The Mapping of Love and Death: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear ISBN: 9780061727665
Published by Harper Collins on 2010
Genres: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Historical
Pages: 338
Len's Summary: Set in 1932, this is the seventh novel in the Maisie Dobbs series in which Maisie, a former WWI VAD, investigates the mysterious death of an American cartographer believed killed in battle. Winspear’s sixth Maisie Dobbs novel, Among the Dead, was published in 2009.
A Bitter Truth: A Bess Crawford Mystery
A Bitter Truth: A Bess Crawford Mystery by Charles Todd ISBN: 9780062015716
Published by HarperCollins on May 1st 2012
Genres: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, General
Pages: 368
Len's Summary: Todd’s (actually a mother and son writing team) second mystery featuring British nurse Bess Crawford involved in a murder while on Christmas leave from war torn France.
An Impartial Witness: A Bess Crawford Mystery
An Impartial Witness: A Bess Crawford Mystery by Charles Todd ISBN: 0061791784
Published by William Morrow on August 31st 2010
Genres: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical
Pages: 352
Len's Summary: A British nurse crisscrosses England investigating mysterious deaths during WWI. Recommended by Susan Hall-Balduf.
Armistice
Armistice by Nick Stafford ISBN: 9781849160230
on 2010
Genres: Fiction, Historical, Thrillers, General
Pages: 311
Len's Summary: Set in post-1918 London, a Manchester seamstress searches for news of her fiancée killed on the Western Front. A tangled web of deceit.
The Scent of Roses in Winter
The Scent of Roses in Winter by Michael P. Kihntopf ISBN: 1452080372
Published by AuthorHouse on October 5th 2010
Pages: 184
Len's Summary: A well-crafted novel about the experiences of a German soldier on both eastern and western fronts, as well as in the postwar freicorps. Written by the chairman of WFA’s Southwest Chapter who has also published two histories of the Eastern Front.
Sunnyside
Sunnyside by Glen David Gold ISBN: 9780307454980
Published by Vintage Books on May 4th 2010
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Pages: 675
Len's Summary: A rollicking comic novel set on a single day in the winter of 1916; a tale of perversity and misfortune involving, among others, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Elsie Janis.
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.
Not Only War: A Story of Two Great Conflicts
Not Only War: A Story of Two Great Conflicts by Victor Daly ISBN: 9780813929712
Published by University of Virginia Press on June 2nd 2010
Genres: Fiction, Action & Adventure, Historical
Pages: 103
Len's Summary: Dubbed by the publisher as the only WWI novel written by an African-American, Daly examines the impact of the Jim Crow color line on black officers in the segregated military. The reprint included three short stories by Daly.
Paths of Glory
Paths of Glory by Humphrey Cobb, James H. Meredith, David Simon ISBN: 0143106112
Published by Penguin Classics on June 29th 2010
Genres: Fiction, Classics, Literary, War & Military
Pages: 190
Len's Summary: First published in 1935, this provocative novel was made into a 1957 motion picture directed by Stanley Kubrick. Kurt Douglas was nominated for an Academy Award for his leading role as a French infantry colonel ordered to take an impregnable hill. Cobb was war correspondent in France and Belgium and a witness to the German invasion. // Written in the 1930s, this classic WWI novel of the French Army was authored by an American veteran of the Canadian forces. The 1957 movie version directed by Stanley Kubrick and still available on VHS and DVD earned Kurt Douglas an academy award nomination.
The Mons Myth: A Reassessment of the Battle
The Mons Myth: A Reassessment of the Battle by Terence Zuber ISBN: 9780752452470
Published by History Press on April 1st 2010
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Military, General
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: A new description and analysis of this 1914 battle asserting that the Germans did not massively outnumber the British, did not attack in a solid mass, and that BEF ‘rapid rifle fire’ did not mow down Germans in rows.
French Tanks of World War I
French Tanks of World War I by Steven J. Zaloga, Tony Bryan ISBN: 1846035139
Published by Osprey Publishing on December 21st 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Europe, France, Weapons, Illustrated
Pages: 48
Len's Summary: The emergence of the first modern tank, the Renault FT of 1917.
Flamethrower Troops of World War I: The Central and Allied Powers
Flamethrower Troops of World War I: The Central and Allied Powers by Thomas Wictor ISBN: 9780764335266
on September 28th 2010
Genres: History, Military, General, World War I
Pages: 171
Len's Summary: Technical data on flamethrowers used by both sides in The Great War.
Torchbearers of Democracy: African-American Soldiers in the World War I Era
Torchbearers of Democracy: African-American Soldiers in the World War I Era by Chad L. Williams ISBN: 9781469609850
Published by University of North Carolina Press on September 20th 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, United States, 20th Century, Social Science, Ethnic Studies, African American Studies
Pages: 452
Len's Summary: An important new looks at American history through African-American eyes. Some 380 thousand African-American soldiers served in WWI mainly as uniformed manual labor struggling for equality and harboring unfulfilled hopes for a better future as full-fledged citizens. Includes powerful analysis of African-American Doughboy relations with white Frenchmen and with French African colonial soldiers. See also Willing Patriots: Men of Color in the First World War, Schiffer, 2009.
Tracing the Rifle Volunteers: A Guide for Military & Family Historians
Tracing the Rifle Volunteers: A Guide for Military & Family Historians by Ray Westlake ISBN: 9781848842113
on May 2010
Genres: History, Military, Other, Technology & Engineering, Military Science, World War I
Pages: 273
Len's Summary: A resource book for WWI specialist from a veteran British historian.
Hitler’s First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War
Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War by Thomas Weber ISBN: 9780199226382
Published by Oxford University Press on September 29th 2011
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Political, History, Europe, Germany, World War I
Pages: 450
Len's Summary: Draws on the writings of Hitler’s fellow soldiers of the List Regiment to offer a different view that that presented in Mein Kampf; challenges common wisdom that WWI was a seminal catastrophe for Gemany. See also: Corporal Hitler and the Great War.
Tommy’s Ark: Soldiers, Their Animals and the Natural World in the Great War. Richard Van Emden
Tommy's Ark: Soldiers, Their Animals and the Natural World in the Great War. Richard Van Emden by Richard Van Emden ISBN: 9781408806111
Published by Bloomsbury on November 1st 2010
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: Explains the British soldiers’ relationship with a surprisingly range wide range of animal life.
Famous, 1914-1918
Famous, 1914-1918 by Richard Van Emden, Vic Piuk ISBN: 1848841973
on March 1st 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Great Britain
Pages: 350
Len's Summary: The stories of 20 of Britain’s most respected, best known and notorious celebrities in action on WWI. // Tells the stories of British celebrities and literati such as Basil Rathbone, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Toiken who served in WWI.
The First Battle of the Marne 1914: The French ‘miracle’ halts the Germans
The First Battle of the Marne 1914: The French 'miracle' halts the Germans by Ian Sumner, Graham Turner ISBN: 9781846035029
Published by Osprey Publishing on May 25th 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Europe, France, Germany, Illustrated
Pages: 96
Len's Summary: A brief, illustrated history of the battle.
Messines 1917: The zenith of siege warfare
Messines 1917: The zenith of siege warfare by Alexander Turner, Peter Dennis ISBN: 9781846038457
Published by Osprey Publishing on August 24th 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I
Pages: 96
Len's Summary: A short history of a key 1917 battle on the Western Front.
Blood on the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War of 1915
Blood on the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War of 1915 by Graydon A. Tunstall ISBN: 9780700618583
Published by University Press of Kansas on May 11th 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Europe, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Austria & Hungary
Pages: 258
Len's Summary: The Russian and Austro-Hungarian armies each suffered about a million casualties in this disastrous series of three offensives which paved the way for the disintegration of the Habsburg army. Dr. Tunstall is executive Director of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honor society, and chairs WFA’s Undergraduate Essay Prize award panel.
On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941
On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941 by Steven Trout ISBN: 9780817357238
Published by University of Alabama Press on September 2nd 2010
Genres: History, General, United States, Literary Criticism, American, World War I
Pages: 340
Len's Summary: War and memory in the 1920s and 30s.
Remembering Fromelles: A New Cemetery for a New Century
Remembering Fromelles: A New Cemetery for a New Century by Julie Summers, Louise Loe, Nigel Steel ISBN: 0956507409
Published by Commonwealth War Graves Commission on July 1st 2010
Pages: 95
Len's Summary: A book commemorating the battle of Fromelles and the creation of the Pleasant Wood Cemetery dedicated in 2010.
British Dreadnought vs German Dreadnought: Jutland 1916
British Dreadnought vs German Dreadnought: Jutland 1916 by Mark Stille, Ian Palmer, Howard Gerrard ISBN: 1849081670
Published by Osprey Publishing on October 19th 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Naval, Illustrated, Germany
Pages: 80
Len's Summary: Contrasts the differing crew training and weapons systems of the two fleets and details the action at Jutland shot by shot.
All the Tsar’s Men: Russia’s General Staff and the Fate of the Empire, 1898-1914
All the Tsar's Men: Russia's General Staff and the Fate of the Empire, 1898-1914 by John W. Steinberg ISBN: 9780801895456
Published by Johns Hopkins University Press on March 18th 2010
Genres: History, Europe, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, General
Pages: 408
Len's Summary: A study in the institutional reforms that failed to prevent defeat in either the Russo-Japanese War or WWI. // The author ties the fate of empire to only partially successful efforts to create a truly professional officer corps in Russia in the wake of the Russo-Japanese War debacle.
Edith Cavell: Nurse, Martyr, Heroine
Edith Cavell: Nurse, Martyr, Heroine by Diana Souhami ISBN: 1849163596
Published by Quercus Publishing on September 1st 2010
Pages: 417
Len's Summary: New bio of a British nurse executed by the German for aiding in the escape of British and French soldiers from occupied Belgium in 1914 and 1915.
Imperial Russian Field Uniforms and Equipment 1907-1917
Imperial Russian Field Uniforms and Equipment 1907-1917 by Johan Somers ISBN: 9780764335228
on July 28th 2010
Genres: History, Military, General, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Illustrated, World War I
Pages: 352
Len's Summary: Another in a growing number of volumes on WWI uniforms and equipment from Schiffer.
Gone to Russia to Fight: The RAF in South Russia 1918 to 1920
Gone to Russia to Fight: The RAF in South Russia 1918 to 1920 by John T. Smith ISBN: 9781848688919
Published by Amberley on September 9th 2010
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Military, World War I, Other, Aviation, Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Pages: 221
Len's Summary: British armoured car and RAF squadrons fought in a civil war alongside White Russian forces and against the Red Army after WWI was over.
The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Jonathan Schneer ISBN: 0812976037
Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks on January 3rd 2012
Pages: 480
Len's Summary: A watershed document of the 20th century; one of a string of contradictory promises made by Great Britain and its Entente allies during WWI; looks at the Declaration in the context of British politics, intra-Entente diplomacy and the British-supported Arab revolt.
The Impossible Border: Germany and the East, 1914-1922
The Impossible Border: Germany and the East, 1914-1922 by Annemarie H. Sammartino ISBN: 9780801479465
Published by Cornell University Press on September 27th 2010
Genres: History, Europe, Germany, Eastern, Social Science, Emigration & Immigration
Pages: 248
Len's Summary: At Versailles, Germany lost 12% of her territory, mainly to a recrudescent Poland. The immense movement of ethnic Germans and Jews from the East helped destabilize the fragile Weimar Republic and stoked the racist proclivities of German conservatives.
Stalking the U-Boat: U.S. Naval Aviation in Europe during World War I
Stalking the U-Boat: U.S. Naval Aviation in Europe during World War I by Geoffrey L. Rossano ISBN: 9780813034881
Published by University Press of Florida on November 14th 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Aviation, Naval, United States
Pages: 429
Len's Summary: One of several recent studies of American involvement in WWI at sea from the University of Florida Press.
Gunther Pluschow: Airmen, Escaper and Explorer
Gunther Pluschow: Airmen, Escaper and Explorer by Anton Rippon ISBN: 9781848841321
on March 2010
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, Political, History, World War I, Germany, Aviation
Pages: 194
Len's Summary: Plüschow flew against the British and Japanese out of Tsing Tao and was the only POW to escape England and make his way back to Germany.
Brief Glory: The Life of Arthur Rhys-Davids, DCO, MC
Brief Glory: The Life of Arthur Rhys-Davids, DCO, MC by Alex Revell ISBN: 9781848841628
on March 18th 2010
Genres: History, Military, Aviation, World War I
Pages: 222
Len's Summary: In only six months flying before being killed in 1917, Rhys-Davids achieved fame by shooting down German ace Verner Voss.
Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War
Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War by Harry Ricketts ISBN: 9781845951801
Published by Chatto & Windrus on 2010
Pages: 278
Len's Summary: Collective biography told in vignettes.
The Story of the Great War
The Story of the Great War by Allen L. Churchill, Francis J. Reynolds, Francis Trevelyan Miller on March 30th 2011
Pages: 471
Len's Summary: First published in 1916-1920, this reprint offers contemporary first-hand accounts, biographies and narratives. Available from the publisher Weider History Group, Box 664, Holmes, PA 19043-9956. Weider publishes MHQ and several other military history magazines.
The First World War, 1914-1918; personal experiences of Lieut.-Col. C. à Court Repington
The First World War, 1914-1918; personal experiences of Lieut.-Col. C. à Court Repington by C. À Court Repington ISBN: 1117156427
on November 13th 2009
Pages: 652
Len's Summary: Former British Army officer Repington was the influential London Times war correspondent covering the BEF. Famous in his day, he is now virtually forgotten. Also available from Hard Press Editions, in two volumes from Simon Publications and as a NOOK book.
‘Blinker’ Hall: Spymaster, The Man who Brought America into World War I
‘Blinker’ Hall: Spymaster, The Man who Brought America into World War I by David Ramsay ISBN: 9780752453989
Published by History Press Limited on April 1st 2010
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, World War I, Naval
Pages: 320
Len's Summary: The story of the British Director of Naval Intelligence and Room 40 which broke the German naval and diplomatic codes revealing to Woodrow Wilson the infamous Zimmerman Telegram. Also available in hard cover.
Agnes Warner and the Nursing Sisters of the Great War
Agnes Warner and the Nursing Sisters of the Great War by Shawna M. Quinn ISBN: 9780864926333
Published by Goose Lane Editions on October 29th 2010
Genres: Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, World War I, Canada
Pages: 171
Len's Summary: The experiences of a New Brunswick nurse drawn from her wartime correspondence and diaries.
Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918
Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918 by Tammy M. Proctor ISBN: 9780814767153
Published by NYU Press on August 30th 2010
Genres: History, World War I
Pages: 377
Len's Summary: Explores the ways in which civilians around the world coped with our first industrialized conflict.
The Blocking of Zeebrugge: Operation Z-O 1918
The Blocking of Zeebrugge: Operation Z-O 1918 by Stephen Prince ISBN: 9781846034534
Published by Osprey Publishing on May 25th 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Europe, Great Britain, Naval
Pages: 64
Len's Summary: The daring raid designed to close the German-controlled ports of Zeebrugge and end submarine attacks in the Dover Straights.
What I Saw in Berlin: And Other European Capitals During Wartime
What I Saw in Berlin: And Other European Capitals During Wartime by pseud. Piermartini ISBN: 9781179656335
Published by BiblioBazaar on September 6th 2011
Pages: 344
Len's Summary: First published in 1915, this anonymously-authored work describes the author’s travels to Berlin, Constantinople, Athens and other European capitals in 1914.
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
