Ring of Steel - Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918 (Watson Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

Ring of Steel - Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918 (Watson Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

For the empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary the Great War - which had begun with such high hopes for a fast, dramatic outcome - rapidly degenerated as invasions of both France and Serbia ended in catastrophe. This book shows the history of the Great War and the major events from the perspective

Austro-Hungarian Cruisers and Destroyers 1914-18 (Noppen Ryan K.)(Paperback)

At the outbreak of World War I, Austria-Hungary had four modern light cruisers and twenty modern destroyers at their disposal, constructed in the early 20th century to defend their growing overseas interests. It was these fast light vessels, not the fleet's prized battleships, which saw most action

Castles Of Steel - Britain, Germany and the Winning of The Great War at Sea (K Massie Robert)(Paperback / softback)

Habsburg Monarchy 1809-1918 - A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary (Taylor Professor A J P)(Paperback / softback)

A history of the Habsburg monarchy from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the monarchy's dissolution in 1918. It offers an insight into the problems inherent in the attempt to give peace, stability and common loyalty to a heterogeneous

Fortress - The Great Siege of Przemysl (Watson Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

From the prize-winning author of Ring of Steel, a gripping history of the First World War's longest and most terrible siege In the autumn of 1914 Europe was at war. The battling powers had already suffered casualties on a scale previously unimaginable. On both the Western and Eastern fronts

Montreal at War, 1914-1918 (Copp Terry)(Paperback)

Montreal at War tells the story of how citizens in Canada's largest city responded to the challenges of the First World War. Drawing from newspapers, journals, government reports, and archival records, Terry Copp - one of Canada's leading military historians - raises important questions about how

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

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

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

Southampton at War 1939-45 (Eddleston John J.)(Paperback)

In the Great War of 1914-1918, Southampton played a vital role in the war effort. Designated as Port Number One it saw hundreds of thousands of men and many tons of equipment sail for the fields of Belgium and France. The Second World War was a completely different type of war. Hitler's blitzkrieg

Gas Warfare in the First World war - Gas Masks and Gas Defence Equipment of the Armies of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and Italy (Rossi Egidio)(Pevná vazba)

This book contains over 200 examples of gas-defence equipment preserved in private collections or museums and seeks to describe and illustrate the most important gas-defence equipment used during the First World War by the imperial armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary and by the army of the

We Germans (Starritt Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

A striking and human novel about the Second World War told from the point of view of a German soldier on the Eastern

All Along the Danube: Recipes from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria (Polvay Marina)(Paperback)

For novices and gourmets alike, this unique cookbook offers a tantalizing variety of dishes from the shores of the Danube River. Its recipes bring Old World flavor directly into today's kitchen with such cherished favorites as 'Weiner Schnitzel,' 'House Knedliky' (Bread Dumplings), 'Hungarian

House of Wittgenstein - A Family At War (Waugh Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

The true story of a one-handed pianist and the fall of his aristocratic

French and Germans, Germans and French - A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944 (Cobb Richard)(Paperback / softback)

Winged Victory (Yeates V.M.)(Paperback / softback)

There is no bitter snarl nor self-pity in this classic novel about the air war of 1914-1918, based very largely on the author's experiences. Combat, loneliness, fatigue, fear, comradeship, women, excitement - all are built into a vigorous and authentic structure by one of the most valiant pilots of

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

Berlin-Baghdad Express - The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918 (McMeekin Sean)(Paperback / softback)

Explores one of the unresearched subjects of the First World War: the German bid for world power - and the destruction of the British Empire - through the harnessing of the Ottoman

Heinemann Advanced History: Germany 1848-1914 (Whitfield Bob)(Paperback / softback)

A study of Germany between 1848 and 1890. It is designed to fulfil the AS and A Level specifications in place from September 2000. The two AS sections deal with narrative and explanation of the topic. The A2 section reflects the different demands of the higher level

Third Reich at War - How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster (Evans Richard J.)(Paperback / softback)

Part of the trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, this final book shows how Germany rushed headlong into destroying itself, shattering an entire continent. It is a history that conjures up a whole society plunged into conflict - tracing events from the invasion of Poland to Hitler's plans

Battles of Coronel and the Falklands, 1914 (Bennett Geoffrey)(Paperback / softback)

The defeat that Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock suffered at Coronel in 1914 at the hands of Maximilian Graf von Spee, one of Germany's most brilliant naval commanders, was the most humiliating blow to British naval prestige since the eighteenth century and a defeat that had to be avenged

Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914-1945 (Traverso Enzo)(Paperback)

Europe's second Thirty Years' War--an epoch of blood and ashes Fire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914-1945). Its overture was played out in the trenches of the Great War; its coda on a ruined

Jihad: The Ottomans and the Allies 1914-1922 (Hyde Andrew)(Paperback)

The Ottoman Empire was at the point of dissolution by November 1914 when it declared a Holy War against the Allied Powers and threw in its lot with Germany. This decision set in chain a series of cataclysmic events, which culminated in the demise of an ancient regime and the emergence of a modern,

Armistice - A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace (Duffy Carol Ann)(Paperback / softback)

The Armistice of 1918 brought ceasefire to the war on the Western Front, but 'the Great War' would not as hoped be 'the war to end all