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World War I

The AEF and Coalition Warmaking, 1917-1918


by David F. Trask

  • HISTORY
  • 1993
  • PAPER
  • 248 PAGES

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

All Quiet on the Western Front


by Erich Maria Remarque

  • LITERATURE
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 295 PAGES

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, $15.00)

America's Great War, World War I and the American Experience


by Robert H. Zieger

  • HISTORY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 275 PAGES

A study of how America's future was profoundly shaped by its involvement in WWI. (WAR82, $29.95)

Balkan Wars, 1912-1913, Prelude to the First World War


by Richard C. Hall

  • HISTORY
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 176 PAGES

A concise, schoalrly history of how conflicts in the Balkans escalated into a world war. (WAR86, $44.95)

The Economic Consequences of Peace


by John Maynard Keynes

  • HISTORY
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 336 PAGES

An influential essay, originally published in 1920. (WAR41, $17.00)

The Enormous Room


by George James Firmage | E. E. Cummings

  • LITERATURE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 278 PAGES

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?

Europe's Last Summer, Who Started the Great War in 1914?


by David Fromkin

  • HISTORY
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 384 PAGES

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, $17.00)

The Eye in the Door

The Eye in the Door


by Pat Barker

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER

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, $16.00)

Eye-Deep in Hell, Trench Warfare in World War I


by John Ellis

  • HISTORY
  • 1989
  • PAPER
  • 215 PAGES

The gritty reality of the Western Front. This history of daily life in the trenches is interspersed with first hand accounts. The title is drawn from an Ezra Pound poem memorializing the soldiers of WWI. (WAR81, $22.95)

The Face of Battle

The Face of Battle


by John Keegan

  • HISTORY
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 354 PAGES

Keegan examines the individual soldier's experience of battle, focusing on the battles of Agincourt (1415, hand-to-hand combat), Waterloo (1815, musket and bayonet) and the Somme (1916, trench warfare). (WAR45, $17.00)

Fall on your Knees

Fall on your Knees


by Ann-Marie MacDonald

  • LITERATURE
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 508 PAGES

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

The First World War


by John Keegan

  • HISTORY
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 475 PAGES

A terrific, vivid popular history of the war, its origins, battles and consequences. (WAR10, $17.00)

The First World War: To Arms


by Hew Strachan

  • HISTORY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 1226 PAGES

The first of three volumes in a planned, definitive account of the Great War. (WAR38, $45.00)

Gallipoli

Gallipoli


by Alan Moorehead

  • HISTORY
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 380 PAGES

A wonderfully readable and now classic account of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign in Turkey. (WAR85, $14.99)

The Generation of 1914


by Robert Wohl

  • HISTORY
  • 1990
  • PAPER
  • 323 PAGES

A classic survey of the intellectual and cultural impact of the First World War. (WAR40, $32.50)

The Ghost Road

The Ghost Road


by Pat Barker

  • LITERATURE
  • 1996
  • PAPER

Barker focuses on psychiatrist Dr. William Rivers and Lieutenant Billy Prior as they grapple with the trauma of the war in this Booker Prize-winning novel, third in a trilogy. (EUR306, $16.00)

The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War

The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War


by Jaroslav Hasek | Cecil Parrott

  • LITERATURE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 752 PAGES

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


by Robert Graves

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

Grave's bittersweet, influential and magnificently written memoir, , two-thirds devoted to his experience in World War I. A reissue of the original 1929 version. (WAR35, $16.00)

The Great War and Modern Memory


by Paul Fussell

  • LITERATURE
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 368 PAGES

A celebrated study of the Great War and how it was immortalized in literature. (WAR34, $19.99)

The Great War and Modern Memory

The Great War and Modern Memory


by Paul Fussell

  • HISTORY
  • 2009
  • HARD COVER

One-hundred-and-sixty period maps, photographs and illustrations add visual power to Paul Fussell's classic account of the war that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era and revolutionized how we see the world. (EUR341, $29.95)

The Great War, 1914-1918


by Spencer C. Tucker

  • HISTORY
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

Short, but to the point, this book summarizes the events of World War I with clarity and admirable coverage of politics, strategy and technology. (WAR08, $31.95)

The Great War, 1914-1918


by Marc Ferro

  • HISTORY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 256 PAGES

A history of World War I, focusing on the social impact of the War form a French perspective. (WAR39, $19.95)

The Guns of August


by Barbara Tuchman

  • HISTORY
  • 1994
  • PAPER
  • 510 PAGES

A prize-winning history of the fateful days of August, 1914, as Europe headed towards World War 1. (EUR123, $17.00)

The Last Voyage of the Lusitania


by A.A. Hoehling | Mary Hoehling

  • HISTORY
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 259 PAGES

An updated edition of the classic account of the doomed Lusitania. (GEN48, $16.95)

The Man Without Qualities: Volume I, A Short Introduction and Pseudoreality Prevails


by Robert Musil | Sophie Wilkins | Burton Pike

  • LITERATURE
  • 1996
  • PAPER

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, $23.00)

The Man Without Qualities: Volume II, Into the Millennium and from the Posthumous Papers


by Robert Musil | Sophie Wilkins | Burton Pike

  • LITERATURE
  • 1996
  • PAPER

The second and final volume in Musil's epic masterpiece. (AST38, $27.50)

Paris 1919, Six Months that Changed the World


by Richard Holbrooke | Margaret Macmillan

  • HISTORY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 560 PAGES

A vivid, comprehensive analysis of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. (FRN392, $20.00)

Regeneration

Regeneration


by Pat Barker

  • LITERATURE
  • 1993
  • PAPER

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, which continues with The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road, winner of the 1995 Booker Prize. (EUR307, $16.00)

Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History

Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History


by Jay Winter

  • HISTORY
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

With special attention to the culture of commemoration, Winter's powerful study of the "collective remembrance" of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the 20th century. (EUR351, $25.00)

Survivors, An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide


by Donald E. Miller | Lorna Touryan Miller

  • HISTORY
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 274 PAGES

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, $29.95)

Three Comrades


by Erich Maria Remarque

  • LITERATURE
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 480 PAGES

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

Under the Blood Red Sun


by Graham Salisbury

  • LITERATURE
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 246 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

This novel set on Oahu immediately before, during and after the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor features as its protagonist a 13-year-old Japanese-American boy. The book is a sensitive treatment of a grave collision of cul-tures, geared for kids ages 9 to 12. (HWI79, $6.99)

US Marine Corps in World War I, 1917-1918


by Mark R. Henry

  • REFERENCE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 48 PAGES

An illusrtated survey of WWI-era Marines. (WAR83, $17.95)

The War to End All Wars, The American Military Experience World War I


by Edward M. Coffman

  • HISTORY
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 440 PAGES

A comprehensive account of the American involvement in World War I. (WAR01, $29.95)

The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front

The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front


by Mark Thompson

  • HISTORY
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 454 PAGES

The war the inspired Heminway's A Farewell to Arms, Mark Thomson's history captures the drama, nationalist frenzy and pathos of the omson traces the nearly forgotten, brutal three-year struggle to capture the Isonzo River sector in the rugged Alps and Dolomites from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in this epic history. (ITA161, $18.95)

Yanks, The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I


by Joanne Thompson Eisenhower | John S.D. Eisenhower

  • HISTORY
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 368 PAGES

Eisenhower reconsiders the role of American involvement in WWI, arguing that General Pershing and the men of the AEF were responsible for turning the tide of war towards victory. (WAR78, $23.95)

 

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