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Breve historia de la Primera Guerra Mundial, 1914-1918 (Colección Breve historia)
Par Álvaro Lozano, Varo Lozano, ÁLvaro Lozano Cutanda. 2011
Spanish historian provides an overview of the "Great War"--the first mechanized military conflict which resulted in the deaths of more…
than nine million soldiers and which produced widespread economic imbalances, social unrest, and increased ideological militancy at the outset of the twentieth century. Violence. Spanish language. 2011Catastrophe 1914: Europe goes to war
Par Max Hastings. 2013
British historian uses archives and first-person accounts to chronicle the political, diplomatic, and military events that led to World War…
I, which he blames primarily on Germany. Describes the failure of the warring countries' armies to keep pace with technology and the suffering endured by their civilian populations. 2013Lawrence in Arabia: war, deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern Middle East
Par Scott Anderson. 2013
War correspondent chronicles British archaeologist T.E. Lawrence's role in World War I, when he led the Arab revolt against the…
Turks. Reconstructs the actions of three key players--German diplomat Curt Pr�ufer, Zionist agronomist Aaron Aaronsohn, and American oil-man William Yale--and the impact they had on events. Bestseller. 2013The last of the doughboys: the forgotten generation and their forgotten World War
Par Richard Rubin. 2013
Interviews with American veterans--all older than one hundred years at the time--from World War I. Records their battlefield experiences, including…
the horror of trench warfare and gas attacks, and lighter moments away from the front lines. Adds biographical and historical context. Violence and some strong language. 2013The beauty and the sorrow: an intimate history of the First World War
Par Peter Englund, Peter Graves. 2011
Historian Englund, a member of the Swedish Academy, details the course of World War I (1914-1918) from the perspectives of…
twenty individuals, including a twelve-year-old German girl, an American woman married to a Polish aristocrat, and an English nurse in the Russian army. Translated from Swedish. Violence. 2011Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey: the lost legacy of Highclere Castle
Par The Countess of Carnarvon, Fiona Carnarvon. 2011
Lady Fiona, the Countess of Carnarvon, chronicles the era that inspired the British television series Downton Abbey. She details the…
life of Almina--illegitimate daughter of Sir Alfred de Rothschild--who married the fifth earl of Carnarvon in 1895 and enjoyed upper-class privileges until World War I. Some violence. Bestseller. 2011George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: three royal cousins and the road to World War I
Par Miranda Carter. 2010
Examines the bonds between the royal families of Europe, fostered by matriarch Queen Victoria, that led to World War I.…
Discusses the childhoods, education, marriages, and leadership of the three cousins who became George V of England, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. 2009To end all wars: a story of loyalty and rebellion, 1914-1918
Par Adam Hochschild. 2011
Award-winning historian examines the pro- and anti-war movements in Great Britain before and during World War I. Portrays social reformers,…
suffragettes, conscientious objectors, and other pacifists who aligned against military and political leaders and the general public. Highlights the carnage that followed. Some violence. 2011Hero: the life and legend of Lawrence of Arabia
Par Michael Korda. 2010
Biography of T.E. Lawrence, the British officer who led Arab armies against the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Discusses…
Lawrence's childhood, Oxford education, complicated relationship with fame, role as a national hero, anonymous military reenlistments, and death at age forty-six. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 2010Blood on the snow: the Carpathian winter war of 1915
Par Graydon A. Tunstall. 2010
Historian uses World War I material from Vienna and Budapest archives to portray Austria-Hungary's winter campaign to rescue soldiers besieged…
by Russian troops. The armies entered the Carpathian Mountains inadequately equipped with food, clothing, and shelters, which led to the death of almost a million men. Violence. 2010Miracle at Belleau Wood: the birth of the modern U.S. Marine Corps (Lyons Press Ser.)
Par Alan Axelrod. 2007
Military historian uses primary sources to recount the epoch month-long battle in June 1918 at Belleau Wood, a hunting preserve…
outside of Paris. Describes the U.S. Marine Corps' efforts to save the Allies from defeat by holding off, at great odds, the German army--who employed mustard gas. Violence. 2007Truce: the day the soldiers stopped fighting
Par Jim Murphy. 2009
Examines the events that brought European countries into battle in the First World War. Describes one particular day, Christmas Eve…
1914, when all along the Western Front German soldiers exchanged hymns with their British and French enemies and a fragile peace temporarily prevailed. For grades 4-7. 2009Unforgetting Private Charles Smith
Par Jonathan Locke Hart. 2019
Rebirth of a nation: the making of modern America, 1877-1920 (American History)
Par Jackson Lears, T. J. Jackson Lears. 2009
Cultural history of the United States in the years between the Civil War and World War I. Examines the rise…
of industrial capitalism, the expansion of the American empire, and the violence of the Jim Crow regime. Highlights the efforts of reformists and anti-imperialist intellectuals to remedy societal ills. 2009Behind the lines: WWI's little-known story of German occupation, Belgian resistance, and the band of Yanks who saved millions from starvation : beginnings, 1914
Par Jeff Miller, Jeffrey B. Miller. 2014
1914. During World War I, the Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) initiated, organized, and supervised the largest food and…
relief drive the world has ever seen. The CRB fed and clothed for four years more than 9 million Belgians and French trapped behind German lines. Young, idealistic Americans volunteered to go into German-occupied Belgium and had to maintain strict neutrality as they watched the Belgians suffer under the harsh German regimeThe long weekend: life in the English country house, 1918-1939
Par Adrian Tinniswood. 2016
A history of English country houses and high society during the years between the World Wars. Drawing on thousands of…
memoirs, letters, and diaries, as well as eye-witness testimonies, Tinniswood offers a glimpse behind the veil of these great estates during a period of extraordinary societal changePittsburgh in World War I: arsenal of the allies (War Era and Military)
Par Elizabeth Williams. 2013
When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Pittsburgh was a city of immigrants, but they threw their…
support into the war effort united as Americans. Pittsburgh and Allegheny County produced half of the steel and much of the munitions used by the Allies. Sixty thousand men went to war, women served on the front lines as nurses, and the city's large Red Cross provided support on the homefront. 2013Memories of World War I: North Carolina Doughboys on the Western Front
Par R. Jackson Marshall. 1998
War of attrition: fighting the First World War
Par William Philpott, William James Philpott. 2014
The Great War of 1914 to 1918 was the first mass conflict to fully mobilize the resources of industrial powers…
against one another. It resulted in a brutal, bloody, protracted war of attrition among the worlds' great economies. Politically, the emergence of the United States on the world stage is directly related to her support for the allied forces in the European conflagration. The war that ruined Europe enabled the rise of America. Contains strong languageWhat if? 2: eminent historians imagine what might have been : essays (What If Essays)
Par Robert Cowley. 2002
Twenty-five essays examine alternate outcomes in western history. Contributors ponder the implications of Jesus being pardoned by Pontius Pilate, William…
failing to conquer England in 1066, China discovering the New World, Lincoln consenting to slavery, and an assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Companion to What If? (DB 49463). 2001