First World War

Mary Frances Willard, a public-school principal from Chicago, was one of thousands of American women who served as welfare workers for U.S. troo...

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

“[A] gripping mix of stories and poems… interwoven with moments of quiet, affecting beauty… This remarkable work rescues an important 20th-century ...

Newly available in paperback, this study explores the dynamics of race and masculinity to provide fresh historical insight into the First World War...

Food is critical to military performance, but it is also central to social interaction and fundamental to our sense of identity. The soldiers of th...

A Supernatural War reveals the surprising stories of extraordinary people in a world caught up with the promise of occult powers. It was a commonl...

*Telling tales about men* explores some of the ways in which conscientious objectors to compulsory military service were viewed and treated in Engl...

An Englishwoman of no particular fame living in World War I Brussels started a secret diary in September 1916. Aware that her thoughts could put he...

Paths out of the Apocalypse uses violence as a prism through which to investigate the profound social, cultural, and political changes experienced ...

'Highly Recommended' CHOICE A fascinating account of the experimental innovations and theoretical breakthroughs in nuclear physics in the period ...

Historical research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, but much of it has focused on large-scale questions relate...

During and after World War I, over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey, a watershed moment in Greek history that resulted in hun...