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A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
Gerald J Meyer - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book
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The First World War is one of history's greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe's mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked... |
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The Great War in America: World War I and Its Aftermath
Garrett Peck - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A chronicle of the American experience during World War I and the unexpected changes that rocked the country in its immediate aftermath -- the Red Scare, race riots, women's suffrage, and Prohibition. The Great War's bitter outcome left the experience largely overlooked and forgotten in American... |
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The Great Rescue: American Heroes, an Iconic Ship, and Saving Europe During WWI
PETER HERNON - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Published in commemoration of the centennial of America's entry into World War I, the story of the USS Leviathan, the legendary liner turned warship that ferried U.S. soldiers to Europe - a unique war history that offers a fresh, compelling look at this epic time.When war broke out in Europe... |
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Last crossing of the Lusitania
Erik Larson - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times BestsellerFrom the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the LusitaniaOn May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York,... |
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A Soldier on the Southern Front: The Classic Italian Memoir of World War 1
Emilio Lussu - Rizzoli Ex Libris
Format: Print book
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A rediscovered Italian masterpiece chronicling the author's experience as an infantryman, newly translated and reissued to commemorate the centennial of World War I. Taking its place alongside works by Ernst Jnger, Robert Graves, and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu's memoir is one of the most... |
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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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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Max Hastings - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles - the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg - that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In Catastrophe 1914,... |
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World War I: The African Front: An Imperial War on the Dark Continent
Edward Paice - Pegasus
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of World War I's forgotten front: Britain versus Germany in East Africa to secure the belly of a continent.On August 7, 1914, Britain fired its first shots of World War I not in Europe but in the German colony of Togo. The campaign to eliminate the threat at sea posed... |
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Yanks : The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I
John S D Eisenhower - Free Press
Format: Hardcover
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Fought far from home, World War I was nonetheless a stirring "American" adventure. The achievements of the United States during that war, often underrated by military historians, were in fact remarkable, and they turned the tide of the conflict. So says John S. D. Eisenhower,... |
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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 Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Kate Moore - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller! Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf Bookclub Selection - May/June 2018"the glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still." -- NPR Books The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark... |
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The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army. In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. General John Pershing, commander... |
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