ISBN: 031328850X
Published by Greenwood Publishing Group on December 30th 2003
Genres: History, Military, General, World War I, Reference, Research
Pages: 496
Hemingway on War
ISBN: 0743243269
Published by Scribner on November 4th 2003
Pages: 384
Harlem’s Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I
ISBN: 9781574883862
on June 6th 2003
Genres: History, Military, General, World War I, Social Science, Ethnic Studies
Pages: 302
The Maritime Blockade of Germany in the Great War: The Northern Patrol, 1914-1928
ISBN: 0754635368
Published by Ashgate Publishing on August 28th 2003
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Naval
Trial by Fire: Command and the British Expeditionary Force in 1914
ISBN: 9780313324734
Published by Greenwood Publishing Group on August 30th 2003
Genres: History, Europe, General, Great Britain, Military, World War I
Pages: 259
Europe’s Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?
ISBN: 9780375411564
Published by Knopf on March 23rd 2004
Genres: History, Europe, General, Military, World War I, Political Science, Security (National & International)
Pages: 349
Illusion of Victory: America in World War I
ISBN: 9780465024674
Published by Basic Books on May 28th 2003
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 543
Magnificent But Not War: The Second Battle of Ypres 1915
ISBN: 9781844150021
Published by Casemate Publishers on September 1st 2003
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 370
The Great War: Perspectives on the First World War
ISBN: 0375509097
Published by Random House (NY) on June 3rd 2003
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 509
Paths of Glory: The French Army, 1914-1918
ISBN: 0304359491
Published by Cassell on May 28th 2003
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 238
The Newfoundlanders in the Great War: The Western Front, 1916-1918: A Social History and Battlefield Tour
ISBN: 9781896979236
Published by CEF Books on 2003
Pages: 130
Tunnelmaster and Arsonist of the Great War: The Norton-Griffiths Story
ISBN: 0850529956
Published by Pen & Sword Books on October 1st 2003
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Historical, Military, History, World War I
Pages: 224
The Home Front in the Great War
ISBN: 1844150682
Published by Leo Cooper on December 2003
Pages: 256
Featured Review
Soldiers’ Song and Slang of the Great War is an update and enlargement of a book first published in 1931. The current book includes phrases that were deemed inappropriate in earlier editions. The slang is both mystifying and well known. For example, a “goo wallah” is the sanitary man. Other items such as a “flapper’s delight” for a young officer are self-explanatory even now.
The songs lack any musical notations and only the lyrics are printed. Many use melodies set to well-known tunes—those by Gilbert and Sullivan seem to be popular as are folk melodies from the British countryside. The lyrics are commentaries on life at the front, the memories of home, and patriotic themes. By war’s end parodies are widespread. Songs from America and France are included, even “Adieu la Vie” (Chanson of Craonne) which was banned in France until 1974. The English translation is buried in the appendix, but is worth finding. The song is an indictment by the soldiers in the field of their treatment by the French army and government.
The Home Front in the Great War covers the British home front and the Hull area in detail. There is a chronological section at the beginning that provides an overview of events back in “Blighty,” followed by short essays on the efforts by groups from the Royals to the YMCA to support of the war effort. The report on the Boy Scouts is especially laudatory.
Both books use a good variety of images and are entertaining to read. Unfortunately, neither book has an index, making it almost impossible to use them for reference purposes.
Anne Merritt
War Underground: The Tunnellers of the Great War
ISBN: 1862270813
Published by The History Press on 2003
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 272
A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War
ISBN: 9781920694890
Published by University of Western Australia Press on March 1st 2007
Pages: 243
Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919, Volume 2: A Cultural History
ISBN: 0521870437
Published by Cambridge University Press on September 6th 2007
Genres: History, Europe, General, France, Great Britain, Military, World War I, Modern, 20th Century, Social History, Social Science, Anthropology, Cultural
Pages: 545
Forgotten Soldiers: Irishmen Shot at Dawn
ISBN: 0717141829
on 2007
Pages: 256
To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander
ISBN: 0803246676
Published by University of Nebraska Press on March 1st 2007
Pages: 196
War in a European Borderland: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914-1918
ISBN: 0295987537
Published by Oakland Museum of California on December 1st 2007
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Europe, General, Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Pages: 122
Woodrow Wilson and the Great War: Reconsidering America’s Neutrality, 1914-1917
ISBN: 0813926297
on 2007
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, 20th Century
Tigers Along the Tigris: The Leicestershire Regiment in Mesopotamia During the First World War
ISBN: 1846773660
Published by Leonaur Limited on November 29th 2007
Pages: 144
World War One: A Short History
ISBN: 0465019188
Published by Basic Books on April 27th 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 240
Battlefilm: U.S. Army Signal Corps Motion Pictures of the Great War
ISBN: 9780981744445
Published by PMS Press on January 29th 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Reference
Pages: 232
Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari
ISBN: 0060817283
Published by William Morrow on July 31st 2007
Pages: 450
The German Army at Passchendaele
ISBN: 1844155641
Published by Pen & Sword Books on October 1st 2007
Pages: 336
The Battle for Vimy Ridge – 1917
ISBN: 1844155528
Published by Pen & Sword Books on October 1st 2007
Pages: 236
Killing Time: Archaeology and the First World War
ISBN: 0750945192
Published by The History Press on April 1st 2007
Pages: 256
An Arizona Aviator in France: The Life of Ernest A. Love, 147th Aero Squadron, USAS
ISBN: 0979791928
Published by Roesler Enterprises on 2007
Pages: 300
The First World War
ISBN: 1405824719
Published by Longman Publishing Group on January 1st 2007
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 173
The Battleship Dreadnought
ISBN: 1844862062
Published by Conway on September 3rd 2013
Pages: 256
Battleship Texas
ISBN: 0890965196
Published by Texas A&M University Press on 2007
Pages: 166
Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War – a Biography of Australias Greatest Military Commander
ISBN: 1741668476
on 2007
Tip and Run: The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa
ISBN: 0297847090
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson on August 1st 2007
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Africa
Pages: 560
To the Limit of Endurance: A Battalion of Marines in the Great War
ISBN: 9781585445998
Published by Texas A&M University Press on August 15th 2007
Genres: History, Military, General, World War I, United States
Pages: 248
Medicine and Duty: The World War I Memoir of Captain Harold W. Mcgill, Medical Officer 31st Battalion C.E.F.
ISBN: 1552381935
Published by University of Calgary Press on May 15th 2007
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, Medical, Religious, History, Canada, Post-Confederation (1867-), World War I
Pages: 406
The Death of Glory: The Western Front 1915
ISBN: 0719562457
on August 9th 2007
The Landings at Suvla Bay 1915: An Analysis of British Failure During the Gallipoli Campaign
ISBN: 9780786430352
Published by McFarland on July 23rd 2007
Genres: History, Military, World War I, General
Pages: 250
The Good Soldier: A Biography of Douglas Haig
ISBN: 1843542803
Published by Atlantic Books on November 8th 2007
Pages: 608
The Sanusi’s Little War: The Amazing Story of a Forgotten Conflict in the Western Desert, 1915-1917
ISBN: 0954479270
on December 1st 2007
Genres: History, Africa, North, Military, World War I
Pages: 332
An Airman’s Wife: A True Story of Lovers Separated by War
ISBN: 1904943942
Published by Grub Street on October 1st 2007
Pages: 315