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

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

American Expeditionary Forces in the Great War: The Meuse Argonne 1918: Breaking the Line (Otte Maarten)(Paperback)

Although the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, which began in late September 1918 and continued through to the Armistice, was not the first major action fought by the AEF, it was the greatest in which it engaged in the Great War. Indeed, the casualty count in the fighting at the Meuse-Argonne makes it the

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

British, French and American Relations on the Western Front, 1914-1918 (Kempshall Chris)(Pevná vazba)

1. Introduction: 'Liberty and Union...'.- Part One: Confusion.- 2.Building the Entente Cordiale.- 3. Initial Interactions: The B.E.F. in France 1914-1915.- Part Two: Co-Operation.- 4. 'My heart softened to the French ... all at once I loved them': The Entente Cordiale at the Somme.- 5. 'That

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)

The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia (Schneer Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan. Led by Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane 30-year-old Scot, they conspired to overthrow Lenin's newly established

The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 (Lloyd Nick)(Pevná vazba)

The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical arena of the Great War, a 400-mile combat zone stretching from Belgium to Switzerland where more than

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

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

Scots in Great War London - A Community at Home and on the Front Line 1914-1919(Pevná vazba)

The shared experiences and sacrifices of Scots in London in World War One - often untold stories and unseen pictures illustrate this fascinating new

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

Poems of the Great War: An Anthology 1914-1918 (Navratil Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

This collection featuring nearly 50 memorable poems from some of the best writers of the time: Rupert Brooke, Siegried Sasson, Wilfred Owen, Ivan Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Richard Aldington, Edward Thomas, and many more. Vividly expressing the ravages of war fought on the front lines, their poems

The Chemists' War: 1914-1918 (Freemantle Michael)(Paperback)

The 1914-18 war has been referred to as the 'chemists' war' and to commemorate the centenary, this collection of essays will examine various facets of the role of chemistry in the First World War. The industrial-scale slaughter of the war was underpinned by the industrial-scale production of a vast

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

Western Front - Then and Now - From Mons to the Marne and Back (Giles John)(Pevná vazba)

This work covers the main British battle areas of the Western Front between 1914 and 1918. Starting with the spark that ignited the war, the outline of events brings the operations of the British Army in France and Flanders full

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

Classic Starts(r) the Last of the Mohicans (Cooper James Fenimore)(Pevná vazba)

A fascinating adventure story, grounded in American history. As the French and Indian war rages, the two daughters of a British officer prepare to return home. But when, Cora, Alice, and the soldiers who guard them are betrayed by their Native American scout, their safety depends on wily forest

The Dauntless in Battle (Smith Peter C.)(Pevná vazba)

The Douglas Dauntless was a Second World War American naval scout plane and dive bomber that saw active service during the course of this conflict and beyond, before being retired in 1959. US Navy and Marine Corps SBD's (Small But Deadly) saw their first action at Pearl harbor and went on to enjoy

Belgium in the Great War (Veranneman Jean-Michel)(Pevná vazba)

In August 1914, the German Empire invaded neutral Belgium in order to outflank the defenses of the French army. Unexpectedly, the Belgian army resisted and fought on, holding a small part of unoccupied Belgian territory north of Ypres, alongside the British and French armies, until the Armistice of

Tommy's War: British Military Memorabilia 1914-1918 New Edition (Doyle Peter)(Paperback)

The First World War has left an almost indelible mark on history, with battles such as the Somme and Passchendaele becoming watchwords for suffering unsurpassed. The dreadful fighting on the Western Front, and elsewhere in the world, remains vivid in the public imagination. Over the years dozens

The Boy Scouts in the Great War (Armstrong Craig)(Pevná vazba)

The Boy Scouts Association was just seven years old when war broke out in 1914. With its members brought up with a strong ethos of duty and loyalty, it was no surprise that many wanted to play the best role possible in the nation's war effort.Many members were amongst those who rallied to the

Dublin's Great Wars: The First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution (Grayson Richard S.)(Pevná vazba)

For the first time, Richard S. Grayson tells the story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the Irish Revolution as a series of interconnected 'Great Wars'. He charts the full scope of Dubliners' military service, far beyond the

Missing: The Need for Closure After the Great War (Van Emden Richard)(Paperback)

In May 1918, Angela and Leopold Mond received a knock on the front door. It was the postman and he was delivering the letter every family in the United Kingdom dreaded: the notification of a loved one's battlefield death, in their case the death in action of their eldest child, their son,

Gentlemen Revolutionaries: Power and Justice in the New American Republic (Cutterham Tom)(Pevná vazba)

In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen--the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite--worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries shows how their struggles