A Tommy at Ypres by Walter Williamson, Doreen Priddey ISBN: 9781445602134
Published by Amberley on October 5th 2011
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, History, Military, World War I
Pages: 351
Len's Summary: One man’s experience of war. Papers of an educated Tommy.
World War One Aircraft Carrier Pioneer: The Stories and Diaries of J. M. McCleery, RNAS/RAF
World War One Aircraft Carrier Pioneer: The Stories and Diaries of J. M. McCleery, RNAS/RAF by Guy Warner ISBN: 9781848842557
on June 13th 2011
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: Memoirs of service on HMS Furious. -- The story of an aviator flying off HMS Furious in.1917 and 1918.
A Surgeon in Khaki: Through France and Flanders in World War I
A Surgeon in Khaki: Through France and Flanders in World War I by Arthur Anderson Martin, Glyn Harper ISBN: 0803234929
Published by University of Nebraska Press on April 1st 2011
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, General, Personal Memoirs, History, Military, World War I, Medical, Surgery
Pages: 320
Len's Summary: The memoir of a New Zealand surgeon in the BEF.
An Anzac on the Western Front: Personal Recollections of an Austrian Infantryman from 1916 to 1918
An Anzac on the Western Front: Personal Recollections of an Austrian Infantryman from 1916 to 1918 by H. R. Williams ISBN: 9781848847675
on October 2012
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, World War I, Veterans, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 208
Len's Summary: First published in the 1920s, this memoir describes the horrors of the battlefield in graphic terms.
The Military Papers of Lieutenant-General Frederick Stanley Maude, 1914-1917
The Military Papers of Lieutenant-General Frederick Stanley Maude, 1914-1917 by Sir Stanley Maude, Andrew Syk ISBN: 9780752486192
Published by History Press for the Army Records Society on 2012
Pages: 312
Len's Summary: Maud, who died of cholera in 1917, served in Europe and the Middle East. This book concentrates on his important service in Mesopotamia.
A Prayer for Gallipoli: The Great War Diaries of Chaplain Kenneth Best
A Prayer for Gallipoli: The Great War Diaries of Chaplain Kenneth Best by Gavin Roynon ISBN: 9781849833677
Published by Simon & Schuster UK on November 6th 2012
Genres: History, Military, General, World War I, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: Chaplain Best was attached to the 42nd East Lancastrian Territorial Division. Also published under the title A Chaplain at Gallipoli.
A Gunner’s War: An Artilleryman’s Experience in the First World War
A Gunner's War: An Artilleryman's Experience in the First World War by Ian Ronayne ISBN: 9781848846081
Published by Pen & Sword Books on December 2012
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, Personal Memoirs, History, World War I
Pages: 192
Len's Summary: Memoirs of Clarence Ahler, a Channel Islander, who volunteered in 1914 and served with the BEF artillery on the Western Front.
The Kaiser’s Reluctant Conscript
The Kaiser’s Reluctant Conscript by Dominik Richert, David Carrick Sutherland ISBN: 9781781590331
Published by Pen & Sword Books on January 1st 2013
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, Personal Memoirs, History, World War I
Pages: 288
Len's Summary: Adventures of an Alsatian conscript who fought for Germany on both the Eastern and Western Fronts, finally deserting to the French in 1918.
Too Many Heroes, Volume 1: The Translated War Diaries of the 1er and 3e BMILA, From Mobilization to 2nd Ypres
Too Many Heroes, Volume 1: The Translated War Diaries of the 1er and 3e BMILA, From Mobilization to 2nd Ypres by Allan D. Lougheed ISBN: 1477467629
Published by Createspace on August 1st 2012
Pages: 234
Len's Summary: Part of the French Armée d’Afrique and made up of former military convicts, the African Light Infantry served in North Africa as disciplinary labor until sent to the front in early WWI. Available from Amazon Canada.
At Belleau Wood with Rifle and Sketchpad: Memoir of a United States Marine in World War I
At Belleau Wood with Rifle and Sketchpad: Memoir of a United States Marine in World War I by Louis C. Linn, Laura Jane Linn Wright, B.J. Omanson ISBN: 0786449047
Published by McFarland on January 11th 2012
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, Personal Memoirs, History, World War I, United States
Pages: 189
Len's Summary: Memoir of young Marine complete with wood cuts and sketches depicting his life at war. Linn was also a poet whose work has recently been published by the University of South Carolina Press.
On the Western Front with the Rainbow Division: A World War I Diary
On the Western Front with the Rainbow Division: A World War I Diary by Vernon E. Kniptash, E. Bruce Geelhoed ISBN: 0806140321
Published by University of Oklahoma Press on April 17th 2009
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, World War I, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: Experiences of an extraordinary ordinary soldier of the AE.F. // Memoirs of an Indiana National Guardsman who served as a radio operator in the 42nd Division.
The March on Paris: The Memoirs of Alexander von Kluck, 1914-1918
The March on Paris: The Memoirs of Alexander von Kluck, 1914-1918 by Alexander Von Kluck ISBN: 1848326394
Published by Frontline Books on April 19th 2012
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, General, History, Military, World War I, Modern, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 134
Len's Summary: By the commander of the extreme right flank of the German attack in 1914.
Eyewitnesses to the Great War: American Writers, Reporters, Volunteers and Soldiers in France, 1914-1918
Eyewitnesses to the Great War: American Writers, Reporters, Volunteers and Soldiers in France, 1914-1918 by Ed Klekowski, Libby Klekowski ISBN: 0786463481
Published by McFarland & Company on July 30th 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War I, World War II, United States, 20th Century, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 253
Len's Summary: Novelist Edith Wharton, Mrs. W K. Vanderbilt and other American expatriate socialites, adventurers as well as diplomats, soldiers, journalists, and relief workers among others write of their experiences on both sides of the lines. A different slant on the war by two new members of WWHA.
A Nurse at the Front: The Great War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton. Edited by Ruth Cowen
A Nurse at the Front: The Great War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton. Edited by Ruth Cowen by Ruth Cowen, Edith Appleton ISBN: 9780857202246
Published by Simon and Schuster on March 1st 2012
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, General, Personal Memoirs, World War I
Pages: 320
Len's Summary: War diaries of a British nurse.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My Life Before the World War, 1860-1917 – A Memoir
My Life Before the World War, 1860-1917 – A Memoir by John J. Pershing, John T. Greenwood ISBN: 9780813141978
Published by University Press of Kentucky on June 20th 2013
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, History, Military, United States
Pages: 727
Len's Summary: Pershing’s previously unpublished memoir traces his life from boyhood in Kansas, through West Point, the final Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection and his role as an observer in the Russo-Japanese War, as well as the frustrating pursuit of Pancho Villa across northern Mexico.
Haig’s Medical Officer
Haig’s Medical Officer by Eugene Ryan ISBN: 9781781593165
Published by Pen & Sword Books on January 1st 2014
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 222
Len's Summary: Excerpts from Dr. Ryan’s diaries.
Nels Anderson’s World War I Diary
Nels Anderson's World War I Diary by Nels Anderson, Allan Kent Powell ISBN: 9781607812555
Published by University of Utah Press on June 30th 2013
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, Personal Memoirs, History, World War I
Pages: 308
Len's Summary: Extensive annotations by the editor make this book worth reading. // First-hand account of service of an enlisted engineer in the 89th Division of the AEF.
Sailor in the Desert: Adventures of Phillip Gunn DCM, RN in the Mesopotamian Campaign 1915
Sailor in the Desert: Adventures of Phillip Gunn DCM, RN in the Mesopotamian Campaign 1915 by David Gunn ISBN: 9781783462308
Published by Pen and Sword on November 14th 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 160
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.
Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin
Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin by Raphael Lemkin, Donna-Lee Frieze ISBN: 9780300186963
Published by Yale University Press on June 24th 2013
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Historical, Political, Lawyers & Judges, Personal Memoirs, History, Holocaust, Law, International
Pages: 293
Len's Summary: Though not strictly speaking about WWI, this is the biography of the Polish lawyer who coined the term “genocide” (racial or religious murder) as a result of his study of the Armenian massacres of 1915. Thanks to Lemkin’s efforts, the United Nations in 1948 adopted the Convention the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
A Home Front Diary, 1914-18
A Home Front Diary, 1914-18 by Lillie Scales ISBN: 9781445618968
Published by Amberley Publishing on March 19th 2014
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, General, Personal Memoirs, History, Military, World War I, Literary Collections, Diaries & Journals
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: Diary of a British housewife whose family took in Belgian refugees and ANZAC soldiers.
I Fought for the Kaiser: Memoirs of a German Soldier
I Fought for the Kaiser: Memoirs of a German Soldier by Julius Koettgen, Bob Carruthers Published by Amazon Digital Services on March 12th 2013
Len's Summary: First published during the war under the title A German Deserter’s War Experience.
Open Cockpit
Open Cockpit by Arthur Gould Lee ISBN: 9781908117250
Published by Grub Street on May 31st 2012
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: Reprint of a classic study (first published in 1965) by a British soldier who became an RFC pilot. Available from Casemate Publishing. // Memoir of a British air ace first published in 1969.
Carl Menckhoff: Reminiscenses of War and Captivity
Reminiscenses of war and captivity by Carl Menckhoff ISBN: 9781935881179
Published by Aeronaut Books on 2013
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: Memoir of a 39 victory German ace.
Recollections of the Great War in the Air
Recollections of the Great War in the Air by James R. McConnell ISBN: 9781781580806
on March 1st 2012
Pages: 98
Len's Summary: Memoirs of a Lafayette Escadrille pilot first published in 1917. According to WWI aviation expert Steve Suddaby, this is a “long-lost gem.” // Memoir of an American volunteer in the Lafayette Escadrille.
No Parachute: A Classic Account of War in the Air in WWI
No Parachute by Arthur Gould Lee ISBN: 9781909166042
Published by Grub Street on August 19th 2013
Pages: 240
Len's Summary: Based on the wartime letters of RFC pilot Gould Lee, who later rose to become a Vice Air Marshall. // Letters from young British airmen at the front.
The First Day on the Somme
The First Day on the Somme by Martin Middlebrook ISBN: 1844154653
Published by Pen & Sword Books on March 1st 2003
Genres: World War I, Diplomacy and Politics, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 365
Len's Summary: Ground-breaking work that shows the human tragedy of the disastrous attack of the British Army on July 1, 1916.
Nicholas and Alexandra
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie ISBN: 0345438310
Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks on February 1st 2000
Genres: Diplomacy and Politics, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 640
Len's Summary: Highly readable account of the fall of the Romanov dynasty.
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan, Richard Holbrooke ISBN: 0375760520
Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks on September 9th 2003
Genres: World War I, Diplomacy and Politics, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 570
Len's Summary: A thorough, scholarly analysis of what transpired at the Paris peace conference.
Good-Bye to All That
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography by Robert Graves ISBN: 0385093306
Published by Anchor Books on February 1st 1958
Genres: World War I, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 347
Len's Summary: Most famous memoir a survivor of the War, a Captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, later a distinguished novelist and poet.
Over There
Over There: The Story of America's First Great Overseas Crusade by Frank Freidel ISBN: 007557036X
Published by McGraw-Hill Companies on December 1st 1990
Genres: World War I, Battle History, Personal Memoirs, Illustrated, Youth-accessible
Pages: 244
Len's Summary: Story of the American military effort told sympathetically, with gusto; uses many firsthand accounts.
The World Crisis: An Abridgement
The World Crisis: An Abridgement of the Classic Four-Volume History of World War I by Winston S. Churchill ISBN: 0684194538
Published by Scribner on November 24th 1992
Genres: World War I, Personal Memoirs, Battle History, Diplomacy and Politics
Pages: 864
Len's Summary: Masterful grand survey of the War; obviously strongly British in outlook; very good on naval matters.
Testament of Youth
Testament Of Youth by Vera Brittain ISBN: 0143039237
Published by Victor Gollancz on August 28th 1933
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Historical, Literary, Personal Memoirs
Pages: 688
Len's Summary: Memoir of a V.A.D. nurse who lost several loved ones in combat and became a pacifist and feminist afterwards.
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
