eBooks List For Item World War, 1914-1918
World War One in the War: A Pictorial History (Crowood Aviation Series)
- ISBN:
- 1861260806
- Authors:
- Ken Delve
The aeroplane grew up very quickly during World War I. From being a novelty flown by rich schoolboys it matured into an effective weapon in less than four years. With over 450 contemporary and many previously unpublished photographs, this is the story of the formation of the world's first independent air force, from the early years through to 1918.
World War I: A History in Documents (Pages from History Series)
- ISBN:
- 0195137469
- Authors:
- Frans Coetzee, Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee
Featuring the voices of the people who lived it, World War I paints a picture of the war as it was fought by soldiers, administered by politicians, interpreted by artists and writers, and experienced by all civilians--male and female, old and young-across the world. In the United States, the war stimulated major technological advances, provoked literary and artistic experimentation, and spurred women's suffrage. Internationally, the...
War on the Western Front: In the Trenches of World War I (General Military)
- ISBN:
- 1846032105
World War I stands as a watershed in the evolution of modern warfare, with the development of sophisticated trench systems forming a battlefield over 400 miles long, notable improvements in weaponry and equipment and the first example of tanks being used in battle. This book examines the day-to-day lives of the British Tommy, the German Stormtrooper, the French Poilu and the American Doughboy as they fought and died in the trenches, with details...
Allied Aviation of World War I: A Pictorial History of Allied Aviators and Aircraft of the Great War (Osprey Aviation Pioneers 5)
- ISBN:
- 1841762261
- Authors:
- Hugh Cowin
In this companion volume to 'German and Austrian Aviation of World War 1', Hugh Cowin unearths some real gems from his photographic collection, and at the same time he details every aircraft type that saw action in WWI. As a reference title it is second to none; as a remarkable story of courage and technical innovation it makes a riveting narrative. British fighter ace Captain Albert Ball and the US's pilot/designer Chance M. Vought stand...
Lentolaivue 24 (Osprey Aviation Elite 4)
- ISBN:
- 1841762628
- Authors:
- Kari Stenman
Finland's premier fighter squadron during World War 2, Lentolaivue 24 (Flying Squadron 24) first saw action during the bloody Winter War of 1939-40, when the Soviet Red Army launched a surprise attack on the small Scandinavian country - the squadron enjoyed great success against numerically superior opposition. LLv 24 was once again in the thick of the action following the outbreak of the Continuation War in June 1941. Easily the air force's...
British and Empire Aces of World War I (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 45)
- ISBN:
- 1841763772
- Authors:
- Christopher Shores
At the outset of World War I the British had some 110 assorted aircraft, used mostly for the visual reconnaissance role. With the advent of faster and more agile single-seaters, the Allies and their adversaries raced to outdo each other in the creation of genuinely effective fighters with fixed forward-firing machine gun armament. It was not until 1917 that the British developed a truly effective interrupter gear, which paved the way for...
Warrior 79: US Doughboy 1916-19
- ISBN:
- 1841766763
- Authors:
- Thomas Hoff
Dedicated to the life of the average US soldier during World War I, this book follows the doughboy during the course of the war: from conscription, arrival at a training facility, transportation to Europe, and finally into combat in the trenches. The evolution of the US Army is discussed, and its organization, the tension between Pershing’s desire for “open” warfare and the actual reality of trench warfare is examined in detail....
The First World War: The War to End All Wars
- ISBN:
- 1841767387
- Authors:
- Peter Simkins, Geoffrey Jukes, Michael Hickey
Raging for over four years across the tortured landscapes of Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the First World War changed the face of warfare forever. Characterised by slow, costly advances and fierce attrition, the great battles of the Somme, Verdun and Ypres incurred human loss on a scale never previously imagined. This book, with a foreword by Professor Hew Strachan, covers the fighting on all fronts, from Flanders to Tannenberg and from...
Balloon-Busting Aces of World War 1 (Aircraft of the Aces)
- ISBN:
- 1841768774
- Authors:
- Jon Guttman
Tethered balloons reached their zenith as a means of providing a stationary observation platform above the battlefield during World War I. It took a special breed of daredevil to take on such odds deep in enemy lines in order to destroy a balloon, with Balloon specialists such as Willy Coppens, Pierre Bourjade and Michel Coiffard rising to the challenge. This book covers the story of these 'balloon busters' from both sides in World War 1 through...
The Forts of the Meuse in World War I (Fortress)
- ISBN:
- 1846031141
- Authors:
- Clayton Donnell
On October 29, 1891, the new forts built around the cities of Li¿ge and Namur, known as the "Forts of the Meuse," were turned over to the Belgian Army. The huge project, which had begun in 1888 and cost 71.6 million Belgian Francs, required over 9,000 workers to complete. It produced 21 modern forts that could defend the strategic rail, river, and road arteries passing through narrow gaps to the flat, open plains of Flanders. The Forts of the...
ABOVE THE LINES: The Aces of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps ?
- ISBN:
- 0948817739
- Authors:
- Norman Franks
This work contains the biographies of the aces of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps. As well as covering decorations and post-war careers, it also investigates the claims of the pilots, especially Manfred von Richthofen.
World War I (Eyewitness Guides)
- ISBN:
- 0751330841
- Authors:
- Simon Adams
A guide to the grim challenge of life or death on the Western Front of World War I, this book features first-hand reports and contemporary photographs of the battles that slaughtered millions with an account of how nation upon nation sent their men to join the carnage.
The Great War and the Language of Modernism
- ISBN:
- 0195101766
- Authors:
- Vincent Sherry
With the expressions ""Lost Generation"" and ""The Men of 1914,"" the major authors of modernism designated the overwhelming effect the First World War exerted on their era. Literary critics have long employed the same phrases in an attempt to place a radically experimental, specifically modernist writing in its formative, historical setting. What real basis did that Great War provide for the verbal inventiveness of modernist poetry and fiction?...
Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity (Gender and Culture Series)
- ISBN:
- 0231134444
- Authors:
- Christine Froula
Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. Educated informally in her father's library and in Bloomsbury's London extension of Cambridge, Virginia Woolf came of age in the prewar decades, when progressive political and social movements gave hope that...
History of Warfare: War In The Air 1914-45 (The History of Warfare)
- ISBN:
- 0304352233
- Authors:
- Williamson Murray
Almost as soon as airplanes were invented, military strategists realized their potential. As early as the First World War planes served as scouts, fighters, and bombers--and by World War II all the advanced states had large military air forces dedicated to bombardment. Starting with the less-than-perfect aircraft that flew over Europe in 1915, which caused countless deaths, see how technology developed between the wars; the early campaigns of...
Russia and the Origins of the First World War (Making of the 20th Century)
- ISBN:
- 0312696086
- Authors:
- D. C. B. Lieven
Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I
- ISBN:
- 0028639022
- Authors:
- Ph.D. Alan Axelrod
For history buffs, students, and anyone interested in the 20th century, this book reveals why World War I began, explores the "guns of August," describes the horrors of trench warfare and the first uses of poison gas, and explains why the Americans were so slow to enter the war. From the eastern front to the west, from Gallipoli to the Marne, from the Lafayette Escadrillo to Lawrence fo Arabia, the book tells the whole story of "the war to end...