Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion by Charles Townshend ISBN: 1566639654
Published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher on August 26th 2011
Genres: Great Britain, Ireland
Pages: 442
Len's Summary: Draws on eyewitness accounts recently released by the Irish government. Billed by Atlantic as "a dispassionate and definitive reconstruction carefully shifting legend from fact."
The United States Army Second Division Northwest of Chateau Thierry in World War I
The United States Army Second Division Northwest of Chateau Thierry in World War I by John W. Thomason, George B. Clark ISBN: 0786425237
Published by McFarland & Company on July 1st 2006
Pages: 245
Len's Summary: Written as an official history in 1927 by Marine Captain, author and artist John Thomason (Fix Bayonets!), who served in combat with the division's Fourth Marine Brigade. Thomason left the project incomplete after discovering unflattering facts about combat decisions taken by divisional officers. Includes original illustrations prepared by Thomason and a brief biographical sketches of the author and of the division written by the editor, George Clark, himself a Marine and published author who is a WFA member.
Battle of Britain 1917: The First Heavy Bomber Raids on England
Battle of Britain 1917 - The First Heavy Bomber Raids on England by Jonathan Sutherland ISBN: 9781844153459
on June 19th 2006
Pages: 224
Len's Summary: A useful summary without maps of Gotha and Giant bomber raids on the UK.
They Fought for the Motherland: Russia’s Women Soldiers in World War I and the Revolution
They Fought for the Motherland: Russia's Women Soldiers in World War I and the Revolution by Laurie Stoff ISBN: 9780700614851
Published by University Press of Kansas on November 15th 2006
Genres: Military, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Social Science, Women's Studies
Pages: 294
Crisis at Sea: The United States Navy in European Waters in World War I
Crisis at Sea: The United States Navy in European Waters in World War I by William N. Still Jr. ISBN: 0813029872
Published by University Press of Florida on January 28th 2007
Pages: 768
Len's Summary: A wide-ranging account, the first in many years, of the deployment, battles, tactics, logistics, policies and shipbuilding programs of the U. S. Navy at war, 1917-1918.
No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War
No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War by Timothy J. Stapleton ISBN: 9780889204980
Published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press on April 21st 2006
Genres: Africa, Military, Social Science
Pages: 188
Len's Summary: A rare look at African participation in The Great War.
German Battlecruisers, 1914-1918
German Battlecruisers, 1914-1918 by Gary Staff ISBN: 9781846030093
Published by Osprey Publishing on June 7th 2006
Genres: Military, Germany, Naval
Pages: 48
Len's Summary: Individual ship histories and brief analysis of their engagements.
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.
Directing Operations: British Corps Command on the Western Front, 1914-1918
Directing Operations: British Corps Command on the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Andy Simpson ISBN: 1862272921
Published by Spellmount on October 1st 2006
Pages: 308
Len's Summary: Examines how the role of the British corps changed over the course of the war.
War or Revolution: Russian Jews and Conscription in Britain, 1917
War or Revolution: Russian Jews and Conscription in Britain, 1917 by Harold Shukman ISBN: 9780853037088
Published by Vallentine Mitchell on May 1st 2006
Pages: 157
Len's Summary: A scholarly look at the impact of the war on Russian Jewish working class immigrants.
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.
German Disarmament After World War I: The Diplomacy of International Arms Inspection 1920-1931
German Disarmament After World War I: The Diplomacy of International Arms Inspection 1920-1931 by Richard J. Shuster ISBN: 9780415654951
Published by Routledge on September 10th 2012
Pages: 272
Len's Summary: Germany was able to renegotiate the reparations terms of Versailles, but not the treaty's military strictures. This is the story of enforcing the Versailles arms limitations clauses; an early attempt at arms limitation and control.
Power at Sea: The Age of Navalism, 1890-1918
Power at Sea: The Age of Navalism, 1890-1918 by Lisle Abbott Rose ISBN: 9780826217011
Published by University of Missouri Press Genres: Military, Naval, Pre-War
Pages: 355
Len's Summary: The last imperial scramble for global empire: colonies, markets and naval supremacy.
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.
Zeppelin!
Zeppelin! by Raymond Laurence Rimell ISBN: 9781902207889
Published by Albatros Productions Limited on 2008
Genres: Aviation
Pages: 75
Len's Summary: Covers the 34 'P' and 'Q' class Zeppelins that bombed Britain, France and Russia in1915 and 1916. With fold-out scale plans, details on markings, camouflage, armament and ordnance. Limited edition of 1,000 by the author of Zeppelin, Conway, 1984, 256 pages, ISBN 0 85177 239 0. For aviation specialists.
The German Right, 1860-1920: Political Limits of the Authoritarian Imagination
The German Right, 1860-1920: Political Limits of the Authoritarian Imagination by James Retallack ISBN: 9781442659186
Published by University of Toronto Press on February 1st 2015
Genres: Germany, Pre-War
Pages: 416
Len's Summary: One of a number of new academic studies of the evolution of the German political system before and during WWI.
The British Army 1914-1918
The British Army 1914-1918 by Andrew Rawson ISBN: 9780750956147
Published by The History Press on July 7th 2014
Genres: Great Britain, Military, Technology & Engineering, Military Science
Pages: 384
Len's Summary: How the British Army grew from a small colonial constabulary in 1914 to a force of nearly four million men in 1918.
The British Army 1815–1914
The British Army 1815–1914 by Harold E. Raugh ISBN: 9780754625643
Published by Ashgate on October 30th 2006
Pages: 567
Len's Summary: A review of the campaigns, character and composition of the British Army, really a colonial constabulary, during the century from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the outbreak of The Great War with emphasis on reforms, evolving technology and doctrine . Contributors include: Holger Herwig, Hew Strachan and Edward M. Spiers.
Gallipoli: The Western Australian Story
Gallipoli: The Western Australian Story by Wesley Olson ISBN: 9781920694821
Published by University of Western Australia Press on November 1st 2006
Genres: Australia & New Zealand, Military
Pages: 396
Len's Summary: A lavishly illustrated history of the Gallipoli Campaign drawing heavily on the memoirs and diaries of participants from Western Australia.
The Battle of Heligoland Bight
The Battle of Heligoland Bight by Eric W. Osborne ISBN: 9780253347428
Published by Indiana University Press on June 13th 2006
Genres: Great Britain, Military, Naval
Pages: 141
Len's Summary: A new history of the first naval battle of WWI between Germany and England.
Voices of Silence: The Alternative Book of First World War Poetry
Voices of Silence: The Alternative Book of First World War Poetry by Vivien Noakes ISBN: 0750945214
Published by The History Press on October 1st 2006
Pages: 480
Len's Summary: This anthology avoids the established canon of Great War poetry and draws instead on diverse sources such as trench newspapers, hospital gazettes, gift books, postcards and privately-published works of single poets.
The World War I Reader
The World War I Reader by Michael S. Neiberg ISBN: 9780814758335
Published by NYU Press on December 1st 2006
Genres: Military, General
Pages: 375
Len's Summary: Contains documents ranging from official papers to personal diaries, as well as articles and book chapters from written by major scholars. Chapters are arranged chronologically and by theme, and address causes, battlefield leadership, strategies and conditions.
The Detonators: The Secret Plot to Destroy America and an Epic Hunt for Justice
The Detonators: The Secret Plot to Destroy America and an Epic Hunt for Justice by Chad Millman ISBN: 0316734969
on July 12th 2006
Genres: Law
Pages: 352
Len's Summary: The story of the 23-year-long legal proceeding against Germany for the destruction by sabotage of the Lehigh Valley Railroad's Black Tom munitions depot on the New Jersey shore of New York harbor in 1916. See also Sabotage at Black Tom, Jules Whitcover, Algonquin, 1989.
The Armenian Rebellion at Van
The Armenian Rebellion at Van by Justin McCarthy ISBN: 9780874808704
Published by University of Utah Press on September 29th 2006
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: The story of the revolt in 1915 of Armenians in the Ottoman province of Van as background to the ensuing Armenian genocide.
French Strategic and Tactical Bombardment Forces of World War I
French Strategic and Tactical Bombardment Forces of World War I by René Martel ISBN: 081085662X
Published by Scarecrow Press on November 14th 2006
Genres: France, Military, Aviation
Pages: 461
Len's Summary: Edited and translated by WFA and League of WWI Aviation Historians member Steve Suddaby and his father. Martell served as a French bombardier/observer during WWI. Reviewed in Camaraderie, July 2006.
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.
Your Uniform is Your Pass — Soldier and Sailor Welfare Relief and the American Doughboy in World War I: The Salvation Army
Your Uniform is Your Pass -- Soldier and Sailor Welfare Relief and the American Doughboy in World War I: The Salvation Army by Sergio Lugo on 2006
Pages: 49
Len's Summary: $20.00 large paperback available from the author postpaid. Write to Sergio Lugo, 1190 S. Grape, Denver, CO 80246, E-mail lugopspe@msn.com. Eighth of 11 volumes in a series, this one describing an often forgotten facet of US involvement in the conflict: the work of the Salvation Army and their "Donut Lassies" at home and overseas in France and Flanders. // The first of 11 monographs that deal with private American voluntary welfare and relief organizations during the First World War. Such organizations typify the Progressive Era of political and social reform that reached its peak in the early 20th century during the administrations of Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson.
The Wipers Times: The Complete Series of the Famous Wartime Trench Newspaper
The Wipers Times: The Complete Series of the Famous Wartime Trench Newspaper by Malcolm Brown, Ian Hislop ISBN: 1906251177
Published by Little Books on July 7th 2008
Genres: Military, Journalism
Pages: 400
Len's Summary: With an introduction by Malcolm Brown, author of The Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme (Pan Macmillan, 2002).
Panthéon De La Guerre: Reconfiguring a Panorama of the Great War
Panthéon De La Guerre: Reconfiguring a Panorama of the Great War by Mark Levitch ISBN: 9780826265555
Published by University of Missouri Press on November 1st 2006
Genres: Art, Military
Pages: 208
Len's Summary: The story of the football-field sized patriotic painting featuring 5,000 full-size portraits of prominent WWI personalities. Painted in Paris and neglected for years, fragments of the panorama now rest in The Liberty Memorial, The National WWI Museum in Kansas City.
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.
Churchill’s Crusade: The British Invasion of Russia, 1918-1920
Churchill's Crusade: The British Invasion of Russia, 1918-1920 by Clifford Kinvig ISBN: 9781847250216
Published by A&C Black on November 23rd 2007
Pages: 400
Len's Summary: An account of armed British intervention in Russia following the Bolshevik revolution and an analysis of why intervention failed. Available from the Scholars Bookshelf. See also American Sideshow: America's Undeclared War in Russia, 1918-1920, Robert L. Willet, Brassey's (now Potomac), 2002.
France and the French: A Modern History
France and the French: A Modern History by Rod Kedward ISBN: 9781585678815
Published by Overlook Press Genres: France
Pages: 740
Len's Summary: A History Book Club selection. Published in the UK under the subtitle La Vie en Bleu. The entire first section of the book is devoted to French politics and society from 1900 to 1931 including French participation in the Great War and postwar diplomatic struggles. Sections on political movements, the French army, the mutinies and the use of colonial troops on the Western Front are of particular interest as are chapters on the impact of the war on domestic politics and the postwar peace process. In all a subtle and engrossing analysis of the French Third, Vichy, Forth and Fifth Republics.
American Soldiers Lives: World War I
American Soldiers Lives: World War I by Jennifer D. Keene ISBN: 9780313331817
Published by Greenwood Publishing Group on January 1st 2006
Genres: Military, United States
Pages: 217
Len's Summary: Drawing on reminiscences, diaries and letters, Keene describes life in training camps, transport overseas, action in France and the return home among African-Americans, Native American, immigrants, ordinary Doughboys and women who served "Over There."
Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: A Political Soldier
Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: A Political Soldier by Keith Jeffery ISBN: 9780199239672
Published by Oxford University Press on January 1st 2008
Pages: 325
Len's Summary: The story of a passionate Irish unionist who was one of England's most influential soldiers before and during WWI. Wilson was BEF liaison to the French Army and Western Front corps commander before replacing Sir William Robertson as Chief of the Imperial General Staff in February 1918. He was assassinated by the IRA in 1922.
Theodore Roosevelt and World Order: Police Power in International Relations
Theodore Roosevelt and World Order: Police Power in International Relations by James R. Holmes ISBN: 1574888846
Published by Potomac Books on April 1st 2007
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: A new look at Roosevelt's "Big Stick" policies, the Roosevelt Corollaries to the Monroe Doctrine and American imperialism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author is a former naval officer and a Ph.D. graduate of the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Woodrow Wilson’s Western Tour: Rhetoric, Public Opinion, And the League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour: Rhetoric, Public Opinion, And the League of Nations by J. Michael Hogan ISBN: 9781585445332
Published by Texas A&M University Press on August 1st 2006
Genres: United States, Political Science, International Relations
Pages: 212
Len's Summary: Analysis of Wilson's speeches in support of ratification of the Treaty of Versailles during his September 1919 tour of western states cut short by a crippling stroke. The author assesses the tour in the light of Wilson's own scholarly writings on government.
Woodrow Wilson’s Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House
Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House by Godfrey Hodgson ISBN: 9780300092691
Published by Yale University Press Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Political Science, International Relations, Diplomacy, United States
Pages: 335
Len's Summary: An important new biography of Wilson's alter ego and roving diplomatic emissary. How a Texas pol made to the center of the national and international political stages.
Duffy’s War: Fr. Francis Duffy, Wild Bill Donovan, and the Irish Fighting 69th in World War I
Duffy's War: Fr. Francis Duffy, Wild Bill Donovan, and the Irish Fighting 69th in World War I by Stephen L. Harris ISBN: 1574886517
Published by Potomac Books on October 1st 2006
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military
Pages: 462
Len's Summary: A third book by Harris (a frequent speaker at WFA seminars) on New York National Guard regiments in on the Western Front.
Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War
Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War by Neil Hanson ISBN: 0307276546
Published by Vintage on May 8th 2007
Genres: Military
Pages: 512
Len's Summary: Focuses on four soldiers (American, British, French and German) three of whom disappeared without a trace to explain how the Western world honors its battle dead.
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
