2006

Anti-Submarine Warfare in World War I: British Naval Aviation and the Defeat of the U-Boats, John Abbatiello, Routledge, 2006, 256 pages, index, ISBN 0 41576 383 5, $115.00 cloth. Effective British innovation against a new and deadly weapon.

The Art of Staying Neutral: the Netherlands in the First World War, 1914-1918, Maartje M. Abbenhuis-Ash, Amsterdam University Press, 2006, 423 pages, maps, photographs, notes, tables, appendices, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 90 5356 818 7, $55.00 cloth. Holland remained mobilized throughout the war at great financial and social cost while its economy based on international trade withered in the face of the British blockade. Also see an earlier book on this same subject, The Netherlands and World War I: Espionage, Diplomacy and Survival, Hubert P. van Tuyll (Brill 2001).

Duty Nobly Done: The History of the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment, Sandy Anthal and Kevin R. Shackleton, Walkerville Publishing, 2006, 838 pages, index, photos, sketches, maps, ISBN 0 9731834 8 9, C$59.00, US $52.00 hardback. Order at: http://www.walkerville.com/dutynoblydone/index.html One of the authors is a WFA member. A history of a distinguished Canadian regiment whose antecedents date back to French colonization in the 17th century. Much of the work is take up with the regiment's actions in the world wars at Gallipoli, on the Western Front, Dieppe, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Replete with campaign maps.

Last Post: The Final Word from our First World War Soldiers, Max Arthur, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2006, 240 pages, photos, index, ISBN 0 297846 44 2, $32.95 hardback. One of several new books featuring interviews with a small and rapidly dwindling number of surviving British WWI veterans.

Wales and the First World War, Robin Barlow, University of Wales Press, 2006, 256 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 0 7083 1969 6, £16.99 paperback, ISBN 0 7083 1770 X, £40 hardcover. A political and social history to be published in February 2006 and available on advance order from www.amazon.co.uk.

If this book interests you, you may also want to obtain Hedd Wyn, a motion picture directed by Paul Turner, Northern Arts, 1992, 123 minutes, color in Welsh with English subtitles. This tale of a Welsh poet whose dreams of winning his country's most coveted literary prize are shattered by WWI was nominated for an Academy Award as best foreign film. The video is available from www.amazon.co.uk for £20 in PAL format.

Battlefields of the First World War: The Unseen Panoramas of the Western Front, Peter Barton, Constable and Robinson, London 375 pages, index, photos, maps, CD-ROMs, 375 pages, ISBN 1 84119 745 9, $85.00; in cooperation with the Imperial War Museum with a foreword by Richard Holmes. Also published by Osprey under the title Battlefields of the First World War: From the First Battle of Ypres to Passchendaele. Covers British and Belgian sectors of the front from the North Sea to the Somme. The included CDs contain the 200 panoramic photos seen the book. Available from the publisher at www.constablerobinson.com or discounted at $65 from Barnes & Nobel. Highly recommended by WFA member John Hurst in Canada.

The Home Front, 1914-1918: How Britain Survived the Great War, Ian F. W. Beckett, The National Archives, London, 2006, 224 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 1 59114 970 5, £19.95 paperback. The author suggests Britain survived by working hard and keeping a stiff upper lip.

Gunning for the Red Baron, Leon Bennett, Texas A&M, 2006, 256 pages, index, bibliography, photos, drawings, graphs, ISBN 1 58544 507 X, $29.95 cloth. The author is an aeronautical engineer and wrote Three Wings for the Red Baron, a study of aerodynamics. This work addresses aerial gunnery and marksmanship.

Haig's Generals, Ian F. W. Beckett & Steven J. Corvi (eds.), Pen & Sword, 2006, 224 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 1 84415 169 7, $45.00 cloth. Assesses the careers of Haig's principal subordinates in the BEF.

Europe in the Era of Two World Wars: From Militarism to Genocide and Civil Society, 1900-1950, Berger R. Berghahn, Princeton, 2006, 176 pages, maps, index, ISBN 0 69112 003 X, $24.95 cloth. A study of how and why Europe moved from the violence of two industrialized wars through genocide to liberal capitalism on the American model.

A Month at the Front: The Diary of an Unknown Soldier, Bodieian Library Staff (ed.). University of Chicago Press, 2006, 64 pages, ISBN 1 85124 355 0, $15.00 cloth. One month in the life of a soldier from the 12th East Surrey regiment.

The First World War as a Clash of Cultures, Fred Bridgham (ed.), Boydell & Brewer, 2006, 336 + vi pages, notes, works cited, index, ISBN 1 57113 340 3, hardbound, $75. Focuses on the images which German and British writers purveyed of each other's nation between 1900 and 1918.

Lawrence of Arabia: The life, the Legend, Malcolm Brown, Thames and Hudson, 2005, 208 pages, illustrations, ISBN 5 50051 238 8, $45.00 hardback. 180 illustrations including photos taken by Lawrence compiled by the author, who is a distinguished historian of the Great War working at the Imperial War Museum in London. Several of the photos taken by Lawrence appeared in the summer 2006 edition of MHQ - The Quarterly Journal of Military History.

An American Soldier in World War I, George Browne, David L. Snead (ed.), University of Nebraska Press, 2006, 201 pages, illustrations, maps, notes, index, $29.95 cloth. The letters of George "Brownie" Brown, Doughboy of the 117th Engineers of the 42nd Rainbow Division sent to his fiancée during his 18 months of service.

Thomas Boyd: Lost Author of the "Lost Generation," Brian Bruce. University of Akron Press, 2006, 188 pages, chronology, notes, bibliography, ISBN 1 93169 833 0, $40 cloth. First biography of the author of Through the Wheat (Nebraska, 2000), a novel of US Marines in World War One. A contemporary of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Boyd served with the Sixth Marines at Soissons, Belleau Wood, St. Mihiel, and Blanc Mont, where he was severely gassed. For a review, go to www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/thomasboyd.html

The Battle for Palestine, 1917, John Grainger, Boydell, 2006, 292 pages, maps, notes, index, sources and bibliography, ISBN 1 84383 263 1, $25 paperback/$47.95 cloth. A detailed analysis of the Allenby's campaign written from the British point of view. See also Hell in the Holy Land by David Woodward (Kentucky 2006).

World War I in Cartoons, Mark Bryant, Grubb Street, 2006, 180 pages, 300 illustrations, ISBN 1 90493 356 X, $29.95 hardback. Allied and German journalists go to war. Includes work by Bruce Bairnsfather, Art Young and Grosz.

British Battlecruisers, 1914-1918, Lawrence Burr, Osprey, Vanguard Series, 2006, 48 pages, color and b&w illustrations, drawings, index, ISBN 1 84603 008 0, 15.95 paperback. A richly illustrated companion volume to German Battlecruisers.

Distant Victory: The Battle of Jutland and the Allied Triumph in the First World War, Daniel Allen Butler, Greenwood, 2006, 272 pages, maps, index, ISBN 0 275 99073 7, $49.95 cloth. A new, revisionist analysis of a controversial battle which the author asserts was a major British strategic victory rather than a tactical draw or narrow German triumph. Command leadership styles, he says, were more important to the outcome than technical idiosyncrasies of the various classes of dreadnoughts engaged. Most importantly, the battle set in motion the decisions by both sides that materially affected the outcome of the conflict.

Under Fire in the Dardanelles: the Great War Diaries & Photography of Major Edward Cadogan, Kira Charaton and Camilla Cecil (eds.), Pen and Sword, 2006, 208 pages, photos, index, ISBN 1 84415 374 6, $39.99 hardcover. Documents a serving officer's experiences. Available from The Scholars Bookshelf (www.scholarsbookshelf.com) for $24.95.

The story of Frances Stevenson and David Lloyd George, John Campbell, Jonathan Cape, 2006, 557 pages, ISBN 224 077464 4, $35.08 hardcover from Amazon.com. The relationship between the British WWI-era Prime Minister and his long-time mistress; a story of a politician misbehaving in which Lloyd George comes out badly. Favorably reviewed by History Today.

Rats Alley: British Trench Names of the Western Front, 1914-1918, Peter Chausseaud, Spellmont, 2006, 416 pages, photos, maps, index, ISBN 1 86227 276 X, $39.95 hardback.

Iron Empire: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947, Christopher Clark, Harvard - Belknap Press, 2005, 800 pages, maps, halftones, index, ISBN 0 67402 385 4, $35 hardback. A survey history of Prussia.

Decorated Marines of the Fourth Brigade in World War I, George Clark, McFarland, 2006, 276 pages, index, appendix, ISBN 0 78642 826 0, $39.95 softcover. Biographies of each Marine medal winner in the AEF Second Division.

The Unfinished Peace After World War I: America, Britain and the Stabilization of Europe, 1919-1932, Patrick O. Cohrs, Cambridge, 2006, 788 pages, index, ISBN 0 52185 353 2, $95.00 cloth. An original and revisionist thesis arguing that the real peace settlement of WWI was not incorporated in Versailles, but rather in the London reparations settlement of 1924 (the Dawes Plan) and the Locarno security pact of 1925 which fostered German reintegration into the community of nations and laid the realistic foundations for a European security system.

The Imperial German Army, 1914-1918: Organization, Structure, Orders of Battle (second edition), Hermann Cron & Duncan Rogers, Helion & Company, 416 pages, index, ISBN 1 87462 229 9, $59.95 paperback. Detailed orders of battle, lists of army commanders and chiefs of staff, the organization of army field branches, the home front and occupation forces. Available in the US from Casemate.

Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature, Santanu Das, Cambridge, 2006, 265 pages, index, ISBN 0 52184 6-3 X, $80.00 hardcover. A study in the tragic obsession with the wounded body drawing on nurses' diaries and memoirs.

Naval Blockades in Peace and War: An Economic History Since 1750, Lance Davis and Stanley Engerman, Cambridge, 2006, 325 pages, index, ISBN 0 52185, 749 X, $85.00; also available as an e-book for $65. Detailed qualitative analysis of the effectiveness of blockades including the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812, the American Civil War and World Wars One and Two.

Through German Eyes: The British and the Somme, 1916, Christopher Duffy, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2006, 392 pages, index, ISBN 0 29784 689 2, $46.24 hardback. Available from Amazon.co.uk for £15 plus shipping; discounted to $29.02 at Amazon.com in the USA. One of several new studies of the Somme published to coincide with the 90th anniversary of that battle. Also available in the US from Casemate Publishing. Duffy is a prolific British military historian.

Liberty Theaters of the United States Army, 1917-1919, Weldon B. Durham, McFarlane, 2006, photos, table, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, $39.95 softcover. In in-depth look at the 42 theatres built by the War Department aimed at presenting "morally uplifting" plays and motion pictures for the Doughboys in training

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The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, Niall Ferguson, Penguin Group (USA)/Allen Lane (UK), 2006, index, ISBN 1 59420 100 5, $35 hardcover. Published in the UK with the subtitle History's Age of Hatred. Companion volume to a new six-part British TV series premiering in June 2006 examining the conflicts of the 20th century. Ferguson takes the position that World Wars One and Two, and the Cold War were not separate conflicts, but a single "hundred years' war, a struggle powered by imperial and ethnic competition. Dr. Ferguson, a leading economic historian and native of Glasgow, now teaches at Harvard.

Shooting the Front: Allied Aerial Reconnaissance and Photographic Interpretation on the Western Front - World War I, Terrance J. Finnegan, U.S. Department of Defense, 2006, 192 pages, photos, index, ISBN 1 93294 604 7, paperback; also available in hardcover; price not listed The author spoke at the WFA 2006 Annual National Seminar.

The Foe Within: Fantasies of Treason and the End of Imperial Russia, William C. Fuller, Cornell, 2006, 320 pages, index, ISBN 0 80144 426 8, 39.95 cloth. How often unfounded suspicions of betrayal of military secrets by German spies in the pay of Germany undermined the monarchy and helped pave the way to the overthrow of the Romanovs.

The Battle for Palestine, 1917, John D. Gainer, Boydell & Brown, 2006, 304 pages, index, illustrations, maps, ISBN 1 84385 263 1, $47.95 cloth. The three battles for Gaza, with particular emphasis on the successful third British attack which led to the Christmas 1917 occupation of Jerusalem

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In the Footsteps of the Canadian Corps: Canada's First World War, 1914-1918, Rich Gimblett & Angus Brown, CWM, 2006, 160 pages, maps, photos, no ISBN listed, C$24.95 paperback or C$35 hardcover. A picture history of Canada in The Great War, available from the Canadian War Museum.

The Great War and Medieval Memory: War, Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940, Stefan Goebel, Cambridge, 2006, 300 pages, index, ISBN 0 52185 415 6, $90 hardcover. A comparative history of the cultural impact of war.

The Battle for Palestine-1917, John D. Grainger, Boydell and Brewer, 2006, 304 pages, maps, illustrations, index, ISBN 978 1 8438 3263 8, $47.95 hardback. Allenby's Palestine victory reexamined.

Your Death Would be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War, Martha Hanna, Harvard, 2006, 336 pages, index, ISBN 0 67402 318 8, $26.95 cloth. The author is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado-Boulder who spoke at the WFA 2006 National Seminar. This is highly personal, powerful and moving perspective on The Great War drawn from hundreds of letters exchanged by a French newlywed couple separated by the conflict. Dr. Hanna is also the author of The Mobilization of Intellect: French Scholars and Writers during the Great War (Harvard, 1996).

Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War, Neil Hanson, Knopf, 2006, 496 pages, photos, map, index, ISBN 0 30726 370 3, $28,95 hardcover. Focuses on four soldiers (American, British, French and German) three of whom disappeared without a trace to explain how the Western world honors its battle dead.

Duffy's War: Fr. Francis Duffy, Wild Bill Donovan and the Irish Fighting 69th In World War I, Stephen L. Harris, Potomac Books (formerly Brassey's), 2006, 440 pages, index, photos, ISBN 1 57488 651 7, $29.95 cloth. A third book by Harris (a frequent speaker at WFA seminars) on New York National Guard regiments in on the Western Front.

Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House, Godfrey Hodgson, Yale, New Haven, 2006, 372 pages, index, ISBN 0 30009 269 5, $35.00 cloth. An important new biography of Wilson's alter ego and roving diplomatic emissary. How a Texas pol made to the center of the national and international political stages.

Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour: Rhetoric, Public Opinion and the League of Nations, J. Michael Hogan, Texas A&M Press, 2006, 216 pages, bibliography, index, photo, ISBN 1 58544 524 X, $34.95 cloth, ISBN 1 58544 533 9, $17.95 paperback. Analysis of Wilson's speeches in support of ratification of the Treaty of Versailles during his September 1919 tour of western states cut short by a crippling stroke. The author assesses the tour in the light of Wilson's own scholarly writings on government.

Theodore Roosevelt and World Order: Police Power in International Relations, James R. Holmes, Potomac Books (formerly Brassey's), 2006, notes, index, bibliography, photos, 327 pages, ISBN 1 57488 883 8, cloth, $29.95. A new look at Roosevelt's "Big Stick" policies, the Roosevelt Corollaries to the Monroe Doctrine and American imperialism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author is a former naval officer and a Ph.D. graduate of the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

American Battlegrounds of World War One then and New - A Battlefield Guide -- Enter the Yanks: the Battle of Chateau-Thierry, David Homsher, Battleground Productions, 2006, 304 pages, photos, maps index, bibliography, ISBN: 0970244304, $39.95. Available from the author at 85 Tilton Avenue, #4, Box 624, San Mateo, CA 94401, URL www.battlegroundpro.com, e-mail: daveh@battlegroundpro.com. First in a new series of guides, the first new guides to American battlefields in many years.

Field Marshall Sir Henry Wilson, A Political Soldier, Keith Jeffery, Oxford, 2006, 344 pages, maps, photos, index, ISBN 0 19820 358 6, $60.00 cloth. The story of a passionate Irish unionist who was one of England's most influential soldiers before and during WWI. Wilson was BEF liaison to the French Army and Western Front corps commander before replacing Sir William Robertson as Chief of the Imperial General Staff in February 1918. He was assassinated by the IRA in 1922.

American Soldiers Lives: World War I, Jennifer D. Keene, Greenwood Daily Life Through History Series, 2006, 240 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index, ISBN 0 31333 181 2, $65 hardcover. Drawing on reminiscences, diaries and letters, Keene describes life in training camps, transport overseas, action in France and the return home among African-Americans, Native American, immigrants, ordinary Doughboys and women who served "Over There."

France and the French: A Modern History, Rod Kenward, Overlook, 2006 741 + xx pages, index, maps, bibliography, notes, illustrations, ISBN 1 58567 733 7, $35.00 cloth. A History Book Club selection. Published in the UK under the subtitle La Vie en Bleu. The entire first section of the book is devoted to French politics and society from 1900 to 1931 including French participation in the Great War and postwar diplomatic struggles. Sections on political movements, the French army, the mutinies and the use of colonial troops on the Western Front are of particular interest as are chapters on the impact of the war on domestic politics and the postwar peace process. In all a subtle and engrossing analysis of the French Third, Vichy, Forth and Fifth Republics.

Churchill's Crusade: The British Invasion of Russia, 1918-1920, Clifford Kinvig, Continuum, 2006, 378 pages, illustrations, ISBN 1 85285 477 4, $29.95 hardcover, an account of armed British intervention in Russia following the Bolshevik revolution and an analysis of why intervention failed. Available from the Scholars Bookshelf. See also American Sideshow: America's Undeclared War in Russia, 1918-1920, Robert L. Willet, Brassey's (now Potomac), 2002.

Portrait of War: the U. S. Army's First combat Artists and the Doughboy's Experience in WWI, Peter Krass, Wiley, John & Sons, 2006, 352 pages, illustrations, ISBN 0 47167 023 5, $30.00 cloth. The story of established artists and illustrators commissioned to make a pictorial record of America in WWI.

Panthéon de la Guerre: Reconfiguring a Panorama of the Great War, Mark Levitch, University of Missouri Press, 2006, 224 pages, 10 x 7-inch format, color and b&w illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 0 8262 1678 6, $49.96 cloth. The story of the football-field sized patriotic painting featuring 5,000 full-size portraits of prominent WWI personalities. Painted in Paris and neglected for years, fragments of the panorama now rest in The Liberty Memorial, The National WWI Museum in Kansas City.

Wipers Times: The Complete Series of the Famous Wartime Trench Newspaper, Little Books, 2006, 400 pages, ISBN 1 90443 560 2, $40 hardback. With an introduction by Malcolm Brown, author of The Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme (Pan Macmillan, 2002).

Your Uniform is Your Pass -- Soldier and Sailor Welfare Relief and the American Doughboy in World War I: The Salvation Army, Sergio Lugo, Denver, 2006, 49 pages, photos, index, bibliography, ISBN pending, $20.00 large paperback available from the author postpaid. Write to Sergio Lugo, 1190 S. Grape, Denver, CO 80246, E-mail lugopspe@msn.com. Eighth of 11 volumes in a series, this one describing an often forgotten facet of US involvement in the conflict: the work of the Salvation Army and their "Donut Lassies" at home and overseas in France and Flanders.

Somme Mud: The War Experiences of an Infantryman in France, 1916-1919, Private E. P. F. Lynch, Will Davies (ed.), Random House Australia, 2006, 345 pages, ISBN 978 1 74166 547 5. War memoir of an Australian written in 1921 and only now published. Available from Doubleday at £17.99, or from used booksellers in the US.

Voices in Flight: Conversations with Air Veterans of The Great War, Anna Malinovska and Muriel Joslyn, Pen & Sword, 2006, 240 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 1 84415399 1, #39.95 cloth. Memoirs of and interviews with WWI pilots.

French Strategic and Tactical Bombardment Forces of World War I, René Martel., Allen Suddaby (translator), Steven Suddaby (editor), Rawson and Littlefield, 2006, originally published in 1939, 504 pages, ISBN 0 8108 5662 X, $60.00 paperback. Available from Barnes & Noble for $48. Edited and translated by WFA and League of WWI Aviation Historians member Steve Suddaby and his father. Martell served as a French bombardier/observer during WWI. Reviewed in Camaraderie, July 2006.

The Armenian Rebellion at Van, Justin McCarthy, University of Utah Press, 2006, 296 pages, maps, notes, index, appendices, ISBN 0 87480 870 7, $25.00 paperback. The story of the revolt in 1915 of Armenians in the Ottoman province of Van as background to the ensuing Armenian genocide.

A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918, G. J. Meyer, Dell. 2006, 704 pages, maps, photos, index, ISBN 0 55380 354 9, $28.00, hardback. Also available from the same publisher in paperback ISBN 0 44033 587 6, $17.95. A survey history advertised as challenging conventional wisdom while reexamining some of the misconceptions about the conflict. The Publishers Weekly review finds that the author presents "no original analysis or synthesis."

The Detonators: The Secret Plot Against America and an Epic Hunt for Justice, Chad Millman, Little, Brown and Co., 2006, 352 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 0 31673 469 9, $ 24.99 cloth. The story of the 23-year-long legal proceeding against Germany for the destruction by sabotage of the Lehigh Valley Railroad's Black Tom munitions depot on the New Jersey shore of New York harbor in 1916. See also Sabotage at Black Tom, Jules Whitcover, Algonquin, 1989.

World War I Reader: Primary and Secondary Sources, Michael S. Neiberg (ed.), New York University Press, 2006, 416 pages, timeline, maps, index, ISBN 0 81475 833 9, $60.00 hardcover, also published in paperback ISBN 0 81475 832 0, $25.00. Contains documents ranging from official papers to personal diaries, as well as articles and book chapters from written by major scholars. Chapters are arranged chronologically and by theme, and address causes, battlefield leadership, strategies and conditions.

Voices of Silence: The Alternative Book of First World War Poetry, Vivien Noakes (ed.), Sutton, 2006, 320 pages, ISBN 6 7509 4521 4, £17 ($32.95) cloth. This anthology avoids the established canon of Great War poetry and draws instead on diverse sources such as trench newspapers, hospital gazettes, gift books, postcards and privately-published works of single poets.

The Battle of Heligoland Bight, Eric W. Osborne, Indiana University Press, 2006, 169 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 0 25334 742 4, $27.95 cloth. A new history of the first naval battle of WWI between Germany and England.

Gallipoli: The Western Australia Story, Wes Olson, University of Western Australia Press, 2006, 396 pages, photos, maps, conversion table, abbreviations, chronology, index, ISBN 1 920694 82 X, $53.95 from International Specialized Book Services, 920 NE 58th Avenue, Suite 300, Portland, OR 97213-3786 E-mail info@isbs.com. A lavishly illustrated history of the Gallipoli Campaign drawing heavily on the memoirs and diaries of participants from Western Australia.

Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War, Tammy M. Proctor, New York University Press, 2006, 224 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 0 81476 694 3, $20 paperback. Mata Hari and much, much more of relevance at a time when 30% of new CIA case officers are females…

The British Army 1815-1914, Harold E. Raugh (ed.), Ashgate, 2006, 560 pages, index, ISBN 0 75462 564 8, £110 cloth from www.amazon.co.uk. A review of the campaigns, character and composition of the British Army, really a colonial constabulary, during the century from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the outbreak of The Great War with emphasis on reforms, evolving technology and doctrine . Contributors include: Holger Herwig, Hew Strachan and Edward M. Spiers.

British Army Handbook, 1914-1918, Andrew Rawson, Sutton 2006, 380 pages, photos, index, ISBN 0 75093 745 9, $44.95 hard cover. How the British Army grew from a small colonial constabulary in 1914 to a force of nearly four million men in 1918.

Douglas Haig: Architect of Victory, Walter Reid, Birlinn, 2006, 496 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 1 84158 517 3, $50.00 hardback. A new biography sure to spark controversy. Available from Casemate Publishing.

The German Right, 1860-1920: The Political Limits of the Authoritarian Imagination, James Retallack, University of Toronto Press, 2006, 430 + xiii pages, illustrations, graphs, notes, index, ISBN 0 8020 9445 8, $75 cloth. One of a number of new academic studies of the evolution of the German political system before and during WWI.

Zeppelin, Raymond L. Rimell, Albatross Publications (publishers of Windsock Data Files), UK, 2006, 86 pages, photos, diagrams, color profiles, ISBN 94814 87 4, $49.88 (£25) paperback. Available direct from the publisher online at www.windsockdatafilespecials.com/zeppelin.html and from Barnes and Noble independent booksellers. Covers the 34 'P' and 'Q' class Zeppelins that bombed Britain, France and Russia in1915 and 1916. With fold-out scale plans, details on markings, camouflage, armament and ordnance. Limited edition of 1,000 by the author of Zeppelin, Conway, 1984, 256 pages, ISBN 0 85177 239 0. For aviation specialists.

Twelve Days on the Somme: A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916, Sidney Rogerson with an introduction by Malcolm Brown, Greenhill Books/MBI International, 2006, 272 + xxviii pages, sketches by the author, ISBN 1 85367 680 2, $22.95 cloth. Memoirs of a British subaltern first published in 1933; vivid descriptions with out embellishment of life on the front lines written by a survivor of the 1916 Somme offensive. Unabashedly intended as an antidote to the usual downbeat 1930's war memoir.

Power at Sea: The Age of Navalism, 1890-1918, Lisle A. Rose, Missouri, 2006, 376 pages, illustrations, maps, index, ISBN 0 82621 701 X, $19,95 paperback. The last imperial scramble for global empire: colonies, markets and naval supremacy.

German Disarmament after World War I: The Diplomacy of International Arms Inspections, 1920-1931, Richard J. Schuster, Routledge, 256 pages, notes, index, bibliography, ISGN 0 415 35808 6, $120.00 cloth. Germany was able to renegotiate the reparations terms of Versailles, but not the treaty's military strictures. This is the story of enforcing the Versailles arms limitations clauses; an early attempt at arms limitation and control.

Home Fires Burning: The Great War Diaries of Georgina Lee, 1914-1919. Gavin Roynon (ed.), Sutton, 2006, 356 pages, ISBN 0 75094 386 6, $27.96, cloth. A view of the war from the British home front.

Letters of Douglas Haig: Campaign Diaries and Letters pre-1914, Douglas Scott (ed.), Pen & Sword Military, 2006, 300 pages, index, ISBN 1 84415 404 1, $50.00 hardcover.

War or Revolution: Russian Jews and Conscription in Britain, 1917, Harold Shukman, Valentine, Mitchell, 2006, 157 + x pages, illustrations, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 08 5303 708 8, $25 paper. A scholarly look at the impact of the war on Russian Jewish working class immigrants.

Directing Operations: British Corps Command on the Western Front, 1914-1918, Andy Simpson, Spellmont, 2006, 292 pages, maps, photos, index, ISBN 1 86227 292 1, $39.95 cloth. Examines how the role of the British corps changed over the course of the war.

George Brown: An American Soldier in World War I, David L. Smead (ed.), University of Nebraska, 2006, 199 + xii pages, index, notes, bibliography, ISBN 0 8032 1351 4, $29.95 cloth. Drawn from the letters of Corporal George Brown, 117th Engineers, 42nd Division.

German Battlecruisers, 1914-1918, Gary Staff, Tony Bryan (illustrator). Osprey, Vanguard Series, 2006, 48 pages, color and b&w illustrations, drawings, index, ISBN 1 84603 009 9, $15.95 paper. Individual ship histories and brief analysis of their engagements.

No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War, Timothy J. Stapleton, Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2006, 188 + xii pages, maps, photos, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 0 88920 498 0, $55 cloth. A rare look at African participation in The Great War.

German Anglophobia and the Great War, 1914-1918, Matthew Stibbs, Cambridge, 2006, 281 pages, notes, bibliography, index, illustrations, ISBN 0 52102 728 4, $45.00 paperback (also available in cloth). Scholarly analysis of German attitudes toward Great Britain during WWI and the related development of extreme right wing political networks in Munich and Berlin.

Crisis at Sea: The United States Navy in European Waters in World War I, William N. Still, Jr., University of Florida Press, 2006, 768 pages, index, notes, illustrations, bibliography, abbreviations, ISBN 0 8130 2987 2, $100 cloth. A wide-ranging account, the first in many years, of the deployment, battles, tactics, logistics, policies and shipbuilding programs of the U. S. Navy at war, 1917-1918.

They Fought for the Motherland: Russia's Women Soldiers in World War I and the Revolution, Laurie S. Stoff, University Press of Kansas, 2006, 320 pages, index, photographs, ISBN 0 70061 485 0, $34.95 cloth.

Battle of Britain 1917: The First Heavy Bomber Raids on England, Jonathan Sutherland & Diane Canwell, Pen & Sword, 2006, 168 pagers, photos, bibliography, appendices, index, ISBN 1 84415 345 2, £19.99 hardcover. A useful summary without maps of Gotha and Giant bomber raids on the UK.

The United States Army Second Division Northwest of Chateau Thierry in World War I, John W. Thomason, Jr., and George B. Clark (ed.) MacFarland & Co., 2006, 253 pages, illustrations, drawings, maps, index, ISBN 0 78642523 7, 39.95 paperback. Written as an official history in 1927 by Marine Captain, author and artist John Thomason (Fix Bayonets!), who served in combat with the division's Fourth Marine Brigade. Thomason left the project incomplete after discovering unflattering facts about combat decisions taken by divisional officers. Includes original illustrations prepared by Thomason and a brief biographical sketches of the author and of the division written by the editor, George Clark, himself a Marine and published author who is a WFA member.

Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion, Charles Townshend, Ivan R. Dee, 2006, 480 pages, ISBN 1 56663 704 X, $28.95 hardcover. Also published in 2005 in England by Penguin in hardback (2005) (ISBN 0 71339 690 0) and wraps (2006) (ISBN 0 14101 216 1). Draws on eyewitness accounts recently released by the Irish government. Billed by Atlantic as "a dispassionate and definitive reconstruction…carefully shifting legend from fact."



Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, David Traxel, Knopf, 2006, photos, index, ISBN 0 36541078 3, $27.50 cloth. By the author of The Birth of the American Century. A portrait of America at the turn of the 20th century, the height of the Progressive Era and of the expansive and reformist leadership of Roosevelt and Wilson at home and overseas. Available from the History Book Club for $22.00.

Madness and the Military: Australia's Experience of The Great War, Michael Tyquin, Australian Military History Publications, 2006, 196 pages, ISBN 1 876349 89 0, Aus$54.00 from the publisher 13 Veronica Place, Loftus 2232, Australia, e-mail warbookship@bigpond.com. The author examines the often uneasy relationship between the Australian military and the medical establishment in treating shell shock.

The U. S. Navy Warship Series: Volume 3, The New Navy, 1883-1922, U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2006, 304 pages, 200 b&w photos, chronology, index, ISBN 0 415 97871 8, $95.00 hardcover. Covers naval ships authorized and commissioned beginning with the ABCD ships of 1883 to the never-completed 1916 naval construction program through the Washington Naval Disarmament Conference of 1921-22. . The entire set of six volumes covering ships of 1775 though 2005 is available for $395.

Boy Soldiers of the Great War: Their Own Stories for the First Time, Richard van Emden, Trafalgar Square, 2006, 352 pages, index, photos, ISBN 0 75531 303 8, $13.96 paperback. The experiences of a handful of the hundreds of thousands of underage men and women who served in British forces during WWI written by a veteran historian and author of previous memorializing BEF veterans.

Haller's Polish Army in France, Paul S. Valasek, 2006, 432 pages, index, appendices, ISBN 0 977 9757 0 3, $35.00 (plus five dollars shipping) paperback. The author's grandfather served with this force in France along with some 1,600 recruits from the southwest Pennsylvania. Order from the author 2643 51st Street, Chicago, IL 90632-1159, e-mail hallersarmy@aol.com.

To the Last Salute: Memoirs of an Austrian U-Boat Commander, Georg von Trapp, translated by Elizabeth M. Campbell, Nebraska, 2007, 224 pages, index, illustrations, maps, ISBN 0 8023 4667 6, $21.95 cloth. Available for the first time in English, the memoirs of Austria-Hungary's leading U-Boat ace and founder of the Trapp Family Singers (The Sound of Music). Available in the spring of 2007.

Les Cannons de la Victoire, Francois Voulviller & Pierre Touzin, Histoire & Collections, 2006, 80 pages, illustrations, ISBN 2 35250 022 2, $19.95 paperback. To be followed by a second volume detailing railway artillery and other specialized guns. In French, available from Casemate Publishing.

The General and the Jaguar: Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa, a True Story of Revolution and Revenge, Eileen Welsome, Little, Brown, 2006, 352 pages, maps, illustrations, index, ISBN 0 51671 599 9, $39.95 cloth. The author is a Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of two PEN awards.

Uniforms, Equipment, and Weapons of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, Bert Werner, Schiffer, 2006, 326 pages, b & w and color photos, notes, bibliography, ISBN 0 7643 2431 4, $79.95 hardcover. Color plates of both original and replica uniforms, headgear and personal and specialist equipment; small arms, medals, decorations, insignia, and implements, including nurses' and women volunteers' (Salvation Army, Red Cross) uniforms.

Battles on the Tigris: The Mesopotamian Campaign in the First World War, Ron Wilcox, Pen & Sword, Leo Cooper 2006, 224 pages, index, maps, ISBN 1 84415 430 0, £15.99 hardback. A new history of a campaign with modest aims, and often inept political and military execution. Available in the US from Casemate Publishing in Pennsylvania.

Remembering War: The Great War Between Memory and History in the Twentieth Century, Jay Winter, Yale, 2006, 340 pages, index, notes, ISBN 1 30011 068 5, $35.00 cloth. Another in a series of social histories by prolific social historian Jay Winter about how war is remembered in Great Britain.

Hell in the Holy Land: World War I in the Middle East, David R. Woodward, Kentucky 2006, 253 + xiii pages, maps, photos, index, list of abbreviations, ISBN 0 8131 2383 7, $29.95 cloth. Being published in the UK by Tempus under the title Forgotten Soldiers of the First World War. Dr. Woodward teaches modern European and Russian History at Marshall University and has written several other monographs on WWI. He spoke at our WFA seminar at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton in 1997, and is a member of the panel awarding the Annual WFA-Phi Alpha Theta Undergraduate Essay Prize.

Hunters of the Steel Sharks: The Submarine Chasers of WWI, Todd A. Woofenden, Signal Light Books, 2006, 224 pages, photos, charts, diagrams, index, ISBN 0 97891 920 7, $19.95, paperback. The history of the operations of US Navy 110-foot wooden submarine chasers in European waters. Available from the publisher at www.signallightbooks.com.

The Millionaires Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys who Fought the Great War and Invented American Airpower, Marc Wortman, Perseus, 2006, 532 pages, index, ISBN 1 58648 328 5, $26.00 cloth. Discounted at $20.80 by Barnes & Noble. Also available on disc ($40) from Tantor Media, discounted by Barnes & Noble. Like the author, many of these flyboys were graduates of Yale.

Royal Navy Handbook, 1914-1918, David Wragg, Sutton, 2006, 320 pages, photos, index, ISBN 0 75094 203 7, $44.95 hard cover. How the RN adapted to WWI. The author has written several books on naval warfare, including naval aviation.

The German 1918 Offensives: A Case Study in the Operational Level of War, David T, Zabecki, Praeger, 2006, 408 + xxiv pages, maps, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 0 415 35600 8, $125 hardcover. An analytical look by a premier military historian drawing on many German sources to explain why Ludendorff's spring 1918 offensives failed to cause Entente collapse and achieve German victory. Includes extensive maps and many useful tables showing orders of battle, comparative troop strengths, reserves, numbers of guns, trench mortars and aero squadrons. Author of Steel Wind: Colonel Goerg Bruchmüller and the Birth of Modern Artillery (Greenwood, 1994). Recommended.

War Experiences in Rural Germany, 1914-1923, Benjamin Ziemann, translated by Alex Skinner, Berg, 2006, 320 pages, index, ISBN 1 84520 245 7, $84 cloth from Barnes and Noble. Challenges many widespread preconceptions of the effect of WWI on veterans and their communities. Also available in a 2007 Berg paperback for $40.

2005

White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian, Jamie Bisher, Taylor & Francis, 2005, 552 pages, photos and maps, ISBN 0 71465 690 9, $70.00 cloth. Built around the biography of Cossack warlord and Ataman Grigori Semenov this book examines conflicts involving a host of characters including the Soviet Red Army, the American and Japanese Armies and the Czech Legion.

Spies of the Kaiser: German Covert Operations in Great Britain During the First World War, Thomas Boghardt, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 224 + xiv pages, notes, index, illustrations, bibliography, ISBN 1 4039 3248 4, $75.00 cloth. Written by a historian at the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. He begins his survey with a look at the pre-war period of Anglo-German naval rivalry finding that German espionage before and during the conflict produced few tangible results and practically nothing on the British Expeditionary Force.

The Economics of World War I, Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison, (eds.), Cambridge, 2005, 245 + xvi pages, index, tables, figures, notes, bibliographic references, ISBN 0 521 85212 9, $80 cloth. An analytical examination of the economies, economic mobilization and war finance of the principal belligerents: Germany, Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire, France, the UK, Russia, Italy and the United States; as well as the neutral Netherlands. Contributors from England, the US, Germany, France, Holland and Turkey include Peter Gatrell and Hugh Rockoff.

Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers War, 1914-18, Peter Barton, Peter Doyle and Johan Vandevalle, McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal, 2005, 304 pages, photos, illustrations, index, ISBN 0 777352 949 7, $49.95, C$60.00 cloth. A story of a cat-and-mouse game of mine warfare which is still relevant since several mines remain unexploded deep beneath the former Western Front. A good companion volume to the CD video Miners at War available from www.puddleproductions.co.uk or phone (866) 991-3627 toll-free from the US or Canada.

Fire Power, Shelford Bidwell & Dominick Graham, 2005, 344 pages, illustrations, ISBN 1 84415 216 2, $17.99 paperback. Development of the artillery arm in two world wars.

The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the destruction of the Ottoman Armenians, Donald Bloxham, Oxford, 2005, 340 pages, photos, index, ISBN 0 19927 356 1, $29.95 paperback. A non- partisan account of the genocide and the impact of Ottoman relations with German, the Entente and America. Published to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the beginning of the massacre of Armenians, April 24, 1915, a newly relevant date given the impending negotiations for Turkish entry in the European Union.

Dreadnought Gunnery at the Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control, John Brooks, Frank Cass, 2005, 320 pages, index, ISBN 0 71465 702 6, £60 from www.amazon.co.uk. Gunnery, a subject that has fascinated naval historians for centuries, is also covered in Joh T. Sumuda's In Defense of Naval Supremacy: Financial Limitation, Technological Innovation and British Naval Policy, 1899-1914, Routledge, 1989 (hardback) and 1993 (paper).

The German Revolution, 1917-1923, Pierre Broue, translated from the French by John Archer and edited by Ian Birchall & Brian Pierce, Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2005, 991 + xxvii pages, bibliography, chronology, biographical details. ISBN 9 0041 3940 0, $169 cloth. New translation of a work first published in 1971 as La Revolution ne Allemagne, 1917-1923.

T. E. Lawrence in War and Peace: An Anthology of the Military Writings of Lawrence of Arabia, Malcolm Brown, Greenhill Books, 2005, , 320 pages, photos, index, ISBN 1 85367 653 5, $39.95 cloth. The author specializes in WWI at the Imperial War Museum in London and is the author of biography (NY University Press, 2003) and several other anthologies of Lawrence's papers. A 2006 History Book Club selection for $27.99

Seize the Trident: The Race for the Superliner Supremacy and How it Altered the Great War, Douglas Burgess, McGraw-Hill, 2005, 312 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 0 07143 009 1, $29.95 hardback. Big liner competition on the Atlantic in peace and war.

Distant Victory: The Battle of Jutland and the Allied Triumph in the First World War, Daniel Allen Butler, Praeger, 2005, 251 + xii pages, appendices, index, sources, ISBN 0 275 99073 7, $44.95 cloth. A revisionist thesis: the author asserts that Jutland was a major strategic victory that shaped the outcome of the conflict rather than a tactical draw or narrow German triumph and that command leadership styles were more important in the outcome than technical idiosyncrasies of the various classes of dreadnoughts.

The Lion and the Poppy: British War Veterans and Society, 1921-1939, Niall Barr, Praeger, 2005, 228 + xiv pages, photos, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 0 313 32471 3, $124.95 cloth. The British Legion, dominated by the officer class, had a narrow agenda focusing mainly on domestic bread-and-butter issues and limited membership in the interwar years.

Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U. S. Army during World War I, Carol R. Byerly, New York University Press, 2005, 251 + xv pages, index, bibliography, figures, illustrations, ISBN 0 8147 9923 X, $65.00 cloth, ISBN 0 8147 9924 8, $21.00 paperback. Examines the Army's response to the influenza pandemic of 1918-19. Ms. Byerly is speaking at the WFA annual national Seminar May 19-21, 2006 at Aurora, Colorado.

Grasping Gallipoli: Terrain, Maps and Failure at the Dardanelles, 1915, Peter Casseaud and Peter Doyle, Spellmont, UK, 2005, 284 pages, b&w images, maps, index, ISBN 1 86227 283 2, $34.95 hardcover. The authors contend that the lessons from this campaign have been overdrawn by military historians.

1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs - The Election that Changed the Country, James Chace, Simon & Schuster, 2005, 324 pages, index, photos, bibliography, ISBN 0 74320 384 1, $25.95 from The History Book Club in hardcover. Also available in paperback ISBN 0 74327 355 9 for $14.00. The story of the bitterly fought four-party 1912 presidential race won with a 42% plurality by T. Woodrow Wilson. Socialist candidate Debs garnered a record number of votes (some 900 thousand) for the Socialist Party, and was later jailed for his vociferous opposition to American entry into WWI. Proof that George W. Bush was not America's first minority President… indeed, Wilson never won 50% of the vote in either 1912 or 1916. The 1912 election set the stage for a remarkable spate of progressive measures than included, during Wilson's first term, the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, creation of the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Income Tax, and the Federal Reserve System, as well as a constitutional amendment providing for the direct election of Senators.

Master Mind: The Rise and Fall of Fritz Haber, Daniel Charles, Harper Collins, 2005, 336 pages, ISBN 0 06056 272 2, $24.95 cloth. Haber won the Nobel Prize for his work to extract nitrogen from the atmosphere and convert it into fertilizer. Though almost forgotten today, he was the chemical genius behind German war-time explosives production and the initiation of poison gas warfare in April 1915. Imperial Germany, blockaded by the Royal Navy, desperately needed his inventions in order to survive an industrialized conflict. Reviewed by Martin Sieff in the October St. Mihiel Trip-Wire. The author is a science correspondent for NPR.

Most Unfavorable Ground: The Battle of Loos, 1915, Niall Cherry, Helion, 2005, 384 pages, maps, photos, index, ISBN 1 874622 03 5, £22.50 from the publisher, www.helion.co.uk. A 90th anniversary reexamination of the unsuccessful culmination of the badly depleted BEF's 1915 Western Front campaign.

The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiberg, Roger Chickering, Cambridge, 2005, 624 pages, index, appendices, ISBN 0 52185 256 0, $99.00 cloth. A social history by a distinguished historian of World War I and professor at Georgetown University.

British Artillery 1914-1918: Heavy Artillery, Dale Clark, Osprey New Vanguard, No. 105, 2005, 48 pages, photos, drawings, index, ISBN 84176 788 3, $15.95 paperback. Many of the guns used by American Coast Artillery units on the Western Front were ob British design and manufacture.

Blindfold and Alone: British Military Executions in the Great War, Cathryn M. Corns & John Hughes-Wilson, Cassell, 2005, 544 pages, illustrated, maps, appendix, index, ISBN 0 304 36696 X $17.95, cloth. Based in part on newly available official records. Available from Casemate.

Loos 1915: The Unwanted Battle, Gordon Corrigan, Spellmont, 232 pages, index, illustrations, 262 pages, ISBN 1 86227 239 5, £14 ($23.50) hardcover from Amazon in the fall of 2005. Story of an unsuccessful British attack that finished off many of the few remaining "Old Contemptibles"and provided lessons for future BEF commander Douglas Haig. Corrigan is the author of Sepoys in the Trenches about the experience of the British Indian Army Corps on the Western Front in 1914-1915, also from Spellmont.

An American Soldier in World War I, Robert Sherwood Dillon, Five and Ten Press, 2005, 49 pages, ISBN 1 89237 923 6, $5.00 paperback. The story of the author's father's experience as an engineer in the 35th Division (Kansas National Guard) which had a rough initiation into battle in the Meuse-Argonne. Harry Truman commanded an artillery battery in this division.

Between Two Worlds: A Rajput Officer in the Indian Army, 1902-1921, Based on the Diary of Amar Singh of Jaipur, DeWitt C. Ellinwood, Jr., Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, 679 + xiv pages, maps, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, appendices, ISBN 0 716 3113 4, $76.00 cloth. A veteran of the Boxer Rebellion, Singh was granted a restricted commission in 1905. Given a regular commission in 1917, Singh's diaries offer an unusual look at the British Indian Army in the period of The Great War. Dr. Ellinwood, professor-emeritus at SUNY Albany, spoke at the 2005 WFA national seminar at Plattsburgh.

Five Days in October: The Lost Battalion of World War I, Robert H. Ferrell, University of Missouri, 2005, 152 pages, illustrations, maps, index, $19.85 hardcover. Contains new material. Dr. Ferrell, who spoke at the April 2005 GWS seminar in Los Angeles, is a Professor-emeritus at the University of Indiana and the author of many books on WWI.

Mimi and Toutou's Big adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika, Giles Foden, Knopf, 2005, 272 pages, index, illustrations, $24.00 paperback. The Royal Navy attacks Germany in Central Africa, the events that inspired C. S. Forester's The African Queen.

German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916, Robert T. Foley, Cambridge, 2005, 316 pages, index, maps, halftones, ISBN 0 521 84193 3, $70.00 (£45) hardcover. Did Falkenhayn actually plan to wage a battle of attrition at Verdun? Draws on previously unavailable German documents held in Russian archives since WWII. Look for a full review in Camaraderie.

Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia, Alison Fleig Frank, Harvard, 2005, 366 pages, photos, maps, charts, index, ISBN 0 674 0887 7, $47.95 cloth. At the opening of the 20th Century Austria ranked third among the world's petroleum-producing states (surpassed by only the USA and Russia) accounting for five percent of global production. Yet, by 1918, the Central Powers did not have enough oil to maintain military operations. This book tells the story of what went wrong economically, socially, financially and politically in an ethnically diverse and often embattled area of Europe unfamiliar to most of us in North America.

Blood in the Argonne: the Lost Battalion of World War I (Campaigns and Commanders, Volume 8), Alan D. Gaff, Oklahoma University Press, 2005, 384 pages, index, maps, ISBN 0 80613 696 0, $32.95 hardbound.

The Gold Star Mother Pilgrimages of the 1930s, John W. Graham, McFarland, 2005, 229 pages, notes, index, illustrations, ISBN 0 78642 138 X, #35.00 paperback. Between 1930 and 1930 the US Government paid the travel expenses of over six thousand Gold Star wives and mothers to visit their son's and husband's graves in England, France and Flanders. See the section on videos for a recent video on this subject.

Victory Through Coalition: Britain and France During the First World War, Elizabeth Greenhalgh, Cambridge, 2005, 304 pages, index, ISBN 0 52185 384 2, $75.00 cloth. A broad look at coalition warfare with wide use of private correspondence and diaries.

Balloon-Busting Aces of World War I, Jon Guttman with illustrations by Harry Dempsey, Osprey, 2005, 96 pages ISBN 1 84176 877 4, $19.95 paper. WFA members will recall Jon Guttman's talks at Baltimore seminars. Guttman is an editor at Aviation History and Military History magazines for the Primedia Group.

The Haig Diaries: The Diaries of Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918, Sir Douglas Haig, Gary Sheffield, John Bourne (eds.) Weidenfeld & Nicholson, March 2005, 489 pages, index, ISBN 0 29784 702 3, £15 in hardcover from Amazon.co.uk. Advertised as offering previously unpublished material some of it -- not surprisingly -- unflattering to Asquith and Lloyd George. Sheffield and Bourne are both authors of several earlier histories of The Great War.

Decisions for War, 1914-1917, Richard F. Hamilton & Holger H. Herwig, Cambridge, 2005, 282 pages, index, ISBN 0 52154 530 7, $17.99 paperback. Also available in hardback for $60.00. Continuation and expansion of Hamilton & Herwig's fine study The Origins of World War I (Cambridge, 2003) this time focussing on key individual actors - monarchs, ministers, military men, political leaders - with divergent agendas.

The Somme, Peter Hart, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005, 592 pages, photos, index, ISBN 0 297 84705 8, $32.95 hardback. Another in a long line of British histories dissecting the Battle of the Somme.

Bloody April: Slaughter in the Skies Over Arras, Peter Hart, Weidenfield & Nicholson, 2005, 381 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 0 297 84621 3, $32.95 (£25) hardback. The 1917 Battle of Arras resulted in devastating losses for RFC and RNAS observers and spotters for BEF artillery, and marked the apogee of Germany's premier air ace, Manfred von Richthofen. The author is a member of The Western Front Association.

No Ordinary Determination: Percy Black and Harry Murray of the First AIF, Jeff Hatwell, Freemantle Arts Centre Press, 2005, 303 pages, index, notes. Bibliography, appendix, maps, photos, ISBN 1 920731 41 5, $26.95 from International Specialized Book Services, 920 NE 58th Avenue, Suite 300, Portland, OR 97213-3786 (503) 287-3093 E-mail info@isbs.com. The story of the campaigns of two Australian volunteers who rose from the ranks to field grade command in the AIF of 1915-18 fighting at Gallipoli and on the Western Front.

Grasping Gallipoli: A History, Maurice Harvey, Spellmont, 2005, b&w photos, maps, ISBN 1 86227283 234.95 hardcover. The author contends that the impact of this unsuccessful campaign has been overplayed.

Australian Hawk Over the Western Front - A Biography of Major R. S. Dallas, DSO, DSC, C de G avec Palme, Adrian Hellwig, Grub Street, 2005, 192 pages, photos, index, ISBN 1 904943 34 9, $36.95 hardcover. The story of Australia's leading air ace

This Great Harbor: Scapa Flow, W. S. Hewison, Berlinn, 2005, 320 pages, photos, index, ISBN 1 84341 026 8, $24.95 paperback. The development of the harbor from the time of the Vikings through two world wars, the scuttle and inter-war salvage of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet.

The Little Field Marshall: A Life of Sir John French, Richard Holmes, Cassell, 2005, 427 pages, notes, photos, index, notes, ISBN 0 304 36702 8, $14.95 paperback available from Combined Publishing. The first commander of the BEF, a 19th century officer, fights a 20th century war. The author is a well-known historian and reserve Brigadier in the British Army.

Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany, Isabel V. Hull, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2005, 384 pages, maps, halftones, ISBN 0 8014 4258 3, $45.00 hardback. An institution's descent from administrative murder into genocide - unchecked by civilian control -- traced from German Southwest Africa into Belgium and France to Armenia, and the final Western Front battles of World War I.

The Unwanted: Great War Letters from the Field, John McKendrick Hughes, John Richard Hughes (ed.), University of Alberta Press, 2005, 395 pages, ISBN 0 88864 436 1, $32.95 paper. Highlights the efforts of the BEF to cultivate abandoned land back of the front lines in France and Flanders. Written by a Canadian officer closely involved in this project beginning in 1917.

Finding the Lost Battalion: Beyond the Rumors, Myths and Legends of America's Famous WWI Epic, Rob Laplander, Hunter-Halverson, 2005, ISBN 0 97441 433 6, $29.95 hardcover, with a foreword by WFA member Taylor Beattie

1914 - 1918: Regard d'un Medecin Militaire, Docteur Léon Leçerf, Editions Charles Nérissey, 2005, 125 pages, photos, ISBN 2 914417 25 X, $34.96 hardback. Memories of a French military doctor along with his photographs. In French.

The War Lords: Hindenburg and Ludendorff, John Lee, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2005, 224 pages, photos, maps, ISBN 0 297 64675 3, $27.95 hardcover. The dictatorship of the duumvirate and their impact on German society, economy and politics from 1916 to 1918 and beyond.

Eddie Rickenbacker: An American Hero in the Twentieth Century, W. David Lewis, John Hopkins, 2005, 624 pages, photos, index, ISBN 0 80188 244 3, $35.00 hardcover. American racing car driver, aviation pioneer and top American WWI air ace with 26 WWI victories, Rickenbacker went overseas in 1917 as Pershing's driver, rose to command a the 94th pursuit squadron, founded a motor car company and Eastern Airlines. Rickenbacker's career is also the subject of a not always flattering biographical novel, Fast Eddie: a Novel in Many Voices by Robert L. O'Connell, Wm. Morrow, 1999.

My Seventy-Five: Journal of a French Gunner, August-September 1914, Paul Lintier, Helion, 2005, 160 pages, illustrations, ISBN 1 874122 97 3, $39.95 hardcover. A rare translation of a French WWI memoir.

Curse of the Narrows, Laura M. MacDonald, Harper Collins, 2005, 345 pages, ISBN 0 80271 458 7, $26.00 hardback. The story of the massive ammunition ship explosion that leveled large parts of Halifax in December 1917 and the relief and reconstruction effort that ensued.

Canada in the Great War -- the Western Front Association Papers, McGill-Queens University Press, 2005. Available in both hardback (US$ 55) and paperback (US$ 22.50). Included are papers presented by Laura Brandon of the Canadian War Museum, WFA member John Hurst formerly of Guelph University, WFA Newfoundland Branch Chairman David Parsons, Pat Brennan of the University of Calgary, J. B. C. McKercher of the Royal Military College, Christopher Terry of the Canadian Aviation Museum, and Sidney F. Wyse of Carleton University. The book is edited by Professor Briton Busch of Colgate University, who also organized the seminar, and includes maps.The IBSN number for paper back edition is 0-77352-257-X and for hard back 0-77352-546-7.

Margaret Macdonald: Imperial Daughter, Susan Mann, McGill-Queens, 2005, 296 pages photos, index, ISBN 0 77352 999 3, $39.95, £25.95 cloth. Ms. Macdonald served as chief of Canadian overseas nursing during WWI with the rank of Major, the first such appointment for a woman in the British Empire. She also served as a nurse in the Spanish-American and Boer Wars, and during the building of the Panama Canal.

Ghosts of the Great War: Aviation in World War One, Phillip Markanna and Javier Arango, Ghosts, 2005, 192 pages, ISBN 0 91699 729 4, $40 hardback. Color photos of the 21 original and reproduction aircraft in the Aeroplane Collection of Paso Robles, California. Markanna's color portraits are accompanied by vintage archival prints of the same aircraft types. Markanna's earlier work has concentrated on World War Two aircraft.

Leonard Wood: Rough Rider, Surgeon, Architect of American Imperialism, Jack McCallum, New York University Press, 2005, 357 pages, index, ISBN 0 81475 699 9, $34.95 hardcover. An almost forgotten Medal of Honor-winner Major General Leonard Wood (1860-1927), a Harvard Medical School graduate, was the first commander of the Rough Riders, Governor of Cuba, US Army commander in the Philippines, Theodore Roosevelt's personal White House physician, Army Chief of Staff, Governor General of the Philippines, and a key figure in creating the modern army, as well as unsuccessful candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1920.

Citizen Soldiers: The Liverpool Territorials in the First World War, Helen B. McCartney, Cambridge, 2005, 266 pages, index, maps, photos, tables, ISBN 0 52184 800 8, $90 cloth. A social history of the British Tommy drawing on official records and soldiers' correspondence. From the series Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare edited by Jay Winter and Paul Kennedy.

An Airman's Wife, Aimée McHardy, Grub Street, 2005, 320 pages, ISBN 1 904010 96 2, $29.95 hardback. Letters of British air ace Bill Bond to his wife.

Call to Arms: The British Army 1914-1918, Charles Messenger, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2005, 416 pages, index, ISBN 0 29784 695 7, £30.00. The evolution of the British Army from a colonial constabulary to a field force of some two million men on the Western Front; the development of command, administration. technology, tactics, and medical services.

Diaries from the Somme, on CD-ROM from Microform Academic Publishers, UK, ISBN 1 85117 060 X, £22, $44.00 including postage and VAT; price valid until 6/06. Firsthand accounts from diaries held at the Imperial War Museum of 40 British soldiers who fought on the Somme in 1916. Order from www.microform.co.uk/academic.

The Russian Civil War, Evan Mowdsley, Birlinn, 2005, 384 pages, photos, index, bibliography, ISBN 1 84341 024 8, $29.95 paperback. Draws on material made available from Soviet archives after the collapse of the USSR.

Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage, Walter Dean Myers & Bill Miles, Harper Collins Children's Books, 2005, 160 pages, photos, illustrations, ISBN 0 06001 113 X, $16.99 hardback. An unusual and well crafted book on WWI directed at juvenile readers nine to 12 years old. A good gift for your grandchildren…

Fighting The Great War: A Global History, Michael S. Neiberg, Harvard, 2005, 416 pages, maps, index, halftones, ISBN 0 674 01696 3, $27.95/£18.95/€25.80 hardcover. A new survey history for non-specialist readers.

World War I, Michael Neiberg (ed.), Ashgate International Library of Essays on Military History, 2005, 628 pages, ISBN 0 7546 2477 3, $225 hard cover. Essays exploring many Great War themes by Dennis Showalter, John Horne, Alan Kramer, and Timothy Nenninger among others. Way too expensive; order it from your library.

Intimate Voices from the First World War, Svetlana Palmer and Sarah Wallis (eds.), Perennial, 381 pages, ISBN 0 06058 420 3, wraps, $14.95. First published in 2004, this book contains first-person accounts, often in translation, from the diaries of men on both sides of the front. Available from Amazon.co.uk.

The Cruise of the Sea Eagle: The Amazing True Story of Imperial Germany's Gentleman Pirate, Blaine Pardoe, Lyons Press, 2005, 295 pages, index, ISBN 1 59228 694 1, $22.95, hardcover. The most recent of several books concentrating on German maritime raiders of WWI. These include Kaisers Pirates: German Surface Raiders in World War One and Emden-Ayseha Adventure: German Raiders in the South Seas and Beyond, 1914, both published by the Naval Institute Press. Germany employed surface raiders, both armed merchantmen and war ships of up to large cruiser size, in both World Wars.

Dear Family: Letters from the Mexican Border Campaign and the Great War in France, Volume I - Mexican Border Service, Shawn Pease (ed.), self published, 99 pages, $32.33 softcover, available for online purchase at www.lulu.com/shawn-pease. First of a series on the letters home from the son of a working class National Guardsman of the 26th (Yankee) Division from Newton, Massachusetts who also served in France and in WWII.

Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War, Jane Potter, Clarendon Press, London, 2005, 270 pages, illustrations, ISBN 0 19927 896 1, $89.96 hardcover. Popular British literature in WWI.

Wilson's War: How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder led to Hitler, Stalin and World War II, Jim Powell, Crown Forum, 2005, 341 pages, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 1 4000 8236 6, $27.95 cloth. Based on secondary sources, this pot-boiler is in the same gendre as several other recent books blaming Woodrow Wilson for most if not all the woes of the 20th century. Breaks no new ground.

The Somme, Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2005, 84 pages, index, photos, ISBN 0 30010 694 7, $35.00 hardcover. From two established Australian historians, authors of the well-received 1996 work Passchendaele: The Untold Story (Yale 1996) about the Third Battle of Ypres and Command on the Western Front: the Military Career of Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1914-1918 (Pen & Sword, 2004) based on the diaries of one of the BEF's best army commanders.

Warfare and Belligerence: Perspectives in First World Studies, Pierre Purseigle (ed.), Brill Academic Publishers, 2005, 400 pages, index, ISBN 9 00414 352 1, hardcover, $184.00 (used copies available at $155.00 from Barnes & Nobel on line). Fourteen papers in a variety of disciplines given at the June 2003 Second European Conference of the International Society for First World War Studies. These essays cover, inter alia, differing national approaches to sacrifice and redemption, the development of war cultures in 1914, academic responses to the war in Paris and London, military discipline and morale, the blurring of distinctions between civilian and soldier, prisoners of war, veterans and demobilization.

We Lead, Others Follow: The First Canadian Division, 1914-1918, LCol (Ret'd) Kenneth J. Radley, Vanwell, 2005, 250 pages, photos, index, bibliography, ISBN 1 55125 100 0, $34.95 hardcover. The training, organization, equipment and operations of the CEF's First Division with particular emphasis on the final battles of 1918.

The Dream of Civilized Warfare: World War I Flying Aces and the American Imagination, Linda R. R. Robertson, University of Minnesota Press, 2005, 504 pages, index, ISBN 0 81664 271 0, $22.95 paperback. First published as a hard cover in 2003, this book looks at the earliest development of a new weapon and traces the origins of America's yearning to wage war without risking soldiers' lives.

Hobey Baker: American Legend, Emile Salvini, Hobey Baker Memorial Foundation, 2005, ISBN 0 97634 503 7, $19.95 paperback. Largely forgotten today, Baker was a 1914 Princeton graduate and star collegiate football, baseball and hockey player. Employed by J. P. Morgan after graduation, he enlisted in 1917 and fought with the 103rd Aero Squadron which, among other squadrons, traced its ancestry to the Lafayette Esquadrille. Baker died in mysterious circumstances during a late 1918 test flight. The Hobey Baker award is given annually to the best American collegiate hockey player. And, Princeton's hockey rink is named after him. Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise character Allenby is thought to be based on Baker.

They Called Us Devil Dogs, Brian Scarborough, Lulu, 2005, 206 pages, ISBN 1 41165 574 5, $14.95 trade paperback. From the diaries of the author's grandfather who served in the 6th Marines of the Second Division, AEF. Available from www.lulu.com.

Spies in Uniform: British Military and Naval Intelligence on the Eve of the First World War, Matthew Seligmann, Oxford, 2005, 240 pages, ISBN 0 19926 150 4, $119.00 cloth. The author argues the thesis that Great Britain had good and sufficient reason, based on solid intelligence, to suspect aggressive German intentions in the years leading up to 1914.

The German Army on the Somme, 1914-1916, Jack Sheldon, Pen & Sword, 2005, ISBN 1 88415 269 3, $50.00 hardcover. Unusual in that the author draws on German sources and tells the story of the Somme battles from that point of view.

The U-Boat Century: German Submarine Warfare, 1906-2006, Jak M. Showell, Greenhill, 2005, 256 pages, photos, maps, index, ISBN 1 59114 892 8, $39.95 cloth, a selection of the History Book Club. In 1915, U-Boats sank 555 Entente merchant vessels; in 1916, the number climbed to 1.300; and, in 1917 over 3,000 Allied vessels were sent to the bottom by U-Boats. These losses were never replicated, even in the Battle of the Atlantic in World War Two, as is pointed out by the author.

The Moral Disarmament of France: Education, Pacifism and Patriotism, 1914-1940, Mona L. Siegel, Cambridge, 2005, 317 + vii pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 0 5218 3900 9, $75.00 hardcover. Examines the complexity of French teachers' views of war in the inter-war period and how these influenced French popular reactions to threatened German aggression in the 1930s.

The British Working Class and Enthusiasm for War, 1914-1916, David Silbey, Frank Cass, London & New York, 2005, 189 pages, index, notes, ISBN 0 415 35005 0, $105.00 hardcover. British social history.

Lost Battalions: the Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality, Richard Slotkin, St. Martins, 2005, 639 pages, ISB 0 80504 124 9, $35.00 hardcover. A social history of two AEF units: the African-American 369th Infantry Regiment; and, the Lost Battalion of the 77th Division) made up largely of Jewish, Italian and Eastern European Americans from New York City.

Jamaican Volunteers in the First World War: Race, Masculinity and the Development of National Consciousness, Richard Smith, Manchester University Press, 2005, 192 pages, index, bibliography, illustrations, ISBN 0 71906 985 8, $74.95 cloth. Scholarly examination of the experiences of West Indian soldiers in WWI and the war's impact on growth of nationalism and the pro-independence movement in Jamaica. Readers will recall that West Indian troops -- unlike French colonial troops -- were employed exclusively as laborers, not riflemen, on the Western Front.

The Polish Struggle for Nation and Nationalism, David Stefancic (ed.), Columbia University Press, 2005, 231 pages, notes, ISBN 9 8803 3565 3, $50.00 cloth. A collection of eight essays, three of which deal with Poland's rebirth in World War I, in particular the legion movement.

The Lights that Failed: European International History, 1919-1933, Zara Steiner, Oxford, 2005, 954 pages, maps, tables, index, ISBN 0 19822 114 2, $45.00 hardback. Challenges the assumption that the Versailles Treaty led to WWII. A second volume, Triumph of the Night, will examine the years from 1933 to the early 1940s.

Rewriting the First World War: Lloyd George, Politics and Strategy, 1914-1918, Andrew Suttie, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 296 pages, index, ISBN 1 40399 119 7, £50 hardcover. Assesses Lloyd George's attempt to shape the history of the war (and the record of his own participation) concentrating on the alleged incompetence and Western Front fixation of Britain's military leaders.

The First World War: Myth and Memory, Dan Todman, Hambledon, 2005, 320 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 1 85285 459 6, $34.95 hardcover. Shows how views of the war have changed over the years and how a distorted image of it emerged and became dominant.

The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social and Military History, Spencer C. Tucker (ed. Volumes one through 4), Priscilla Mary Roberts, (ed. documents volume), ABC-CLIO, 2005, 1,538 pages, ISBN 1 85109 420 2, $485.00 hardcover. Dr. Tucker recently retired from VMI and is the editor of the The European Powers in World War I: An Encyclopedia (Garland, 1996) as well as an excellent one-volume history of the war.

The Pomp and Politics of Patriotism: Imperial Celebrations in the Habsburg Empire, 1848-1916, Daniel L. Unowsky, Purdue University Press, 2005, 263 + viii pages, notes, abbreviations, bibliography, index, ISBN 1 55753 400 4, $29.95 paper. Revisionist history of the last years of the multinational Habsburg Empire which suggests the political, economic and social systems of the Dual Monarchy were a good deal more dynamic and open to modernization than is usually credited and that the decline of the Empire was far from inevitable.

The Battles of the British Expeditionary Forces, 1914-1918: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography, Fred B. van Hartesveldt, Praeger, 2005, 195 + VII PAGES, INDEX, ISBN 0 313 30625 7, $84.95 cloth. Three brief introductory chapters summarize BEF actions in 1914 and 1915. The annotated bibliography has over 1,000 entries.

Dew of Death: The Story of Lewisite, America's World War I Weapon of Mass Destruction, Joel Vilensky, Richard Butler, Pandy R. Sinish, Indiana, 192 pages, ISBN 0 25334 612 6, 24.95 hardcover. The story of Lewisite, a variation of mustard gas based on an arsenic compound, a weapon developed, but never deployed during WWI.

Labor, Loyalty and Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I, Carl R. Weinberg, Southern Illinois University Press, 2005, 272 pages, index, ISBN 0 8093 2634 5 (cloth) - 8093 2635 3 (paperback), $55.00 cloth, $27.00 paperback. A look at working class life in small coal mining towns around East St Louis during WWI.

Petain, Charles Williams, Little, Brown, UK, 568 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 1 31686 127 8, £30, hardcover. To be published in the USA in October 2005 by Palgrave Macmillan. A sympathetic view of the hero of Verdun and leader of Vichy France from 1940 to 1944. Il ne passeron pas.

The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies 1914 to the Present (Studies in the social & Cultural History of Modern Warfare), Jay Winter and Antoine Prost, Cambridge, 2005, 259 pages, index, ISBN 0 52161 163 6, £15.63 paperback, and ISBN 0 52161 611 1, £40 hardcover from Amazon.co.uk. Historiography: scholarly analysis of the multitude of ways WWI has been interpreted by French, American and British historians, literary scholars, film directors and writers over three generations. Winter teaches at Yale and Prost at the University of Paris.

China and the Great War: China's Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization, Xu Guoqi, Cambridge, 2005 332 pages, index, halftones, ISBN 0 52184 212 3, $60.00 cloth. A neglected topic; billed as the first full-length study of China's involvement in the conflict.

2004

Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory and the First World War in Britain, Janet S. K. Watson, Cambridge University Press, NY, 2004, 365 pages, index, bibliography, notes, ISBN 0 52183 153 9, $85 hardcover. Cultural and intellectual history contrasting war as an experience and war as a memory and developing the consequences of postwar constructions. The author is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. The Tomlinson Prize carries an award of $3,000 funded by a grant from WFA Director-emeritus Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr.

The Bantams: The Untold Story of World War One, Sidney Allinson, Xlibris-Random House, 2004, 314 pages, index, ISBN 1 41 34 4445 8, $19.54, trade paper. Originally published in 1995, this revised edition is written by the chairman of WFA's Pacific Coast Branch. The work describes the formation from 1916 and campaigns on the Western Front of British battalions formed from recruits shorter than the standard five foot, two inch minimum height for British soldiers. Also available in hard cover for $26.69 or less from Barnes & Noble.

The Forgotten Front: The East African Campaign, 1914-1918, Ross Anderson from Tempus in Charleston, SC., 2004, A new look at chasing von Lettow Vorbeck around bush veldt

Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War, Peter Barham, Yale, 2004, 451 pages, ISBN 0 300 10379 4, $45.00 hardback. Shell shock and its treatment; UK government reactions and public acceptance; written by a psychologist. Available discounted on line from both Barns & Noble and Amazon.com.

The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History, John M. Barry, Viking Penguin, 2004, 560 pages, index, photos, ISBN 0 67089 473 7, hardback, $20.95 at Barnes & Noble, hardcover. The "Spanish Flu" pandemic of 1918-19 claimed over 20 million lives worldwide, including half a million in America and three million in India.

Ypres: The First Battle, 1914, Ian F. W. Beckett, Harlow, UK: Pearson Education, 2004, 221 + x pages, index., maps, notes, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, ISBN 0 582 50612 3, £19.99. Contains careful explanations of command decisions taken on both sides.

The Advance from Mons, 1914, Walter Bloem, Helion, 2004, 126 pages, ISBN 978 81876 62257 4, $39.95 hardcover. The memoir of a German reserve officer, a company commander, tracing his service from mobilization to the Marne and retreat to the Aisne. Recommended by WFA member Tom Jones.

Evidence, History and The Great War: Historians and the Impact of 1914-1918, Gail Braybon,(ed.), Berghahn Books, 2004, 256 pages, index, ISBN 1 57181 801 4, $25 paper. How the great war has influenced present-day historians.

The Imperial War Museum Book of 1914: The Men Who Went to War, Malcolm Brown, Sidgwick & Jackson, UK, 300 pages, ISBN 028 30732 33, £20 hardcover. Also published as The Year of Lost Illusions. Part of a series of Imperial War Museum books on the Great War, many of them written by distinguished British historian and IWM staff member Malcolm Brown. These are all available on line from Amazon.co.uk.

1914: The Men Who Went to War, Malcolm Brown, Sigewick & Jackson, London, 2004, 221 + xx pages, index, maps, illustrations, bibliography, ISBN 0 283 07323 3, £20 hardcover. Draws on dairies and other personal materials the archives of the Imperial War Museum to delve into the minds of British soldiers serving in The Great War. A pastiche with no particular theme.

An Illustrated Guide to the '03 Springfield Service Rifle, Bruce Canfield, Andrew Mawbray, Lincoln, RI, 2004, 239 pages, halftones, tables, index, ISBN 1 93146 415 4, $49.95 hardcover. By the author of U.S. Infantry Weapons of the First World War.

National Army Museum Book of the Turkish Front, 1914-1918: The Campaigns in Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia and in Palestine, Field Marshall Lord Carver, Pan Macmillan, London, 2004, 294 pages, maps, photographs, index, bibliography, ISBN 0-330-49108-3, £7.99 wraps.

Kitchener's War: British Strategy from 1914 to 1916, George H. Cassar, Brassey's Washington, DC, 2004, 381 pages, photos, maps, index, ISBN 1-57488-708-4, $32.50 cloth. How Lord Kitchener, a British icon, built the army that contested and won The Great War. Available from Brassey's on line at www.brasseysinc.com/

Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918 (second edition), Roger Chickering, Cambridge, 2004, 248 pages, index, maps, figures, halftones, ISBN 0 52154 780 6, $24.99 paper; also in hardcover for $56.00. Revised edition of an excellent analytical treatment by an established WWI historian who teaches at Georgetown University.

The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941 Edward M. Coffman, Harvard, 2004, 525 pages, notes, index, photos, ISBN 0 674 01299 2, $35 hardcover. The long awaited second volume of "Mac" Coffman's monumental study of the United States Army. Volume one entitled:

The Old Army: A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime, 1784-1898 was published in 1986. This volume begins with the Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection and covers the major reforms instituted by War Secretary Elihu Root that created the modern general staff system and helped prepare the Army for World War One. Of particular interest to Western Front Association members is Coffman's analysis of the colonial Army's experience in the Philippines and later on the Western Front, as well as the postwar army.

The Bonus Army: An American Epic, Paul Dickson and Thomas B. Allen, Walker, 2004, 368 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 0 80271 440 4, $27.00 hardcover. A History Book Club selection. The story of the 1932 march on Washington by WWI veterans seeking bonuses promised, but not appropriated by Congress. Fearing a Communist-led insurrection, President Hoover order their eviction and Army Chief of Staff MacArthur overreacted with tragic and violent results seen in theatre newsreels throughout America.

Tunneling to Freedom and Other Escape Narratives from World War I, Hugh Durnford and others, Dover, Mineola, NY, 2004, 320 pages, photos and maps, ISBN 0-486-43434-6, $14.95 in trade paperback. A reprint of Escapers All: Being the Personal Narratives of Fifteen Escapers from Wartime Prison Camps, 1914-1918, John Lane, London, 1932, available from www.doverpublications.com.

America in World War I, Donald M. Goldstein and Harry J. Maihafer, Brassey's, Washington, DC, 2004, 186 pages, photographs, maps, index, chronology, ISBN 1-57488-390-9, $34.85 hardback. The eighth in Brassey's "America Goes to War" series. Profusely illustrated, pedestrian text.

Out Here at the Front: The World War I Letters of Nora Saltonsall, Judith S. Graham (ed.), Northwestern University Press, Boston, 2004, 312 pages, notes, photos, glossary appendix, ISBN 1 55553 598 4, $19.95 wraps. Also available in hardcover. Wartime letters of the younger sister of Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall, himself a WWI veteran, and member of a politically and socially prominent family. Miss Saltonstall was an American Red Cross volunteer serving in the British sector at the time of the German spring offensives.

Victory Through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War, Elizabeth Greenhalgh, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 304 pages, index, ISBN 0 52165 384 2, £45 hardback. The development of a winning civil-military relationship central to victory in 1918,

The Battle of the Ortanto Straits: Controlling the Gateway to the Adriatic in WWI, Paul G. Halpern, Indiana University Press, 2004, 208 pages, index, notes, photos, maps, ISBN 0-253-34379-8, $29,95 hardback. By the author of A Naval History of WWI and The Naval War in the Mediterranean, 1914-1918. The story of the largest Mediterranean naval encounter of WWI involving surface and submarine vessels, mines and aircraft from five nations.

Aubers Ridge, Edward Hancock, Leon Cooper, Pen & Sword, 2005, 192 pages, photos, maps, tables, ISBN 1 84415 093 3, $17.95 from Casematepublishers.com. New addition to the Battlefield Europe series edited by Nigel Cave. Analyses the action of May 9, 1915 when battalions of the First and Seventh Divisions and the Indian Army Corps attacked in support of an ultimately unsuccessful French drive against Vimy Ridge

Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I, Maureen Healy, Cambridge, 2004, 333 + xv pages, maps, illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography, index, ISBN 0 5218 3124 -5, $75.00 cloth. A good companion to Winter and Robert's Capital Cities at War: London, Berlin, Paris, 194-1919 (Cambridge 1997).

The" Casualty Issue" in American Military Practice: The Impact of World War I, by Evan Andrew Huelfer, Praeger, 2004, 244 pages, index, ISBN 0 27597 760 9, $69,95 cloth. Tracing continuing aversion to battle casualties back to 1917-1918.

Germany and the Causes of the First World War, Mark Hewitson, Berg, Oxford and New York, 2004, 268 pages, references, index, ISBN 1 85973 870 2, $24.95 paper. A response to revisionist historians who have allegedly attempted to refute Fritz Fischer's arguments, assertions and analyses that Imperial Germany's leaders were convinced they could win a continental war. Assumes a thorough knowledge of the historiography of WWI. Not for general readers.

Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918, Richard Holmes, Harper Collins, London, 2004, 748 pages, index, maps, photos, bibliography, ISBN 0m00 713751 6, $35.00 hardback. The story individually and collectively of the over five million men who prevailed on the Western Front.

Some Tips on Ordering These Titles Books from Frank Cass are available in the United States from Taylor Francis/Routledge, 10650 Toebben Drive, Independence, KY 41052, (800) 634-7046, Fax (800) 248-4724 The above books published by Pen & Sword, Wiedenfeld & Nicholson, and Graham and Vanwell are available in North America from Combined Publishing 1016 Warrior Road, Suite C, Drexel Hill, PA 19016, (610) 853-9131, Potomac Books (formerly Brassey's) puts out a series of military biographies, the newest of which is Haig: Evolution of a Commander by Andrew Wiest, 2005, 160 pagers ISBN 1 57488 684 3 $12.95 in hardcover. Dr. Wiest teaches at Southern Mississippi University and spoke at the WFA Ft. Leavenworth Seminar in 2000. Other volumes in this series cover Foch, Hindenburg and Turpitz. Order from Potomac Books, 22841 Quicksilver Drive Dulles, VA 20166 www.potomacbooksinc.com/

Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class and Power in the Rural South During the First World War, Jeanette Keith, North Carolina, 2004, 260 + viii pages, notes, index, maps, bibliography, ISBN 0 8078 2897 1 (cloth) 0 8078 5562 6 (paperback), $59.95 cloth, $22.50 paper. Anti-war sentiment, draft evasion racism, and the split between (predominantly) rural and urban southerners over World War I. Draws heavily oh local draft records to assert that Southern selective service boards often discriminated against poor whites to protect cheap black local sources of labor (sharecroppers) while at the same time drafting black landowners farming in competition with whites.

Trench Art: An Illustrated History, Jane A. Kimball, Silverpenny Press, Davis, CA, 2004, 416 pages, color illustrations, ISBN 0 97559 710 8, $62.00 hardcover. A coffee table-size book lavishly illustrated in color. Discounted at $52 from Barnes & Noble. Recommended by WFA member Frank Howard of Miami. See Stand To! For a full review.

World War I Memories: An Annotated Bibliography of Personal Accounts Published in English Since 1919, Edward G. Lengel, Editor-in-Chief, Scarecrow Press, Lanham MD, Toronto & Oxford, 2004, 321 pages, index, ISBN 0-8108-5008-7m $50.00 soft cover. Contains a list of recommended books. Available from Rowman & Littlefield, 4501 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200, Lanham, MD 20706 (800) 462-6420, Fax (301) 429-5748. Post-war memoirs published in or translated to English from writers from Austria-Hungary, Australia and New Zealand, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, the USA and several others. The works of several noted veterans are included including those of America's most decorated Doughboy Alvin C. York, Belgian flying ace Baron Willie Coppins, British intelligence officer Richard Meinertzhagen, Liman von Sanders, Joseph Joffre and Benito Mussolini among a hosts of lesser-known participants. The author is associate editor at the University of Virginia. Useful for those seeking first-person accounts of the 1914-1918 conflict.

The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experience and Memories of Loss and the Great War, Tanja Luckins, Curtin University Books, Freemantle, 2004, notes, bibliography, index, illustrations, 304 pages, ISBN 1-92073-174-1, $26.96 paper. Available from ISBS, 920 NE 58th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97213-3786, www.isbs.com.

Uncovered Fields: Perspectives in First World War Studies, Jeannie Mcleod and Pierre Purseigle, Brill, Leiden, the Netherlands, 2004, 311 pages, illustrations, figures, notes, bibliography, ISBN 90-04-132264-3, $133.00 hardcover. Fifteen essays by scholars from seven countries presented at a 2001 conference in Lyons, France.

Six Months that Changed the World: The Treaty of Versailles and the Road to World War I. Barnes and Noble has issued in its Portable Professor series an unabridged compact disc recording of Margaret MacMillan's (Random House, 2002) history along with a concise paperback (109 pages) syllabus of 14 brief lectures keyed to the book. The syllabus contains essays and questions, suggesting additional readings, tables of statistics, photos, several good maps showing the impact of Versailles on 20th century political geography, and biographic sketches of the major political personalities involved, as well as texts of key documents -- the Balfour Declaration and Wilson's Fourteen Points. ISBN 0 76075 073 3, eight CDs, 7.57 hours, $39.95. Good listening material for those long drives/flights to attend WWI seminars.

Portugal 1914-1926: From the First World War to Military Dictatorship, Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses, University of Bristol. 2004, 284 + xx pages, ISBN 0 86292 555 X, £35.00 hardcover. An analysis of the impact of the war on Portugal which -- despite being gripped with political and economic chaos -- entered the conflict on the side of the Entente and fought on several fronts.

The Secrets of the Rue St. Roch: Intelligence Operations Behind Enemy Lines in the First World War, Janet Morgan, Allen Lane, London, 2004, index, ISBN 0 713 99765 6, £27.29 from Amazon.co.uk online. An account of a British intelligence operation centered in Luxembourg and concentrating on German troop movements. Highly recommended by my European correspondents.

Fight or Pay: Soldiers' Families in the Great War, Desmond Morton, University of British Columbia Press, 2004, 326 +xvii pages, index, appendix, notes, bibliography, ISBN 0 7748 1108 8, C$37.95 hardcover. Dr. Morton, one of Canada's leading military historians, spoke to this subject at our WFA August 2004 seminar at SUNY Plattsburgh.

The Living Unknown Soldier; A Story of Grief and the Great War, Jean-Ives Le Naour (translated by Penny Allen), Metropolitan Books, NY, 2004, 233 pages, notes, photos, ISBN 0 8050 7522 4, $19.20 hardback. The true story of a French soldier who survives the war with permanent loss of memory and who is never identified. Recommended by WFA Director-emeritus Norman B. Tomlinson., Jr. Reminiscent of Japrisco's novel A Very Long Engagement…

Your Uniform is Your Pass: Soldier and Sailor Welfare, Relief and the American Doughboy in World War I - The American Library Association, Sergio Lugo, Paragon Graphics, Denver, CO, 2004, 29 pages, index, bibliography, illustrations, no ISBN, available for $18.00 post paid from Sergio Lugo, 1190 S. Grape, Denver, CO 80246, E-mail lugopspe@msn.com. The first of 11 monographs that deal with private American voluntary welfare and relief organizations during the First World War. Such organizations typify the Progressive Era of political and social reform that reached its peak in the early 20th century during the administrations of Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson.

Gallipoli: Making History, Jenny Macleod (ed.), Frank Cass, London, 2004, 194 + ix pages, index, ISBN 0 7146 5462 0, $104.95 hardback. Papers from a symposium held in 2001 at the Centre for Australian Studies, Kings College, London. Contributors include the editor, Martin Gilbert, Niall Barr and Stuart Ward.

Call to Arms: The British Army, 1914-1918, Charles Messenger, Weidenfield & Nicholson, 2004, 574 pages, photos, index, bibliography, ISBN 0 297 85695 7, $49.95 cloth, $24.95 paperback (ISBN 0 30456 722 2) New research produces a sparkling study of how Kitchener built the victorious BEF. Favorably reviewed in The Journal of Military History, January 2006

Britain's Economic Blockade of Germany, Eric W. Osborne, Frank Cass, Naval Policy and History Series, London, 2004, 215 + ix pages, index, bibliography, ISBN 0 7146 5674 4, $114.95 hardcover. An examination of British policy on blockade, and its evolution and execution in light of shifting international law and advances in weaponry.

Over the Top: The Great War and Juvenile Literature in Britain, Michael Paris, Praeger, Westport, 2004, 191 + xxii pages, notes, index, illustrations, ISBN 0 275 97518 5, $92.95 hardcover.

All the Kaiser's Men: The Imperial Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918, Ian Passinghkam, Sutton, 2004, 288 pages, ISBN 0 75092 881 6, $39.95 hardcover. An analysis of German strategy, tactics, and leadership as well as that leadership's limited ability to adapt to changing circumstances. Reviewed in the January 2005 edition of Stand To!

Tannenburg: Erich Ludendorff and the Defense of the Eastern German Border in 1914, Perry Pierik, Uitgeverij Aspeck, Netherlands, 2004, 102 pages, bibliography, photos, maps, $19.95, paperback, available from ISBS, 920 NE 58th Avenue, Portland, OR 97213-3786 (503) 287-3093 Fax (503) 280-8832., www.isbs.com. A new look at Germany's most famous victory in WWI. The best analysis of this battle was written by Dennis Showalter.

The Anzac Experience: New Zealand, Australia, and Empire in the First World War, Christopher Pugsley, 2004, Reed Publishing, NZ, 356 pages, index, maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, ISBN 0 79000 941 2, NZ$49. A fine new book on Anzac participation in The Great War.

Healing the Nation: Soldiers and the Culture of Caregiving in Britain during the Great War, Jeffery S. Reznick, Manchester University Press, 2004, ISBN 0 71 90697 42, £40 from Amazon.co.uk. Treatment, rehabilitation and recovery of wounded soldiers in the WWI Britain.

Special Section: Three on the AEF Trench Knives and Mustard Gas-With the 42nd Rainbow Division in France, Hugh S. Thompson, edited by Robert H. Ferrell, Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 2004, 293 pages, index, maps, bibliography, photos, notes, ISBN 1-58544-290-9, $29.95 hardcover. Collapse at Meuse-Argonne: The Failure of the Missouri-Kansas Division, Robert H. Ferrell, University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London, 2004, 173 pages, maps, photos, index, notes, ISBN 0-8262-1532-7, $29.95 hardcover. Meuse-Argonne Diary - A Division Commander in World War I, William M. Wright, edited by Robert H. Ferrell, University of Missouri Press, 2004 188 pages, maps, photos, index, notes and notes on sources, ISBN 0-8262-1527-0, $29.95 hardcover. These three books present contrasting views of American's major effort on the Western Front, The Meuse Argonne Offensive of September - November 1918. One is the story of a successful division, the 89th, drawn from the diary of its leader Major General William Wright, who was later promoted to Corps commander. Another presents a cautionary tale of a typical inexperienced and under trained AEF division, the 35th Missouri-Kansas National Guard. The final volume presents the war as seen through the eyes of a highly-decorated and badly-wounded subaltern in the famed Rainbow Division of General Douglas MacArthur. Professor-emeritus at the University of Indiana, Dr. Ferrell is best known for his biographies of Presidents Harry Truman and Franklin Roosevelt. Truman was an artillery battery commander in the 35th Division. Future Missouri Senator Champ Clark and Dwight W. Davis, donor of the Davis Cup tennis trophy, were also officers in the 35th. The best of this trio is the analysis of the 35th Division collapse in the Meuse-Argonne which spotlights the steep learning curve faced by AEF commanders and soldiers in 1917 and 1918. Ferrell faults Major General Robert E. Traub, the divisional commander, for insensitivity to the tactical situation in fighting in the Argonne around Felville and Varennes, territory familiar to participants in recent WFA-USA tours. Divisional artillery commander Brigadier General Lucien D. Berry also comes in for criticism for failure to comprehend his guns role in infantry support. It was divisional engineer Colonel Thomas C. Clark who saved the day and prevented retreat from turning into rout. Other brigade, regimental, battalion commanders performed adequately; some preformed brilliantly before the Division was withdrawn from the line on September 30, 1918. The 35th, of course, was not the only division to fail in the Meuse-Argonne. Two other AEF divisions failed to advance, and several divisional and brigade commanders relieved for sub par performance. Unfortunately, the well documented lessons learned by the 35th division were not studied by post-war American Army officers. Now these are once again available for our study.

British Generalship on the Western Front, 1914-1918: Defeat into Victory, Simon Robbins, Frank Cass, 2004, 272 pages, index, ISBN 0 41535 006 9, £60.00 in hardcover. Examines how the BEF learned from early mistakes to fight effectively through to victory in 1918; the development of modern combined arms doctrine that broke the trench stalemate and has dominated all wars thereafter.

The American Foreign Legion: Black Soldiers of the 93rd in World War I, Frank E. Roberts, U. S. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2004, 288 pages, ISBN 1-59111-4734-4, $29.96 hardcover. The Harlem Hell Fighters of the 369th Regiment (15th New York National Guard) were part of this division, whose individual infantry regiments fought under French command.

Philadelphia to Flanders: The Story of Nurse Helen Fairchild's Life in 1917 During World War One, Nelle Fairchild H. Rote, Create-A-Book (private second printing), 2004, 282 + xiv pages, maps, photos, drawings, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 0 9769492 6 8, $45 hardback. The story of an American nurse with the AEF in France written by her niece. Based largely on Helen Fairchild's letters home written before her tragic death from a liver infection in January 1918. Available from Nelle Fairchild at elle12@ptd.net.

Matters of Conflict, Nicholas J. Saunders (ed.), Routledge, NY, 2004, illustrated, 372 pages, illustrated, ISBN 0 41528 054 0, $35.95 in paperback from discounters, Also available for $100 (£65) in hardcover from Amazon. Fifteen contributors examine the vast material legacy and constantly evolving significance of WWI from trench art to post cards, unexploded ordnance to prosthetic limbs. Saunders wrote a 2002 book on Trench Art for Pen & Sword in the UK...

War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon, Dover, Mineola, NY, 2004, 113 + v pages, ISBN 0 486 43715 4, US$7.95, C$11.95 in trade paperback. An original Dover compilation of Sassoon's poetry published in the UK beginning in 1918.

Mannlicher Military Rifles: A Collector's Guide, Paul S. Scarlata, Andrew Mowbray, Box 460, Lincoln, RI, 02865, 618 pages, index, illustrations and photos, ISBN 1 913464 14 6, $32.50 hardcover. The standard Austro-Hungarian infantry arm of WWI whose straight-pull action was adapted by other armies, including the Canadian.

Inventing Anzac: the Digger and National Mythology, Graham Seal, University of Queensland Press, 2004, 239 pages, illustrations, photos, index, ISBN 0-7022-3447-8, $32.95 trade paperback. Traces the development of the proud central myth of Australian nationhood back to its origins on the battlefields Gallipoli peninsula and the trenches of the Western Front.

The Cambridge Companion of the Literature of the First World War, Vincent Sherry (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2004, 344 pages, ISBN 0 52152 897 6, £11.89 paperback from Amazon.co.uk. A critical overview of the major gendres, the impact of the war on the literature of the UK, America, France and the USA and legacy of the war in 20th century literature.

Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy, David Stevenson, Basic Books, NY, 2004, 564 + xl, index, maps, abbreviations, photos, ISBN 0 465 08184 3, $28 hardcover. A survey history which breaks no new ground, but rather is a recapitulation of the last 20 years of scholarship. Published in the UK under the title 1914-1918: The History of the First World War, Allen Land, 729 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 0 713 99208 5, £25 boards from Amazon.co.uk.

The First World War, Hew Strachan, Viking-Penguin, NY, 2004, 286 pages, index, maps, photos, notes, ISBN 0 670 03295 6, $27.95 hardcover. A distillation of Strachan's (pronounced Strawn) of massive three-volume history of the War, which is still in progress. Remarkable for the contemporary color photos (not tints) found in the center section of the US edition. Dr. Strachan is a member of the WFA's annual Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. book award panel.

The First World War in Africa, Hew Strachan, Oxford, 2004, 180 pages, index, ISBN 0 19925 728 0, $15.95 paperback. Another spin-off from Strachan's massive three volume work on WWI.

Financing the First World War, Hew Strachan, Oxford, 2004, 268 + viii pages, bibliography, index, ISBN 0 19 925727 2, $15.95 in trade paperback. Key sections from Strachan's history To War revised and reprinted as individual essays on the gold standard, financial mobilization, budgets of the belligerents, taxation, domestic and foreign borrowing. First in a series of individual paperbacks be excerpted from Strachan's award-winning trilogy on The Great War still in progress. The author is a member of the panel which selects the winner of WFA's Annual Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Award.

A Question of Loyalty: General Billy Michell and The Court Martial that Gripped the Nation, Douglas C Waller, Harper Collins, 2004, 384 pages, ISBN 0 06050 547 8, $26.95, hardcover, the story of the seven-week 1925 trial of WWI Army General William Mitchell, American aviation pioneer. Available from the History Book Club. This story was made into an excellent and largely historically accurate 1955 Republic motion picture starring Gary Cooper, and directed by Otto Preminger based on the book by Burke Davis. In their December 2004 issue the editors of American Heritage picked this movie as one of the 10 greatest historical films. For an excellent recent biography see Billy Mitchell by James J. Cooke published by Lynne Rienner in 2002.

Under the Devil's Eye: Britain's Forgotten Army at Salonika, 1915-1918, Alan Wakefield and Simon Moody, Sutton, 2004, 256 pages, photos, maps, index, ISBN 0 75093 537 5, $34.95 hardcover. First general history of this obscure front since Alan Palmer's The Gardeners of Salonika (Simon and Schuster, 1965).

Lloyd George and the Generals, David R. Woodward, Frank Cass, London, 2004, 367 pages, index, photos, ISBN 0 7148 5507 4, $69.95 hardcover. The debate over West vs. East, and Lloyd George's attempts to control BEF commanders.

In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Forces , 1917-1919, Susan Zeiger, University of Pennsylvania, 224 pages, 2004, ISBN 978 0 8122 1875 6, $22.95 paperback. Some 16 thousand women served overseas with the AEF. Some joined for patriotic reasons, others for economic motives, to search for adventure or challenge gender boundaries. A useful addition; to the study of womens' roles in The Great War.

German War Planning, 1891-1914: Sources and Interpretations, Terence Zuber, Boydell & Brewer, Ltd., 2004, 320 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 1 84383 108 2, $85 hardback. Consists mainly of translations of German planning documents upon which Zuber's book Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Planning 1871-1914 (Oxford, 2003) and related articles are based. The author, a retired American army officer, asserts the controversial and much contested thesis that the Schlieffen Plan never really existed.

The Rape of Belgium: The Untold Story of World War, Larry Zuckerman, New York University Press, 2004, 348 pages, index, bibliography, illustrations, notes, ISBN 0-8147-9704-0, $32.95 hardback. A candidate for the 2004 WFA Annual Book Award in which the author finds the seeds of WWII Nazi occupation policies in Belgium of 1914-1918. Covers the same ground as the award-winning A History of Denial (Yale University Press), but is less scholarly in approach and is more readable narrative. Lacks maps.

Special Section: Zepplins & Airships Zeppelin! - Germany and the Airship, 1900-1939, Guillaume de Syon, John Hopkins, 2002, 255 pages, ISBN 0-8918-6734-7, $45.00 hardcover; now, also available in paperback for $30.00. Airships in International Affairs, 1890-1940, John Duggan and Henry Cord Meyer, Palgrave, 2002, 275 pages, ISBN 0-333-75128-0, $75.00 hardback. Both of these new books are expensive. A better buy might be a copy of the classic The Zeppelin in Combat: A History of the German Airship Division, 1912-1918, by Douglas H. Robinson, University of Washington, 1983, (3rd edition) ISBN 0-29595-753-2, which is still available used from Barns & Noble and new from The Scholars Bookshelf.

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