that led only to stalemate.
1914-1918 – An Eyewitness to War
1914-1918 - An Eyewitness to War by Bob Carruthers ISBN: 9781781581346
on June 15th 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Veterans, Essays, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 300
Len's Summary: A collection of essays from the participants. -- Four recollections from primary sources reflecting little-known aspects of the conflict.
Big Gun Monitors: Design, Construction and Operations 1914-1945
Big Gun Monitors: Design, Construction and Operations 1914-1945 by Ian Buxton ISBN: 9781848321243
Published by Pen & Sword Books on January 1st 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War II, World War I, Naval
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: Designed and built specifically to provide heavy, shore bombardment particularly along the Flanders coast, these ships were also employed in WWII. A revision and update of a 1978 work. // The Royal Navy designed the first of these unusual vessels in late 1914 to bombard German coastal emplacements in Flanders. The earliest models mounted Bethlehem Steel 14-inch inch guns and turrets.
British Battleships of World War One
British Battleships of World War One by R. A. Burt ISBN: 9781591140535
Published by Naval Institute Press on November 15th 2012
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Military, World War I, Naval, Transportation, Ships & Shipbuilding
Pages: 352
Len's Summary: Revised edition of an excellent and detailed reference work.
Salute of Guns
Salute of Guns by Donald Boyd ISBN: 1848848501
Published by Pen & Sword Military on October 1st 2012
Genres: History, Military, Weapons, World War I, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 235
Len's Summary: Memoir of a British artillerist who, commissioned in the Territorial Force, served on the front lines from 1915 to 1918.
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
Militarism in a Global Age: Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I
Militarism in a Global Age: Naval Ambitions in Germany and the United States before World War I by Dirk Bönker ISBN: 9780801450402
Published by Cornell University Press on March 6th 2012
Genres: History, Military, Naval, World War I, United States, 20th Century
Pages: 421
Len's Summary: Argues that a common militarism existed in Germany and America where naval elites shared similar outlooks and goals.
The Zimmermann Telegram: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America’s Entry into World War I
The Zimmermann Telegram: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America's Entry into World War I by Thomas Boghardt ISBN: 1612511481
Published by US Naval Institute Press on October 15th 2012
Pages: 319
Len's Summary: The author contends that Zimmerman’s telegram was a spontaneous initiative, not part of an overall German strategy. In America, he asserts, it proved divisive, alienating isolationists, pacifists, and lawmakers.
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.
Images of War: The Germans in Flanders in 1914 – Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Images of War: The Germans in Flanders in 1914 – Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by David Bilton ISBN: 9781848846500
Published by Pen and Sword on June 5th 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Illustrated
Pages: 176
Len's Summary: First in a planned series
Naval Warfare, 1914-1918: From Coronel to the Atlantic and Zeebrugge
Naval Warfare, 1914-1918: From Coronel to the Atlantic and Zeebrugge by Gary Sheffield, Tim Benbow ISBN: 1906626057
Published by Amber Books on October 10th 2008
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: A survey history of the war at sea.
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.
Scarlet Fields: The Combat Memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor Hero
Scarlet Fields: The Combat Memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor Hero by John Lewis Barkley ISBN: 9780700620197
Published by University Press of Kansas on August 15th 2014
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, World War I, United States, 20th Century, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 268
Len's Summary: First published in 1930 as No Hard Feelings by a veteran infantryman of the Fourth Regiment, Third Division.
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.
Hell’s Observer: The Epic World War 1 Journal of Private William J. Graham, American Expeditionary Forces
Hell's Observer: The Epic World War 1 Journal of Private William J. Graham, American Expeditionary Forces by William J. Graham, C. Stephen Badgley, Bruce A. Jarvis ISBN: 0985440317
Published by Badgley Publishing Company on April 1st 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Personal Memoirs, United States
Pages: 292
Len's Summary: Memoir of a Philadelphia mounted policemen who fought with the 103rd Military Police Battalion, 28th Division.
An Improbable War? The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914
An Improbable War? The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914 by Holger Afflerbach, David Stevenson ISBN: 9780857453105
Published by Berghahn Books on January 1st 2012
Genres: History, General, Military, World War I, Essays
Pages: 365
Len's Summary: Essays provide a new look at cause and effect. First published in hard cover in 2007. -- A valuable addition to the debate on the causes on The Great War. // A new scholarly look at causes of The Great War edited by the author of Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe 1904-1914, Oxford, 1996.
The World War I Diary of José de la Luz Sáenz
The World War I Diary of José de la Luz Sáenz by J. Luz Sáenz, Emilio Zamora, Ben Maya ISBN: 1623491142
Published by Texas A&M University Press on February 18th 2014
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, World War I, United States, 20th Century, State & Local, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 528
Len's Summary: Translation of a Texas soldier’s experiences in France and Germany first published in Spanish in 1933.
Guarded Neutrality (History of Warfare)
Guarded Neutrality (History of Warfare) by Susanne Wolf ISBN: 9789004209916
Published by Brill on 2013
Genres: History, General, Military, World War I
Pages: 209
Len's Summary: Some 50,000 British and Belgian troops were interned in Holland during WWI. The Netherlands also brokered negotiations among the belligerents on the treatment of POWs.
Light Car Patrols 1916-19: War and Exploration in Egypt and Libya with the Model T Ford
Light Car Patrols 1916-19: War and Exploration in Egypt and Libya with the Model T Ford by Captain Claud Williams ISBN: 9781900971157
Published by Silphium Press on November 19th 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 288
Len's Summary: Forerunner of WWII’s Long Range Desert Group employing what is arguably America’s greatest single contribution to Allied war effort: Henry Ford’s hardy and ubiquitous Model T.
Edwardian Requiem: A Life of Sir Edward Grey
Edwardian Requiem: A Life of Sir Edward Grey by Michael Waterhouse ISBN: 9781849544436
Published by Biteback Publishing on March 12th 2013
Pages: 429
Len's Summary: An account of the career of a major figure in British Liberal Party politics and diplomacy during the period leading up to WWI. During Grey’s incumbency as Foreign Secretary, Great Britain solidified the entente with France and moved toward a special relationship with America.
A Short and Irreverent History of World War One Complete with Uninformed Opinion, Universal Distain, Inevitable Errors and a Considerable Amount of Bad Language
A Short and Irreverent History of World War One Complete with Uninformed Opinion, Universal Distain, Inevitable Errors and a Considerable Amount of Bad Language by Nick Wale Published by Rock Creek Consulting on August 8th 2013
Pages: 22
Len's Summary: A short, sweet, often funny, cliché-ridden and irreverent, but not error-free look at the conflict published to take advantage of the centennial.
Meeting the Enemy: The Human Face of the Great War
Meeting the Enemy: The Human Face of the Great War by Richard Van Emden ISBN: 1408843358
Published by Bloomsbury USA on May 26th 2015
Pages: 400
Len's Summary: Surprising stories of personal contact between enemies, a more human aspect of war by a well-known British historian.
Sporting Soldiers: South African Troops at Play During World War I
Sporting Soldiers: South African Troops at Play During World War I by Floris J. G. Van der Merwe ISBN: 978 0 7972 1402 6
Published by FJG Publishing on 2013
Pages: 281
Len's Summary: Order from the author Floris@sun.ac.za. Sport in British and Commonwealth forces during The Great War. Includes a chapter on South African POWs.
Never Call Retreat: Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War
Never Call Retreat: Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War by J. Lee Thompson ISBN: 9781137306531
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on January 15th 2014
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Presidents & Heads of State, History, Military, World War I, History, United States, State & Local, General, 20th Century, Modern, South
Pages: 376
Len's Summary: US domestic politics and the Great War; The Old Bull Moose takes on a circumspect Woodrow Wilson and demands intervention on the side of The Entente.
The Blue Beast: Power and Passion in the Great War
The Blue Beast: Power and Passion in the Great War by Jonathan Walker ISBN: 9780752465975
Published by History Press on September 1st 2012
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Historical, Military, Women
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: The naughty bits. Three liberated women love and thrive in time of war.
Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (Second Edition)
Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (Second Edition) by Alistair Thomson ISBN: 9781921867583
Published by Monash University Publishing on November 1st 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Australia & New Zealand, Biography & Autobiography, Other
Pages: 424
Len's Summary: Making sense of Australia’s national past.
The Canadian Experience of the Great War: A Guide to Memoirs
The Canadian Experience of the Great War: A Guide to Memoirs by Brian Douglas Tennyson ISBN: 9780810886797
Published by Rowman & Littlefield on May 1st 2013
Genres: History, Canada, Post-Confederation (1867-), Military, World War I, Veterans, Reference, Essays, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 594
Len's Summary: Catalogs the writings of ordinary Canadians among the 600 thousand men and women who served.
Your Country Needs You: The Secret History of the Propaganda Poster
Your Country Needs You: The Secret History of the Propaganda Poster by James Taylor ISBN: 9781887354974
Published by Saraband on August 29th 2013
Pages: 156
Len's Summary: The author finds that Kitchener’s iconic image was never used on British recruiting posters.
The Clergy in Khaki, New Perspectives on British army Chaplains in the First World War
The Clergy in Khaki, New Perspectives on British army Chaplains in the First World War by M F Snape ISBN: 1409430006
Published by Ashgate Publishing on August 14th 2013
Genres: History, Military, General, Religion, Christian Ministry, Pastoral Resources, Modern, 20th Century
Pages: 238
Len's Summary: Captures the diversity of religious community within British forces. Over five thousand padres were commissioned during the war and 170 of them died supporting soldiers, airmen and seaman.
Noble Endeavours: The Life of Two Countries, England and Germany, in Many Stories
Noble Endeavours: The Life of Two Countries, England and Germany, in Many Stories by Miranda Seymour ISBN: 9781849830157
Published by Simon & Schuster on May 8th 2014
Pages: 512
Len's Summary: Examines the empathy that existed between Germany and England in the pre-Hitler years.
Tommy Rot: WWI Poetry They Didn’t Let You Read
Tommy Rot: WWI Poetry They Didn’t Let You Read by John Sadler, Rosie Serdiville ISBN: 075249208X
Published by History Press on December 1st 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Poetry, European, Illustrated
Pages: 160
Len's Summary: A collection of humorous and anti-jingoist verse illustrated with previously unpublished war art accompanied by a brief description of each author and his campaign.
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
