First World War

Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies and turning points of the First World War - the epic conflict that was supposed to be the war to en...

Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 10...

During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly au...

It was a commonly expressed view during the First World War that the conflict had seen a major revival of 'superstitious' beliefs and practices. C...

On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four ...

Soldiers found guilty of desertion or cowardice during the Great War faced death by firing squad. Novels, histories, movies, and television series ...

For decades, people living in adjacent communities along the CanadaUS border enjoyed close social and economic relationships with their neighbours ...

The Womens Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917, re-formed in 1938 and maintained after 1945. This book determines for the first time the...

The Womens Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917, re-formed in 1938 and maintained after 1945. This book determines for the first time the...

During the Hundred Days campaign of the First World War, over 30 percent of conscripts who served in the Canadian Corps became casualties. Yet, the...

World War I marks a well-known turning point in anthropology, and this volume is the first to examine the variety of forms it took in Europe. Disti...

Winner of the World War One Historical Associations 2021 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize Global War, Global Catastrophe presents a history of the F...

An illustrated analytical study, Words and the First World War considers the situation at home, at war, and under categories such as race, gender a...

An American in Europe at War and Peace offers a rare personal record of Hugh Gibson, a top American diplomat, during the last months of World War I...

At the end of World War I, the U.S. Army 339th Infantry--nicknamed the Polar Bears--was deployed to northern Russia to prevent Allied supplies stoc...

During the carnage of World War I, ambulance companies were essential, carrying casualties off the battlefield on litters, dressing wounds, and rus...