Combines evocative photographs and illustrations in a treasury of stories by 11 international writers that were inspired by artifacts connected to World War I. Illustrated by the Kate Greenaway Medal-winning artist of A Monster Calls.
Focusing on the decisive engagements of World War I, the author explores the immense challenges faced by the commanders on all sides, looking at the changing weapons and tactics and offering his own assessment on what brought about the war ...
This vivid, detailed history of World War I presents the general reader with an accurate and readable account of the campaigns and battles, along with brilliant portraits of the leaders and generals of all countries involved.
By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India’s struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history.
The Great War’s bitter outcome left the experience largely overlooked and forgotten in American history. This timely book is a reexamination of America’s first global experience as we commemorate WWI's centennial.
The bitter strife between the Confederate States of America, the victors in the Civil War, and the United States continues as they take opposite sides in the growing turmoil of the First World War.
Known as the Great War, World War One was one of history's greatest tragedies. It eventually dragged most of Europe and the world into its bloody quagmire, inflicting more than...
Gagarin, Prince M.A., 149 Geiss, Imanuel, 253 Genesis of Russophobia in Great Britain, The (Gleason), 26 George V, King (Great Britain), 184, 222, 240, 242, 25o German-Austrian alliance, Io, 30, 31, 37 Austrian perspective on, ...
In this, his most famous work, Marc Ferro looks at the realities faced by the millions who fought in the Great War and their families at home.
A Roman student is torn from his carefree life when World War I breaks out, and fifty years later, recounts the triumphs and tragedies of his existence to an illiterate factory worker
A history of the Allied campaigns against the German colonies in North Africa chronicles the battles using spears, bare hands, armored cars, and airplanes in sites that were far from the main action of the war