Army Service Corps, 1902-1918 by Michael Young, Richard Holmes ISBN: 0850527309
Published by Leo Cooper on July 1st 2000
Pages: 406
Len's Summary: A history of the worldwide operations of the British Army Service Corps in WWI replete with maps, b&w illustrations, biographies of key officers and tables of Corps organization.
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.
Seeking Victory on the Western Front: The British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I
Seeking Victory on the Western Front: The British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I by Albert Palazzo ISBN: 9780803237254
on March 2000
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Technology & Engineering, Military Science
Pages: 239
Len's Summary: Takes a revisionist view of the effectiveness of chemical warfare on the Western Front.
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?
Your Country Needs You — From Six to Sixty-Five Divisions
Your Country Needs You — From Six to Sixty-Five Divisions by Martin Middlebrook ISBN: 9780850527094
on July 27th 1999
Pages: 160
Len's Summary: The story of the expansion of the British Army during WWI from a colonial constabulary to a force of over two million men.
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.
Best O’luck
Best O'luck by Alexander McClintock ISBN: 1-896979-43-3
on 2000
Pages: 100
Len's Summary: The wartime experiences of an American volunteer from Kentucky who served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders. This autobiographical account was written by McClintock asa propaganda piece and first published in 1917. This edition comes with a postscript and appendices tracing, inter alia, McClintock’s short, tragic career in the American Army.
Ataturk – The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey
Ataturk – The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey by Andrew Mango ISBN: 1585670111
Published by Overlook Books on April 3rd 2000
Len's Summary: The Author is sparing in his praise of Mustapha Kemal’s military prowess at Gallipoli, but unstinting in his admiration for Ataturk’s political and military skill in thwarting Allied plans to partition the Ottoman Empire. Based largely on Turkish sources.
War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National Identity, and German Occupation in World War I
War Land on the Eastern Front by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius ISBN: 9780521023900
Published by Cambridge University Press on May 18th 2000
Genres: History, Europe, Eastern, General, Military, World War I
Pages: 320
Len's Summary: A book about German occupation policy and operations in Lithuania, the Baltics, Ruthenia and parts of Poland from 1915 through 1919 and the Soviet Red Army invasion. Dr. Liulevicius is a frequent speaker at WFA seminars, and professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Distant Thunder: Canada’s Citizen Soldiers on the Western Front
Distant Thunder: Canada's Citizen Soldiers on the Western Front by Joyce M. Kennedy ISBN: 9780897452434
Published by Sunflower University Press on March 2000
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: Dr.Kennedy is a member of WFA, daughter of a Canadian Great War veteran and, herself, a retired Canadian Air Force flying officer.
Turbulence in the Pacific: Japanese-U.S. Relations During World War I
Turbulence in the Pacific: Japanese-U.S. Relations During World War I by Noriko Kawamura ISBN: 9780275968533
Published by Greenwood Publishing Group on January 1st 2000
Genres: History, Asia, General, Japan, Military, World War I, United States, 20th Century
Pages: 173
Len's Summary: The author is Assistant Professor of History at Washington State University; she was educated both in Japan and the US. An active and troubled period in bilateral relations marked by American efforts to maintain an “open door” in China in the face of persistent Japanese expansionism. See Camaraderie for a full review. Things went downhill from here. . .
The Lost Battalion
The Lost Battalion by Thomas M. Johnson, Fletcher Pratt, Edward M. Coffman ISBN: 0803276133
Published by Bison Books on May 1st 2000
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States
Pages: 364
Len's Summary: Reprint of a 1938 classic with a new introduction by the dean of American WWI historians Edward M. "Mac" Coffman. The Meuse-Argonne from a ground-level infantry view. A November 2000 selection of the History Book Club.
The Great War Reader
The Great War Reader by James Hannah ISBN: 9780890969441
Published by Texas A&M University Press on 2000
Pages: 504
Len's Summary: An ambitious and entertaining anthology of prose and poetry, fact and fiction about WWI. To order call (800) 826-8911, or e-mail WJL@tampress.tamu.edu.
The Balkan Wars 1912-1913: Prelude to the First World War
The Balkan Wars 1912-1913: Prelude to the First World War by Richard C. Hall ISBN: 9780415229470
Published by Routledge on 2000
Genres: History, Europe, Eastern, Military, Other, Technology & Engineering, Military Science
Pages: 176
Len's Summary: Written mainly from Bulgarian sources, but still a valuable history if not a definitive operational or tactical recounting of these conflicts that still haunt us today.
The Second Battle of the Marne
The Second Battle of the Marne by Paul Greenwood ISBN: 9781840370089
on 2000
Pages: 211
Len's Summary: French, African, British, Dominion, Italian and American troops combine to defeat Ludendorf’s great gamble.
War and Punishment: The Causes of War Termination and the First World War
War and Punishment: The Causes of War Termination and the First World War by H. E. Goemans ISBN: 9780691049441
Published by Princeton University Press on August 20th 2000
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Political Science
Pages: 355
Len's Summary: A scholarly examination of war aims, the interplay of domestic and international factors, how and why the combatants ended The Great War, but failed to make peace.
Ordered to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War
Ordered to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War ISBN: 9780313315169 Published by Greenwood Publishing Group on November 30th 2000
Pages: 265
Len's Summary: The author is a retired U.S. Army officer and Turkish speaker who worked from Turkish Army archives not routinely accessible to civilian researchers.
French Women and the First World War: War Stories of the Home Front
French Women and the First World War: War Stories of the Home Front by Margaret H. Darrow ISBN: 9781859733660
Published by Bloomsbury Academic on August 1st 2000
Genres: History, Europe, France, Military, World War I, Social Science, Women's Studies
Pages: 341
The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds
The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds by Mark Cornwall ISBN: 9780312231514
Published by Palgrave Macmillan on September 2nd 2000
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Historiography, Europe, General
Pages: 503
Len's Summary: A welcome addition to English monographs on the Central Powers.
Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918
Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Roger Chickering, Stig Forster ISBN: 0521773520
Published by Cambridge University Press on September 11th 2000
Genres: History, Europe, General, Military, World War I
Pages: 584
Len's Summary: Drawn from a 1996 conference in Switzerland this volume has papers from many leading German historians. Something for everyone specialist and generalist alike.
About Face: A Daughter Looks Back at a Soldier and the Great War
About Face: A Daughter Looks Back at a Soldier and the Great War by Eleanor Elliot Brownell ISBN: 9780967978406
Published by World War I Press on 2000
Pages: 113
Len's Summary: The story of the campaign of soldier of the Fourth Division, AEF, in France based on his letters home.
Coronel and the Falklands
Coronel and the Falklands by Geoffrey Bennett ISBN: 1841580457
Published by Birlinn Publishers on March 1st 2001
Genres: History, Military, Vietnam War, World War I
Pages: 192
Len's Summary: The re-release in paperback of a classic 1962 study of two major naval actions in the South Atlantic and Pacific. Most useful for its description of the ships involved.
A Military Atlas of the First World War
A Military Atlas of the First World War by Arthur Banks ISBN: 9780850527919
Published by Leo Cooper on September 13th 2000
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Reference
Pages: 337
Len's Summary: First paperback edition of a fine standard reference work with 250 maps.
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson by Louis Auchincloss ISBN: 9780670889044
Published by Penguin on 2000
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Presidents & Heads of State, Political Science, Political Process, Leadership
Pages: 128
Len's Summary: A brief, well-crafted biography by one of America’s most acclaimed novelists and critics about one of America’s most complicated and controversial political personalities. Also available from Books on Tape at http://www.booksontape.com for $24.95.
Complete Idiot’s Guide to World War
Complete Idiot’s Guide to World War by Alan Axelrod, Walton H. Rawls ISBN: 0028639022
Published by Alpha on October 12th 2000
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, General
Pages: 432
Len's Summary: An expansion of the well-known Idiot’s Guides into WWI history. A useful reference, but one with many errors.
Death of an Army
Death of an Army by Anthony Farrar-Hockley ISBN: 9781853266980
on 2000
Pages: 195
The Great War
The Great War by John Terraine ISBN: 9781853266508
Published by Wordsworth Editions on 1998
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 400
1917 Spring Offensives: Arras, Vimy, le Chemin des Dames
The 1917 Spring Offensives by Yves Buffetaut ISBN: 290818267X
Published by Histoire & Collections on July 1st 1997
Until the Last Trumpet Sounds: The Life of General of the Armies John J. Pershing
Until the Last Trumpet Sounds: The Life of General of the Armies John J. Pershing by Gene Smith ISBN: 1630262471
Published by John Wiley & Sons on October 1st 1999
Pages: 384
Len's Summary: The new one-volume biography of General John J. Pershing Until the Last Trumpet Sounds by Gene Smith (John Wiley & Sons) was panned by The New York Times, but got a better review from historian Rod Paschall writing for MHQ. Black Jack’s best biographies are multi-volume — Frank Vandiver’s and Donald Smythe’s come to mind — so this one is a handy, quick reference that captures the fundamentals of Pershing’s life.
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
