Publisher’s Description:’Hazel Hutchison takes a fresh look at the roles of American writers in helping to shape national opinion and policy during the First World War. From the war’s opening salvos in Europe, American writers recognized the impact the war would have on their society and sought out new strategies to express their horror, support, or resignation.’
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Publisher’s Description:’Barthas’ riveting wartime narrative, first published in France in 1978, presents the vivid, immediate experiences of a frontline soldier.’
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Publisher’s Description:’William Noel Hodgson never intended to be a soldier; he wanted to write. The Great War made his reputation as a poet but it also killed him. This groundbreaking biography traces his path and explores why he set his own hopes and plans aside to join the army.’
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Publisher’s Description:’Historian Paul Jankowski provides the definitive account of the iconic battle of World War I.Unusually, this book draws on deep research in French and German archives; this mastery of sources in both languages givesVerdun unprecedented authority and scope’.
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Publisher’s Description:’Between the beginning of the First World War in the summer of 1914 and the armistice in 1918, 51 men were executed in Britain. The great majority, over 80%, were hanged for murder, but in addition to this, 11 men were shot by firing squad at the Tower of London. Traitors, Spies and Killers tells the story of the most interesting and noteworthy of these executions and the crimes which led up to them.’
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Publisher’s Description:’In Alexander Watson’s compelling new history of the Great War, all the major events of the war are seen from the perspective of Berlin and Vienna. It is fundamentally a history of ordinary people.’
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Publisher’s Description:’In the wake of the First World War, Britain and her Empire faced the enormous question of how to bury the dead. Critically-acclaimed author David Crane describes how the horror of the slaughter motivated an ambulance commander named Fabian Ware to establish the Commonwealth war cemeteries.’
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Publisher’s Description:’This is the first full account of World War I in Palestine since the official history published in the 1920s. It was a tough and fast-moving campaign, fought against a formidable enemy in harsh terrain and sometimes stupefying heat. Anthony Bruce has produced a comprehensive military history of the campaign, drawing on the full range of sources including the experiences of those who took part.’
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Publisher’s Description:’Both the British and the German ruling classes were prepared for any number of dead and maimed to advance their imperial interests. As Dave Sherry shows in this accessible history, working class people suffered during WWI, but also began to fight back in the Russian and German revolutions.’
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Publisher’s Description:’The war of 1914 was launched at a propitious moment for harnessing the might of Britain and France to neutralize the German threat to Russia’s goal: partitioning the Ottoman Empire to ensure control of the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. As we seek to make sense of these conflicts, McMeekin’s powerful expose of Russia’s aims in the First World War will illuminate our understanding of the twentieth century.’
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