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World War I
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The AEF and Coalition Warmaking, 1917-1918  •  David F. Trask   • HISTORY  •  A critical assessment of the strategies and actions of the American Expeditionary Forces of World War I. (WAR06, $19.95)
 
 
All Quiet on the Western Front  •  Erich Maria Remarque   • LITERATURE  •  Written by a soldier in the kaiser's army, this novel has been hailed as the greatest novel of World War I, and was later made into a memorable film. (GER15, $13.95)
 
 
Balkan Wars, 1912-1913, Prelude to the First World War  •  Richard C. Hall   • HISTORY  •  A concise, schoalrly history of how conflicts in the Balkans escalated into a world war. (WAR86, $39.95)
 
 
Bismarck and the German Empire: 1871-1918  •  Lynn Abrams   • HISTORY  •  The rise of Prussia. (GER14, $15.95)
 
 
Cinema and the Great War  •  Andrew Kelly   • HISTORY  •  A survey of how WWI and the movies, focusing on its representation in anti-war films. (WAR36, $140.00)
 
 
The Doughboys, America and the First World War  •  Gary Mead   • HISTORY  •  World War I through the eyes of the American veterans who fought in its trenches. (WAR75, $19.95)
 
 
The Eastern Front, 1914-1917  •  Norman Stone   • HISTORY  •  A classic study of Russia's contribution to WWI. (WAR76, $16.95)
 
 
The Economic Consequences of Peace  •  John Maynard Keynes   • HISTORY  •  An influential essay, originally published in 1920. (WAR41, $17.00)
 
 
The Enormous Room  •  George James Firmage  •  E. E. Cummings   • LITERATURE  •  A fictional account of the poet's four-month confinement in France during World War I. (WAR33, $14.95)
 
 
Europe's Last Summer, Who Started the Great War in 1914?  •  David Fromkin   • HISTORY  •  Fromkin puts the imperial struggle between Germany and the Austro-Hungarian over Serbia at the heart of this enthralling, persuasive analysis of the events leading to World War I. (EUR183, $15.95)
 
 
The European Powers in the First World War, An Encyclopedia  •  Spencer C. Tucker  •  Laura Matysek  •  Justin D. Murphy   • REFERENCE  •  A reference to the European involvement in World War I. (WAR07, $60.00)
 
 
The Eye in the Door  •  Pat Barker   • LITERATURE  •  This eloquently and morally complex novel of the brutal effects of World War I on the human psyche and British society is the second in Barker's trilogy. (EUR308, $15.00)
 
 
Eye-Deep in Hell, Trench Warfare in World War I  •  John Ellis   • HISTORY  •  The gritty reality of the Western Front. (WAR81, $19.95)
 
 
The Face of Battle  •  John Keegan   • HISTORY  •  Keegan examines the experience of battle as it has changed over the centuries. (WAR45, $16.00)
 
 
Fall on your Knees  •  Ann-Marie MacDonald   • LITERATURE  •  A best-selling epic following the lives of a Lebanese-Canadian family from Cape Breton Island throughout the first half of the 20th century. (CND49, $16.00)
 
 
The First World War  •  John Keegan   • HISTORY  •  A terrific, vivid popular history of the war, its origins, battles and consequences. (WAR10, $16.95)
 
 
The First World War: To Arms  •  Hew Strachan   • HISTORY  •  The first of three volumes in a planned, definitive account of the Great War. (WAR38, $40.00)
 
 
Gallipoli  •  Alan Moorehead   • HISTORY  •  A wonderfully readable and now classic account of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign in Turkey. (WAR85, $14.95)
 
 
The Ghost Road  •  Pat Barker   • LITERATURE  •  Barker focuses on psychiatrist Dr. William Rivers and Lieutenant Billy Prior as they grapple with the trauma of the war in this Booker Prize-wioning novek, third in a trilogy. (EUR306, $15.00)
 
 
The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War  •  Jaroslav Hasek  •  Cecil Parrott   • LITERATURE  •  The deeply funny story of a hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army, dismissed for incompetence only to be pressed into service by the Russians in World War I, then captured by his own troops. (CZH11, $16.00)
 
 
Good-Bye to All That, An Autobiography  •  Robert Graves   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Grave's bitter(sweet), influential and magnificently written memoir. (WAR35, $14.95)
 
 
The Great War and Modern Memory  •  Paul Fussell   • LITERATURE  •  A celebrated study of the Great War and how it was immortalized in literature. (WAR34, $19.99)
 
 
The Great War in the Air, Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921  •  John H. Morrow, Jr.   • HISTORY  •  A study of the dawn of military aviation. (WAR05, $37.95)
 
 
The Great War, 1914-1918  •  Spencer C. Tucker   • HISTORY  •  A short summary of the events of World War I. (WAR08, $31.95)
 
 
The Great War, 1914-1918  •  Marc Ferro   • HISTORY  •  A history of World War I, focusing on the social impact of the War form a French perspective. (WAR39, $17.95)
 
 
The Guns of August  •  Barbara Tuchman   • HISTORY  •  A prize-winning history of the fateful days of August, 1914, as Europe headed towards World War 1. (EUR123, $15.95)
 
 
The Man Without Qualities: Volume I, A Short Introduction and Pseudoreality Prevails  •  Robert Musil  •  Sophie Wilkins  •  Burton Pike   • LITERATURE  •  The first volume in German author Robert Musil's unfinished epic masterpiece, set just before World War I in Vienna. A former soldier finds himself at the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The second volume is also available (AST38). (AST37, $22.00)
 
 
The Man Without Qualities: Volume II, Into the Millennium and from the Posthumous Papers  •  Robert Musil  •  Sophie Wilkins  •  Burton Pike   • LITERATURE  •  The second and final volume in Musil's epic masterpiece. (AST38, $26.00)
 
 
Over There! The American Soldier in World War I  •  Jonathan Gawne   • HISTORY  •  This slim work focuses on the American soldier's equipment and uniform in WWI. (WAR80, $14.95)
 
 
Over There: The United States in the Great War, 1917-1918  •  Byron Farwell   • HISTORY  •  Byron Farwell's narrative history of American involvement in World War I. (WAR11, $15.95)
 
 
Paris 1919, Six Months that Changed the World  •  Richard Holbrooke  •  Margaret Macmillan   • HISTORY  •  A vivid, comprehensive analysis of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. (FRN392, $18.00)
 
 
Regeneration  •  Pat Barker   • LITERATURE  •  In a World War I British military hospital, a pacifist soldier and his doctor grapple with the outrage of war in this first volume in Barker's masterful trilogy. (EUR307, $15.00)
 
 
Soissons 1918  •  Rolfe L. Hillman, Jr.  •  Douglas V. Johnson   • HISTORY  •  A detailed portrait of the events surrounding the battle of Soissons in 1918 (WAR04, $29.95)
 
 
Survivors, An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide  •  Donald E. Miller  •  Lorna Touryan Miller   • HISTORY  •  A collection of stories from survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915. Brutal and terrifying, yet filled with the triumph of survival, these are powerful stories of a resilient people and the horrors of ethnic cleansing. (CCS16, $22.95)
 
 
Three Comrades  •  Erich Maria Remarque   • LITERATURE  •  This novel of three World War I veterans is an excellent portrait of Berlin in 1928, written by the author of "All Quiet on the Western Front." (GER90, $25.00)
 
 
Under the Blood Red Sun  •  Graham Salisbury   • LITERATURE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)  •  A novel set on Oahu immediately before, during and after the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor, featuring as its protagonist, a 13-year-old Japanese-American boy. The book is a sensitive treatment of a grave collision of cultures, geared for kids ages 9 to 12. (HWI79, $6.50)
 
 
The United States in the First World War, An Encyclopedia  •  Anne Cipriano Venzon  •  Paul L. Miles   • REFERENCE  •  A reference to American contibutions to World War I. (WAR09, $45.00)
 
 
US Marine Corps in World War I, 1917-1918  •  Mark R. Henry   • REFERENCE  •  An illusrtated survey of WWI-era Marines. (WAR83, $15.95)
 
 
The War to End All Wars, The American Military Experience World War I  •  Edward M. Coffman   • HISTORY  •  A comprehensive account of the American involvement in World War I. (WAR01, $25.00)
 
 
Yanks, The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I  •  Joanne Thompson Eisenhower  •  John S.D. Eisenhower   • HISTORY  •  The crucial role of the Americans in winning WWI. (WAR78, $23.95)
 
 
 




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