First World War

Until the 20th century, neither the capacity nor the means to inflict major damage upon the British Isles existed. This situation changed during th...

A Township at War takes the reader from rural Canadian field and farm to the slopes of Vimy Ridge and the mud of Passchendaele, and shows how a tig...

World War I was called the war of the camera. While many earlier wars fought after photography's invention were documented by the medium, WWI repre...

For Canadians, the First World War was a dynamic period of literary activity. Almost every poet wrote about the war, critics made bold predictions ...

For Canadians, the First World War was a dynamic period of literary activity. Almost every poet wrote about the war, critics made bold predictions ...

Third place in the 2022 SAHR Templer Best First Book Prize More than one million Indian soldiers were deployed during World War I, serving in the I...

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...