The Battleship Builders: Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships by Ian Johnston, Ian Buxton ISBN: 9781591140276
Published by US Naval Institute Press on April 15th 2013
Genres: History, Military, Naval, Transportation, Ships & Shipbuilding
Pages: 352
Len's Summary: How the Royal Navy designed, built, armed and powered HMS Dreadnought and, in little more than a decade, 50 more of her type.
The New Death: American Modernism and World War I
The New Death: American Modernism and World War I by Pearl James ISBN: 9780813934075
Published by University of Virginia Press on April 22nd 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Literary Criticism, American, General
Pages: 259
Len's Summary: The author explores the changing meaning of death in America following WWI through an examination of the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner among others.
Behind the Wire: Prisoners of War 1914-1918
Behind the Wire: Prisoners of War 1914-1918 by Robert Jackson ISBN: B00BYWCLPU
Published by Osprey on April 20th 2013
Pages: 173
Len's Summary: The capture, internment, escape attempts, punishments and day-to-day boredom of prisoners of War. Another more scholarly treatment may be found in Prisoners, Diplomats and the Great War: A Study in the Diplomacy of Captivity, Richard B. Speed, III (Greenwood 1990).
A Doctor on the Western Front: The Diaries of Henry Owens 1914-1918
A Doctor on the Western Front: The Diaries of Henry Owens 1914-1918 by Henry Owens, John Hutton ISBN: 9781781593066
Published by Pen & Sword Military on July 1st 2013
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, History, Military, World War I, Literary Collections, Diaries & Journals
Pages: 201
Len's Summary: The diaries of a Norfolk medical doctor who volunteered for the Royal Medical Corps in 1914. -- War diary of a British physician who spent four years behind the front treating the wounded of three armies.
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 Great War (Imperial War Museums)
The Great War (Imperial War Museums) by Mark Holborn, Hilary Roberts ISBN: 0385350708
Published by Knopf on October 29th 2013
Genres: History, Europe, General, Military, World War I, Modern, 20th Century
Pages: 504
Len's Summary: A large-format coffee table pictorial history of the conflict with 380 period photographs; issued to commemorate the 1914-18 centennial.
Luxembourgers in the First World War: An Inventory
Luxembourgers in the First World War: An Inventory by David Heal ISBN: B00UJV70GM
Published by David Heal on March 10th 2015
Pages: 478
Len's Summary: An inventory of Luxembourgers who fought in all armies including the German, as well as Luxembourg civilians shot by the Germans and French.
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings ISBN: 9780307597052
Published by Random House Incorporated on September 24th 2013
Genres: History, Europe, General, Military, World War I, Modern, 20th Century
Pages: 688
Len's Summary: One of a spate of recent books tracing the road to war in 1914. See also The Origins of the War of 1914 (in three volumes), Luigi Albertini (Enigma Books, 2005 reprint). An acclaimed and lengthy analysis written in the 1930s by an Italian historian.
The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War
The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War by Peter Hart ISBN: 9780199976270
Published by Oxford University Press on May 9th 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 522
Len's Summary: A new narrative survey history of the conflict finds that Britain tipped the balance with a crucial assist from America. Hart is the author if earlier books on Gallipoli and the Somme, as well as on the Irish Republican Army and Irish patriot Michael Collins.
The Economics of World War I
The Economics of World War I by Stephen Broadberry, Mark Harrison, Hugh Rockoff, Albrecht Ritschl, Max-Stephan Schulze, Şevket Pamuk, Peter Howlett, Peter Gatrell, Herman de Jong, Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur, Francesco Galassi ISBN: 0521107253
Published by Cambridge University Press on April 1st 2009
Pages: 364
Len's Summary: A series of essays looking at the economies and finances of the major belligerents including the Ottoman Empire, the US. England, France, Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary and Italy. See also Financing The First World War by Hugh Strachan, Oxford, 2004. // An analytical examination of the economies, economic mobilization and war finance of the principal belligerents: Germany, Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire, France, the UK, Russia, Italy and the United States; as well as the neutral Netherlands. Contributors from England, the US, Germany, France, Holland and Turkey include Peter Gatrell and Hugh Rockoff.
A Journalist’s Diplomatic Mission: Ray Stannard Baker’s World War I Diary
A Journalist’s Diplomatic Mission: Ray Stannard Baker’s World War I Diary by Ray Stannard Baker ISBN: 9780807144237
Published by LSU Press on February 1st 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 504
Len's Summary: Baker was a well-known muck-raking journalist and key Wilson campaign staffer tasked by the President with assessing the European situation in 1917-18; Baker was also Wilson’ press secretary at the Paris peace conference of 1919.
1913: the Eve of War
1913: The Eve of War by Paul Ham Published by Endeavour Press Ltd. on November 5th 2013
Len's Summary: A simplistic overview; save your money. There are several other new and far better treatments of this theme including The Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark
Posters of the Great War
Posters of the Great War by Frederick Hadley, Martin Pegler ISBN: 9781781592892
Published by Pen & Sword Books Limited on August 19th 2013
Genres: Art, Prints, History, Military, World War I
Pages: 160
Len's Summary: In the days before radio and TV, the large-format poster was a prime means of advertising. These posters were produced to inspire patriotism and support for WWI.
Listening to Ludendorff: A Clandestine Belgian military Wireless Station Behind German Lines, 1915-1919
Listening to Ludendorff: A Clandestine Belgian military Wireless Station Behind German Lines, 1915-1919 by Paul Goldschmidt, Brendan Richard Whyte ISBN: 9781908336712
Published by Tommies Guides on July 1st 2013
Pages: 187
Len's Summary: Translation of a Belgian work on a secret radio station used for warning of Zeppelin raids and German troop movements.
Slaughter on the Somme, 1916: Complete War Dairies of the British Army’s Worst Day
Slaughter on the Somme, 1916: Complete War Dairies of the British Army’s Worst Day by Martin Mace, John Grehan ISBN: 9781848847705
Published by Pen & Sword Military on July 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 514
Len's Summary: Never-ending fascination with the mud and blood of the Somme. -- The raw material of history.
War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War
War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War by Robert Gerwarth, John Horne ISBN: 9780199686056
Published by OUP Oxford on October 3rd 2013
Genres: History, Europe, General, Former Soviet Republics, Military, World War I, Revolutionary, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Modern, 20th Century, Social History, Political Science, Political Freedom
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: Conflicts lasting through 1923 broke out in Ireland, Italy, Eastern and Central Europe, and Turkey.
Mapping the First World War Battlefields of the Great Conflict from Above
Mapping the First World War Battlefields of the Great Conflict from Above by Simon Forty ISBN: 9781844862184
Published by Bloomsbury USA on January 7th 2014
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 144
Len's Summary: Over 120 illustrations with more than 100 maps and charts representing the best in wartime cartography, most of it drawn from aerial reconnaissance.
Abandoning American Neutrality: Woodrow Wilson and the Beginning of the Great War, August 1914 – December 1915
Abandoning American Neutrality: Woodrow Wilson and the Beginning of the Great War, August 1914 – December 1915 by M. Ryan Floyd ISBN: 9781137334114
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on September 5th 2013
Genres: History, Europe, General, Military, World War I, United States, 20th Century, Political Science
Pages: 262
Len's Summary: Traces Wilson’s ultimately unsuccessful efforts to keep America out of war in the face of political, economic and financial imperatives.
From the Front Line: The Extraordinary Life of Sir Basil Clarke
From the Front Line: The Extraordinary Life of Sir Basil Clarke by Richard Evans ISBN: 9780752494296
Published by History Press Limited on September 1st 2013
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, Europe, Great Britain
Pages: 240
Len's Summary: An intrepid war correspondent reported on the war from Flanders and on the Somme, covered the Irish Easter Rising of 1916, became the UK’s first public relations officer in 1917, and in 1924 founded the first British public relations firm.
Victory on the Western Front: The Final Battles of World War One
Victory on the Western Front: The Final Battles of World War One by Martin Marix Evans ISBN: 1782122362
Published by Arcturus Publishing Limited on August 1st 2013
Pages: 208
Len's Summary: The final hundred days by a formidable British historian and author.
The Short Story and the First World War
The Short Story and the First World War by Ann-Marie Einhaus ISBN: 9781107038431
Published by Cambridge University Press on July 31st 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Modern, 20th Century, Literary Criticism, General, European
Pages: 219
Len's Summary: By focusing on other than poetry, this study challenges conventional cultural perceptions. See also The Penguin Book of First World War Stories, Penguin Classics, 2007
The Great War and Veterans’ Internationalism
The Great War and Veterans’ Internationalism by Julia Eichenberg, John Paul Newman ISBN: 9781137281623
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on November 20th 2013
Genres: History, General, Military, World War I, Veterans, World, Modern, 20th Century, Essays, Social History
Pages: 248
Len's Summary: A collection of essays presenting portraits of the ex-soldiers and women who banded to together in a world-wide network aimed at defending their rights, families, and their commitment to peace.
Trench Talk: Words of the First World War
Trench Talk: Words of the First World War by Peter Doyle, Julian Walker ISBN: 9780752471549
Published by History Press on January 1st 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Language Arts & Disciplines, Linguistics, Etymology
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: How soldiers’ slang merged into everyday language.
Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality, and Women’s Experience of Modern War
Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality, and Women's Experience of Modern War by Laura Doan ISBN: 9780226001616
Published by University of Chicago Press on May 1st 2013
Genres: History, General, Europe, Great Britain, Military, World War I, Social Science, Lesbian Studies, Women's Studies
Pages: 288
Len's Summary: A scholarly study of female sexuality against the backdrop of WWI England where women’s roles were in flux in a world without norms
100 Days to Victory: How the Great War Was Fought and Won
100 Days to Victory: How the Great War Was Fought and Won by Saul David ISBN: 9781444763386
Published by Hodder & Stoughton on May 8th 2014
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Modern, 20th Century
Pages: 544
Len's Summary: Looks at the events on 100 significant days from 1914 to 1918 including battles outside the Western Front.
The Great War: A World War I Historical Collection
The Great War: A World War I Historical Collection by Robert J. Dalessandro, Erin R. Mahan ISBN: 9780794837402
Published by Whitman Pub Llc on April 23rd 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 187
Len's Summary: The authors are respectively US Army Chief of Military History and Chief Historian in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. This popular history released in time for the WWI centennial is intended for general readers.
Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves
Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves by David Crane ISBN: 9780007456680
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Limited on March 27th 2014
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Social Science, Death & Dying
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: The story of Fabian Ware, a Red Cross worker whose vision resulted in the creation of a graves registration commission.
World War I Student Guide
World War I Student Guide by Nancy J. Cramer ISBN: 9780985760304
Published by Author on 2012
Pages: 96
Len's Summary: Intended as a source and guide for students and teachers embarking on a study of The Great War. Order from nancycramer31@yahoo.com.
Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King and Canada’s World Wars
Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King and Canada’s World Wars by Tim Cook ISBN: 9780143177784
Published by Penguin Group (Canada) on October 22nd 2013
Pages: 488
Len's Summary: War leadership roles of two major Canadian political figures and the emergence of Canada as a self-governing Dominion managing its own foreign policy. Also published in 2001 and 2012 by Allen Lane.
Devil Dogs Chronicle: Voices of the Fourth Marine Brigade
Devil Dogs Chronicle: Voices of the Fourth Marine Brigade by George B. Clark ISBN: 9780700618965
Published by University Press of Kansas on March 2nd 2013
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, World War I, United States
Pages: 411
Len's Summary: The history of the ten thousand men, part of the Second Division AEF, who made up the only large Marine unit to fight in World War One. The author is a Marine veteran with several other books under his belt.
The Nek: A Gallipoli Tragedy
The Nek: A Gallipoli Tragedy by Peter Burness ISBN: 9781921966101
Published by Exisle Publishing on July 15th 2015
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 176
Len's Summary: The failed attack of the Austrians on August 1, 1915. The real story was fictionalized in the 1981 Peter Wier film Gallipoli.
The Germans in Flanders 1917-1918
The Germans in Flanders 1917-1918 by David Bilton ISBN: 9781848846500
Published by Pen and Sword on June 5th 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 176
Len's Summary: Twenty three months of battles from the German point of view.
Avoiding Armageddon: From the Great War to the Fall of France, 1918-40
Avoiding Armageddon: From the Great War to the Fall of France, 1918-40 by Jeremy Black ISBN: 9781441157133
Published by A&C Black on July 5th 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War II
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: The First World War spawned any number of new limited wars, civil wars and insurrections all of which are summarized here with analysis of evolving weapons and tactics, as well as great power politics. He author finds the 1920s and 30s presented geo-political-strategic conundrums very similar to those we grapple with today.
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).
They Called Them Soldier Boys: A Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I
They Called Them Soldier Boys: A Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I by Gregory W. Ball ISBN: 9781574415001
Published by University of North Texas Press on March 5th 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, State & Local
Pages: 240
Len's Summary: A history of the Texas National Guard’s 7th Infantry Regiment from its federalization in 1917, training, overseas action and repatriation at war’s end.
Lawrence in Arabia: War Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Lawrence in Arabia: War Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson ISBN: 9780385532938
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on August 6th 2013
Genres: History, Middle East, General, Military, World War I, Political Science, International Relations, Diplomacy
Pages: 592
Len's Summary: How the violent expulsion of the Ottomans and near-sighted Franco-British imperial policies led to a series of crises that began in 1918 and persist today.
The Western Front Companion: The Complete Guide to How the Armies Fought Four Devastating Years
The Western Front Companion: The Complete Guide to How the Armies Fought Four Devastating Years by Mark Adkin ISBN: 9781845137106
Published by Aurum Press on October 1st 2013
Pages: 528
Len's Summary: A heavily illustrated survey history of the war in the west which may make a good gift for friends and relatives needing more education on The Great War.
Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Woman in World War One
Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Woman in World War One by Kate Adie ISBN: 9781444759693
Published by Hodder & Stoughton on April 10th 2014
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Social Science, Women's Studies
Pages: 416
Len's Summary: How women emerged from their domestic roles to take over the jobs abandoned by men serving in the forces.
The American Army and the First World War
The American Army and the First World War by David Woodward ISBN: 9781107648869
Published by Cambridge University Press on July 10th 2014
Pages: 481
Len's Summary: Examines the problems encountered when an unprepared America went to war in 1917. The author is a retired distinguished professor of history at the University of West Virginia. // Correction: Woodward taught at Marshall, not the university of Marshall.
The Cambridge History of the First World War, Three Volumes
The Cambridge History of the First World War by Jay Winter ISBN: 9781107660588
Published by Cambridge University Press on March 24th 2014
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Len's Summary: A massive transnational guide to the military, political, social, economic and cultural aspects of the conflict.
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
