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A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
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Hemingway's classic novel of the First World War The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank |
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Now repackaged--the timeless classic of World War I Germany that speaks to generation after generation. |
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Birds Without Wings
Louis de Bernières
Format: Print book
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Louis de Berniress last novel, Corellis Mandolin, was met with the highest praise: Behind every page, said Richard Russo, we sense its authors intelligence, wit, heart, imagination, and wisdom. This is a great book. A. S. Byatt placed the author in the direct line that runs through Dickens... |
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The First World War: A Complete History
Martin Gilbert - Henry Holt & Co
Format: Hardcover
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A companion volume to the highly acclaimed The Second World War recounts the course of the war, the enormity of its cost, the advances it brought in technology, and its effect on European society. 25,000 first printing. |
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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 Unknowns
PATRICK O'DONNELL - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally constructed in 1921 to hold one of the thousands of unidentified American soldiers lost in World War I, it now also contains unknowns from World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and receives... |
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To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
Ian Kershaw - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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"Chilling... To Hell and Back should be required reading in every chancellery, every editorial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics do their thinking ... . Kershaw documents each and every 'ism' of his analysis with extraordinary detail and passionate humanism."... |
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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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The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War One
Ben Macintyre - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Print book
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"I have a rendezvous with death, at some disputed barricade." Alan Seeger, 1916In the first days of World War I four soldiers, left behind as the British army retreated through northern France under the first German onslaught, found themselves trapped on the wrong side of the Western... |
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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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The Somme: The Darkest Hour on the Western Front
Peter Hart - Pegasus
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive account of one of the bloodiest battles in world history -- a military tragedy that would come to define a generation. On July 1, 1916, the British Army launched the "Big Push" that was supposed to bring an end to the horrific stalemate on the Western Front between... |
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Barbara W. Tuchman: The Guns of August & The Proud Tower
Barbara W. Tuchman - Library of America; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Writing with a clarity, grace, and novelistic sweep rare among historians, Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) distilled the complex interplay of personalities and events into gripping narratives that fuse rigorous scholarship with elegant literary art. An astute portraitist, she brilliantly... |
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The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme
Joe Sacco - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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From “the heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman” (Economist) comes a monumental, wordless depiction of the most infamous day of World War I. Launched on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize the madness of the First World War. Almost 20,000 British soldiers... |
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The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War
Peter Englund - Tantor Audio
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of 20 men and women from around the globe - a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like.In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event... |
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
T.E. Lawrence - Anchor; Reissue edition
Format: Book
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In his classic book, T.E. Lawrence—forever known as Lawrence of Arabia—recounts his role in the origin of the modern Arab world. At first a shy Oxford scholar and archaeologist with a facility for languages, he joined and went on to lead the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Turks... |
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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
Sebastian Faulks - Vintage Books USA
Format: Paperback
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Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair... |
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