2003

World War I in Photographs, J. H. J. Andriessen, Grange Books, Kent, UK, 2003, 600 pages, 800 photos, ISBN 1-84013-554-9, $24.95 from The Scholar's Bookshelf. Also published in French and Dutch.

The Burning Tigris: A History of International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes, Peter Balakian, Harper Collins, 2003, 484 pages, maps, index, photos, ISBN 0 06 019840 0, $29.95 hardback. Covers the history of Turko-Armenian relations as well as the pogroms of 1915-16 with particular emphasis on American reactions and interventions. A History Book Club alternate selection.

War Underground - Tunnellers of The Great War, Andrew Barrie, Spellmount, 2003, 284 pages, maps, diagrams, ISBN 1 86227 081 3, $24.95 paperback. Available from Casemate Publishing, 2114 Darby Road, Havertown, PA 19083 www.casematepublishing.com Ph (610) 853-9131 Fax (610) 853-9146, E-mail casemate@casematepublishing.com.

The Home Front in The Great War, David Bilton, Pen & Sword, 2003, 224 pages, illustrations, ISBN 1 84415 000 2, $23.95 paperback. Available from Casemate Publishing.

Tunnelmaster and Arsonist of The Great War, The Norton-Griffiths Story, Tony Bridgeland, Pen & Sword, 2003, 224 pages, illustrations, ISBN 0 85052 995 4, #36.95 hardback. In the United States, order from Casemate Publishing.

A Fraternity of Arms - America and France in the Great War, Robert B. Bruce, University Press of Kansas, 2003, 297 pages, index, maps, photos, ISBN 0-7006-1253-X, $39.95 hardbound. Thanks in large measure to expert (and often bilingual) French instructors a core of four 28,000-man divisions of the American army was ready to join the French in blunting and then reversing the final German push on Paris at the Marne in July 1918. It is in the resounding German setback on the Marne of July 18, 1918 - not their August 8th defeat by the British at Amiens - that Bruce finds the beginning of the end for German arms on the Western Front.

Newfoundlanders in the Great War, 1914-1918, Volume X in the King and Empire Series, Norman M. Christie, BPR Publishers, 2003, 130 pages, index, ISBN 1 89697 923 8, $32.30 used from Barnes and Noble on line. World War One bankrupted this small, isolated, and resource poor British dominion which joined Canada until 1949. Recommended by Glenn Kerr, the chairman of the Central Ontario Branch of WFA.

Paths of Glory -- The French Army 1914-1918, Anthony Clayton, Cassell, 2003, 352 pages, Index, maps, ISBN 0-304-35949-1, 29.95 hardcover. Biographies of all major French military leaders and coverage of all campaigns involving French forces.

The Great War: Perspectives on the First World War, Robert Cowley (ed.), Random House, 2003, 509 pages, $29.95 hardcover, ISBN 0-3755-0909-7. Articles reprinted from MHQ: The Journal of Military History, arguably America's best military history magazine, which was founded and edited for many years by Mr. Cowley. Authors include Jan Morris on Admiral Sir John Fisher, Michael Howard writing on the summer of 1914, Tim Travers on the Battle of the Somme, Thomas Fleming on Quentin Roosevelt, Robert Cowley on German artist Kathe Kollwitz' efforts to create a memorial to her fallen son, and John Keegan on the mud and blood of Third Ypres. Recommended by Bob Denison.

Magnificent But Not War - The Second Battle of Ypres 1915, John Dixon, Pen & Sword, 2003, 224 pages photos, maps, ISBN 1 88415 002 X, $36.94 hardback. Order in the USA from Casemate Publishing.

Defeat in Detail - The Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912-1913, Edward Erickson with a foreword by Briton Busch, Greenwood, 2003, 432 pages, ISBN 0 275 97888 5, 49.95. Colonel Erickson is a retired Army officer who served in Turkey and speaks Turkish. He earlier book on the Ottoman Army in The Great War, Ordered to Die (Praeger 2002), was reviewed in Stand To!. Both books draws heavily on Turkish Army archives not routinely open to scholars. Colonel Erickson is scheduled to speak at our July 2004 WFA annual national seminar at SUNY, Plattsburgh.

Illusion of Victory: America in World War I, Thomas Fleming, Basic Books, NY, 2003, 512 pages, index, ISBN 0-46502-246-X, $24.00 from Barnes & Noble. Touted by the publisher as revisionist history. Hard on Woodrow Wilson and perfidious Albion. Watch for a forthcoming review in Stand To!

Alfred von Schlieffen's Military Writings, translated and edited by Robert T. Foley, Frank Cass, London and Portland, OR, 2003, 313 pages, ISBN 0 7146 4999 6, £37.50 hardback.

Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?, David Fromkin, Knopf-Borzoi, NY, 2004, map, photos, index, 349 pages, $26.95. By the author of A Peace to End all Peace on postwar redrawing of the map in the Mid East. Fromkin lays the blame for WWI on Germany. Little new here; the current work edited by Holger Herwig and Richard Hamilton, The Origins of World War I (Cambridge 2003) is far more enlightening.

The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War and the Rise of the Messianic Nation, Richard M. Gamble, ISI Books, Wilmington, Delaware,2003, index, notes, 314 pages. How American progressive Christian leaders moved from pacifism to support for Mr. Wilson's war and the League of Nations: war seen as redemption.

Trial by Fire - Command and the British Expeditionary Force in 1914, Nicholas Gardner, Praeger, 2003, 259 +xvii pages, index, ISBN 0 31324 473 5, $67.95 boards. The small, regular British army faces unfamiliar warfare in Europe from August to November 1914. Breaks no new ground.

The Maritime Blockade of Germany in the Great War: The Northern Patrol, 1914-1918, John D. Grainger (ed.) , Navy Records Society Publications, Ashgate, 2003, 874 pages, ISBN 0 7546 3536 8, $165.00. The little known story of enforcing the Royal Navy's "distant blockade" largely employing thin-skinned armed merchant cruisers that become an increasingly effective force as the war wore on.

The Origins of World War I, Richard F. Hamilton and Holger H. Herwig, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 266 + xvi pages, index, maps, ISBN 0 521 54530 7, $17.99 paper. An abridged version of the collection of essays published by Cambridge as The Origins of World War I and edited by the same scholars. This version concentrates on the handful of men who made the decisions for war. The abridgement is even more readable than the original. The authors cut through the fog of nationalism and ex post facto justifications to the roots of the conflict. Affordable and highly recommended.

Harlem's Hell Fighters -- The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I, Stephen L. Harris, Brassey's, Dulles, VA, 2003, 319 pages, index, photos, maps, ISBN 1-57488-386-0, $29.95 hardback. By the author of Duty, Honor, Privilege -- New York City's Silk Stocking Regiment and the Breaking of the Hindenburg Line. Look for a review by Doug Fisher in a future issue of Stand To!

The Starvation Blockades: Naval Blockades of WWI, Nigel Hawkins, Pen & Sword, 2003, 262 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 0 85052 908 5, $32.95 hardcover. An overview of both the Royal Navy maritime blockade of Germany and Imperial Germany's U-boat war against Great Britain. For more on economic warfare, see Britain's Economic Blockade of Germany, 1914-1918, Eric W. Osborne, Frank Cass, London, 2004, 205+vii pages, ISBN 0 714 5474 4.

Hemingway on War, Seán Hemingway (ed.), Scribner, NY, 2003, 279 pages, bibliography, foreword by Patrick Hemingway, ISBN 0 7432 4326 9, $27.50. Includes Great War era short stories and an excerpt from A Farewell to Arms concerning the retreat from Caporetto, as well as Hemingway correspondence on WWI and its aftermath.

The Casualty Issue in American Military Practice - The Impact of World War I, Evan Andrew Heulfer, Greenwood, Sept 2003, 256 pages, ISBN 0 275 97760 9, $69.95.

Researching World War I - A Handbook, Robin Hingham (ed.) with Dennis Showalter, Greenwood, Nov. 2003, 464 pages, ISBN 0 313 28850 X, $75.00

"Wielding the Dagger " -- The MarineKorps Flandern and the German War Effort, 1914-1918, Mark D. Karou, Greenwood, Aug 2003, 296 pages, ISBN 0 313 32475 1. $67.95. Two divisions made up of naval reservists were formed and deployed as infantry and artillerymen on the Flanders coast in 1914. Many of them and their officers are buried at Vladslo and other German cemeteries in Belgium which we visited on our April 2003 tour of the Ypres Salient.

The Politics of War: The Story of Two Wars Which Altered Forever the Political Life of the American Republic (1890-1920), Walter Karp, Franklin Square Press, New York, 2003, 300 pages, notes, index, bibliography, ISBN 1 879957 55 9, $15.25. Reprint of a 1979 monograph which takes an unvarnished and unflattering look at how domestic politics shaped the foreign policy of the Progressive Era and America emergence after 1898 as a world power. Recommended by the editors of American Heritage.

Nationalizing the Russian Empire: The Campaign Against Enemy Aliens during World War I, Eric Lohr, Harvard, Cambridge, 2003, 256 pages, index, ISBN 0 67401 041 8, $45.00 hardcover. Study of the treatment of "enemy" minorities during WWI. Mass deportations, property seizures, purges and popular violence impacted on millions of Russians of German and Jewish origin, as well as Muslims. Read in conjunction with A Whole Empire Walking by Peter Gatrell (Indiana, 1999) described elsewhere on these pages.

The U-Boats of World War I, Kelly K. Lydon, 125 pages, b&w photos, appendices, no index, paperback, ISBN 0-9663091-0-3, privately published; available from the author, New England Seafarer Books, Box 244, West Barnstable, MA 02668. The price is $22.00 postpaid. Dozens of excellent photos of such subjects as the German U-boat pens at Brugges, Belgium; details on the development of the Imperial German U-boat fleet and specifications of the several classes of early submarines, their armament including deck guns, torpedoes and mines, their manning and propulsion.

North Midland Territorials go to War - The First Six Months in the Trenches, Martin Middlebrook, Pen & Sword, 2003, 224 pages, illustrations, ISGN 0 85052 994 4, $36.95, hardback. From Casemate Publishing.

The Kaiser: New Research on Wilhelm II's Role in Imperial Germany, Annike Mombauker and Wilhelm Diest (eds.), Cambridge, 2003, NY, notes, index, illustrations, 299 pages, $60.00. Analyses a complex political system and a complex ruler under severe wartime stress.

The Great War - An Imperial History, John H. Morrow, Jr., Routledge, London, 2003, 336 pages, index, illustrations, notes, bibliography, ISBN 0 41520 439 9, $27.50. The exploitation of colonial troops in World War One.

Foch -- Supreme Allied Commander in The Great War, Michael S. Neiberg, Brassey's , Herndon, VA, 2003, Tel (800) 775-2518, ISBN 1 57488 672-X, $12.95 paperback.

Female Intelligence: Woman and Espionage in the First World War, Tammy M. Proctor, New York University Press, NY, 2003, 219 pages, photos, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 0-8147-6693-3, $26.95.

The Dream of Civilized Warfare - The World War I Flying Aces and the American Imagination, Linda R. Robertson, 501 pages, notes, index, illustrations, University of Minnesota Press, 2003, ISBN 0 8166 4270 2, $35.95 hardback. Available from the University of Chicago Distribution Center, 11030 Langley Avenue, Chicago, IL 60629 (800) 621-2736.

West Country Regiments on the Somme, Tim Saunders, Pen & Sword, 2003, 224 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 88415 018 6, $36.95 hardback from Combined Publishing 1016 Warrior Road, Suite C, Drexel Hill, PA 19016.

The Cross and the Trenches - Religious Faith and Doubt among British and American Great War Soldiers, Richard Schweitzer, Greenwood - Praeger, Westport, CT and London, 2003, ISBN 0 313 31838 7, $74.75 hardback. Part of Praeger's Contributions in Military Studies series.

Good Americans: Italian & Jewish Immigrants During the First World War, Christopher M. Sterba, Oxford, NY, 2003, ISBN 0 19 515488 6, $19.95 paperback.

Britain, France, and the Naval Arms Trade in the Baltic, 1919-1939: Grand Strategy and Failure, Donald Stoker, Frank Cass, Portland, 2003, 243 + xii pages, notes, bibliography, ISBN 0 7146 5319 5, $64.50 hardcover. The post war Anglo-French search for security guarantees in the Baltic.

Race to the Front - The Material Foundation of Coalition Strategy in the Great War, Kevin D. Stubbs, Greenwood, July 2003, 932 pages, ISBN 0 275 97299 2, $71.95

Kitchener's Army, Ray Westlake, Spellmount, 2003, 176 pages, 271 b&w photographs, ISBN 1 86227 213 3, $24.95 paperback. Also available form Casemate Publishing.

Russian Sideshow -- America's Undeclared War, 1918-1920, Robert L. Willett, Brassey's, Washington, DC, 2003, 360 pages, index, photos, maps, ISBN 1 57488 429 8, $34.95 hardback. The author, writing on American armed intervention in Northern Russia and Siberia, is a retired businessman and resident of Florida, is a WFA member and spoke at our February 2001 Citadel seminar.

2002

The Halifax Explosion and the Royal Canadian Navy: Inquiry and Intrigue, John Griffith Armstrong, University of British Columbia Press, 2002, 259 pages, index, illustrations, bibliography, notes, C$39.95, ISBN 0 7748 0890 X. The story of a massive explosion of a French Lines munitions ship in 1917 that leveled the northern half of the city, killing 1,600 people.

The Battle of Tanga, 1914, Ross Anderson, Stroud, UK, 2002, index, photos, notes, bibliography, 158 pages, ISBN 0-7524-2349-5, $24.99. A British Indians Army defeat at the hands of von Lettow's askari force.

World War I in Photographs, J. H. J. (Hans) Andriessen, Grange Books, Kent, GB, 2002, index, bibliography, maps, 600 pages, ISBN1 840 13554 9, £20.44 from Amazon.co.uk in hardback. The author, who drew most of the photos from Imperial War Museum archives, chairs the First World War Study Center of the Netherlands. Also published in French and Dutch.

1914-1918: Understanding the Great War, Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker, Profile Books, 2002, concentrates on the origins and societal impact of this violent, industrialized conflict.

Gallipoli, L. A. Carlyon, Doubleday, 2002 based on the authors detailed personal walking examination of the battlefield.

Freeing the Baltic, Geoffrey Bennett, Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2002, 263 pages, index, photos, ISBN 1 84341 001 X, $19.95 (wraps). Reprint of the 1984 book Cowan's War, Harper Collins, London. The Royal Navy moves into the Baltic following the Armistice of November 11, 1918 to confront Editor-in-Chief Lenin.

British Intelligence and the Japanese Challenge in Asia, 1914-1941, Anthony Best, Houndsmills, NY and UK, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, 283 pages, ISBN 0 335 94551 4, £50 hardback. Well- founded suspicions of Japanese expansionist intentions traced back to WWI.

The Last Crusade: The Palestinian Campaign in the First World War, Anthony Bruce, John Murray, UK, 2002, ISBN 0-719554-432-2, £22.50. Billed as the first history of the Palestinian Campaign in 20 years.

The First Cold War: The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson in U. S.-Soviet Relations, Donald E. Davis & Eugene P. Trani, University of Missouri Press, 2002, 341 pages, maps, index, bibliography, $39.95 hardback, ISBN 0 8262 1388 X. An important new study of American-Russian relations during the Wilson administration with an introduction by my former boss, Larry Eagleburger. Trani is best known for his study of the Harding administration.

World War I Databook -- The Essential Facts and Figures for all the Combatants, John Ellis & Michael Cox, Aurum Press, UK, 2002, $60 ($42 from Barnes & Noble). The orders of battle, maps, weapons, manpower, commanders and much more. Some errors, but overall a very valuable research tool. Update of a 1993 work.

The Enemy House Divided, Charles de Gaulle, University of North Carolina Press, 2002, analyses Germany's defeat in 1918, first published in 1924 (translation).

Lloyd George: War Leader 1916-1918, John Griggs, Penguin, UK, 2002, the forth volume in a biography takes Lloyd George from his supplanting of Asquith in 1916 to the end of the war.

A Storm in Flanders - the Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front, Winston Groom, Atlantic Monthly Press, NY, 2002, 287 pages, ISBN 0 87113 842 5, hardback $27.50. By the author of Forrest Gump. The story of four year's of almost continuous warfare in the Ypres Salient, where poison gas was first employed. Good preparatory reading for those attending our April 2003 Ypres Seminar and Tour.

The New World Power -- American Foreign Policy, 1898-1917, Robert E. Hannigan, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002, 378 pages, index, maps, ISBN 0-8122-3666-1, $49.95 hardback. A survey and analysis of America's increasing involvement in world affairs through four administrations in two the decades beginning with the Spanish American War and ending with the declaration of war against Imperial Germany in 1917. This is an era often ignored by today's diplomatic historians. Editor-in-Chief Len Shurtleff will review this monograph for Stand To!

The Starvation Blockades - Naval Blockades of WWI, Nigel Hawkins, Pen & Sword - Leo Cooper, UK, 2002, 271 pages, index, maps, photos, bibliography, ISBN 0-85052-908-5, $32.95 in hardback from the U. S. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD 21401-6780, (800) 322-8764. A fine survey history of the Royal Navy distant blockade of Germany and the German U-boat war against Great Britain.

Britain, France, and the Financing of the First World War, Martin Horn, McGill-Queens University Press, 2002, 259 pages, notes, bibliography, index, $75.00, hardback, ISBN 0-7735-2293-X. A good analysis of a neglected area of importance in understanding WWI. I plan to review this for a future issue of Stand To!

The First World War, Michael Howard, Oxford, 2002, 175 pages, index, appendix, maps, illustrations, photos, ISBN 0-19-280445-6, $13.95 paper. One of several new one-volume monographs surveying the war on all fronts. For non-specialists. Another recent and richly illustrated one volume treatment by the same title has been produced by Hugh Strachan from Viking Penguin (2004), also in paperback.

Ireland and the Great War, Keith Jeffery, Cambridge University Press, 222 pages, ISGN 0 521 773237 4, paperback, $21.95, covers the experiences of both Protestant and Catholic formations.

Investigate Everything: Federal Efforts of Compel Black Loyalty During World War I, Theodore Kornweibel, Jr., Indiana, 2002, 416 pages, index, 416 pages, ISBN 0 25334 009 8, $45.00 cloth. By the author of Seeing Red (Indiana 1998) about Federal efforts to curb Black militancy 1919-1925 in the wake of the post-war Red Scare.

The Zebrugge and Ostend Raids, 1918, Deborah Lake, Pen & Sword, UK, 2002, the story of a daring but unsuccessful attempt to block access to German mine-laying submarine and destroyer bases in Belgium.

Shell Shock: Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War, Peter Leese, Palgrave, NY, 2002, ISBN 0 333 96926 X, $49.95 hardback. A full-length treatment of post traumatic stress syndrome.

Amiens - Dawn of Victory, James McWilliams and R. James Steel, Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2001, 317 pages, ISBN 1 55002 342 X, wraps, $23.00. Recounts "the black day of the German Army," August 8, 1918. Dr. McWilliams spoke at the March 2002 WFA seminar in Victoria, B.C.

The Road to Verdun, Ian Ousby, Doubleday, 2002, a History Book Club selection at $23.99. World War I's most momentous battle and the folly of nationalism.

POWs and the Great War: Captivity on the Eastern Front, Alon Rachamimov, Berg Publishers, 2002, 256 pages, ISBN 1-85973-578-9, £14.99 ($25) in paper, £42.99 ($80) hardback. For a wider treatment of this subject see: Prisoners, Diplomats and the Great War: A Study in the Diplomacy of Captivity, Richard B. Speed, III, Greenwood, Westport, 1990, 256 pages, index, maps, ISBN 0-313-26729-4, $55.00 hardback.

Command and Cohesion - The Citizen Soldier and Minor Tactics of the British Army, 1870 - 1918, M. A. Ramsey, Greenwood, Westport, CT, 2002, 264 pages, ISGN 0 275 96326 8, $54.95.

British Culture and the First World War, George Robb, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, Basingstoke, 2002, 274 +ix pages, index, bibliography, ISBN 0 333 71571 1, £19.99 or $30.95 trade paperback. A social history examining how WWI changed England and how much remained the same; received a strongly favorable review in War in History.

Russia Supply Efforts in America During the First World War, Dale C. Rielage, McFarland, 2002, assesses the Imperial Governments attempts to secure aid from America while depending on British financing of its purchases there.

Anthem for Doomed Youth, Jon Stallworthy, Constable and Robinson, UK, 2002 scrutinizes the lives of a dozen Great War poets.

America's Great War -- World War I and the American Experience, Robert H. Zieger, Bowman and Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2002, 297 pages, index, photos, $27.95. A social history of America in the Great War era by a professor of history at the University of Florida.

The First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made their Country a World Power, Warren Zimmermann, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, NY, 2002, 574 pages, photos, index, notes, bibliography, ISBN 0-374-52893-4, $15.00 trade paperback. The author was a Foreign Service officer, our last Ambassador to Yugoslavia. He passed away in 2003. Zimmermann analyses America's emergence onto the world stage through the careers of five friends and political allies: Theodore Roosevelt, John Hay, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Elihu Root and Henry Cabot Lodge. All but Mahan (a naval officer) were involved in national politics. the firm basis for the internationally activist administrations of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and their successors that marked the American Century. Stongly Recommended.

2001

The Great War, 1914-1918, Ian F. W. Beckett, Harlow, UK, 2001, 508 pages, maps. notes, references, index, select bibliography, 0-582-32248-0, $22.00. A survey history that covers the war thematically rather than chronologically and has a social, economic and political emphasis.

A Navy Second to None -- The History of U.S. Naval Training in World War I, Michael D. Besch, Greenwood, Westport, CT, 2001, 244 pages, index, photos, ISBN 0 313 31909 X, $67.00. Professor Besch teaches at Concordia University, Wisconsin.

Who's Who in World War One, J. M. Bourne, Routledge, NY, 2001, 332 pages, ISBN 0-415-14179-6m $29.95. John Bourne is a leading British WWI and WWII scholar.

The Kaiser's Army: the Politics of Military Technology in Germany during the Machine Age, 1870-1918, Eric Dorn Brose, Oxford University Press, NY, 2001, photos, notes, index, bibliography, 318 pages, $35.00. ISBN 0 19 514335 3.

1918 - War and Peace, Gregor Dallas, Overlook, Woodstock, NY, 2001, 643 pages, photos, maps, index, ISBN 1-58567-157-6, $32.00. Answers the question: "how did World War One end?" Not a pretty sight...

The Officers' Ward, Marc Dugain, translated from the French by Howard Curtis, Soho Press, NY, 2001, 136 pages, ISBN 1-56947-265-3, $21.00 (hard cover). The story of French officers who maintain their dignity and humor even after being disfigured by war wounds sustained on the Western Front. Winner of the Prix des Libraries, among others, in 1998 when it was first published in France.

Yanks: The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I, John S. D. Eisenhower and Joanne Thompson Eisenhower, The Free Press, June 2001, 368 pages, hardcover, ISBN 0 68486 304 9, $28,00. Lacks adequate maps, but otherwise a good survey. WFA member Christina Holstein did substantial research for this work. We will review it in Stand To!

Race, War and Surveillance: African-Americans and the United States Government During World War I, Mark Ellis, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2001, 235 pages, index, bibliography, $45.00, ISBN 0 235 33923 5. Race relations in America during The Great War...not a pretty sight.

American Voices of World War I: Primary Source Documents, Martin Marix Evans (ed.), Fitzroy, London, Chicago, Dearborn, 2001, ISBN I 57958 309 1, $65.00 hardback.

Americans All! – Foreign-born Soldiers in World War I, Nancy Gentile Ford, Texas A&M Press, College Station, 2001, ISBN 1-58544-118-X, $32.95.  A social history of the AEF and its successful efforts to integrate new immigrants and first-generation Americans into an effective fighting force.   

Doctrine Under Trial: American Artillery Employment in World War I, Mark E. Grotelueschen, Greenwood, Westport and London, 2001, 174 pages, index, $62.50, ISBN 0 313 31171 4. How the conflict between infantrymen and artillerists in the AEF went unresolved...

German Atrocities, 1914 - A History of Denial, John Horn & Alan Kramer, Yale, New Haven, 2001, 622 pages, index, maps, illustrations, ISBN 0 300 08975 9, $32.00. Winner of the Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History, this is a carefully researched, but densely drafted volume establishing that stories of German atrocities in Belgium and France were not just Entente propaganda. Winner of the 2002 Tomlinson Prize.

Wingless Eagle: U.S. Army Aviation Through World War I, Herbert A. Johnson, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2001, 223 pages, index, maps, photos, bibliography, $34.95, ISBN 0 8078 2627 8.

An Illustrated History of The First World War, John Keegan, Knopf, NY, 2001, 444 pages, photos, illustrations, maps, index, ISBN 0 375 41259 X. Large format, profusely illustrated survey history of the conflict. History book Club Selection, $35.00.

Doughboys, the Great War and the Remaking of America, Jennifer D. Keene, Johns Hopkins, 2001, $38.00, a social history of the impact of The Great War on the United States and its people.

The German Offensives of 1918, Martin Kitchen, Tempus Publishing, Charleston, SC, 2001, 283 pages, maps, photos, index, ISBN 0 7524 1799 1, $39.99, available from the publisher Arcadia, 2 Cumberland St., Charleston, SC 29401. Dr. Kitchen of Simon Frazier University is a leading expert on the German Army.

The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050, MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2001, 217 pages, index, tables, figures, ISBN 0 251 80079 $30.00 from Barnes & Noble on line. Chapters by Brigadier Jonathan Bailey on Western Front battlefields and the genesis of modern warfare, and Dr. Holger Herwig on the battle fleet revolution of 1885-1914. Recommended by WFA and TGWS member Bob Denison.

Edith and Woodrow - A White House Story, Phyllis Lee Levin, Scribner, NY, 2001, 606 pages, index, photos, ISBN 0 7432 1158 8, $35.00. Ms. Levin, a journalist, sets out to prove that Edith Bolling Galt, Wilson's second wife, set the agenda for the last, tragic years of his administration.

Peacemakers - The Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War, Margaret McMillan, John Murray, London, 2001, 388 pages, index, maps, photos, ISBN 0-7195- 5937-1, $32.00. A new history of the making of the Versailles Treaty written by the granddaughter of a British Prime Minister.

The Doughboys:  America and the First World War, Gary Mead, Penguin, London (paper) and Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY, (hardcover) 2001, ISBN 0-14-026490-6, BPS16.96 (paper) or US$37.97 hardback.  Highly recommended new look at the impact of American in WWI and its role in the Allied victory.  Mead is a British journalist.  Well worth reading even though Mead forgets that it was the Spanish-American War that catapulted the United States onto the world stage.   Available form Amazon.com.uk and Barnes and Noble.

Between War and Peace: Woodrow Wilson and the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, 1918-1921, Carol Willcox Melton, Mercer University Press, Macon, GA, 2001, map, photos, notes, index, appendix, 269 pages, $39.95, ISBN 0 86554 692 4. A controversial chapter in American diplomacy that still colors Russian-American relations even though Wilson's intervention was aimed at blocking Japanese expansionism...

Two on Ireland Irish Regiments in the Great War: Discipline and Morale, Timothy Bowman, Manchester University Press, 2003, 237 + xvi pages, index, ISBN 0 71906 284 5, $22.50 hardcover. "Wielding the Dagger" -- The MarineKorps Flanders and the German War Effort, 1914-1918, Mark D. Karau, Praeger, 2003, 268 + x pages, index, tables, map, bibliographical notes, ISBN 0 313 32475 1, $75.00 cloth. The little known story of a two-division-sized German submarine-destroyer and naval infantry-artillery group operating in Belgian Flanders. Ireland, the Great War and the Geography of Remembrance, Nuala C. Johnson, Cambridge, 2003, 192 + ix pages, index, ISBN 0 52182 616 9, $65.00, boards. Also recommended: Dr. Edward Brynn's article on The Conscription Debate in Ireland during the First World War presented at the September 2005 WFA national seminar at Newport News and available from Carl Barna at kmbarna@msn.com.

Find and Destroy - Antisubmarine Warfare in World War I, Dwight R. Messimer, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2001, 352 pages, photos, maps, illustrations, index, ISBN 1 55750 447 4, $37.50. Messimer is a lecturer in History at San Diego State University and a specialist in WWI and early American aviation. His research benefited from his knowledge of German...

Pessimism and British War Policy, 1916-1918, Brock Millman, Frank Cass, Portland, OR, 2001, maps, tables, notes, index, bibliography, 332 pages, $59.50, ISBN 0 71476 5079 X.

Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War, Annika Mombauer, Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 0 521 79101 4, $35 hardback. A new look at the commander often blamed for German failure in August 1914.

John Moshier, The Myth of the Great War, Harper Collins, NY, 2001, 386 pages, $30.00. Reviewed in the Financial Times and found wanting as a rehash of 1930s "blame it on the stupid generals" analysis.  Mosher also asserts that America won the war for the Allies, a thesis certain to enrage our British cousins.

Caporetto 1917: Victory or Defeat?, Mario A. Morselli, Cass, London, 2001, ISBN 0 7146 5073 0, $35 hardback. Given a mediocre review in War in History, April 2003.

Kitchener, John Pollock, Constable/Carol and Graff, 2001, 609 pages, US$28.00. All about a resolutely old-fashioned Field Marshall -- an officer and a gentleman. Reviewed in the Financial Times, April 21, 2001.

The First World War - The Outbreak, Events, and Aftermath, Keith Robbins, Oxford, UK, 2001, 196 pages, maps, index, ISBN 0 19 289149 9. $15.99. A concise survey history of the military and political aspects of the conflict in paperback; a reissue of the 1984 version

Trench Art, Nicholas Saunders, Pen & Sword, 2001, ISBN 0 85052 793 7, $32,95 -- the first book we've seen on this subject of how front line soldiers passed the time between battles... Look for a review in the WFA newsletter The Field Memo later in 2001.

A Grateful Heart: The History of a World War I Field Hospital, Michael E. Shay, Greenwood, 2001, 288 pages, ISBN 0 31331 191 1, $97.95 cloth. A study of the Yankee Division's 103rd Field Hospital in France, 1917-1918. Number 212 in the Greenwood Contributions in Military Studies Series. Shay is another WFA speaker at 2005 East Coast Chapter events.

Gary Sheffield’s Forgotten Victory – The First World War, Myths and Realities, Headline, London, 2001, is definitely worth reading as revisionist look at the causes, strategy, leadership and consequences of The Great War in Great Britain and America.  Not a survey history, but rather a first class series of essays…

German Anglophobia in the Great War, 1914-1918, Matthew Stibbe, Cambridge University Press, NY, 2001, maps, illustrations, notes, index, bibliography, 274 pages, $59.95, ISBN 0 521 78296 1.

Hew Strachen's latest book on WWI is The First World War -- Volume I: To Arms released by Oxford University Press in March of 2001; ISBN 0-19-820877-4, 1180 pages, 30 maps, $45 hardback. This book won WFA's Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Annual Book Prize for 2001.

The Devil's Chariots: The Birth and Secret Battles of the First Tanks, John Glandfield, Stroud, UK, Sutton Publishing, 2001, appendices, references, bibliography, index, 336 pages, $25.00

Jutland - The German Perspective, V. E. Tarrant, Cassell, London, 2001, 349 pages, index, maps, ship descriptions, ISBN 0 304 35848 7, $9.95. The paperback reissue of the 1995 analysis of a very near thing.

The Western Front: The Battleground and Home Front in the First World War, Hunt Tooley, Palgrave Macmillan, 305 + x pages, index, notes, map, ISBN 0 333 65063 8, $30.95, paperback. Also available in hardback. Synthesizes much earlier scholarship with particular analysis of the lasting social and political impact of the conflict on the home fronts of the belligerent powers. Dr. Tooley teaches history at Austin College, Texas and is the author of National Identity, and Weimar Germany: Upper Silesia and the Eastern Border, 1918-1922 (Nebraska, 1997).

Gallipoli, 1915, Tim Travers, , Tempus, Charleston, SC, 2001, 287 pages, maps, index, photos, ISBN 0 7524 1975 7, $ 39.99. Available from the publisher 2 Cumberland St., Charleston, SC 29401, (888) 313-2665. Travers, a distinguished military historian, is Professor of History at the University of Calgary.

The Netherlands and World War I: Espionage, Diplomacy and Survival, Hubert P. van Tuyll, van Serooskerken, Brill, Lieden, Netherlands, 2001, 381 pages, maps, photos, notes, index, bibliography, $115.00. Dr, van Tuyll teaches history at Augusta State University, Georgia. His article on this subject will appear shortly in Camaraderie.

Between War and Peace: Woodrow Wilson and the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, 1918-1921, Carol Wilcox, Mercer University Press, Macon, GA, maps, index, photos, 269 pages. $39.95

Rommel and Caporetto, John Wilks & Eileen Wilks, Pen & Sword, Barnsley, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85052-772-4, $36.95 from Casemate Publishing, 2114 Darby Road, Havertown, PA 19083 (610) 853-0131.

The Great War & The Twentieth Century, Jay Winter et al, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2001, 356 pages, ISBN 0 300 08154 5, $30.00. Taken from a Yale University lecture series, this volume attempts to introduce recent scholarship on WWI drawing on both new historical approaches and newly-available Soviet archival materials. Heavy on traditional diplomatic issues.

From Pen & Sword are a number of translations and re-issues of familiar standards such as The 1917 Offensives: Arras, Vimy, le Chemin des Dames by noted French historian Yves Buffetaut, Gallipoli by Alan Moorehead, The Great War by John Terraine, Revolt in the Desert by T. E. Lawrence, and the classic Death of an Army by Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley.

The new one-volume biography of General John J. Pershing Until the Last Trumpet Sounds by Gene Smith (John Wiley & Sons) was panned by The New York Times, but got a better review from historian Rod Paschall writing for MHQ. Black Jack's best biographies are multi-volume -- Frank Vandiver's and Donald Smythe's come to mind -- so this one is a handy, quick reference that captures the fundamentals of Pershing's life.

2000

Complete Idiot's Guide to World War, Alan Axelrod, Alpha Books, Indianapolis, 2000, 403 pages, ISBN 0-02-863902-2, $17,95 (paper). An expansion of the well-known Idiot's Guides into WWI history. A useful reference, but one with many errors.

Woodrow Wilson, Louis Auchincloss, Penguin, New York, 2000, 128 pages, bibliography, ISBN 0-670-88904-0, $16.95 hardback. A brief, well-crafted biography by one of America's most acclaimed novelists and critics about one of America's most complicated and controversial political personalities. Also available from Books on Tape at http://www.booksontape.com for $24.95.

A Military Atlas of the First World War, Arthur Banks, Pen & Sword, 2000, 340 pages, $19.95, ISBN 0 85052 791 0. First paperback edition of a fine standard reference work with 250 maps.

Coronel and the Falklands, Geoffrey Bennett, Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2000, 180 pages, index, photos, appendices, ISBN 1 84158 045 7, $15.95. The re-release in paperback of a classic 1962 study of two major naval actions in the South Atlantic and Pacific. Most useful for its description of the ships involved.

About Face - A Daughter Looks Back at a Soldier and the Great War, Eleanor Elliott Brownell, WWI Press, Flint, MI, 2000, 120 pages, maps, photos, bibliography, $10.95 (paper). The story of the campaign of soldier of the Fourth Division, AEF, in France based on his letters home.

Great War, Total War. Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918, Roger Chickering and Stig Forster (eds.), Cambridge University Press, German Historical Institute, 2000, ISBN 0 521 77352 9, $54.95 hardback. Drawn from a 1996 conference in Switzerland this volume has papers from many leading German historians. Something for everyone specialist and generalist alike.

The Undermining of Austria-Hungary -- The Battle for Hearts and Minds, Mark Cornwall, St. Martin's Press, New York and Macmillan Press Ltd., UK, 2000, 301 pages, index, tables, maps, illustrations, ISBN (US) 0-312-23151-2, ISBN (UK) 0-333-80452-X, US$69.95. A welcome addition to English monographs on the Central Powers.

French Woman and the First World War, Margaret H. Darrow, Berg, Oxford and New York, 2000, ISBN 1 85973 366 2 pounds 14.99 paperback; ISBN 1 85973 361 1 pounds 42.99 hardback.

Ordered to Die--A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War, Edward J. Erickson, Greenwood, Westport, CT, 2000, 304 pages, ISGN 0-313-32526-7, $612.50 hardback. The author is a retired U.S. Army officer and Turkish speaker who worked from Turkish Army archives not routinely accessible to civilian researchers.

War and Punishment: The Causes of War Termination and the First World War, H. E. Goemans, Princeton University Press, 2000, index, bibliography, tables, 365 pages, ISBN 0-691-04944-0, $19.00 wraps. A scholarly examination of war aims, the interplay of domestic and international factors, how and why the combatants ended The Great War, but failed to make peace.

The Rules of the Game, Andrew Gordon, U. S. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2000, available from Barnes and Noble. Jutland: A fresh analysis of Royal Navy command and tactics.

The Second Battle of the Marne, 1918, Paul Greenwood, Airlife, UK, 223 pages, index, bibliography, maps, illustrations, appendix, ISBN 1-84037-008-4, $30.00, hardcover. Available from Motor Books, 729 Prospect Avenue, Osceola, Wisconsin 54020, Tel: (800) 826-6600, http://www.motorbooks.com. French, African, British, Dominion, Italian and American troops combine to defeat Ludendorf's great gamble.

The Balkan Wars, 1912-1913: Prelude of the First World War, Richard C. Hall, Routledge, London, 2000, 186 pages, ISBN 0 415 22947 2, $25.99. Written mainly from Bulgarian sources, but still a valuable history if not a definitive operational or tactical recounting of these conflicts that still haunt us today.

The Great War Reader, James Hannah (ed.), Texas A&M, 2000, 546 pages, b&w photos, bibliography, appendix, $44.95 cloth, 22.95 softcover. An ambitious and entertaining anthology of prose and poetry, fact and fiction about WWI. To order call (800) 826-8911, or e-mail WJL@tampress.tamu.edu.

The Lost Battalion, Thomas M. Johnson and Fletcher Pratt, University of Nebraska Press, 2000, 352 pages, maps, photos, index, ISBN 0-80327-613-3, $17.95, paper. Reprint of a 1938 classic with a new introduction by the dean of American WWI historians Edward M. "Mac" Coffman. The Meuse-Argonne from a ground-level infantry view. A November 2000 selection of the History Book Club.

Turbulence in the Pacific: Japanese-US Relations During World War I, Noriko Kawamura, Routledge, 2000, 173 + xii pages, maps, index, notes bibliography, ISBN 0 275 96853 7, $106.95 cloth. The author is Assistant Professor of History at Washington State University; she was educated both in Japan and the US. An active and troubled period in bilateral relations marked by American efforts to maintain an "open door" in China in the face of persistent Japanese expansionism. See Camaraderie for a full review. Things went downhill from here. . .

Distant Thunder - Canada's Citizen Soldiers on the Western Front, Joyce M. Kennedy, Sunflower University Press, Manhattan, KS, 2000, 336 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 0-89745-243-7, $22.95 softcover. Available from Sunflower at (800) 258-1232, or write Box 1009, Manhattan, KS 66505-1009. Dr. Kennedy is a member of WFA, daughter of a Canadian Great War veteran and, herself, a retired Canadian Air Force flying officer.

The Central Powers in the Adriatic, 1914-1918: War in a Narrow Sea, Charles W. Koburger, Praeger, Westport, CT, 2000, index, maps, photos, notes, bibliography, 166 pages, $ 65.00, ISBN 0 275 97971 X. A bloody sideshow, but a sideshow nonetheless.

War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National Identity and German Occupation in World War I, Vejas G. Liulevicius, Cambridge, 2000, ISBN 0-52166-157-9, $64.95, cloth. A book about German occupation policy and operations in Lithuania, the Baltics, Ruthenia and parts of Poland from 1915 through 1919 and the Soviet Red Army invasion. Dr. Liulevicius is a frequent speaker at WFA seminars, and professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Ataturk - The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey, Andrew Mango, Overlook, NY, 2000, 687 pages, index, maps, illustrations, notes, ISBN 0-58567-011-1, $40.00. The Author is sparing in his praise of Mustapha Kemal's military prowess at Gallipoli, but unstinting in his admiration for Ataturk's political and military skill in thwarting Allied plans to partition the Ottoman Empire. Based largely on Turkish sources.
 
Best O'Luck, Alexander McClintock, CEF Books, Ottawa, 2000 (1917), 100 pages, ISBN 1-896979-43-3, $14.95 paper. The wartime experiences of an American volunteer from Kentucky who served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders. This autobiographical account was written by McClintock as a propaganda piece and first published in 1917. This edition comes with a postscript and appendices tracing, inter alia, McClintock's short, tragic career in the American Army.

Escape from Villingen, 1918, Dwight R. Messimer, Texas A&M Press, 2000, 208 pages, index, photos, ISBN 0-89096-956-6, $29.95. Americans escape from an Imperial Germany POW camp during WWI.

Your Country Needs You -- From Six to Sixty-Five Divisions, Martin Middlebrook, Pen & Sword, 2000, 276 pages, b&w illustrations, index, ISBN 0-85052-709-0, $19.95. Available in the United States from Casemate Publishing. The story of the expansion of the British Army during WWI from a colonial constabulary to a force of over two million men.

Managing Domestic Dissent in First World War Britain, Brock Millman, Frank Cass, Portland, OR, 2000, maps, notes, index, bibliography, 335 pages, $27.50, ISBN 0 7146 8105 9. Exaggerated fears among Britain's ruling class?

Seeking Victory on the Western Front: The British Army & Chemical Warfare in World War I, Albert Palazzo, University of Nebraska Press, 2000, 346 pages, index, map, illustrations, ISBN 0-8032-3725-1, $35.00 hardback. Available from the History Book Club. Takes a revisionist view of the effectiveness of chemical warfare on the Western Front.

The Great War Generals on the Western Front, 1914-1918, Robin Neillands, Robinson, London, 2000, 529 pages, b&w photos, maps, bibliography, index, $42.00, ISBN 1-85487-900-6. Neillands challenges the conventional wisdom that British generals were incompetent butchers.

Izonzo - The Forgotten Sacrifice of The Great War, John R. Schindler, Praeger, 2000, ISBN 0 27597 204 6. Frustration on the Italian Front. Look for a review in Stand To!

Leadership in the Trenches: Officer-Man Relations, Morale and Discipline in the British Army in the Era of the First World War, G. D. Sheffield, Palgrave, NY, 2000, notes, bibliography, index, 294 pages, $75.00, ISBN 0 312 22640 3. Kitchener's army in the field.

United States Naval Aviation, 1910-1918, Noel Shirley, Schiffer, Atglen, PA, 2000, 336 pages, ISBN 0-7643-1179-4, $59.95. A richly illustrated book contains the statistical product of exhaustive research on the organization, personalities, bases and equipment of early American naval aviation. Noel is a member of The Great War Society and the League of WWI Aviation Historians, as well as a frequent speaker at WFA seminars.

Passchendaele -- The Sacrificial Ground by Nigel Steel and Peter Hart, Cassell, London 2000. Another look at the mud and blood of Third Ypres. British military historians fixation on Third Ypres ranks second only to that of Battle of the Somme... Available from Barnes and Noble on line.

Armaments and the Coming of War -- Europe 1904-1914, David Stevenson, Oxford, 2000 (1996), 463 pages, ISBN 0-19-820831-6, $24,95 paper. A new paperback edition of Dr. Stevenson's study of the interlinked effect of imperial competition, domestic political and commercial affairs, technological change and advancement on the European arms race.  Well worth reading and reflecting on.

Politicians, the Press and Propaganda: Lord Northcliffe and the Great War, 1914-1918, J. Lee Thompson, Kent State University Press, 2000, 331 pages, index, ISBN 8-87338-637-X, $39.00 cloth.

A Youth on the Meuse-Argonne, William S. Triplet, Univ. of Missouri Press, 2000, ISBN 0 8262 1290 5. Another interesting Great War memoir produced by an important American regional publisher.

The United States, Revolutionary Russia and the Rise of Czechoslovakia, Betty Miller Unterberger, Texas A&M, 2000 (1989), 486 pages, ISBN 0-89096-931-0, $24.95 paperback. A revised edition of the 1989 work based on newly available documentary sources. By the author of "Woodrow Wilson and Great Power Relations in Central Europe."

The Ship that Changed the World, Dan van der Vat, Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2000, 252 pages, maps, index, photos, ISBN 1 84158 062 7, $19.95. A paperback reprinting of the 1985 book of the same name this tells the story of the 1914 escape of the German battle cruiser Goben through the porous net of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Squadron to the Ottoman Empire. Written by the author of The Grand Scuttle, the self-destruction of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919.

Soldier and Warrior: French Attitudes toward the Army and War on the Eve of the First World War, H. L. Wesseling (translated by Arnold J. Pomerans), Greenwood, Westport, CT, 2000, 264 pages, index, ISBN 0-313-30721-0, $65.00 cloth. How French publicists glorified the Army and idealized war in the decade before 1914.

 
Flawed Victory - Jutland, 1916, Keith Yates, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2000, 352 pages, maps, illustrations, index, bibliography, ISBN 1-55750-981-6, $34.96 cloth. Order from The Naval Institute Press, 291 Wood Rd., Annapolis, MD 21402, Tel: (800) 233-8764, http://www.nip.org.

Army Service Corps, 1902-1918, Michael Young, Leo Cooper - Pen & Sword, Barnsley, UK, 2000, ISBN 085052-730-9, $45 from Combined Publishing. A history of the worldwide operations of the British Army Service Corps in WWI replete with maps, b&w illustrations, biographies of key officers and tables of Corps organization.

1999 and Earlier

And, one about the U. S. Marines: Devil Dogs: The Fighting Marines of World War One, written by another WFA member George B. Clark, released late in 1999 by Presidio Press. This is the first book we've seen that deals with the entire scope of Marine participation in The Great War from the five-fold expansion of the Corps in 1917 and 1918 through demobilization in mid-1919, and all its battles, not just the celebrated fight at Belleau Wood.

The Neglected War: The German South Pacific and the Influence of World War I, Hermann Joseph Hiery, University of Hawaii Press, 1995, 364 pages, photos, index, $24.00 from Barnes & Noble. The little-known story of how Australia, New Zealand and Japan occupied and annexed the German Pacific Island possessions in 1914 and 1915.

Generals in Khaki, Henry Blaine Davis, Jr., Pentland Press. Raleigh, NC, 1998, 411 pages, photos, ISBN 1-57197-088-6, $50.00. Brief biographies of the 476 general officers of the United States Army in World War One. A valuable reference work.

From Frank Cass comes a study of tactics and operations in the BEF edited by the redoubtable Paddy Griffith and entitled British Fighting Methods in the Great War, published in the US in May 1998. Each of its eight chapters is written by a specialist in the field.

Also from Frank Cass Sir Frederick Sykes and the Air Revolution, 1912-1918, Curson and British Imperialism in the Middle East, 1916-19, Arab Movements in World War I by Eliezer Tauber, and Allenby and British Strategy in the Middle East, 1917-1919. For those interested in German raiders there's Konigsberg: A German East African Raider by Kevin Patience (1997). This book is privately printed and is available from the author at P.O. Box 699, Bahrain for US$25 plus postage. It is filled with dozens of illustrations, many not previously published.

Also on a naval theme is Austro-Hungarian Naval Policy, 1904-14 by Milan N. Vego published in paper by Frank Cass.

More on naval history from Frank Cass: The Washington Naval Conference, 1921-22 -- Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability and the Road to Pearl Harbor, Eric Goldstein and John Maurer (editors).

Published in the spring of 1999 from Greenwood (a Praeger imprint) was James Cooke's study of the 82nd All-American Division in World War I. Medal of Honor-winner Sergeant Alvin C. York served in this division. Cook, a long-time WFA member, is Professor of History at the University of Mississippi. His most recent book is Pershing and His Generals: Command & Staff in the AEF (Greenwood 1997).

Sir Frederick Sykes and the Air Revolution, 1912-1918, Eric Ash, Frank Cass, London, Portland, 1999, 276 pages, ISBN 0-7146-4382-3, $24.50 paper.

Haig: A Reappraisal 70 Years On, Brian Bond & Nigel Cave, Leo Cooper, UK, 1999, 286 pages, index, ISBN 0-85052-698-1, $45.00 hardback. Available from Casemate, 21145 Darby Road, Havertown, PA 19083, phone (610) 853-9131. A sympathetic treatment of a controversial commander.

A Peripheral Weapon? -- The Production and Employment of British Tanks in the First World War, David J. Childs, Greenwood, Westport, CT, 1999, 221 pages, maps, illustrations, index, bibliography, ISBN 0-313-30832-2, $57.95. A revisionist view of the tank as a would-be stalemate breaker. Available from Greenwood, 88 Post Road West, Box 5007, Westport, CT 06881 (800) 225-5800, http://greenwood.com, e-mail bookinfo@greenwood.com.

No Place to Run -- The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War, Tim Cook, UBC Press, Vancouver, 1999, 204 pages, illustrations, notes, index, ISBN 0-7748-0739-3, CDN$85 from Raincoast Books, 9050 Shaughnessy St., Vancouver, BC V6P 6E5, (800) 663-5714. A well-documented revisionist monograph on why chemical weapons were important and effective in WWI.

Sepoys in the Trenches - The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914-1915, Gordon Corrigan, Spellmont, UK, 1999, 287 pages, index, maps, b&w photos, bibliography, genealogy of regiments, ISBN 1-86227-054-6, 24.95 pounds sterling. Available from Books International, 101 Lynchford Road, Farnborough, Hampshire GU14 6ET, UK, e-mail booksinter@aol.com. The only readily available trained and organized reserves for the BEF in 1914, the Indian Corps took massive casualties in Flanders until it was withdrawn in the fall of 1915.

Curzon and British Imperialism in the Middle East, 1916-1919, John Fisher, Frank Cass, London 1999 (1990), ISBN 0-7146-4429-3, $27,50 paper. A reexamination of the role of an often-neglected wartime British Foreign Secretary.

The U. S. Navy in World War I - Combat at Sea and in the Air, A. B. Feuer, Greenwood, 1999, 224 pages, index, ISBN, 0-275-96212-1, $55.00 cloth. A survey, with much useful emphasis on naval aviation, mine and anti-submarine warfare where the US Navy was on the cutting edge.

The Washington Conference, 1921-22 - Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability and the Road to Pearl Harbor, Brik Goldstein and John Maurer (editors), Frank Cass, Portland, 1999 (1994), 319 pages, ISBN 0-7146-4136-7, $34.50 paper.

A Whole Empire Walking - Refugees in Russia During World War I, Peter Gatrell, Indiana University Press, 1999, 327 pages, index, bibliography, maps, illustrations, ISBN 0-253-33644-9, $35.00, hardcover. Social history of a conflict largely ignored in the west.

Doughboy War - American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, James Hallas, Lynne Rienner, Boulder, 1999, 353 pages, index, maps, ISBN 1-55587-855-1, $55.00, hardcover. Hallas has written previously on the St. Mihel Offensive. This book draws heavily on Doughboy diaries, and narratives, as well as on AEF unit histories.

Allenby and British Strategy in the Middle East, 1917-1919, Matthew Hughes, Frank Cass, London-Portland, 1999, 224 pages, ISBN 0-7146-4473-0, $24.50 paper. A political history of the Palestine Campaign.

Soissons, 1918, Douglas V. Johnson II and Robert L. Hillman, Jr., Texas A&M, 1999, 245 pages, index, maps, illustrations, ISBN 0-89096-893-4, $29.95 hardcover. First AEF engagement at the divisional level.

The Anglo-Irish War, 1916-1921 - A People's War, William H. Kautt, Praeger, Westport, 1999, 198 pages, index, biographical appendix, map, tables, ISBN 0-275-96311-X, $57.95 hardcover. Available from Greenwood, e-mail bookinfo@greenwood.com.

Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution, Nicholas A. Lambert, University of South Carolina Press, 1999, ISBN 1-57003-277-7, $39.95. A new, revisionist look at Fisher's penchant for submarines and fast, but lightly armored battle cruisers. Winner of WFA's Annual Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize for 1999. Now available in paperback from the University of South Carolina Press for $24.95, ISBN 1 57003 452 3

Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War, Joe Lunn, Heinemann, 1999, 280 pages, index, maps, illustrations, ISBN 0-325---138-3, 29.95 paper. Army life and trench warfare from the African perspective. Over 160,000 Tirailleurs Senegalais fought in France from 1914 to 1918. Available from Greenwood.

France and the Apres Guerre, 1918-1924 -- Illusions and Disillusionment, Benjamin F. Martin, Louisiana State University Press, 1999, 278 pages, index, bibliography, illustrations, ISBN 0-8071-2399-4, $27.50 pbk.

Fisher, Churchill and the Dardanelles, Geoffery Pen, Leo Cooper, UK, 1999, 293 pages, index, illustrations, maps, bibliography, ISBN 0-85052-646-9, $37.95 cloth. Available from Casemate Publishing (casemate@casematepublishing.com) in the US.

The Arab Movements in World War I, Eliezer Tauber, Frank Cass, London, 1999, (1993), 333 pages, ISBN 0-7146-4983-2 paperback, $24.50. The author is a professor at Tel Aviv University.

Doctors in the Great War, Ian R. Whitehead, Leo Cooper, UK, 1999, 319 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 0-85052-691-4, $36.95, cloth. Available from Casemate Publishing.

Labor Market Politics and the Great War - The Department of Labor, the States, and the First U. S. Employment Service, 1907-1933, William J. Breen, , Kent State University Press, OH, 1997, 252 pages, index, photos, ISBN 0 87338 559 4, $17.95. WWI marked a massive intervention of the Federal Government into the lives of the people, as well as the growth of a more powerful labor movement. This book tells part of that story.

V. E. Tarrant’s Jutland – The German Perspective first published in 1995, is also once again available from Cassell in paperback for $9.95 at www.sterlingpub.com.

Shadows of the Argonne - The Story and Letters of Lieutenant Charles Burns, Sixth Infantry, Robert M. Jackson, Jr., private printing, Hampton, NH, 1994, 182 pages, photos, available from the author Box 1391, Hampton, NH 03043-1391.

Sailor of the Air: The 1917-1919 Letters and Diary of UN CMM/A Edward Sheeley, Lawrence D. Sheely (ed.), Alabama University Press, Tuscaloosa, 1993, 233 pages, index, illustrations, index, ISBM 0 8173 1208 0, $29.95 wraps. Memoirs of a US Navy enlisted observer-gunner who flew as a crew member with US Navy pilots on Royal Naval Air Service and RAF bombers on the Flanders coast.

Germany, Propaganda and total War, 1914-1918, David Welch, Rutgers, 2000, 355 + ix pages, index, illustrations, tables, ISBN 0 8135 2798 8, $3.95 from the Scholars Bookshelf (609) 395-6933. Much has been written about clumsy and ineffective German foreign policy and public relations during The Great War. This study examines the equally disastrous failure of Imperial Germany effectively to mobilize domestic support for the war.

Updated: February 2005

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