First World War

This work follows the First World War career of Captain (later wing commander) Edwin Swale, CBE DFC and bar, who served with 210 Squadron RAF, pilo...

This new volume in the long-running Images of War series features the actions of the British Army at Passchendaele. The book is comprised of rare p...

A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War, from the bestselling author of Operation Mincem...

'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, from poets whose words...

Much of what has been written about the treatment of prisoners of war held by the British suggest that they have often been treated in a more carin...

Shepard's War is a personal, illustrated narrative of the First World War - seen through the mainly unpublished contemporary drawings, illustration...

On the streets of Paris one day in July 1918, an American doughboy, Sgt. Jimmy Donovan, befriended a stray dog that he named Rags. No longer an unw...

In August 1918 a Massachusetts-born woman named Margaret Hall boarded a transport ship in New York City that would take her across the Atlantic to ...

When modern readers think of Hermann Goring, what probably comes to mind is the overweight drug addict and convicted war criminal who cheated the h...

The Sopwith Camel may be the most celebrated British fighter plane of the First World War, but it was the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a that almost...

This volume presents carefully selected, and annotated, articles about major-leaguers serving at home and overseas in the U.S. armed forces duri...

We are provincials no longer, said Woodrow Wilson on 5 March 1917, at his second inaugural. He spoke on the eve of Americas entrance into the First...

The Author gave up his medical studies at Freiburg University in 1914 to enlist in the German Army. He was soon involved in bloody hand-to-hand fig...

Though the medium of wireless communication was in relative infancy during World War I, the technology could have made a profound impact on tactica...

I am home, safe and sound, and reviewing all these memories as if in a dream. All of this pleases me. I have been faithful to my duty. Thus José de...

Aristocrats and itinerants, unionists and nationalists, Catholics and Protestants the Great War united thousands of Clare men and women to a cause...

Following on from the success of the War Dead series in counties Tipperary, Wexford, Wicklow, and Offaly, Tom Burnell now turns his attention to Co...

Mametz marks the centenary of this Great War battle with thought-provoking new photographs of the battlefield, which even today bears the scars an...

With First World War casualties mounting, there was an appeal for volunteers to train as front-line medical staff. Many women heeded the call: some...

Gunner of the Somme is a remarkable memoir detailing the life of a gunner on the Western Front as observed by a gentleman scientist who served in t...

World War I plays a central role in many of the theoretical debates among scholars of international politics. Taking advantage of recent advances i...

This is the first Pocket Manual to be dedicated to the German Army in the First World War, with chapters comprising of complete documents or extrac...