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To hell and back: Europe, 1914-1949 (Penguin history of Europe #8)
Par Ian Kershaw. 2015
Author of Hitler, 1889-1936 (DB 51683) and Hitler, 1936-1945 (DB 51684) profiles the political, social, and cultural upheavals in Europe…
from 1914 to 1949. Examines prominent personalities and day-to-day life, and places events in historical context. Discusses the impact of two world wars on the populace. 2015The trigger: hunting the assassin who brought the world to war
Par Tim Butcher. 2014
Journalist retraces the steps of Gavrilo Princip, the teenager whose killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked the beginning of World…
War I. Butcher visits Princip's childhood home in a feudal frontier village, interviews surviving relatives, examines school records, and more, in an attempt to illuminate Princip as an individual. 2014The fall of the Ottomans: the Great War in the Middle East
Par Eugene Rogan. 2015
In 1914, the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war. But not even the Middle…
East could escape the Great War, which spelled the end for the Ottomans. Rogan depicts the aftermath of the war and its effects on the empire. 2015The long shadow: the legacies of the Great War in the twentieth century
Par David Reynolds. 2014
Professor of history at Cambridge University posits that World War I, one of the most violent conflicts in the history…
of civilization, has been strangely forgotten in American culture. He assesses the lasting impact of the Great War across the twentieth century. 2014Enduring courage: ace pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the dawn of the age of speed
Par John F. Ross. 2014
Author of War on the Run (DB 69615) profiles Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973), World War I flying ace and past-owner of…
the Indianapolis Speedway. Discusses his early life in Columbus, Ohio, the development of his fascination with speeding motor vehicles, and his dedication to his country. 2014Author of American Lightning (DB 68656) examines the development of a German spy ring in the United States just before…
the country's entry into World War I. Details efforts of the New York Police Department's Bomb and Neutrality Squad to uncover the ring and counteract its machinations. Some violence. 2014The secret rooms: a true story of a haunted castle, a plotting duchess, and a family secret
Par Catherine Bailey. 2013
Television producer chronicles her quest to learn the truth about the ninth Duke of Rutland, John Manners, who died in…
1940 in the archives room of the family estate--which was then sealed off for sixty years. Examines Manners's youth and the questions surrounding his service during World War I. 2012Breve 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. 2009Hero: 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. 2007Unforgetting 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 regime