The Advance from Mons 1914: The Experiences of a German Infantry Officer by Walter Bloem ISBN: 1907677046
Published by Helion & Company on October 1st 2011
Pages: 128
Len's Summary: The memoir of a German reserve officer, a company commander, tracing his service from mobilization to the Marne and retreat to the Aisne. Recommended by WFA member Tom Jones.
My Seventy-Five: The Journal of a French Gunner August-September 1914
My Seventy-Five: The Journal of a French Gunner August-September 1914 by Paul Lintier ISBN: 9781907677304
Published by Helion on February 1st 2011
Pages: 128
Len's Summary: A rare translation of a French WWI memoir.
1914-1918, Regard D’Un Medecin Militaire
1914-1918, Regard D'Un Medecin Militaire by Leon Lecerf ISBN: 291441725X
Published by Indo Editions on May 1st 2005
Pages: 125
Len's Summary: Memories of a French military doctor along with his photographs. In French.
George Browne: An American Soldier in World War I
George Browne: An American Soldier in World War I by George Browne, David L. Snead ISBN: 0803213514
Published by University of Nebraska Press on June 1st 2006
Genres: Military, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 202
Len's Summary: The letters of George "Brownie" Browne, Doughboy of the 117th Engineers of the 42nd Rainbow Division sent to his fiance during his 18 months of service.
Douglas Haig: The Preparatory Prologue 1861 – 1914; Diaries and Letters
Douglas Haig: The Preparatory Prologue 1861 - 1914; Diaries and Letters by Douglas Scott ISBN: 9781844154043
on June 15th 2006
Pages: 300
Home Fires Burning: The Great War Diaries of Georgina Lee
Home Fires Burning: The Great War Diaries of Georgina Lee by Gavin Roynon ISBN: 9780752450643
on May 1st 2009
Genres: Great Britain, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: A view of the war from the British home front.
Twelve Days on the Somme: A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916
Twelve Days on the Somme: A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916 by Sidney Rogerson ISBN: 9781848325340
Published by Frontline Books on July 2009
Pages: 172
Len's Summary: Memoirs of a British subaltern first published in 1933; vivid descriptions with out embellishment of life on the front lines written by a survivor of the 1916 Somme offensive. Unabashedly intended as an antidote to the usual downbeat 1930's war memoir.
Voices in Flight: Conversations with Air Veterans of the Great War
Voices in Flight: Conversations with Air Veterans of the Great War by Anna Malinovska, Muriel Joslyn ISBN: 1844153991
Published by Pen & Sword Books on September 1st 2006
Pages: 228
Len's Summary: Memoirs of and interviews with WWI pilots.
Portrait of War: The U.S. Army’s First Combat Artists and the Doughboys’ Experience in WWI
Portrait of War: The U.S. Army's First Combat Artists and the Doughboys' Experience in WWI by Peter Krass ISBN: 9780471670230
Published by Wiley on October 27th 2006
Genres: Art, Biography & Autobiography, Military, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 342
Len's Summary: The story of established artists and illustrators commissioned to make a pictorial record of America in WWI.
Under Fire in the Dardanelles
Under Fire in the Dardanelles by Kira Charaton, Edward Cadogan ISBN: 1844153746
on February 1st 2006
Pages: 208
Len's Summary: Documents a serving officer's experiences.
A Month at the Front: The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
A Month at the Front: The Diary of an Unknown Soldier by Bodleian Library ISBN: 1851243550
Published by Bodleian Library on November 30th 2006
Pages: 64
Len's Summary: One month in the life of a soldier from the 12th East Surrey regiment.
Recollections of the Great War in the Air
Recollections of the Great War in the Air by James R. McConnell, Bob Carruthers ISBN: 1781580790
on March 1st 2012
Pages: 98
Len's Summary: Reprint of a 1917 memoir by a Lafayette Escadrille pilot.
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
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.
The First World War Diaries of Emma Duffin: Belfast Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse
The First World War Diaries of Emma Duffin: Belfast Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse by Trevor Parkhill, Emma Duffin ISBN: 9781846825224
Published by Four Courts Press on July 25th 2014
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Ireland, Military, Women
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: Nurse Duffin’s service in Egypt and France from 1915 to 1918. Until just recently such treatments of Irish service in WWI were rare.
Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country: The World War I Memoir of Margaret Hall
Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country: The World War I Memoir of Margaret Hall by Margaret Hall ISBN: 9781936520077
Published by Massachusetts Historical Society on August 18th 2014
Pages: 225
Len's Summary: Margaret Hall was an American Red Cross volunteer working at a canteen just behind the front in 1918. After the Armistice she traveled across France recording scenes of physical destruction and human suffering. The editor is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut and has written several other books on women in WWI.
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.
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.
Remembering World War I: An Engineer’s Diary of the War
Remembering World War I: An Engineer's Diary of the War by Charles Edward Dilkes ISBN: 9780692028612
Published by Juliet Publishing on August 27th 2014
Pages: 192
Len's Summary: A volunteer AEF engineer sergeant tells his story.
To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander
To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander by Georg von Trapp, Elizabeth M. Campbell ISBN: 0803246676
Published by University of Nebraska Press on March 1st 2007
Pages: 196
Len's Summary: History Book Club selection. The memoirs of the Austro-Hungarian submarine ace and founder of the Trapp Family Singers first published in the early 1930s before Trapp fled the Nazis and immigrated to America. // Available for the first time in English, the memoirs of Austria-Hungary's leading U-Boat ace and founder of the Trapp Family Singers (The Sound of Music). Available in the spring of 2007.
We Who Are So Cosmopolitan: the War Diary of Constance Graeffe
We Who Are So Cosmopolitan: the War Diary of Constance Graeffe by Constance Graeffe, Sophie De Schaepdrijver ISBN: 9789057460906
Published by Algemeen Rijksarchief Brussel on January 1st 2008
Pages: 560
Len's Summary: The Great War’s impact on a trans-national family (German-French-English) living in Brussels, 1914-1918.
Guarding the Border: The Military Memoirs of the Ward Schrantz, 1912-1917
Guarding the Border: The Military Memoirs of the Ward Schrantz, 1912-1917 by Jeff Patrick ISBN: 1603440968
Published by Texas A&M University Press on February 10th 2009
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, General, Personal Memoirs, History, Military, United States, State & Local, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, Hispanic American Studies
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: This memoir offers a look at a professional soldier’s life and attitudes in the early 20th century.
Survivors of a Kind: Memoirs of the Western Front
Survivors of a Kind: Memoirs of the Western Front by Brian Bond ISBN: 9781847250049
Published by A&C Black on December 20th 2008
Genres: History, General, Military, World War I, Modern, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 192
Len's Summary: An introduction to WWI memoirs as being of both literary and historical value. // An analysis of Western Front memoirs published by a range of British luminaries including Anthony Eden, Harold McMillan, General F. P. Crozier and several war poets including Edmund Blunden.
Armenian Golgotha
Armenian Golgotha by Grigoris Balakian, Peter Balakian ISBN: 1400096774
Published by Vintage Books on March 9th 2010
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Historical, Personal Memoirs, History, Asia, General, Middle East
Pages: 576
Len's Summary: The memoirs of an Armenian Apostolic priest and intellectual who disguised himself as a railway worker and escaped the WWI Armenian bloodbath. The translator is the author of The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and the American Response (Harper Collins, 2004). One of a spate of books being published as the 100 anniversary of the Ottoman massacres of Armenians nears.
The Story of the Great War
The Story of the Great War by Allen L. Churchill, Francis J. Reynolds, Francis Trevelyan Miller on March 30th 2011
Pages: 471
Len's Summary: First published in 1916-1920, this reprint offers contemporary first-hand accounts, biographies and narratives. Available from the publisher Weider History Group, Box 664, Holmes, PA 19043-9956. Weider publishes MHQ and several other military history magazines.
The First World War, 1914-1918; personal experiences of Lieut.-Col. C. à Court Repington
The First World War, 1914-1918; personal experiences of Lieut.-Col. C. à Court Repington by C. À Court Repington ISBN: 1117156427
on November 13th 2009
Pages: 652
Len's Summary: Former British Army officer Repington was the influential London Times war correspondent covering the BEF. Famous in his day, he is now virtually forgotten. Also available from Hard Press Editions, in two volumes from Simon Publications and as a NOOK book.
The Distant Drum: A Memoir of a Guardsman in the Great War
The Distant Drum: A Memoir of a Guardsman in the Great War by F.E. Noakes ISBN: 9781848325630
Published by Frontline Books on July 12th 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Great Britain
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: First published privately in 1952 this is the memoir of a Grenadier Guardsman who served during the final 18 months of the war. Available from www.casematepublishing.com.
The Way of Duty, Honor, Country: The Memoir of General Charles Pelot Summerall
The Way of Duty, Honor, Country: The Memoir of General Charles Pelot Summerall by Charles Pelot Summerall, Timothy Nenninger ISBN: 9780813126180
Published by University Press of Kentucky on September 22nd 2010
Genres: History, Military, United States, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 298
Len's Summary: Autobiography of a man who got things done. See also the new Summerall biography by W. Gary Nichols (White Mane, 2011).
The Man Who Ran London During the First World War: The Diaries and Letters of Lieutenant General Sir Francis Lloyd
The Man Who Ran London During the First World War: The Diaries and Letters of Lieutenant General Sir Francis Lloyd by Richard Morris ISBN: 1848841647
Published by Pen & Sword Books on June 1st 2010
Pages: 196
Len's Summary: Lloyd’s remit covered hospitals, the main railway termini, and a defensive circle of trenches.
Mons, Anzac and Kut by an MP
Mons, Anzac and Kut by an MP by Edward Melotte ISBN: 9781848841758
on January 19th 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Great Britain, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 217
Len's Summary: Memoirs of a BEF intelligence officer on several fronts. // The WWI experiences of a British soldier, diplomat and adventurer.
Caissons Go Rolling Along – A Memoir of an American in Post-World War I Germany
Caissons Go Rolling Along - A Memoir of an American in Post-World War I Germany by Johnson Hagood, Larry A. Grant ISBN: 1611172187
Published by University of South Carolina Press on December 5th 2012
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: General Hagood’s impressions of his artillery brigade’s march into Germany, wartime devastation, the defeated enemy, occupied territories and his tour of the recent battlefields.
Sailor in the Air: The Memoirs of the World’s First Carrier Pilot
Sailor in the Air: The Memoirs of the World's First Carrier Pilot by Richard Bell Davies ISBN: 9781848320116
Published by Seaforth Publishing on March 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 264
Len's Summary: Davis won the VC as a Royal Navy Air Wing pilot during WWI.
A Michigan Polar Bear Confronts the Bolsheviks: A Memoir
A Michigan Polar Bear Confronts the Bolsheviks: A Memoir ISBN: 9780802865205 Published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing on September 14th 2010
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, World War I, World War II, United States, Other, Europe, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 187
Len's Summary: Memoir of a member of the 337th Field Hospital part of a 5,000-man American Army unit in Northern Russia from 1918 to 1919.
First Over the Front
First Over the Front by Stanley Walsh ISBN: 1467026417
Published by AuthorHouse on November 18th 2011
Pages: 316
Len's Summary: The letters and diary (with commentary) of a pilot with the AEF’s 90th Aero Squadron.
Letters from a War Bird: The World War I Correspondence of Elliot White Springs
Letters from a War Bird: The World War I Correspondence of Elliot White Springs ISBN: 9781611170405 Published by University of South Carolina Press on January 1st 2012
Pages: 358
Len's Summary: Reprint of a famous memoir written by an AEF pursuit pilot.
The Quick and the Dead: Fallen Soldiers and Their Families in The Great War
The Quick and the Dead: Fallen Soldiers and Their Families in The Great War by Richard Van Emden ISBN: 9780747597797
Published by A&C Black on October 3rd 2011
Pages: 344
Len's Summary: A compilation of more than 50 private diaries, interviews and letters written by British soldiers.
Ace of the Black Cross: The Memoirs of Ernst Udet
Ace of the Black Cross: The Memoirs of Ernst Udet by Ernst Udet ISBN: 9781848327085
Published by Frontline Books on October 2013
Pages: 202
Len's Summary: With an introductory essay placing Udet’s career in the context of his time. // Autobiography of Germany’s second leading WWI ace first published in 1936.
At the Front in a Flivver
At the Front in a Flivver by William Yorke Stevenson ISBN: 9781103275922
Published by BiblioBazaar on 2009
Pages: 320
Len's Summary: First published in 1922, this is a scanned reproduction of the original work, a combination of his diary and letters home.by American Field Service ambulance driver Stevenson who served on the Somme, at Verdun and in the Argonne Forest.
Confusion of Command: The Memoirs of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas D’Oyly ‘Snowball ‘Snow, 1914-1918
Confusion of Command: The Memoirs of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas D'Oyly 'Snowball 'Snow, 1914-1918 by Thomas D'Oyly Snow ISBN: 1848325754
Published by Frontline Books on February 1st 2011
Pages: 228
Len's Summary: Western Front memoirs of a BEF general.
That’s War
That's War by William Arthur Sirmon ISBN: 1462880983
Published by Xlibris Corporation on June 27th 2011
Pages: 168
Len's Summary: The diary of a regular army officer, a veteran of the Philippine Constabulary and DSC-winner in the 82nd division in France.
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
