First World War

The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns that took place during the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes...

Originally published in 1981 and now re-issued with a new Preface, this book contains contributions on key issues such as the origins of the First ...

For a brief period, the attention of the international community has focused once again on the plight of religious minorities in Iraq, Syria, and T...

When Billy Mitchell returned from WWI, he brought with him the deep-seated belief that air power had made navies obsolete. However, in the years fo...

By October 1918, the U.S. had more than a million men fighting in the Meuse-Argonne campaign. The American Expeditionary Forces' logistics army,...

This extensively annotated wartime diary illuminates the military service of Leslie Howard Miller (18891979), a Canadian soldier who served in the ...

For the British Empire and its allies of the Great War, 1917 was a year marked by one crisis after another. There was also social and political uph...

During the summer of 1916, approximately 270,000 Central Asians-Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmen, and Uzbeks-perished at the hands of the Russian a...

The long-running Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War is one of Te Papas most popular exhibitions, attracting over three million visitors since it opene...

When World War I began, Karnig Panian was only five years old, living among his fellow Armenians in the Anatolian village of Gurin. Four years late...

Ranging from soldiers reading newspapers at the front to authors' responses to the war, this book sheds new light on the reading habits and prefere...

In August 1917, the Canadian Corps captured Hill 70, a vital piece of ground just north of the French industrial town of Lens. The Canadians suffer...

Illustrated with detailed artworks of combat aircraft and their markings, Aircraft of World War I: The Essential Aircraft Identification Guide is a...

World War I heralded a new global era of warfare, consolidating and expanding changes that had been building throughout the previous century, while...

During and especially after World War I, the millions of black-clad widows on the streets of Europes cities were a constant reminder that war cause...