Major & Mrs. Holt’s Pocket Battlefield Guide to Ypres and Passchendaele by Tonie Holt, Valmai Holt ISBN: 9781844153770
Published by Casemate Publishers on September 15th 2006
Pages: 128
Len's Summary: Includes 1st, 2nd and 3rd (Passchendaele) and 4th Ypres (Lys).
Major & Mrs. Holt’s Pocket Battlefield Guide to the Somme Battles
Major & Mrs. Holt’s Pocket Battlefield Guide to the Somme Battles by Tonie Holt, Valmai Holt ISBN: 1844153959
Published by Pen & Sword Books on August 2nd 2006
Pages: 112
Len's Summary: Covers the 1916 battles, the Kaiser’s Offensive of March-April 1918 and the American-Canadian sectors of 1918. // Battlefield details capturing essential features and tourist information.
Walking Verdun: A Guide to the Battlefield
Walking Verdun: A Guide to the Battlefield by Christina Holstein ISBN: 1844158675
on July 2009
Pages: 176
Len's Summary: A new guide book from one of the most knowledgeable Western Front historians and guides. // A New work by long-time battlefield guide and WFA member who also wrote an earlier Pen & Sword book on Ft. Douaumont.
Somme 1916: A Battlefield Companion
Somme 1916: A Battlefield Companion by Gerald Gliddon ISBN: 0752453351
Published by The History Press on January 1st 2010
Pages: 560
Len's Summary: A reference work first published as As the Barrage Lifts in 1987 and updated for the 90th anniversary of the Somme battle.
Verdun 1916: A Battlefield Guide
Verdun 1916: A Battlefield Guide by William F. Buckingham ISBN: 0752441485
on April 15th 2007
Pages: 192
Len's Summary: Traces the history of Verdun from the iron age to modern times.
St. Quentin: Hindenburg Line
St. Quentin: Hindenburg Line by Helen McPhail, Phillip Guest ISBN: 0850527899
on January 1st 2001
Pages: 157
Flers
Flers by Trevor Pidgeon, Nigel Cave ISBN: 0850527783
on April 28th 2001
Pages: 160
The Battle of Neuve Chapelle
The Battle of Neuve Chapelle by Geoff Bridger ISBN: 0850526485
Published by Pen & Sword Books on March 1st 1999
Pages: 144
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
Cambrai: The Right Hook
Cambrai: The Right Hook by Jack Horsfall ISBN: 0850526329
on January 1st 1999
Pages: 176
Historical Maps of World War I
Historical Maps of World War I by Simon Forty ISBN: 1856487342
Published by PRC Publishing on August 1st 2004
Pages: 144
Len's Summary: One hundred twenty five contemporary maps including trench maps covering the entire war with emphasis on the Western Front, but including Palestine, Gallipoli, Salonica, the Italian Front, the Caucasus and East Africa as well as the war as sea. Also contains graphs and maps showing orders of battle, railways, locations of hospitals and supply dumps, U-boat sinkings, shell supplies and other salient features of the conflict including war aims.
ANZACS on the Western Front: The Australian War Memorial Battlefield Guide
ANZACS on the Western Front: The Australian War Memorial Battlefield Guide by Peter Pedersen ISBN: 9781742169811
Published by Wiley on December 19th 2011
Pages: 600
Len's Summary: Walking and driving tours of 28 battlefields (every major Anzac engagement) including tactical considerations and excerpts from Digger soldiers’ writings.
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.
The War Walk: A Journey Along the Western Front
The War Walk: A Journey Along the Western Front by Nigel Jones ISBN: 0304366838
Published by Cassell on August 5th 2004
Pages: 256
Len's Summary: A combination of history, travel and personal anecdotes from a rapidly dwindling number of surviving veterans.
Major & Mrs. Holts Battle Atlas of the WWI Western Front
Major & Mrs. Holts Battle Atlas of the WWI Western Front by Tonie Holt, Valmai Holt ISBN: 1844154009
Published by Pen & Sword Books on May 1st 2008
Pages: 128
Len's Summary: Covers Mons, Le Cateau, Notre Dame de la Lorette, The Yser, First Ypres, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Festaubert-Givenchy, Second Ypres, Loos, Fromelles, Vimy-Arras, Pesschendaele, Fourth Ypres, First Marne, St. Mihiel, The Aisne, Verdun, The Somme, Chemin des Dames, Cambrai, Kaiser’s Offensive, Château Thierry, Champaign, Meuse-Argonne, and the Hindenburg Line.
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
Before Endeavours Fade: Guide to the Battlefields of the First World War
Before Endeavours Fade: Guide to the Battlefields of the First World War by Rose E. B. Coombs ISBN: 0900913851
on November 15th 1994
Pages: 240
Len's Summary: Revised and updated edition of a highly respected guide first published in 1983 and written by a longtime Imperial War Museum staffer. Includes all the major BEF battles and American battlefields in the Argonne and at St. Mihiel, as well as French battles on the Chemin des Dames, at Champaign, Verdun, and as well as battles along the Yser and near Ypres.
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.
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.
Class 1902
Class 1902 by Ernst Glaeser ISBN: 9781570037122
on February 11th 2008
Pages: 326
Len's Summary: Another in the Joseph M. Broccoli WWI Series, this novel was first published as Jahrgang 1902, this book tells the story of the German home front as seen through the eyes of an under-draft-age youth.
Beneath Hill 60
Beneath Hill 60 by Will Davies ISBN: 9781448125265
on 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, World
Pages: 288
Len's Summary: Just released as a motion picture in Australia, this recounts the story of Australian miners digging a massive mine under German trenches on Hill 60 in Flanders 1916.
The Platoon: An Infantryman on the Western Front 1916-1918
The Platoon: An Infantryman on the Western Front 1916-1918 by Joseph Steward, Andrew Robertshaw ISBN: 9781848843615
on 2011
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, General, History, Military, World War I
Pages: 200
Len's Summary: A fictionalized account of John Joseph Steward’s wartime career published here for the first time.
On Dangerous Ground: A Gallipoli Story
On Dangerous Ground: A Gallipoli Story by Bruce Scates ISBN: 1742583938
Published by University of Western Australia Press on September 15th 2012
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 272
Len's Summary: A novel of the 1915 Gallipoli campaign mixing fact and fiction written by a leading Australian historian; featuring a selection of paintings by Australian artist George Lambert.
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.
Politicians, the Press, and Propaganda: Lord Northcliffe and the Great War, 1914-1919
Politicians, the Press, and Propaganda: Lord Northcliffe and the Great War, 1914-1919 by J. Lee Thompson ISBN: 9780873386371
Published by Kent State University Press on 2000
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Military, World War I, Language Arts & Disciplines, Journalism
Pages: 319
Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe, 1904-1914
Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe, 1904-1914 by David Stevenson ISBN: 9780198208310
Published by Clarendon Press on June 15th 2000
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 463
Len's Summary: A new paperback edition of Dr. Stevenson’s study of the interlinked effect of imperial competition, domestic political and commercial affairs, technological change and advancement on the European arms race. Well worth reading and reflecting on.
Passchendaele: The Sacrificial Ground
Passchendaele: The Sacrificial Ground by Nigel Steel, Peter Hart ISBN: 0304352683
Published by Cassell on November 2nd 2000
Pages: 351
Len's Summary: Another look at the mud and blood of Third Ypres. British military historians fixation on Third Ypres ranks second only to that of Battle of the Somme… Available from Barnes and Noble on line.
United States Naval Aviation, 1910-1918
United States Naval Aviation, 1910-1918 by Noel C. Shirley ISBN: 9780764311796
on 2000
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: A richly illustrated book contains the statistical product of exhaustive research on the organization, personalities, bases and equipment of early American naval aviation. Noel is a member of The Great War Society and the League of WWI Aviation Historians, as well as a frequent speaker at WFA seminars.
Leadership in the Trenches: Officer-Man Relations, Morale and Discipline in the British Army in the Era of the First World War
Leadership in the Trenches: Officer-Man Relations, Morale and Discipline in the British Army in the Era of the First World War by G. D. Sheffield ISBN: 9780312226404
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on October 6th 2000
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Military, World War I, Social Science, General, Technology & Engineering, Military Science
Pages: 270
Len's Summary: Kitchener’s army in the field.
Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War
Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War by John R. Schindler ISBN: 9780275972042
on 2000
Pages: 409
Len's Summary: Frustration on the Italian Front. Look for a review in Stand To!
The Great War Generals on the Western Front, 1914-18
The Great War Generals on the Western Front, 1914-18 by Robin Neillands ISBN: 9781841190631
Published by Robinson on 2000
Pages: 549
Len's Summary: Neillands challenges the conventional wisdom that British generals were incompetent butchers.
Managing Domestic Dissent in First World War Britain
Managing Domestic Dissent in First World War Britain by Brock Millman ISBN: 9780714650548
Published by Psychology Press on 2000
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Political Science, Security (National & International)
Pages: 335
Len's Summary: Exaggerated fears among Britain’s ruling class?
Escape from Villingen, 1918
Escape from Villingen, 1918 by Dwight R. Messimer ISBN: 9780890969564
Published by Texas A&M University Press on 2000
Pages: 195
Len's Summary: Americans escape from an Imperial Germany POW camp during WWI.
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
