First World War

A must-read for anyone with an interest in history, politics, or the fascinating story and enduring legacy of an extraordinary figure: Winston Chur...

A revised and expanded new edition of this classic biography of a legendary American fighter pilot.  Frank Luke was the first American airman ...

This book will interest historians of the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles, 1919. It reconsiders them against Keynes' verdict in...

What does Australia's military history reveal about us?In Beyond The Broken Years fifty years after The Broken Years, Bill Gammage's classic on Wo...

The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 examines a turning point in East European history: the summer of 1920, when Lenins Soviet Russia decided to chall...

In War Fever, celebrated sports historians Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith explore the monumental changes taking place in Boston during the Great Wa...

In a time of great need for Britain, a small coterie of influential businessmen gained access to secret information on industrial mobilisation as a...

On April 25th 1915, during the First World War, the famous Anzacs landed ashore at Gallipoli. At the exact same moment, leading figures of Armenian...

In the midst of a seemingly endless war, a scarf connects three women in the cold winter of 1917 . . .London: As an ambitious scarf maker, Iris Bra...

General of the Armies John J. Pershing (18601948) had a long and decorated military career but is most famous for leading the American Expeditionar...

In the final days of World War I, an aspiring artists courageous journey is just beginning in a powerful novel about love, danger, and survival by ...

Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding-Moore MM was a British heiress who became a highly decorated volunteer nurse and ambulance driver on the Western...

The Great War of 191418 was the first conflict in which aircraft played a significant role. It was dangerous and sometimes exciting, and it created...

The Macedonian question has been much studied in recent years as has the political history of the period from the Balkan Wars in 1912-13 to the Tre...

World War I directly and indirectly caused events and social and political trends which defined the history of the world for the rest of the centur...

In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American new woman, Lynn Dumenil examines World War I's surprising impact on women and, in turn, wome...

How to persuade citizens to enlist? How to convince them to fight in a war which was, for many, distant in terms of kilometres as well as interest?...