A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle That Shaped the Middle East by James Barr ISBN: 9781847394576
Published by Simon & Schuster on April 26th 2012
Genres: History, General, Middle East
Pages: 454
Len's Summary: Starting with the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, the author traces Anglo-French rivalries in and around the Levant through the 1940s.
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.
Field Grey Uniforms of the Imperial German Army, 1907-1918
Field Grey Uniforms of the Imperial German Army, 1907-1918 by Michael Baldwin, Malcolm Fisher ISBN: 0764340336
Published by Schiffer Publishing on May 1st 2012
Genres: History, Military, General, Illustrated, Germany
Pages: 271
Len's Summary: The book presents profuse illustrations and reflects Schiffer’s usual attention to detail; for the collector of uniforms.
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.
Karl Hanssen’s Samoan War Diaries, August 1914-May 1915: A German Perspective on New Zealand’s Military Occupation of German Samoa
Karl Hanssen's Samoan War Diaries, August 1914-May 1915: A German Perspective on New Zealand's Military Occupation of German Samoa by James N. Bade ISBN: 363163174X
Published by Peter Lang on December 30th 2011
Genres: Germany, History
Pages: 266
Len's Summary: One of a very few works on the loss of German Pacific colonies; written by a resident German copra trader.
Martin Heidegger and the First World War: Being and Time as Funeral Oration
Martin Heidegger and the First World War: Being and Time as Funeral Oration by William H. F. Altman ISBN: 9781498516259
Published by Lexington Books on March 25th 2015
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Philosophy, History & Surveys, Modern
Pages: 350
Len's Summary: An examination of Heidegger’s theories against the background of The Great War.
The Young Turks’ Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire
The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Taner Akçam ISBN: 9780691159560
Published by Princeton University Press on August 1st 2013
Genres: History, Modern, 20th Century, Middle East, Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Political Science, Human Rights, Social Science, Violence in Society
Pages: 483
Len's Summary: A documentation of the 1915 genocide voceforously denied by a succession of Turkish governments. See also A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Responsibility, Pacador, 2007 by the same author. Another of a growing number of books appearing as the centennial of the Armenian massacres approaches.
An Improbable War? The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914
An Improbable War? The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914 by Holger Afflerbach, David Stevenson ISBN: 9780857453105
Published by Berghahn Books on January 1st 2012
Genres: History, General, Military, World War I, Essays
Pages: 365
Len's Summary: Essays provide a new look at cause and effect. First published in hard cover in 2007. -- A valuable addition to the debate on the causes on The Great War. // A new scholarly look at causes of The Great War edited by the author of Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe 1904-1914, Oxford, 1996.
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.
Guarded Neutrality (History of Warfare)
Guarded Neutrality (History of Warfare) by Susanne Wolf ISBN: 9789004209916
Published by Brill on 2013
Genres: History, General, Military, World War I
Pages: 209
Len's Summary: Some 50,000 British and Belgian troops were interned in Holland during WWI. The Netherlands also brokered negotiations among the belligerents on the treatment of POWs.
Light Car Patrols 1916-19: War and Exploration in Egypt and Libya with the Model T Ford
Light Car Patrols 1916-19: War and Exploration in Egypt and Libya with the Model T Ford by Captain Claud Williams ISBN: 9781900971157
Published by Silphium Press on November 19th 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 288
Len's Summary: Forerunner of WWII’s Long Range Desert Group employing what is arguably America’s greatest single contribution to Allied war effort: Henry Ford’s hardy and ubiquitous Model T.
Edwardian Requiem: A Life of Sir Edward Grey
Edwardian Requiem: A Life of Sir Edward Grey by Michael Waterhouse ISBN: 9781849544436
Published by Biteback Publishing on March 12th 2013
Pages: 429
Len's Summary: An account of the career of a major figure in British Liberal Party politics and diplomacy during the period leading up to WWI. During Grey’s incumbency as Foreign Secretary, Great Britain solidified the entente with France and moved toward a special relationship with America.
A Short and Irreverent History of World War One Complete with Uninformed Opinion, Universal Distain, Inevitable Errors and a Considerable Amount of Bad Language
A Short and Irreverent History of World War One Complete with Uninformed Opinion, Universal Distain, Inevitable Errors and a Considerable Amount of Bad Language by Nick Wale Published by Rock Creek Consulting on August 8th 2013
Pages: 22
Len's Summary: A short, sweet, often funny, cliché-ridden and irreverent, but not error-free look at the conflict published to take advantage of the centennial.
Meeting the Enemy: The Human Face of the Great War
Meeting the Enemy: The Human Face of the Great War by Richard Van Emden ISBN: 1408843358
Published by Bloomsbury USA on May 26th 2015
Pages: 400
Len's Summary: Surprising stories of personal contact between enemies, a more human aspect of war by a well-known British historian.
Sporting Soldiers: South African Troops at Play During World War I
Sporting Soldiers: South African Troops at Play During World War I by Floris J. G. Van der Merwe ISBN: 978 0 7972 1402 6
Published by FJG Publishing on 2013
Pages: 281
Len's Summary: Order from the author Floris@sun.ac.za. Sport in British and Commonwealth forces during The Great War. Includes a chapter on South African POWs.
Never Call Retreat: Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War
Never Call Retreat: Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War by J. Lee Thompson ISBN: 9781137306531
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on January 15th 2014
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Presidents & Heads of State, History, Military, World War I, History, United States, State & Local, General, 20th Century, Modern, South
Pages: 376
Len's Summary: US domestic politics and the Great War; The Old Bull Moose takes on a circumspect Woodrow Wilson and demands intervention on the side of The Entente.
The Blue Beast: Power and Passion in the Great War
The Blue Beast: Power and Passion in the Great War by Jonathan Walker ISBN: 9780752465975
Published by History Press on September 1st 2012
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Historical, Military, Women
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: The naughty bits. Three liberated women love and thrive in time of war.
Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (Second Edition)
Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (Second Edition) by Alistair Thomson ISBN: 9781921867583
Published by Monash University Publishing on November 1st 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Australia & New Zealand, Biography & Autobiography, Other
Pages: 424
Len's Summary: Making sense of Australia’s national past.
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.
Your Country Needs You: The Secret History of the Propaganda Poster
Your Country Needs You: The Secret History of the Propaganda Poster by James Taylor ISBN: 9781887354974
Published by Saraband on August 29th 2013
Pages: 156
Len's Summary: The author finds that Kitchener’s iconic image was never used on British recruiting posters.
The Downfall of Money: Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class
The Downfall of Money: Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class by Fred Taylor ISBN: 9781620402368
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA on September 17th 2013
Genres: Business & Economics, Finance, General, Inflation, Money & Monetary Policy, History, Europe, Germany
Pages: 416
Len's Summary: Traces the hyperinflation of 1923 back to 1914 and war-time inflationary financing, and finds that what doomed the first German democracy (the Weimar Republic) was deflation, not inflation.
The Clergy in Khaki, New Perspectives on British army Chaplains in the First World War
The Clergy in Khaki, New Perspectives on British army Chaplains in the First World War by M F Snape ISBN: 1409430006
Published by Ashgate Publishing on August 14th 2013
Genres: History, Military, General, Religion, Christian Ministry, Pastoral Resources, Modern, 20th Century
Pages: 238
Len's Summary: Captures the diversity of religious community within British forces. Over five thousand padres were commissioned during the war and 170 of them died supporting soldiers, airmen and seaman.
Magic Lantern Empire: Colonialism and Society in Germany
Magic Lantern Empire: Colonialism and Society in Germany by John Phillip Short ISBN: 9780801450945
Published by Cornell University Press on November 20th 2012
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Social History, Social Science, Popular Culture
Pages: 248
Len's Summary: An examination of the intersection of imperialism, modern mass culture, politics and public restructuring in Wilhelmine Germany. -- A multi-source study of German colonialism as a mass cultural and political phenomenon; nuanced accounting of how ordinary Germans understood and articulated the concept of overseas empire.
Noble Endeavours: The Life of Two Countries, England and Germany, in Many Stories
Noble Endeavours: The Life of Two Countries, England and Germany, in Many Stories by Miranda Seymour ISBN: 9781849830157
Published by Simon & Schuster on May 8th 2014
Pages: 512
Len's Summary: Examines the empathy that existed between Germany and England in the pre-Hitler years.
Tommy Rot: WWI Poetry They Didn’t Let You Read
Tommy Rot: WWI Poetry They Didn’t Let You Read by John Sadler, Rosie Serdiville ISBN: 075249208X
Published by History Press on December 1st 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Poetry, European, Illustrated
Pages: 160
Len's Summary: A collection of humorous and anti-jingoist verse illustrated with previously unpublished war art accompanied by a brief description of each author and his campaign.
The Soldiers’ Press: Trench Journals in the First World War
The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War by Graham Seal ISBN: 9781137303257
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on April 8th 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Modern, 20th Century, Social History
Pages: 272
Len's Summary: A look at a few of the some 300 trench newspapers published in the BEF in an effort to delve into their impact on morale among front-line soldiers.
The Great War: Ju1y 1, 1916, the First Day of the Battle of the Somme
The Great War: Ju1y 1, 1916, the First Day of the Battle of the Somme by Joe Sacco, Adam Hochschild ISBN: 9780393088809
Published by W. W. Norton on November 4th 2013
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Illustrated
Pages: 54
Len's Summary: A 24-foot long panorama presenting a wordless depiction of the horrors of the Somme by an accomplished cartoonist. A History Book Club selection packaged in a slipcase with a 16-page narrative by Adam Hochschild.
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.
The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and their Forgotten World War
The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and their Forgotten World War by Richard Rubin ISBN: 9780544290488
Published by Mariner Books on May 6th 2014
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, World War I, United States, Veterans
Pages: 518
Len's Summary: Beginning ten years ago, the author set out to interview surviving WWI veterans and succeeded in finding several dozen men and women aged 101 to 113. These included an infantryman, an artillerist, an engineer a balloonist, sailors, marines, a woman War Department worker, yoemanettes, a veteran of the Siberian expedition, and a Canadian veteran, as well as the last surviving Doughboy Frank Buckles. These are their stories.
Hero of the Angry Sky: The World War I Diary and Letters of David S. Ingalls, America’s First Naval Ace
Hero of the Angry Sky: The World War I Diary and Letters of David S. Ingalls, America’s First Naval Ace by Geoffrey L. Rossano ISBN: 9780821420188
Published by Ohio University Press on February 5th 2013
Genres: History, General, Military, World War I, Transportation, Aviation, Naval
Pages: 350
Len's Summary: Ingalls was a member of the famed First Yale Unit, “the millionaires unit” of Truby Davison, and America’s only naval air ace. He later served in House of Representatives and as Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. Rossano spoke at the 2012 WW1HA seminar at Quantico.
The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince
The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince by Jane Ridley ISBN: 9780812972634
Published by Random House Incorporated on August 12th 2014
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Historical, Royalty, History, Europe, Great Britain
Pages: 726
Len's Summary: How Queen Victoria’s least favorite son became an effective, respected constitutional monarch and a principal architect of the 1904 Anglo-French Entente. Also in Kindle for $12.59.
The Great War from the Air Then and Now
The Great War from the Air Then and Now by Gail Ramsey ISBN: 9781870067812
Published by After the Battle on November 15th 2013
Pages: 128
Len's Summary: Shows how the Western Front has been transposed over 100 years through trench maps, then and now aerial photos. // How the Western Front has been transformed over 100 years.
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.
Voyage to Gallipoli
Voyage to Gallipoli by Peter Plowman ISBN: 9781922013538
on December 1st 2013
Genres: History, Australia & New Zealand, Military, World War I
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: Follows the first two contingents of ANZAC troops from Australia to Egypt, Lemnos and Gallipoli.
America‘s Greatest Blunder: The Fateful Decision in Enter World War One
America‘s Greatest Blunder: The Fateful Decision in Enter World War One by Burton Yale Pines ISBN: 9780989148702
Published by Hillcrest Publishing Group on October 29th 2013
Pages: 452
Len's Summary: The author argues that, absent American intervention, the exhausted and bankrupt warring powers would gave negotiated a peace replete with compromises and tradeoffs as in earlier European conflicts. Not a new assertion, but a powerful one…
Air and Sea Power in World War I: Combat and Experience in the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Navy
Air and Sea Power in World War I: Combat and Experience in the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Navy by Maryam Philpott ISBN: 9781780761510
Published by I.B.Tauris on July 25th 2013
Genres: History, Europe, General, History, Western, Military, World War I, Aviation, Naval, Social History
Pages: 258
Len's Summary: An analysis of how British aviators and naval officers coped with technical innovation in time of war.
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
The Vickers-Maxim Machine Gun
The Vickers-Maxim Machine Gun by Martin Pegler ISBN: 9781780963822
Published by Osprey Publishing on May 20th 2013
Genres: History, Military, Weapons, World War I, World War II
Pages: 80
Len's Summary: One of a number of brief studies in the Osprey Weapons Series looks at the standard British heavy machine gun of WWI & II.
Great Britain’s Great War
Great Britain's Great War by Jeremy Paxman ISBN: 9780670919635
Published by Penguin UK on June 1st 2014
Pages: 356
Len's Summary: Social history: The day-to day British life by a prolific author, broadcaster and journalist known for his 2014 WWI documentary series for the BBC. -- Acerbic and witty attempt to capture the mood and morale of a nation engaged in what the author labels a senseless war.
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
