First World War

Entering World War I in 1917, a burst of patriotism in New Orleans collided with civil liberties. The city, due to its French heritage, shared a st...

During the First World War, Britain was nearly starved into submission, as so many ships were lost to German submarines. Basics such as butter, egg...

When the Great War began, the Russian Empire was home to more than five million Jews, the most densely settled Jewish population anywhere in the wo...

October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the eve...

World War I prompted the first massive organized propaganda campaign of the twentieth century. Posters, pamphlets, and other media spread fear abou...

Poised to become a significant player in the new world order, the United States truly came of age during and after World War I. Yet many Americans ...

Combining the social and cultural history of war, global and maritime history, this book examines the Argentine Navy during the First World War and...

Siblings are our longest lasting relationships. Narratives of the Great War abound with the war stories of brothers and sisters. Their emotional ex...

The First World War was waged through the participation not just of soldiers but of men, women, and children on the home front. Mass-produced, full...

An elite team of reporters brought the Great War home each week to ten million readers of the Saturday Evening Post. As Americas largest circulatio...

Vivid, succinct, and highly accessible, Heinrich Winkler's magisterial history of modern Germany offers the history of a nation and its people thro...

How did ordinary citizens become soldiers during the First World War, and how did they cope with the extraordinary challenges they confronted on th...

World War I might conjure up images of the trenches of the Western Front where the fighting raged for nearly four and half years, but this was only...