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  • American Midnight

    The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

    National Bestseller • One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast CompanyFrom legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "masterly" (New York Times) reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of ... Read more

    $15.49 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dead Wake

    The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

    by Erik Larson ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania“Both terrifying and enthralling.”—Entertainment Weekly“Thrilling, dramatic and powerful.”—NPR“Thoroughly engrossing.”—George R.R. MartinOn May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • The Guns of August

    The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • “A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill’s statement that the first month of World War I was ‘a drama never surpassed.’”—NewsweekSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeIn this landmark account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • "En L'air!" (In The Air) Three Years On And Above Three Fronts [Illustrated Edition]

    Sergeant Bert Hall belonged to an elite brotherhood; he was a founded member of the Lafayette Escadrille which fought in the colours of France during the First World War. Highly decorated individually and as a unit; Hall flew alongside the first American aviators such as Kiffin Rockwell, John Thaw, Victor Chapman and Raoul Lufbery.His first autobiography is gritty and adventure filled; recording ... Read more

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  • Through The Hindenburg Line; Crowning Days On The Western Front

    Arthur McKenzie was a member of the fiercely proud band of Canadians who made that trip across the Atlantic to fight alongside the British other Dominion troops. He served from the days of 1915 to the end of the war in 1918, surviving the many terrible dangers of the front-line. He recounts the tales of the band of brothers that he fought with, and the “family” feeling that permeated the Candian ... Read more

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  • I Will Hold

    The Story of USMC Legend Clifton B. Cates, from Belleau Wood to Victory in the Great War

    The incredible true story of Clifton B. “Lucky” Cates, whose service in World War I and beyond made him a legend in the annals of the Marine Corps.Cates knew that he and his small band of marines were in a desperate spot. Before handing the note over to a runner, he added three words that would resound through Marine Corps history: I WILL HOLD.From the moment he first joined the Marine Reserves of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight

    Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War

    During World War I, thousands of rural southern men, black and white, refused to serve in the military. Some failed to register for the draft, while others deserted after being inducted. In the countryside, armed bands of deserters defied local authorities; capturing them required the dispatch of federal troops into three southern states.Jeanette Keith traces southern draft resistance to several ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918

    by Nick Lloyd ...
    **"A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration.…Lloyd is well on the way to writing a definitive history of the First World War." —Lawrence James, TimesThe Telegraph • Best Books of the YearThe Times of London • Best Books of the YearA panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare.**The Western Front evokes images of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD $15.99 USD

  • Always with Honor

    The Memoirs of General Wrangel

    by Pyotr Wrangel ...
    Translated by Sophie Goulston ...
    Russia, 1917. As World War I drags on, political turmoil slowly paralyzes the Empire. The Czar abdicates. His replacements are ineffectual and incompetent. Violence sweeps the country. One by one, institutions collapse under the weight of chaos and terror. The Bolsheviks, a small group of communist radicals initially supported by German intelligence, launch a revolution that sends the country into ... Read more

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  • Imperial German Army 1914-18

    Organisation, Structure, Orders of Battle

    A detailed account of the composition, structure and Organisation of the First World War German Army has long been needed by English-language readers - this work will fill this gap admirably.In more than 300 pages, the authors examine all aspects of the army. A detailed analytical text is followed by an extensive compendium of order-of-battle data. Topics covered include:High Command & War ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bismarck:A Life

    A Life

    This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's friends and foes to tell the story. What rises from these pages is a complex giant of a man: a hypochondriac with ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Last Tsar

    The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs

    “Elegantly written and magisterially researched” (Robert Service, author of A History of Modern Russia), the definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the world’s foremost expertWhen Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to social unrest. Though Nicholas’s life is often described as tragic, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Woodrow Wilson and World War I

    A Burden Too Great to Bear

    This book is a story of Presidential failure, a chronicle of Woodrow Wilson’s miscalculations in war, and a harrowing account of the process through which an intelligent American leader fell to pieces under a burden he could not bear. Historian Richard Striner argues persuasively that President Woodrow Wilson failed his responsibilities as a wartime leader in World War I. With the patience of a ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Gallipoli 1915

    by Tim Travers ...
    Why was the Allied naval assault of February/March 1915 so unsuccessful? Did the Ottoman Turks have knowledge of the Allied landings of April 25, 1915? And did Sir Ian Hamilton, the overall commander of the Allied forces at Gallipoli, really make a mistake in his intervention at Suvla? These questions and the key issue of why the Ottoman Turks won the 1915 Gallipoli campaign, or why the Allies ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel

    Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

    by Douglas Brunt ...
    This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the hidden history Rudolf Diesel, one of the world’s greatest inventors, and his mysterious disappearance on the eve of World War I.September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England. On board is one of the most famous men in the world, Rudolf Diesel, whose new internal ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Radium Girls

    The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

    by Kate Moore ...
    A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller!"The glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still." —NPR BooksDiscover the gripping and inspiring true story of The Radium Girls, a groundbreaking work by acclaimed author Kate Moore. Immerse yourself in this compelling narrative that unravels the extraordinary lives of these fearless women who fought against all ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Moralist

    Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made

    Acclaimed author Patricia O’Toole’s “superb” (The New York Times) account of Woodrow Wilson, one of the most high-minded, consequential, and controversial US presidents. A “gripping” (USA TODAY) biography, The Moralist is “an essential contribution to presidential history” (Booklist, starred review).“In graceful prose and deep scholarship, Patricia O’Toole casts new light on the presidency of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Trotsky in New York, 1917

    A Radical on the Eve of Revolution

    Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as co–leader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the Twentieth Century, a global icon of radical change. Yet just months earlier, this same Lev Trotsky was a nobody, a refugee expelled from Europe, writing obscure pamphlets and speeches, barely noticed outside a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Greatest Novels of Charles Reade

    Historical Novels & Victorian Romances: The Cloister and the Hearth, Griffith Gaunt, Hard Cash…

    by Charles Reade ...
    This meticulously edited collection contains the best works of Charles Reade, English novelist and dramatist, famous for his historical novels: "The Cloister and the Hearth" is a Reade's most successful work. The story is set in 15th century and it is based on the life of parents of the infamous philosopher Erasmus. "Griffith Gaunt" is a tale of a poor man who makes his fortune and a fine living, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century

    **Winner of the 2014 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for the Best Work of History"Brilliant…the most challenging and intelligent book on the Great War and our perceptions of it that any of us will read." —John Charley, The Times [London]**One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely forgotten in American culture. It has become a ghostly war fought in a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Whiskey, Women, and War

    How the Great War Shaped Jim Crow New Orleans

    As the US entered World War I in 1917, a burst of patriotism in New Orleans collided with civil liberties. The city, due to its French heritage, shared a strong cultural tie to the Allies, and French speakers from Louisiana provided vital technical assistance to the US military during the war effort. Meanwhile, citizens of German heritage were harassed by unscrupulous, ill-trained volunteers of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Supernatural War

    Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War

    by Owen Davies ...
    A Supernatural War reveals the surprising stories of extraordinary people in a world caught up with the promise of occult powers. It was a commonly expressed view during the First World War that the conflict had seen a major revival of 'superstitious' beliefs and practices. Churches expressed concerns about the wearing of talismans and amulets, the international press paid considerable interest to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • Deborah and the War of the Tanks

    by John Taylor ...
    Deborah is a British First World War tank that rose from the grave after taking part in one of the most momentous battles in history. In November 1917 she played a leading role in the first successful massed tank attack at Cambrai. Eighty years later, in a remarkable feat of archaeology, the tanks buried remains were rediscovered and excavated, and are now preserved as a memorial to the battle and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Five Years In Turkey [Illustrated Edition]

    Numerous maps, portraits and plans.“War memoirs of Liman von Sanders, the German General who brilliantly commanded the Turkish defence at Gallipoli in 1915, before being defeated by Allenby in Palestine. Written while a post-war P.O.W. of the British in Malta.Otto Liman von Sanders (1855 - 1929) will always be associated with the Dardanelles campaign in which he commanded the Turkish Fifth Army, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus