Legacies of the First World War: Building for Total War 1914-1918 (Cocroft Wayne D.)(Pevná vazba)

Legacies of the First World War: Building for Total War 1914-1918 (Cocroft Wayne D.)(Pevná vazba)

The First World War has been described as the first total war, a conflict in which a country's people and resources were harnessed towards final victory. During 2014-18 Historic England set out to uncover and study the physical remains left across England by the First World War. This new book

Story of the First World War for Children (1914-1918) - In association with the Imperial War Museum (Malam John)(Paperback / softback)

The First World War was the world's first 'total war'. Although large-scale wars like the Napoleonic wars had ranged across many territories, the scale of WWI was unprecedented. It was also the first war between modern, industrialised nations and mechanised warfare saw new and terrifying weapons

For King and Kaiser: Scenes from Saxony's War in Flanders 1914-1918 (Lucas Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

Following on from their pioneering account of the Saxon army in the First World War -Fighting the Kaiser's War - Andrew Lucas and J rgen Schmieschek have compiled this remarkable sequel which covers Saxony's war in Flanders in much greater detail. Once again they draw on vivid extracts from

The Great War in the Argonne Forest: French and American Battles, 1914-1918 (Merry Richard)(Pevná vazba)

The annals of the First World War record the Argonne Forest as the epicenter of the famous Meuse-Argonne offensive of 1918. The largest American operation launched against the Germans during the conflict. During 1914 and 1915 though, amidst the dense forest, French and Italian soldiers withstood

1914-1918 - The History of the First World War (Stevenson David)(Paperback / softback)

In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass violence. The war that followed had global repercussions, destroying four empires and costing millions of lives. This title re-examines the causes, course and impact of this 'war to end war', placing it in the context of its era and

Poems of the Great War - 1914-1918(Paperback / softback)

Offers an introduction to the First World War Poetry. This title features the sequence of poems that is drawn from a number of sources, mixing both well-known and less familiar

Grandad's Army: Volunteers Defending the British Isles in the First World War (Osborne Mike)(Pevná vazba)

In August 1914, on the outbreak of the First World War, there was enormous pressure on men to enlist in Kitchener's New Armies, supplementing the tiny regular army and Territorial Force. This pressure was intense, and posters, the entreaties of local worthies, and an apparently indiscriminate

The First World War: 1914-18 (Hatt Christine)(Paperback)

The First World War 1914-18 explores the political situation that provided the breeding ground for war, and traces the course of the fighting that killed almost nine million soldiers. It goes on to look closely at the wartime experiences of many people, and briefly examines the changes that swept

Great War: 1914-1918 (Hart Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world history. In this magnum opus, the author examines the conflict in every arena around the world, in a history that combines scholarship with vivid and unfamiliar eyewitness accounts, from kings and generals, and

Aero-Neurosis: Pilots of the First World War and the Psychological Legacies of Combat (Wilkins Mark C.)(Pevná vazba)

The young men who flew and fought during the First World War had no idea what was awaiting them. The rise of science and nationalism during the late 19th and early 20th centuries came to a head in 1914. The 'technology shock' that coalesced at the Western Front was not envisaged by any of the

British Battle Tanks: British-Made Tanks of World War II (Fletcher David)(Pevná vazba)

Building on the earlier volume dealing with British armor of the First World War, this is the second of a multi-volume history of British tanks by renowned British armor expert David Fletcher MBE. This volume traces the story of the British use of the tank through the early years of World War II,

First World War, the Universities and the Professions in Australia 1914-1939 (Waghorne James)(Pevná vazba)

Total War: A People's History of World War II (Clements Kate)(Pevná vazba)

Total War is an illustrated examination of the most significant historical episode of the twentieth century: World War II. This immersive account of a conflict that permanently reshaped the geopolitical landscape is told not only through compelling photographs, maps, and infographics produced

The Cambridge History of the First World War, Volume 1: Global War (Winter Jay)(Pevná vazba)

This first volume of The Cambridge History of the First World War provides a comprehensive account of the war's military history. An international team of leading historians charts how a war made possible by globalization and imperial expansion unfolded into catastrophe, growing year by year in

The Reluctant Sinner (Tate June)(Pevná vazba)

An enthralling saga of rags-to-riches on the eve of the First World War - September, 1914. Eighteen-year-old Daisy Gilbert is the star seamstress at Mrs Evans' prestigious gown shop in Southampton. Her ultimate ambition is not to marry her sweetheart, Jack, but to set up her own dressmaking

Nurses of Passchendaele: Caring for the Wounded of the Ypres Campaigns 1914 - 1918 (Hallett Christine E.)(Paperback)

The Ypres Salient saw some of the bitterest fighting of the First World War. The once-fertile fields of Flanders were turned into a quagmire through which men fought for four years. In casualty clearing stations, on ambulance trains and barges, and at base hospitals near the French and Belgian

As We Were: The First World War - Tales from a broken world, week-by-week (Hargreaves David)(Mixed media product)

Fought between 1914 and 1918, World War One - The Great War - was the most titanic and devastating conflict the world had yet seen. Detailing the course of the war week-by-week and the intimate accounts and experiences of soldiers and civilians alike, As We Were offers insight like no other into a

The Cambridge History of the First World War, Volume 2: The State (Winter Jay)(Pevná vazba)

Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the First World War offers a history of the war from a predominantly political angle and concerns itself with the story of the state. It explores the multifaceted history of state power and highlights the ways in which different political systems responded to,

Searchers - The Quest for the Lost of the First World War (Sackville-West Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Great War Modernism: Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914-1918 (Norris Nanette)(Pevná vazba)

This international collection of essays gives fresh insight into the lives and perspectives of the modernist authors who lived and wrote in the shadow of war. These essays offer a link through wartime experience, as the fragmented, violent, and traumatic period demanded unique forms of

Georges Braque. Inventor of Cubism 1906–1914 - Susanne Gaensheimer, Susanne Meyer-Büser

For eight years before the First World War, a young Georges Braque and his friend Pablo Picasso shaped what was perhaps the most revolutionary stage in the history of modern painting: Cubism. This catalog of the accompanying exhibition focuses on Braque's turbulent pre-WWI period to reveal the

Brief History of the First World War - Eyewitness Accounts of the War to End All Wars, 1914-18 (Lewis Jon E.)(Paperback / softback)

The First World War in vivid, personal detail, in the voices of those who lived

Wilfred Owen (Owen Wilfred)(Pevná vazba)

Dying at twenty-five, a week before the end of the First World War, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) has come to represent a generation of young men sacrificed - as it seems to the next generation, one in unprecedented rebellion against its fathers - by guilty old men: generals, politicians,

The Birth of the Royal Air Force: An Encyclopedia of British Air Power Before and During the Great War - 1914 to 1918 (Philpott Ian)(Pevná vazba)