Irishmen in the Great War: Reports from the Front 1914 by Tom Burnell ISBN: 9781473838611
Published by Pen & Sword Books on August 31st 2014
Pages: 252
Len's Summary: Thousands of Irishmen volunteered for the BEF. Based on contemporary Irish press accounts. The citizens of the Irish republic have conflicted sentiments about their ancestors participation in The Great War: pride in their service mixed with patriotic remembrances of the 1916 Easter Uprising.
The 104th Field Artillery Regiment of the New York National Guard, 1916-1919: From the Mexican Border to the Meuse-argonne
The 104th Field Artillery Regiment of the New York National Guard, 1916-1919: From the Mexican Border to the Meuse-argonne by Pamela A. Bakker ISBN: 9780786479153
Published by McFarland on May 20th 2014
Genres: Military, United States
Pages: 228
Len's Summary: This regiment was incorporated into the AEF’s 27th Division.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk by Edward Erickson ISBN: 9781780965901
Published by Osprey Publishing on August 20th 2013
Pages: 64
Len's Summary: Ataturk led the Ottomans to victory at Gallipoli and forged the Turkish Republic from the ashes of WWI.
Ottomans and Armenians: A Study in Counterinsurgency
Ottomans and Armenians: A Study in Counterinsurgency ISBN: 9781137362209 Published by Palgrave Macmillan on November 12th 2013
Pages: 316
Len's Summary: Adduces evidence that Ottoman relocation of Armenian citizens was in response to military necessity.
The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914
The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914 by Bela Zombory-Moldovan ISBN: 9781590178096
Published by New York Review of Books on August 5th 2014
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 184
Len's Summary: A gentle Hungarian painter is thrust into the furnace of war. // Reminiscence of a young artist, a rediscovery.
Get Tough Stay Tough: Shaping the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918
Get Tough Stay Tough: Shaping the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918 by Kenneth Radley ISBN: 9781909982864
Published by Helion on October 30th 2014
Genres: History, Canada, Military, World War I
Pages: 424
Len's Summary: How “the shock troops of the British Empire” were trained and motivated.
In Battle and Captivity 1916-1918: A British Officer’s Memoirs of the Trenches and a German Prison Camp
In Battle and Captivity 1916-1918: A British Officer's Memoirs of the Trenches and a German Prison Camp by Henry Gilbert Nobbs ISBN: 1783463120
Published by Pen & Sword Books on September 1st 2014
Pages: 160
Len's Summary: Captain Nobbs was grievously wounded leading his company on the Somme, captured and later exchanged after three months in a German POW camp.
Behind the Lines: WWI’s little-known story of German occupation, Belgian resistance, and the band of Yanks who helped save millions from starvation
Behind the Lines: WWI's little-known story of German occupation, Belgian resistance, and the band of Yanks who helped save millions from starvation by Jeffrey B. Miller ISBN: 9780990689300
Published by Milbrown Press on September 16th 2014
Pages: 442
Len's Summary: The story of the start-up operations of the Committee on Belgian Relief headed by Herbert Hoover which fed more than nine million Belgians and French trapped behind German lines.
‘A Moonlight Massacre’ – The Night Operation on the Passchendaele Ridge, 2 December 1917: The Forgotten Last Act of the Third Battle of Ypres
'A Moonlight Massacre' - The Night Operation on the Passchendaele Ridge, 2 December 1917: The Forgotten Last Act of the Third Battle of Ypres by Michael LoCicero ISBN: 9781909982925
Published by Helion on December 4th 2014
Pages: 432
Len's Summary: The final, climactic act in the Third Ypres Battle.
Attack on Orleans: The World War I Submarine Raid on Cape Cod
Attack on Orleans:: The World War I Submarine Raid on Cape Cod by Jake Klim ISBN: 9781626194908
Published by The History Press on June 10th 2014
Pages: 128
Len's Summary: The first attack in American shores since the War of 1812 occurred when a long-range U-Boat shelled a string of coastal barges off Nauset Beach.
Anzac: The Unauthorised Biography
Anzac: The Unauthorised Biography by Carolyn Holbrook ISBN: 9781742241814
Published by NewSouth on September 1st 2014
Pages: 280
Len's Summary: A history of how Australians remember WWI.
Catching the Torch: Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I
Catching the Torch: Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I by Neta Gordon ISBN: 9781554589869
Published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press on March 25th 2014
Genres: Literary Criticism, Canadian, History, Military, World War I
Pages: 222
Len's Summary: Examines recently published plays and novels about Canada’s contribution to WWI.
Doughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed their Military Experience
Doughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed Their Military Experience by Edward A. Gutièrrez ISBN: 9780700619900
Published by University Press of Kansas on September 19th 2014
Pages: 308
Len's Summary: Illuminates the war through veterans’ own statements. // Remembrances of America soldiers written in 1919 when memories were fresh.
Fighting the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactics and Technology
Fighting the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactics and Technology by Norman Friedman ISBN: 9781591141884
Published by Naval Institute Press on October 15th 2014
Genres: History, Military, Naval, Strategy
Pages: 416
Len's Summary: Written by a premier American naval historian. While not the decisive front in WWI, the war at sea was vital to Allied victory.
Send in the Alabamians: World War Fighters in the Rainbow Division,
Send the Alabamians: World War I Fighters in the Rainbow Division by Nimrod T. Frazer ISBN: 9780817318383
Published by University of Alabama Press on May 13th 2014
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, 20th Century, State & Local
Pages: 344
Len's Summary: index, ISBN 978 0 8173 1838 3, 34.95 hb. The story of the 167th Infantry Regiment, Alabama National Guard. It is not only Pen & Sword that can publish regimental histories.
Behind the Gas Mask: The U. S. Chemical Warfare Service in War And Peace
Behind the Gas Mask: The U. S. Chemical Warfare Service in War And Peace by Thomas I. Faith ISBN: 9780252080265
Published by University of Illinois Press on October 10th 2014
Genres: History, Military, Biological & Chemical Warfare, United States, General, Social Science, Media Studies
Pages: 149
Len's Summary: An examination of the U. S. Army’s use of chemical warfare in WWI and the ultimate rejection during the 1920s of its future use.
The First Battle of the First World War: Alsace-Lorraine
The First Battle of the First World War: Alsace-Lorraine by Karl Deuringer ISBN: 0752460862
Published by The History Press on November 1st 2014
Pages: 400
Len's Summary: Fought two weeks before First Marne, this battle resulted in the repulse of the attacking French Army. // Translation of the official Bavarian Army history of this campaign. Zuber, a retired US Army officer, is author of The Battle of the Frontiers: Ardennes 1914, The History Press, 2013.
The First World War Galleries
The First World War Galleries by Paul Cornish ISBN: 9781904897835
Published by Imperial War Museums on June 26th 2014
Genres: Art, Permanent Collections, History, Military, World War I
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: The author uses artifacts at the IWM to trace the course of the war.
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher ISBN: 9780802123251
Published by Grove Press on June 3rd 2014
Genres: History, Europe, Eastern, Military, World War I, Austria & Hungary
Pages: 326
Len's Summary: The story of Gavrilo Princip whose assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked WWI. A history Book Club selection.
The Old Front Line: The Centenary of the Western Front,
The Old Front Line: The Centenary of the Western Front in Pictures by Stephen Bull ISBN: 9781612002309
Published by Casemate on July 19th 2014
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Travel
Pages: 192
Len's Summary: A profusely illustrated then-and-now look at the Western Front then and now; monuments, markers, and cemeteries of all nationalities. The author is Curator for Military History & Archeology for Lancashire Museums. // Examines the Western Front geographically, the scars left by battle and the cemeteries, war memorials and statues erected by the victors.
Torpedo: The Complete History of the World’s Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon
Torpedo: The Complete History of the World's Most Revolutionary Naval Weapon by Roger Branfill-Cook ISBN: 1591141931
Published by US Naval Institute Press on August 15th 2014
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: The greatest single game-changer in naval warfare allowing small, inexpensive torpedo-firing ships to menace dreadnoughts.
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter ISBN: 9780062221407
Published by Harper Perennial on April 15th 2014
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Europe, France, Travel
Pages: 416
Len's Summary: Paris and Parisians survive and even thrive during WWI as the City of Lights blazes brightly.
The Major Battles of the First World War
The Major Battles of the First World War by Bill Price ISBN: B00DUHI55W
Published by RW Press on July 8th 2013
Pages: 77
Len's Summary: A quick, introductory summary of major encounters.
American Battlefields of World War I: Château-Thierry — Then and Now, Vol. 1: Enter the Yanks
American Battlefields of World War I: Château-Thierry -- Then and Now, Vol. 1: Enter the Yanks by David C. Homsher ISBN: 9780970244307
Published by Battleground Productions on January 1st 2006
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Essays, Photography
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: First in a new series of guides, the first new guides to American battlefields in many years.
Mons: 1914
Mons: 1914 by Jack Horsfall, Nigel Cave ISBN: 0850526779
Published by Pen & Sword Books on August 1st 1999
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 192
Fields of War: A Visitor’s Guide to Fifty Key Battlefields in France & Belgium
Fields of War: A Visitor’s Guide to Fifty Key Battlefields in France & Belgium by Robert J. Mueller ISBN: 9780982367704
Published by French Battlefields on January 1st 2009
Genres: History, Military, World War I, World War II, Travel, Europe, France
Pages: 407
Len's Summary: A guide to 600 years of warfare in northwestern France and Flanders; from Crecy to Bastogne. Order from sales@frenchbattlefields.com or fax (224) 735-4378.
Touring the Italian Front, 1917-1919
Touring the Italian Front, 1917-1919 by Francis Mackay ISBN: 9780850528763
Published by Battleground Europe on March 31st 2003
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 173
Len's Summary: First published in 2002, this guide covers operations of French, British and American forces between November 1917 and the spring of 1919 as the reinvigorated and reinforced Italians rolled back German-Austro-Hungarian advances made during the 1917 Battle of Caporetto.
Major and Mrs. Holt’s Battlefield Guide: Western Front – South
Major and Mrs. Holt’s Battlefield Guide: Western Front - South by Tonie Holt, Valmai Holt ISBN: 1844152391
Published by Pen & Sword Books on December 1st 2005
Pages: 360
Len's Summary: First and Second Marne, the Somme 1916, Cambrai, the Aisne, Verdun, the Hindenburg Line, St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne among other battles and campaigns. Companion volume to an earlier guide to northern Western Front battlefields.
The Fallen: A Photographic Journey Through the War Cemeteries and Memorials of the Great War, 1914-18
The Fallen: A Photographic Journey Through the War Cemeteries and Memorials of the Great War, 1914-18 by John Garfield, Katherine Whitehorn ISBN: 0750952040
Published by Spellmount on May 1st 2014
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Photography, Photoessays & Documentaries
Pages: 168
Battle Lines: Ypres: Nieuwpoort to Ploegsteert
Battle Lines: Ypres: Nieuwpoort to Ploegsteert by Jon Cooksey, Jerry Murland ISBN: 9781848847934
on January 1st 2013
Pages: 240
Len's Summary: First in a series of new Pen & Sword walking, cycling and motoring battlefield guides.
The Battlefields of the First World War: The Unseen Panoramas of the Western Front
The Battlefields of the First World War: The Unseen Panoramas of the Western Front by Peter Barton ISBN: 1472111923
on November 14th 2013
Len's Summary: In cooperation with the Imperial War Museum with a foreword by Richard Holmes. Also published by Osprey under the title Battlefields of the First World War: From the First Battle of Ypres to Passchendaele. // Also published by Osprey under the title Battlefields of the First World War: From the First Battle of Ypres to Passchendaele. Covers British and Belgian sectors of the front from the North Sea to the Somme. The included CDs contain the 200 panoramic photos seen the book. Available from the publisher at www.constablerobinson.com or discounted at $65 from Barnes & Nobel. Highly recommended by WFA member John Hurst in Canada.
American Armies and Battlefields in Europe
American Armies and Battlefields In Europe by American Battle Monuments Commission on August 18th 2015
Len's Summary: A combination history, photoalbum, atlas and battlefield guide for the American Expeditionary Force, this classic is now best ordered as part of the 3-CD set, The U.S. Army in World War I, offered by the U.S. Army Center for Military History at their website.
Captain Conan
Captain Conan by Roger Vercel ISBN: 9781570037139
on February 25th 2008
Genres: Fiction, Historical, War & Military, History, Military, World War I
Pages: 296
Len's Summary: First published in 1934, this novel of WWI of French troops on the Bulgarian front and postwar occupation duty in Bucharest won a Prix Goncourt and war made into a motion picture available on DVD and video tape.
The Secret Battle: A Tragedy of the First World War
The Secret Battle: A Tragedy of the First World War by A.P. Herbert, Winston S. Churchill, Malcolm Brown ISBN: 1848325215
Published by Frontline Books on April 1st 2009
Genres: History, Military, General
Pages: 216
Len's Summary: The fictionalized story of an idealistic young British officer first published in 1919. // First published by Methuen in 1919 and in print virtually ever since, this semi-autobiographical novel follows the career of a young man who left Oxford to enlist later taking a commission and serving at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. This was the first book to freely discuss executions for desertion in the British forces.
Army Service Corps, 1902-1918
Army Service Corps, 1902-1918 by Michael Young, Richard Holmes ISBN: 0850527309
Published by Leo Cooper on July 1st 2000
Pages: 406
Len's Summary: A history of the worldwide operations of the British Army Service Corps in WWI replete with maps, b&w illustrations, biographies of key officers and tables of Corps organization.
Flawed Victory: Jutland, 1916
Flawed Victory: Jutland, 1916 by Keith Yates ISBN: 9781557509819
Published by Naval Institute Press on May 1st 2000
Pages: 314
Soldier and Warrior: French Attitudes toward the Army and War on the Eve of the First World War
Soldier and Warrior: French Attitudes toward the Army and War on the Eve of the First World War by H. L. Wesseling ISBN: 9780313307218
Published by Greenwood Press on January 1st 2000
Genres: History, Europe, France, Military, General, World War I
Pages: 248
Len's Summary: How French publicists glorified the Army and idealized war in the decade before 1914.
The Ship That Changed the World: The Escape of the Goeben to the Dardanelles in 1914
The Ship That Changed the World: The Escape of the Goeben to the Dardanelles in 1914 by Dan Van der Vat ISBN: 9781841580623
Published by Birlinn on 2000
Pages: 252
Len's Summary: A paperback reprinting of the 1985 book of the same name. This tells the story of the 1914 escape of the German battle cruiser Goben through the porous net of the Royal Navy’s Mediterranean Squadron to the Ottoman Empire. Written by the author of The Grand Scuttle, the self-destruction of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919.
The United States, Revolutionary Russia, and the Rise of Czechoslovakia
The United States, Revolutionary Russia, and the Rise of Czechoslovakia by Betty Miller Unterberger ISBN: 0890969310
Published by Texas A&M University Press on April 1st 2000
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Political Science, International Relations, General
Pages: 463
Len's Summary: A revised edition of the 1989 work based on newly available documentary sources. By the author of "Woodrow Wilson and Great Power Relations in Central Europe."
A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne: A Memoir, 1917-1918
A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne: A Memoir, 1917-1918 by William S. Triplet, Robert H. Ferrell ISBN: 0826212905
Published by University of Missouri Press on August 1st 2000
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Historical, Military, History, Europe, France, World War I
Pages: 344
Len's Summary: Another interesting Great War memoir produced by an important American regional publisher.
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
