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The third battle of Ypres, culminating in a desperate struggle for the ridge and little village of Passchendaele, was one…
of the most appalling campaigns in the First World War. In this book, the author lets over 600 participants speak for themselves. A million Tommies, Canadians and Anzacs assembled at the Ypres Salient in the summer of 1917, mostly raw young troops keen to do their bit for King and Country. 1983.The Zimmermann telegram
Par Barbara Wertheim Tuchman. 1981
The intercept of the Zimmermann telegram was received in British Intelligence offices on January 17, 1917. With proposals of a…
German-backed Mexican invasion of the United States, this could be the fuse that launches America into the war. 1981.The Vimy trap or, how we learned to stop worrying and love the Great War: Or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Great War
Par Jamie Swift, Ian McKay. 2016
The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today's tellings, a heroic founding…
moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. "Vimyism"--today's official story of glorious, martial patriotism--contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, and even politicians who had supported the war interpreted its meaning over the decades. Was the Great War a futile imperial debacle? A proud, nation-building milestone? Explains both how and why peace and war remain contested terrain in ever-changing landscapes of Canadian memory. 2016.The suicide battalion
Par James L McWilliams, R. J Steel. 1978
This extract from the official report of the 46th Canadian infantry battalion (South Saskatchewan) after the battle of Passchendaele gives…
an indication of why the 46th called itself "The Suicide Battalion." 1978.The sleepwalkers: how Europe went to war in 1914
Par Christopher M Clark. 2012
Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing on the complex events and relationships…
that led a group of well-meaning leaders into brutal conflict. He traces the paths to war in a gripping narrative that examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914, and details the mutual misunderstandings and unintended signals that drove the crisis forward in a few short weeks. Bestseller. 2013.The second line of defense: American women and World War I
Par Lynn Dumenil. 2017
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, women's impact on the war. Telling the stories of a diverse group of women, including African Americans, dissidents, pacifists, reformers, and industrial workers, Dumenil explores both the roadblocks and opportunities they faced. By using a gendered approach to the war, she offers a complex rendering of the ways in which the United States mobilized for the coming battle and how American women helped support the largest military endeavour in the nation's history. Arguing that in contrast to prevailing notions that military service defines citizenship, Dumenil shows how women activists staked their claim to loyal citizenship by framing women's war work as industrial workers, home-front volunteers, overseas nurses, and support personnel as "the second line of defense." 2017.The origins of the First World War (Origins Of Modern Wars Ser.)
Par James Joll. 1984
James Joll re-examines the events of that fateful summer of 1914. His themes include strategic planning and the arms race,…
the pressures of domestic politics, and the cultural and psychological atmosphere of 1914. He relates these factors to the decisions taken at the time, and shows how each affected the policies of the belligerent powers. 1984.Sir Sam Hughes - Minister of Militia and Defence from 1911 until his dismissal in 1916 - is remembered as…
abrasive and unstable, while Sir Arthur Currie, a part-time soldier who rose to command the Canadian Corps in France and Belgium, is remembered as one of the most effective generals of the war and a national hero. But initially, Hughes drove the nation toward a war footing and fought to keep Canadian troops from being parceled out to the British, while Currie embezzled regimental funds, never connected with his soldiers, and was accused of wantonly squandering the lives of 60,000 Canadians on the road to victory. c2010.The knock at the door: a journey through the darkness of the Armenian genocide
Par Margaret Ajemian Ahnert. 2007
Amid the chaos and violence of World War I, attacks began against the supposedly disloyal minority Armenian population within the…
Ottoman Empire. By the end of the war, high-end estimates place the death toll of Armenians at more than one million due to executions and deportations. Ahnert interviewed her 98-year-old mother, Ester, a survivor of the massacres, and intertwined her mother's recollections of the period with her own memories. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2007.The Polar Bear Expedition: the heroes of America's forgotten invasion of Russia, 1918-1919
Par James Carl Nelson. 2019
In August 1918, the 339th regiment of the US Army-roughly 5,000 soldiers, most hailing from Michigan-sailed for Europe to fight…
in World War I. But instead of the Western Front, these troops were headed to Archangel, Russia, a vital port city 1,000 miles northeast of Moscow. There, in the frozen subarctic, amid the chaos of the Russian Civil War, one of the most extraordinary episodes of American history unfolded. 2019.Coronel and the Falklands (British Battle series)
Par Geoffrey Bennett. 1962
Gallant Canadians: the story of the Tenth Canadian Infantry Battalion, 1914-1919
Par Daniel G Dancocks. 1990
This history of the "Fighting Tenth" follows the battalion from its formation in September 1914 through to the end of…
the First World War. The Tenth fought with distinction in every major Canadian battle of the war, and was one of the most decorated battalions in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. 1990.Beyond the tumult
Par Barry Winchester. 1971
The true story of the greatest escape in the annals of wartime adventure. Three British airmen led the first escape…
from the German prison camp, Holzminden, during World War I. Faced with great handicaps, threatened with suffocation and exhaustion, they freed 26 prisoners. 1971.Seven pillars of wisdom: a triumph of the Arab revolt in the Great War
Par T. E. Thomas Edward Lawrence. 1935
This classic autobiography features an account of the Arab revolt against the Turks during World War I, encompassing gross acts…
of cruelty and revenge, through which Lawrence weaves rich character portraits, philosophical observations and insights into his own complex personality. 1935.Rickenbacker
Par Eddie Rickenbacker. 1967
The colourful career of the American aviator included winning the Congressional Medal of Honour and the Croix de Guerre during…
World War I, and drifting for 27 days on the Pacific after a plane crash in World War II. 1967.The road less traveled: The secret battle to end the great war, 1916-1917
Par Philip Zelikow. 2021
During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides-Germany, Britain, and America-believed the war…
could be concluded. Peace at the end of 1916 would have saved millions of lives and changed the course of history utterly. Two years into the most terrible conflict the world had ever known, the warring powers faced a crisis. There were no good military options. Money, men, and supplies were running short on all sides. The German chancellor secretly sought President Woodrow Wilson's mediation to end the war, just as British ministers and France's president also concluded that the time was right. The Road Less Traveled describes how tantalizingly close these far-sighted statesmen came to ending the war, saving millions of lives, and avoiding the total war that dimmed hopes for a better world. Theirs was a secret battle that is only now becoming fully understood, a story of civic courage, awful responsibility, and how some leaders rose to the occasion while others shrank from it or chased other ambitions. "Peace is on the floor waiting to be picked up!" pleaded the German ambassador to the United States. This book explains both the strategies and fumbles of people facing a great crossroads of history. The Road Less Traveled reveals one of the last great mysteries of the Great War: that it simply never should have lasted so long or cost so much. spanDead wake: The last crossing of the lusitania
Par Erik Larson. 2015
#1 New York Times Bestseller From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the…
sinking of the Lusitania On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds"—the fastest liner then in service—and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot -20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger's U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small—hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more—all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history. It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love. Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster whose intimate details and true meaning have long been obscured by history. — ALA 2016 Notable Books List (Year's best in Fiction, Non-fiction, and Poetry named by RUSA readers' advisory experts) — Amazon, celebrity picks for their top reads of the year, chosen by Ina Garten and Carl HiaasenVictory at Vimy: Canada Comes of Age, April 9-12, 1917
Par Ted Barris. 2007
National BestsellerAt the height of the First World War, on Easter Monday April 9, 1917, in early morning sleet, sixteen…
battalions of the Canadian Corps rose along a six-kilometre line of trenches in northern France against the occupying Germans. All four Canadian divisions advanced in a line behind a well-rehearsed creeping barrage of artillery fire. By nightfall, the Germans had suffered a major setback. The Ridge, which other Allied troops had assaulted previously and failed to take, was firmly in Canadian hands. The Canadian Corps had achieved perhaps the greatest lightning strike in Canadian military history. One Paris newspaper called it "Canada’s Easter gift to France." Of the 40,000 Canadians who fought at Vimy, nearly 10,000 became casualties. Many of their names are engraved on the famous monument that now stands on the ridge to commemorate the battle. It was the first time Canadians had fought as a distinct national army, and in many ways, it was a coming of age for the nation. The achievement of the Canadians on those April days in 1917 has become one of our lasting myths. Based on first-hand accounts, including archival photographs and maps, it is the voices of the soldiers who experienced the battle that comprise the thrust of the book. Like JUNO: Canadians at D-Day, Ted Barris paints a compelling and surprising human picture of what it was like to have stormed and taken Vimy Ridge.The guns of august
Par Barbara W. Tuchman. 2008
In this Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World…
War I. This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of kings and kaisers and czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored uniforms, and all the pomp and romance that went along with war. How quickly it all changed—and how horrible it became. Tuchman masterfully portrays this transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, focusing on the turning point in the year 1914, the month leading up to the war, and the first month of the war. With fine attention to detail, she reveals how and why the war started and why it could have been stopped but wasn't, managing to make the story utterly suspenseful even when we already know the outcome. A classic historical survey of a time and a people we all need to know more about, The Guns of August will not be forgottenA lab of one's own: science and suffrage in the first World War
Par Patricia Fara. 2018
Science historian presents a profile of the work of women scientists during World War I and the ways their work…
impacted the suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. Topics examined include the traditional roles of women, routes to power through science, wartime work, post-war readjustment, and more. 2018