World War I Collection Spotlight - Overview

1) 1916: a global history

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"This is eminent historian Keith Jeffery's accomplishment in his magisterial '1916: a global history,' which focuses on a sequence of key events that unfolded around the world that year, and casts the Great War in an entirely new light"--

2) Archduke Franz Ferdinand lives!: a world without World War I

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Lebow, Richard Ned

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"... examines the chain of events that led to war and what could reasonably have been done differently to avoid it. In this highly original and intellectually challenging book, he constructs plausible worlds, some better, some worse, that might have developed. --

3) The beauty and the sorrow: an intimate history of the First World War

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Englund, Peter

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A highly original and revelatory narrative history of World War I that brings into focus its least examined, most stirring component: the experience of the average man or woman. To create this intimate picture of what war was really like, Englund draws from the diaries, journals, and letters of 20 individuals. A brilliant mosaic of perspectives, the narrative reads with a depth of feeling and an evocation of time and place.

4) Cataclysm: the First World War as political tragedy

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Stevenson, D

5) Fighting the Great War: a global history

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Neiberg, Michael S

6) The First World War

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Keegan, John

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The definitive account of the Great War from one of our most eminent military historians. "Elegantly written, clear, detailed, and omniscient.... Keegan is...perhaps the best military historian of our day." —The New York Times Book Review

The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian...

7) The First World War: [the complete series]

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Ten-part series offers insight and analysis to provide a coherent and strategic military narrative. Places World War I in its proper global context, dispelling the conventional myth of the war as a European conflict only. The human tragedy is placed in a wider political and military context, going beyond the Western Front to encompass the entire world.

8) The great and holy war: how World War I became a religious crusade

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Jenkins, Philip

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This work offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, the author, a historian reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis for Western civilization, with effects that echoed throughout the rest of the twentieth century. The war was fought by the world's leading Christian nations, who presented...

9) The Great War: A combat history of the First World War

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Hart, Peter

10) The Great War: a photographic narrative

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Imperial War Museum (Great Britain)

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"On the occasion of the centenary of World War I in August 2014--an unprecedented, spectacular pictorial history of the first global war in 380 black-and-white photographs, many never seen before, from Imperial War Museums. This monumental, dramatic photographic narrative captures the war from the early arms race that developed around the massing of prewar battleship fleets to the final moments of the conflict with the sinking of the German fleet...

11) The Great War and modern memory

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Fussell, Paul

12) The Great War through picture postcards

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Vries, G. de

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During World War I, the picture postcard was the most important means of communication for the soldiers in the field and their loved ones at home, with an estimated 30 billion of them sent between 1914 and 1918. A postcard from home offered the soldier in the trenches a short escape from their daily hell, while receiving a postcard from a man on the frontline was literally a sign of life. These postcards create a vivid record of life at home and abroad...

13) The guns of August

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Tuchman, Barbara W

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"More dramtatic than fiction ... THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained ... The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its...

14) A higher form of killing: six weeks in World War I that forever changed the nature of warfare forever

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Preston, Diana

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"In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought with poison gas, torpedoes killing civilians, and aerial bombardment. Each of these actions violated rules of war carefully agreed at the Hague Conventions of 1898 and 1907. The era of weapons of mass destruction had dawned. While each of these momentous events has been chronicled in histories of the war, historian Diana Preston...

15) hundred days the campaign that ended world war i

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16) An illustrated history of the First World War

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Keegan, John

17) Instrument of war: the German Army 1914-18

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Showalter, Dennis E

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"Forged in the fires of German unification in the 19th century, the German Army in 1914 was the ultimate expression of national identity; yet, despite its tactical and operational successes on the battlefields of World War I, it failed to either capitalize on its victories or learn from its defeats. Drawing on more than a half-century of research and teaching, Professor Dennis Showalter analyzes its place in German society, the challenges of modernization...

18) A mad catastrophe: the outbreak of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire

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Wawro, Geoffrey

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"The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the Austrian troops were hopelessly unprepared for the industrialized warfare that would shortly consume Europe. As ... historian Geoffrey Wawro explains in [this book], the doomed Austrian conscripts were an...

19) Mapping the First World War

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Chasseaud, Peter

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Follow the First World War from 1914 to 1918 through a fascinating collection of historical maps, expert commentary and photographs.

20) No man's land: fiction from a world at war : 1914-1918

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From the trenches to the home front, the most profound fiction inspired by World War I--and a moving memorial to the twentieth century's most cataclysmic event. The Great War gave birth to some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writing; from Brooke to Sassoon, the poetry generated by the war is etched into collective memory. But it is in prose fiction that we find some of the most profound insights into the war's individual and communal...