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The Guns of August
Barbara W Tuchman - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeThe Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman's classic histories of the First World War eraIn this landmark, Pulitzer... |
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The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
Richard Rubin - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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In 2003, 85 years after the armistice, it took Richard Rubin months to find just one living American veteran of World War I. But then, he found another. And another. Eventually he managed to find dozens, aged 101 to 113, and interview them. All are gone now.A decade-long odyssey to recover... |
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Pershing
Jim Lacey - Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardcover
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In this persuasive biography, Jim Lacey sheds light on General Pershing's legacy as the nation's first modern combat commander, setting the standard for today's four-star officers. When the U.S. entered into WWI in 1917, they did so with inadequate forces. In just over a year, Pershing... |
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The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman
D. M. Giangreco - Zenith Press/MBI Pub.
Format: Print book
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Harry S. Truman was Commander-in-Chief at one of the (if not the) critical moments in American--and global--military history: when the decision had to be made to drop the Bomb. As to his military credentials, however, he is often dismissed as little more than a weekend warrior,... |
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Christopher Clark - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship,... |
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The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World
Greg King - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Drawing on unpublished letters and rare primary sources, King and Woolmans tell the true story behind the tragic romance and brutal assassination that sparked World War IIn the summer of 1914, three great empires dominated Europe: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Four years later all had vanished... |
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World War I: Contains a 16-Page Guide to WWI Battlefields and Memorials
H P Willmott - DK
Format: Paperback
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From the animosity-filled years prior to 1914 through the Treaty of Versailles and from the European campaigns to naval battles, this book explains the causes of the war, the course the war followed, and what made it the most costly and destructive war in the world's history. Enhanced... |
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
Tim Butcher - Grove Press
Format: Print book
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On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost a hundred years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo... |
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
Adam Hochschild - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics,... |
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