Undertones of War, Edmund Blunden, Chicago, 2009 (1928), 252 pages, ISBN 978 0 228 06176 4, $14 paperback. Together with Sassoon and Graves, this is a classic work engendered by a veteran's memories of The Great War. First published in 1928.

Soldier from the Wars Returning, Charles Edmund Carrington, Pen & Sword Military Classics, 2006, 288 pages, ISBN 1 84415 363 0, £9.99 paperback Memoir.

The World Crisis, 1911-1918, Winston S. Churchill, The Free Press, 2006, 880 pages, statistical appendices, maps, index, available from the History Book Club (www.historybookclub.com), $19.00 paperback. Published in five volumes from 1923 through 1931, this is the 1931 single-volume abridgement. A classic view of The Great War from one of its principal leaders.

Chevasse: Double VC, Ann Clayton, Pen & Sword, 2007, 371 pages, photos, index, ISBN978 1 84415 511 4, $29.95 paperback. Reprint of a 1992 work authored by the outgoing editor of the WFA-UK journal Stand To! about the exploits of Captain Noel Godfrey Chevasse, Royal Medical Corps. Chevasse was recently honored by Royal Mail with a commemorative stamp.

Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front, Irwin S. Cobb, Book Jungle, 2007 reprint, 240 pages, ISBN 978 160424 562 2, $10.95 paperback from Barnes and Noble. Written by Cobb (author of the classic Great War novel Paths of Glory) while he was a correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post. Also available in a 2007 hardback reprint from Kessinger Publishing at $45.

A History of the Great War, 1914-1918, C. R. M. F. Cruttwell, Academy Chicago, 2008, 655 pages, maps, index, ISBN 978 0 89733315 3, $22.95 paper. A classic detailed history by a British historian first published in 1934 and long out of print.

Civilization, 1914-1917, Georges Duhamel, University South Carolina Press, Bruccoli Collection, 2009, 288 + xxi pages, ISBN 978 1 57033 838 9, $21.95 trade paperback. First published in 1918, this is a prize-winning series of WWI vignettes by an army physician and member of the French Academy.

West Point Atlas of American Wars: World War I, Vincent J. Esposito, Tess Press, 1995, maps, ISBN 1 60376 021 0, paperback. A classic still available used from online booksellers and new from The Scholars Bookshelf. Also available used is the 1950s original The West Point Atlas of American Wars, Vols. I and II; Volume II has WWI maps.

Soldiers' Pay, William Faulkner, Liveright, 1997, 315 + xiii pages, ISBN 978 0 87140 166 3, $13.95 trade paperback. William Faulkner's first novel written in 1925, is the story of three returning Doughboys and the impact of the war on them and the women they left behind. Like contemporary writings of Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises), Dos Passos (Three Soldiers and Manhattan Transfer) and Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby) this work reflects the dark mood than afflicted many Americans after hostilities ceased.

Over There - The Story of America in the Great War, Frank Freidel, Burford Books, NJ, 2003, a reprint in paper with illustrations and an index, 278 pages, paperback $18.75.

Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army, James Norman Hall, Biblio Bazaar, 2008, 116 pages, ISBN 978 1 4346 515 8, $10.95 paperback from Barnes & Noble. Reprint of a 1917 account written by the co-author of Mutiny on the Bounty.

The Great War (an abridged version of Out of my Life published by Cassell in 1920), Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg, Charles Messenger (ed.). MBI, 2006. 236 pages, maps, illustrations, index, ISBN 1 85367 704 3, $34.95, cloth.

The Age of Reform, Richard Hofstadter, Vantage Books, 2006 (1955), 330 + xv pages, index, ISBN 0 394 70095 3, $12.95 paperback. Winner of the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for history. Analysis of the American populist and progressive movements with particular emphasis on the period from 1900 to 1917 and the collapse of this agglomeration of powerful social and political reformist movements with the entry of America into WWI, as well as the relationship between the Progressive Era and Roosevelt's New Deal.

The History of the Great War: The Merchant Navy, Archibald Hurd, Naval & Military Press, 2003), approximately 1,300 pages in three volumes, illustrations, maps, ISBN 978 1847 3428 50, $180 hard bound. Reprint of the original published in 1920-21 covering the British merchant marine, submarine warfare, and British losses.

Immelmann: the Eagle of Lille, Frantz Immelmann, Casemate, 2009, 256 pages, photos,ISBN 978 1 932033 98 4, $29.95 hardcover. Reprint of the 1930 edition of a German propaganda document. Available February 2009 from www.casematepublishing.com.

Origins of the First World War, James Joll and Gordon Mandell, Pearson Education, 360 pages, index, ISBN 0 58242 379 1, $36.00 paperback. An update and enhancement of Joll's classic 1984 analysis of the causes of The Great War. The work covers inter alia the alliance system, arms and military strategy, imperial rivalries, as well as the domestic politics of the protagonists which Joll sees as driving Europe toward war.

King of Airfighters: the Biography of Major "Mick" Mannock, VC DSO MC, Ira Jones, Casemate, 2008, 256 pages, photos, ISBN 978 1 932033 99 1, $29.95 hardback. Reprint of the 1930 biography of a controversial British ace.

The End of Liassez-Faire and The Economic Consequences of the Peace, John Maynard Keynes, Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2004, 298 pages, no index, ISBN 1 59102 268 1, $14,00 wraps. Keynes 1926 essay on laissez faire economics combined with his scathing 1919 critique of the Versailles Peace Treaty. Probably the most recognized economist of his generation (1883-1946), Keynes represented the British Treasury on Lloyd George's delegation to the Paris peace conference. Worth rereading if only for his detailed analysis of Versailles economic and financial exactions and their probable negative impact of the peace pact on European economic wellbeing, as well as his equally trenchant view of the personalities and politics of President Wilson and Premier Clemenceau.

The Irish Guards in the Great War: the Second Battalion, Rudyard Kipling, Da Capo Press, 1997 (first published by Doubleday in 1923), 224 pages ISBN 1 88511 950 X, available used from Barnes and Noble. Kipling was devistated by his son's death while fighting as a subaltern with the Irish Guards.

The Long Fuse - An Interpretation of the Origins of World War I, Laurence Laforce, Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, IL, Second Edition, 1997 (1971) with maps, ISBN 0 88133 954 7, $20 paperback, with maps.

The Agony of Gallipoli, John Laffin, Sutton, 2005, 304 pages, index, photos, ISBN 0 75093 639 8, $19.95 paperback. Reprint of a 1990 book originally published as Damn the Dardanelles. Available from the Scholars' Bookshelf

Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution, Nicholas Lambert, White Mane, 2002, 410 pages, index, $7.95 in paperback from The Scholar's Bookshelf (www.scholarsbookshelf.com). Winner of the 2000 WFA's Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize. Dr. Lambert spoke at our 2005 national seminar at Newport News.

Storm of Steel, Ernst Junger, translated with an introduction by Michel Hofmann, Penguin Books, 2004, $15.00. A new translation much more in tune with the original German trench slang which permeates Junger's narrative. A classic story of how a schoolboy adapted to industrial warfare. Favorably review in the autumn 2004 MHQ.

The 1916 Battle of the Somme: a Reappraisal, Peter Liddle, Wordsworth Military Library (reprint of the 1992 Pen & Sword edition), 2000, 192 + vii pages, index, maps, photos, drawings, July 1, 1916 BEF order of battle, ISBN 1 84022 240 9, $5.00 paper from Amazon.com. A revisionist look at this major campaign (actually 12 battles) by a premier British historian.

Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America's Response to War and Revolution, N. Gordon Levin, Oxford, first published in 1968, 340 pages, ISBN 0 19500 803 0, $34.95 hardcover. This Bancroft Prize winner (still in print) takes an analytical look at Woodrow Wilson's diplomacy from 1917 to 1917 as he attempted to reform the world's political system while advancing America's core political and commercial interests. Reveals Wilson as a pragmatist, as well as a liberal idealist.

Ludendorff's Own Story: August 1914 - November 1918; the Great War from the Siege of Liege to the Signing of the Armistice as Viewed from the Grand German Headquarters, Erich von Ludendorff, reprint of a 1918 edition, Scholars' Bookshelf. 2006, 478 pages, $49.95 paperback.

Winged Defense: The Development and Possibilities of Modern Air Power - Economic and Military, William Mitchell, Dover, 2006 (reprint of the 1925 edition), 320 pages, ISBN 0 48645 318 9, $9.95 paperback. A prophetic treatise by the WWI Commander of First Army aviation units and air power pioneer.

My Autobiography - With the Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism, Benito Mussolini, Richard Washburn Child and Jane Soames (translators) Dover, 2006, 272 pages, illustrations, ISBN 0 48644 777 4, $11.65 paper. Political testament and memoir of Il Duce, WWI veteran, journalist and founder of the Italian Fascist Party.

Wake Up America: World War I and the American Poster, Walton Rawls, Abbeville, 1988, 288 pages, hardcover, ISBN 0 89659 888 9, originally published at $65 now available from Daedalus at (800)395-2665 for $14.98 hardcover. In 1917, the Wilson Administration mobilized the efforts artists and illustrators to promote patriotism and the war effort. Color and black and white images from the works of Flagg, Christy, Gibson, Lyendecker and Wyeth among others.

The Zeppelin in Combat: A History of the German Navel Airship Division, 1912-1918, Douglas H. Robinson, Schiffer, 2004, photos, line drawings, charts, ISBN 0 88740 510 X. $49.95 hardback. The classic standard reference work on the Zeppelin first published in the late 1980s.

Shock Army of the British Empire: The Canadian Corps in the Last 100 Days of the Great War, Shane B. Schreiber, Vanwell, 2005, 160 pages, photos, ISBN 1 55125 906 9, $24.95 trade paperback. An operational history of the Canadian Corps and its advance from Amiens to Mons in 1918 first published in 1997 by Greenwood.

Forgotten Victory, Gary G. Sheffield, Headline Books, 2001, 318 pages, index, maps, photos, ISBN 0 74727 157 7, paperback. British historian Sheffield takes a contrarian and cogently presented view of the war as being fought for good and sufficient political reasons inter alia to prevent Imperial German domination of Europe and not simply a vast cock-up or betrayal. Readily available from used booksellers.

Tannenburg, Clash of Empires. Dennis Showalter, Brassey's, 2004, 432 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 1 57488 781 5, 22.95 available in paperback from Barnes and Noble and the History Book Club. A revised edition of Showalter's award-winning 1992 analysis of Germany's only clear cut victory of World War One. The author teaches at Colorado College and chairs the WFA Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Annual Book Award selection committee.

The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, Second Edition, Jon Silkin (ed.), Penguin, 1999, 304 pages, index, bibliography, ISBN 0 14 118009 9, $16.00 paperback. Includes translations of French, Italian and Russian, as well as several lesser-known English poets.

Lardner on War: The Wit, Wisdom and Whimsy of America's Premier Journalist, Jeff Silverman, editor, The Lyons Press, 2003, 332 + xii pages, ISBN 1 59228 110 9$24.95 cloth. A sports write for the Chicago Tribune, Lardner (1885-1933) is best remembered for his short stories peopled with memorable characters such as "Alibi Ike" and professional baseball pitcher and crude rube Jack Keefe, "The Busher," who writes to this friend Al from the road while in training in the US and serving with AEF in 1918. Also included are Lardner's tongue-in-cheek "dispatches" from four weeks in France as a Colliers magazine war correspondent during which time he got nowhere near the front. As a humorist, Lardner is in a league with Mark Twain.

Pershing, General of the Armies, Donald Smythe, Indiana, 414 pages, 2007, ISBN 0 253 21924 4, $21.95 paper. First published by the University of Indiana Press in 1986, this biography is also still available in hardcover for $59.95. The late Donald Smythe was Professor of History at John Carroll University in Cleveland.

The First World War and International Politics, David Stevenson, Oxford, 1988 (2001 reprint), 393 + xi pages, maps, index, ISBN 0 19 820281 4, $49.50 trade paperback. Why governments of the day turned to violence in pursuit of their aims; why the resulting conflict expanded into global war; the international significance of the Russian Revolution and American entry; and, why the eventual peace settlement took the form it did…first class political analysis.

The Outbreak of the First World War, Hew Strachan, Oxford, 2004, 299 + x pages, maps, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 0 19926 728 4, $19.95 paperback. Oxford continues to mine material from the Professor Strachan's first volume of his massive WWI trilogy To Arms (Oxford 2001), winner of WFA's Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize. Strachan argues that Austro-Hungary political elites was large responsible for the conflict and that the Kaiser and his generals sought war to achieve German domination of Europe.

The First World War in Africa, Hew Strachan, Oxford, 2004, 224 + x pages, notes, maps, index, bibliography, ISBN 0 19925 728 0, $19.95 paperback. A detailed account of fighting in Togo, Kameroon, German Southwest Africa and throughout East Africa lifted in its entirety from the author's prize-winning 2001 work The First World War, Volume I: To Arms. Persons unfamiliar with African geography will have to resort to an atlas despite the good maps provided by Oxford.

The Struggle for the Mastery of Europe, 1848-1918, A. J. P. Taylor, Oxford, 1971, 674 pages, index, maps, bibliography, $30.00 paperback. Reprint of the massive classic 1954 politico-diplomatic study by one of Britain's premier historians of the 20th century. A must for any library.

The Great War, John Terraine, Wordsworth, 1998, 272 pages, index, maps, photos, ISBN 1 84022 229 8, $3.98 in trade paperback from Daedalus Books (800) 395-2665 or used through Barnes and Nobles and other booksellers. Some historians find Terraine outdated. This editor does not. . .

Mons: The Retreat to Victory, John Terraine, Pen & Sword, 2010, 224 pages, maps, ISBN 978 1 84884 170 3, $25.95 paperback. Reissue of a classic study of the retreat from Mons to Le Cateau first published in the 1960s; John Terraine's first major work has become a classic.

Raiders of the Deep, Lowell Thomas, US Naval Institute 2004, 402 pages, index, ISBN 978 1591 14861 6, $19.95 paperback. First published by Doubleday, Doran in 1928, this is a classic account of U-boat warfare, the first Battle of the Atlantic, drawing on the accounts of German participants. Also available hardbound in the Naval Institute's Classics of Naval History series from used booksellers. American war correspondent Lowell Thomas was the journalist who made T. E. Lawrence famous.

The AEF and Coalition Warmaking, 1917-1918, David F. Trask, University of Kansas Press, 1993, 248 pages, ISBN 0 70061 115 0, $19.95 paperback. Still in print, this is perhaps the finest existing analysis of the diplomatic and political aspects of America's involvement in WWI.

How the War Was Won: Command and Technology in the British Army, Tim Travers, Pen & Sword, 2005 252 pages, illustrations, ISBN. First published in 1992; from a premier Canadian military historian who recently retired from the University of Calgary. 1 84415207 3, $15.99 paperback.

The Campaign of the Marne, 1914, Sewell Tyng, Westholm, 2007, 464 pages, maps, index, illustrations, ISBN 1 59416 042 2, $24.95 trade paperback. Examination of the battle that ended the German offensive of 1914 in the west first published by Longman in 1935. A "masterly analysis" included on Random House's list of the best 100 non-fiction books of the 20th century.

The Grand Scuttle: The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919, Dan van der Vat, Birlinn, 2007 320 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 1 843410 38 6, $14.99 paperback; reprint of a 1985 Naval Institute Press book. Also of interest is Tony Booth's 2005 work on the salvage of the German fleet at Scapa Flow: Cox's Navy, Pen & Sword, 2005 available for $34.95 from The Scholar's Bookshelf.

Some Desperate Glory: The Diary of a Young Officer, Edwin C. Vaughn, Henry Hold, 1981, 232 pages, ISBN 0 33338 727 9, available from Amazon.co.uk used and new starting at £12.50 plus shipping. The diary of eight months in the trenches, a relentless stark account focussing on the 1917 battles around Paschendaele.

The Battle of Loos, Philip Warner, Wordsworth, 2000, index, photos, maps, ISBN 1 84022 229 8, $3.98 quality paperback from Daedalus Books, (800) 395-2885, $12.99 from independent booksellers. Analysis of an unsuccessful 1915 BEF attack.

World War I, H. P. Willmont, Dorling Kindersley, 2008, 320 pages, index, ISBN 1 4053 1263 7, £19.99 cloth. Reprint of a 2005 first-class survey history.

Haig's Command, Denis Winter, Pen & Sword, illustrations, ISBN 1 84415 204 9, $19.99. First published in 1991 subtitled Earl Haig and the Background to the First World War and in 1992 as Haig's Command: A Reassessment. Antidote to the usual judgment that the BEF commander was an unimaginative plodder.

The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig, a new translation by Anthea Bell, Pushkin Press, 2009, ISBN 978 1 906548 12 4, £20 cloth. Memories of Zweig's (1881-1941) life in Vienna before, during and after The Great War first published in 1943, this is Zweig's last book. A masterful look at Vienna's golden age and of the horror that tore Europe apart.

Classics & Near-Classics: In Series

Retreat, A Story of 1918, Charles R. Benstead, South Carolina, 2008, 244 pages, ISBN 978 1 57003 768 9, $21.95 paperback. A fictional account of a British Army Chaplain under fire first published in 1930. The author served as an artillery officer in WWI. From the Joseph M Bruccoli Great War Series, University of South Carolina.

Zero Hour, Georg Grabenhorst, University of South Carolina Press Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Series, 2006, 328 pages, ISBN 1 57003 662 4, $19.95 paperback. Originally published in 1928, this is a German soldier's semi-autobiographical novel of combat, disillusion and shell shock on the Western Front.

The Somme, A. D. Gristwood, University of South Carolina Press Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Series, 2006, 208 pages, ISBN1 57004 648 9, $14.95 paperback. Includes its companion novel, The Coward, both written by an accountant turned reluctant infantryman, the only literary products of a Somme veteran of the London Infantry Brigade who suffered a nervous breakdown after the war. First published in 1927 with an introduction by H. G. Wells. A new introduction by Leeds University historian Hugh Cecil puts these autobiographical works into a broader literary and historical context

Flesh in Armour, A Novel, Leonard Mann, South Carolina, 2008, 368 pages, ISBN 978 1 57003 770 2, $21.95 paper. First published in 1932, this work is drawn in part from the author's combat experience. Winner of the Australian Literature Society's gold medal for 1930; republished in 1944 and now part of the Bruccoli Great War Series.

Plumes, Lawrence Stallings, University of South Carolina Press Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Series, 2006, 276 pages, ISBN 1 57003 649 7, $19.99 paperback. The tragic story of a disabled American Marine veteran's postwar reintegration into family and Washington society. An autobiographical novel by the American playwright, movie script writer and author (What Price Glory, The Big Parade, The Doughboys) and WWI Marine veteran. This novel was first published in 1924.

This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-Odd Sonnets, John Allen Wyeth, South Carolina, 2008, 120 pages, ISBN 978 1 57003 779 5, $21.95 paperback. First published in 1928, this is an autobiographical account by a soldier/interpreter of the AEF's 33rd Division. Reissued as part of the Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Series.

Cassell Military Publishers is reprinting a number near classics, including no less than 14 from WWI. These are available from Barnes & Noble or Amazon.com:

The Sword Bearers, Corelli Barnett

The Ironclads of Cambrai, Brian Cooper

Stalemate: Great Trench Warfare Battles, J. H. Johnson

With a Machine Gun to Cambrai, George Coppard

The Red Baron, Peter Kilduff

Coronel & The Falkands and Zebrugge, Barry Pitt

Passenchendaele, Nigel Steel and Peter Hart

Jutland, V. I. Tarrant

General Jack's Diary and To Win a War, John Terraine

The First World War, Trevor Wilson & Robin Prior

Field Marshall Earl Haig and World War I, Phillip Warner

The War Memoirs of Earl Stanhope: General Staff Officer in France and Flanders, 1914-1918, Brian Bond (ed.), 204+vxi pages, portrait, maps, ISBN 978 1 905968 00 0, £75 cloth with slip case.

If Germany Attacks: The Battle in Depth in the West, Captain G. C. Wynne, edited by Dr. Robert T. Foley, 256 pages, maps, ISBN 978 1 905968 01 5, £75 cloth with slipcase.

Impressions of the Battle of the Somme by a Company Commander Who Three-and-a-Half Weeks of It, Liddle Hart, edited by Brian Bond, 96 pages, maps, ISBN 978 1 905968 03 5, £75, cloth with slip case.

Personal Memorial Volumes of the Great War, compiled by Tom Donovan and Brian Turner, 400 pages, 350 portraits, ISBN 978 1 905968 03 9, £45 in sewn case binding.

War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon, Dover, Mineola, NY, 113 + xi pages, introduction by Robert Nichols, ISBN0 486 47315 4, $7.75 trade paperback; an original Dover compilation of Sassoon's WWI-era poetry.

World War One British Poets: Brook, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others, unabridged, Constance Wood (ed.) Dover, Mineola, NY, 1997, 71 pages.

Naval Battles of the First World War, Geoffrey Bennett, Pen & Sword, 2005, 317 pages, illustrations, maps, index, ISBN 1 84415 300 2, $14.95 paperback. Major encounters of the war at sea by a premier British military historian.

The Battle of Jutland, Geoffrey Bennett, Pen & Sword Military Classics, 2006, maps, index, ISBN 1 88415 436 X, $18.95 paperback. Bennett a well known British naval historian is the author of several histories including of the Battle of Trafalgar and Coronel and the Falklands. This book was first published in 1999 and is available from used booksellers via Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com

Soldier from the Wars Returning, Charles Carrington, Pen & Sword Military Classics, 2006, ISBN 1 88415 363 0, $18.95 paperback. Memoir of a veteran of the Somme and Passchendaele.

1918: The Last Act, Barry Pitt, Pen & Sword, 2003, 320 pages, illustrated, ISBN 0 85052 974 3, $11.95 paper.

With the German Guns - Four Years on the Western Front, Herbert Sulzbach, Pen & Sword, 2003, ISBN 1 84415 019 4, $10.99 paper.

War by Timetable: How the First World War Began, A. J. P. Taylor, Pen & Sword, 2005, 128 pages, illustrations, maps, ISBN 1 84415302 9, $11.95 paperback. How the Armies of August 1914 were mobilized and deployed.

The Killing Ground: the British Army, the Western Front and Emergence of Modern Warfare 1900-1918, Tim Travers, Pen & Sword, 2003, 342 pages, illustrated, ISBN 0 85052 964 6. $11.99 paper.

Passchendaele, Phillip Warner, Pen & Sword, 2005, 272 pages, illustrations, maps, ISBN 1 84415 305 3, $15.95 paperback. A major study of Third Ypres, 1917

The Zeebrugge Raid, Philip Warner, Pen & Sword, 2008, 238 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 1 84415 677 1, $39.95 cloth. Reprint of an excellent analysis of the April 1918 raid aimed at blocking the Zeebrugge Canal in German-occupied Belgium.

Also available in this series and costing $9.99 up are: John Masefield’s The Old Front Line and John Terraine’s The Western Front, 1914-1918.

Dictionary of the First World War, Stephen Pope and Elizabeth-Anne Wheal, Pen & Sword, 2003, 562 pages, ISBN 0 85052 979-4, $16.99 paper.

Pen & Sword New Select Series

Starting at $9.99 in paperback, the titles in this series, formerly out of print, are still in demand. They include Chavasse: Double VC by Ann Clayton, Shell Shock by Anthony Babbington, and Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experience edited by Hugh Cecil and Peter Liddle.

Pen & Sword has also just republished The Unending Vigil: The History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (1967).

A Nation in Arms: The British Army in the First World War, Ian Beckett & Keith Simpson (eds.), Pen & Sword, 2005, ISBN 1 84415 023 1, £21.99 hardback. Reprint of the 1985 edition from Manchester University Press, originally 285 pages.

Machine Gunner, 1914-1918, C. E. Crutchley, Pen & Sword Classics, 2006, 240 pages, ISBN 1 84415 359 2, $14.95 paper. The personal accounts of BEF front line officers and men reprinted from a 1976 edition.

The Soldiers War, Peter Liddle, Pen & Sword, 2005, ISBN 1 84415 020 7 £25, hardback. Reissue of a 1989 Branford Press edition (256 pages) by the creator of the Liddle Collection at Leeds University.

Passchendaele: Campaign Chronicles, Martin Marix Evans, Pen & Sword, available in October 2005, ISBN 1 84415 368 1, £16.99 hardback. New edition of Mr. Evan's 1998 book on the same subject originally published by Osprey.

Command on the Western Front: The Military Career of Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1914-1918, Robin Prior & Trevor Wilson, Pen and Sword Military Classics, 2004, 429 pages, maps, tables, index, bibliography, ISBN 1-84415-103-4, $19.99 soft cover. Reprint of a 1992 book originally published in the UK by Blackwell. Not a biography, but rather an examination of tactics and weapons of the Western Front though the Rawlinson diaries.

All Pen & Sword works are available from their U.S. distributor, Combined Publishing 1016 Warrior Road, Suite C, Drexel Hill, PA 19016, Ph (610) 853-9131 Fax (610) 853-9146, E-mail: casemate@casematepublishing.com

The Great War: The Illustrated History of the First World War, four volumes, photos, maps, $ 19.50 each volume from The Scholars Bookshelf. Originally published in 1914-1919, expansively illustrated; 400 maps.

Infantry in Battle, Scholars Bookshelf, 2006, 400 pages, maps, index, softcover $23.95. Reprinted from The Infantry Journal, 1934, a publication of the U.S. Army Infantry School; an analysis of the infantry battles conducted by the AEF in WWI.

German Rigid Airships, Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, 1917, 2008 reprint of a British intelligence manual from The Scholars Bookshelf, $59.95 softcover.

The Forgotten Front: The East African Campaign, 1914-1918, Ross Anderson, Tempus, 2004, 400 pages, $39.95 cloth

Paths of Glory: The French Army, 1914-1918, Anthony Clayton, Cassell, 2005, 240 pages, $9.95 hardcover.

Flanders, 1915, John Cooksey, Pen & Sword, 144 pages, $24.99, paperback

Our Navy at War, Josephus Daniels, Scholars Bookshelf, 2006 (reprint of the 1922 edition), 372 pages, photos, index, $27.95 softcover; written by Wilson's Secretary of the Navy, North Carolina progressive newspaper publisher and white supremacist who presaged Prohibition by banned spirituous liquor on American naval vessels in 1914.

The Services of Supply: A Memoir of World War I, Johnson Hagood, Scholars Bookshelf, 2006, 224 pages, illustrations, maps, $23.95 softcover. First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1927 and authored by the former AEF Services of Supply (SOS) Chief of Staff.

Tannenberg: The First Thirty Days in East Prussia. Edmond Ironside, Scholars Bookshelf, 2006, 316 pages, maps, sketches (with CD-ROM), $34.50 paperback. Reprint of a book first published by Blackwood & Sons in 1922 and written by commander of British forces at Archangel in 1918, future Baron, Field Marshall, Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1939 and commander of Home Forces in 1940.

The German Offensives of 1918, Martin Kitchen, Tempus, 2006, 352 pages, $22.95 cloth.

Lessons of Allied Cooperation: Naval, Military and Air, 1914-1918, Sir Frederick Maurice, Scholars Bookshelf, 2006, 195 pages, index, $23.95 paperback. Inter-Allied coordination from the British point of view. A veteran of the Boer War and the Battle of Mons, Major General Maurice was Director of Military Operations under Imperial Chief of Staff Field Marshall Sir William Robertson.

The United States in the World War, 1917-1920, John Bach McMaster, Scholars Bookshelf, 2006, 990 pages in two volumes, $39.95 paper. Written by a well known early 20th century American historian; first offered by D. Appleton, 1920.

The History of the American Expedition to Fight the Bolsheviks: Campaigning in North Russia, Joel Moore et al, Battery Press, 360 pages, illustrations, map, ISBN 0 89839 323 X, $49.95 cloth. Reprint of the official history of the 339th Infantry and other units serving in North Russia. Buy from The Scholars Bookshelf or direct from Battery Press

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The American Army in World War I, G.F. Nafziger, 110 pages, $19.95 softcover

Our Greatest Battle: The Meuse-Argonne, Frederick Palmer, Scholars Bookshelf, 2006, 666 pages, $31.95 softcover. First published in 1919 by Dodd Meade. The author was an American journalist, war correspondent in both World Wars, and writer of popular histories.

With the New Army on the Somme: My Second Year of the War, Frederick Palmer, Scholars Bookshelf, 2006, 350 pages, $23.98 paperback. By the biographer of General Tasker Bliss and Wilson's Secretary of War Newton Baker; first published in 1917 by Dodd Meade.

Battle of the Piave; The Death of the Austro-Hungarian Army, 1918, David Raab, Dorrance, 2003, $13.00 softcover

The First World War: to Arms, Hew Strachan, Viking, 2004, $8.98 cloth.

The British Army and the Continent, 1904-1914, J. E. Tyler, The Scholar's Bookshelf, 2006, 190 pages, index, bibliography, ISBN not listed, $23.95 paperback from www.scholarsbookshelf.com. Reprint of a 1938 publication. A study of the pre-war discussions among Belgium, France and Great Britain and the evolution of British foreign policy in the last decade before WWI. For description of the British force that took the field in 1914 see The British Expeditionary Force 1914-15, Bruce Gudmundsson, Osprey, 2005.

Paschendaele, Philip Warner, Pen & Sword Battlefield Europe Series, 2005, 272 pages, $15.95 paperback

A Weekend With the Great War, Stephen Weingartner (ed.), White Mane, 1997, $7.95 paper. Papers presented at the Lisle, Illinois combined WFA-Great War Society seminar of 1994

The Scholar's Bookshelf also publishes a series of reprint paperback editions such as:

When the U-Boats Came to America, William Bell Clark, 2005, 359 pages, $29.95

A. E. F.: Ten Years Ago in France, Major General Hunter Liggett, (1927) 2005, 335 pages, $29.95

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Across the Black Waters, Mulk Raj Anaud, 1989/2003 Vision Books New Delhi, 264 pages, ISBN 0 8657 8081 1, $5.95 in paperback from Amazon.com. First published in 1940, this book by a well known Indian novelist imagines the experiences of British Indian Army sepoys on the Western Front in 1914 and 1915. For more on this subject, see Sepoys in the Trenches, Gordon Corrigan, Spellmont, 1999.

Imperialism's New Clothes: The Repartition of Tropical Africa, 1914-1919, American University Studies, Series IX, History, Vol. 79, Brian Digre, Peter Lang, NY, 1990, 225 + xiii pages, index, list of abbreviations, maps, $26.95 hardcover. Summarizes military moves and strategic political aims of The Great War victors in Africa; details negotiations leading to repartition of former German African colonies and the creation at the Paris Peace Conference of the League of Nations mandate system insisted upon by Woodrow Wilson. An often neglected field of inquiry into the diplomacy of The Great War.

The Enemy at His Pleasure: A Journey Through the Jewish Pale of Settlement During World War I, S. Ansky, translation by Joachim Neugroschel, Metropolitan Books, 2003, 327 +xvii pages, ISBN 0 8050 5944 X, $30.00 hardcover. Also available in paperback and used from booksellers at various prices. The story of the victimization of Jews confined by edict to the border reaches of Russia: the Pale. Tzarist forces deported some 600 thousand Jews from their homes, mainly along the front lines in Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine; Belorussia and Bessarabia and the Crimea. Over 100 thousand are believed to have perished as opposing armies surged back and forth across these lands. Written by a Russian-Jewish journalist and political activist and first published in 1925 in Warsaw. For more on Russian refugees in WWI see, A Whole Empire Walking, Peter Gatrell, Indiana, 2005.

Total Warfare and Compulsory Labor: A Study in the Military Industrial Complex in Germany During World War I, Robert B. Armeson, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1964, 155 pages, index, available from used booksellers and on interlibrary loan. A brief, well crafted scholarly study of the attempt of Hindenburg and Ludendorff mobilize German industry, agriculture and labor for total war after taking power as virtual dictators in 1916. Includes material on Belgian forced labor. The author traces to the late 1916 Reichstag debates over the National Service Bill the formation of the left-center coalition that created the Weimar Republic. See also A People's War: Germany's Political Revolution, 1913-1918, Jeffrey R. Smith, University Press of America, 2007.

Horseman, Pass By: the Australian Light Horse in World War I, Lindsay Baly, The History Press, 2005, 352 pages, ISBN 1 86227 255 7, £13,20 paperback from Amazon.co.uk. Also available at a discount from The Scholars Bookshelf.

A Month at the Front: Diary of an Unknown Soldier, Bodleian Library (ed.), 2007, 64 pages, ISBN 1 85124 355 0, $15.00 cloth. One month in the life of an anonymous soldier of the 12th Battalion, Surrey Regiment.

The First World War: an Agrarian Interpretation, Avner Offer, Oxford, 1991 (1989), with photos, tables, index and abbreviations, ISBN 0 19 820279 2, $40 in wraps; an economic and social analysis of why Germany lost the war.

War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919, Frederick R. Dickinson, Harvard, 1999, 363 + xviii pages, index, illustrations, Bibliography, notes, ISBN0 674 00507 4, $20.95 paperback. A look at how World War One helped reshape domestic political debate and national aspirations. Diplomatic and political historical analysis of a high order on an important subject often ignored in the study of WWI.

First Call: Guide Posts to Berlin, Arthur G. Empey (1883-1963), Kessenger, 2008, 240 pages, ISBN 1 4371 4057 2, $34.95 cloth with a glossary of wartime slang. Reprint of a memoir by an American volunteer machine gunner with the BEF first published by Putnam, New York, in 1918. Empey is also the author of From the Fire Step and Over the Top.

Army, Industry and Labor in Germany, 1914-1918, Gerald D. Feldman, Princeton, 1966, 572 + xvi pages, sketches, index, Library of Congress #66-10553, available from used book sellers in cloth. Germany's flawed attempt to fight "total war" under the dictatorship of Ludendorff and Hindenburg.

Under the Guns of the Red Baron: The Complete Record of von Richthofen's Victories & Victims Fully Illustrated, Norman Franks, Hal Giblin and Nigel McCrery, Grub Street, 2007 reprint of a 1995 Grub Street book of the same title, 224 pages, photos and color illustrations, ISBN 978 1 904943 97 6, $26.95 paperback. Documents 100 of the Red Baron's 123 victories.

The German Soldier, 1914-1918, Jean-Claude Laparra, Histoire & Collections, 68 pages, photos, 2008, $22.95 soft cover from Scholars Bookshelf. Daily life among German soldiers.

The Origins of a Tragedy, Samuel R. Williamson (ed.), Forum Press, 1981, 99 + xv pages, glossary, chronology, suggestions for additional reading, ISBN 0-88273-409-1, paper. A review and summary of the never-ending debate on war guilt and responsibility underway since 1919. The editor includes selections from many of the major protagonists including Harry Barnes, Sidney Fay, Luigi Albertini, Fritz Fischer, Wolfgang Mommeson, James Joll, L. L. Farrar, and Zara Steiner. A minor gem available for a few dollars from used book dealers.

In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1919, Susan Zeiger, Cornell, 2000, 211 pages, illustrated, index, ISBN 0 80143 166 2; retails for $45 hardback but is available on sale for $6.95 from the Scholar's Bookshelf or for $16.95 in paperback from Barnes and Noble.

All of the above are available from Barnes & Noble's out-of-print sellers.

The Netherlands and World War I: Espionage, Diplomacy and Survival. Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, 2001, 399 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 90 04 12243 5, $174.00 hardcover. The neutral Dutch mobilized all four of their army divisions and kept them mobilized throughout the war. As a trading nation, Holland's economy was badly hurt by the Royal Navy blockade and German U-boat warfare. By 1918, the government was obliged to impose food rationing in the face of severe import shortfalls. Worth reading, but overpriced. Get it from your library.

Blighty - British Society in the Era of the Great War, Gerard J. DeGroot, Longman, London & NY, 1009, ISBN 0 582 06137 7, available from Barnes & Noble in paperback for $39.00.

War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1918, Frederick R. Dickinson, Harvard, 2001 396 pages, index, ISBN 0 67400 507 4, $20.95 paperback. How diplomatic, political and cultural concerns shaped the evolution of national identity in Japan; with particular emphasis on the clash between proponents of greater democratization and those who argued for military expansion.

Echoes of Distant Thunder - Life in the United States, 1914-1918, Edward Robb Ellis, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, NY, 1976, available from used book sellers. An excellent survey social and political history of America during The Great War recommended by Professor Robert Zieger of the University of Florida.

Listening In: Intercepting German Trench Communications in World War I, Ernest H. Hinrichs, Ernest H. Hinrichs (ed.), White Mane, 1996, 148 pages, diagrams, appendices photos, sketches, ISBN 0 9425 9778 8, available from Amazon.com used book sellers from $2.87 in hardcover. Radio interception, operations and ground telegraphy in the trenches of WWI from the dairy of a Doughboy.

Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire, Peter Hopkirk, Kodansaha, NY, 1994, 247 pages, index, maps, photos, ISBN 1 56836 127 0, $18.00 paperback. A mostly forgotten episode of WWI involving Turko-German efforts to wage jihad against British interests in the Middle East, Persia, Afghanistan and Central Asia, and to foment rebellion in India, all elements of the German imperial Drang nach Osten. Reads like a spy novel in the tradition of John Buchan's Greenmantle. Second volume in a three-volume history of "The Great Game."

The Thin Yellow Line, William Moore, Wordworth Military Library, 1999, reprint of a 1975 work, 288 pages, ISBN 1 84022 215 8, $$4.98 from Daedalus Books (800) 395-2665. Traces the history of military capital punishment in the BEF WWI. A timely read in view of the controversy surrounding posthumous statutory pardons for British soldiers executed for cowardice during The Great War.

Tigris Gunboats: The Forgotten War in Iraq, 1914-1918, Vice Admiral Wilfred Nunn, US Naval Institute, 2007, 288 pages, index, photos, ISBN 978 1 86178 306 2, $34.95 cloth. Written by the commander of Royal Naval forces in Mesopotamia and first published in 1932, this is the story of the three-year-long campaign along the Tigris River leading to the occupation of Baghdad which resulted in the eventual creation Iraq from the wreckage of the Ottoman Empire.

Shot at Dawn, Julian Putkowski, Julian Sykes, Pen & Sword, 2003, 302 pages, ISBN 0 85052 613 2, $36.95 hardcover Revised edition of a work first published in 1998 on British soldiers shot for cowardice in WWI.

Passchendaele and the Somme: A Diary of 1917, Hugh Quigly, Naval & Military Press, 2007, 204 pages, ISBN 1 83492 650 1, $29.95 cloth. Reprint of a diary kept by a Tommy of the 9th Scottish Division.

William Barker, VC: The Life, Death and Legend of Canada's Most Decorated War Hero, Wayne Ralph, Wiley, John & Sons, 2007, 265 pages, ISBN 0 74083 967 8, $28.96 cloth. Reprint -- with documentary materials added -- of a 1997 work entitled Barker VC by the same author.

The Last of the Ebb: the Battle of the Aisne, 1918, Sidney Rogerson (introduction by Malcolm Brown), Greenhill/MBI Publishing, 2007, 147 + xi pages, photos, map, ISBN 978 85367 738 0, $29.95 cloth. First-hand account written by the British 8th Division staff officer who also authored Twelve Days on the Somme. This is a first-hand account of one of the last German offensives of WWI. The British 8th Division and its parent IX Corps was attached to the French 6th Army between Rheims and the Chemin des Dames at the outset this battle. First published in 1937 by Arthur Barker, London.

Leadership in the Trenches: Officer-Man Relations, Morale and Discipline in the British Army in the Era of the First World War, Gary D. Sheffield, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000, 296 pages, index, ISBN 0 33365 411 0, £70 cloth from www.Amazon.co.uk. Examines why the British army was almost untouched by mutiny in the trenches of WWI. Written by a respected British historian, editor with John Bourne of Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters (Orion 2006).

Pershing: General of the Armies, Donald Smythe, Indiana, 2007, 416 pages, maps, photos, bibliography, index, ISBN 0 25321 924 8, $21.95 paperback. First published in 1986, this is a fine one-volume biography of "Black Jack" Pershing with skillful thumbnail sketches of Pershing's collaborators and adversaries. Recommended in a review by Edward M. "Mac" Coffman offered in the July 2007 edition of The Journal of Military History.

The First Naval Air War, Terry C. Treadwell, Tempus, 2002, 192 pages, glossary, photos, ISBN 0 7524 2144 1, $12.95 from The Scholars Bookshelf. A brief, heavily illustrated summary of the employment of fixed wing and lighter-than-aircraft by the Royal Navy, German Naval Air Service, the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps, the Italian, French, Russian, Japanese and Austro-Hungarian Naval Air Services, as well as a chapter on the birth of the aircraft carrier. Read as a supplement to Dick Layman's masterful and superbly researched Naval Aviation in the First World War: Its Impact and Influence (U. S. Naval Institute, 1997).

Kitchener, Philip Warner, Cassell, 256 pages, photos, maps, index, ISBN 0 304367 20 6, $12.95 paper. Reissue of the Simon & Schuster hard cover edition of 1986.

Not surprisingly, publishers and producers marked the 80th Anniversary of the Armistice of November 11, 1918 with a number new releases and re-releases of Great War material. The flow of new and re-released histories on the WWI era has continued unabated into the years 2000 and 2001. We have added below new information on the most recent 2001 releases. Most of these are from England. But, many are from American scholars, as well, including a new book on the Eastern Front and the German occupation in Poland and the Baltics. This list is not definitive, but rather illustrative.

Encyclyclopédie de la Grande Guerre 1914-1918, Jean-Jacques Becker and Stéphan Audoin-Rouzeau, Beyard Centurion, Paris, 2004, 1,342 pages, ISBN 2 22713 945 5, €54.15 (US$70) from www.Amazon.fr.

For those of you who read French, this looks to be a valuable reference source edited by one of the winners of the 2003 WFA Tomlinson Book Prize. Contributors include many prominent French historians such as Bernard Joly, Olivier Lepick, Bernard Michel, Andre Krespi and Annette Becker. British and American contributors include Leonard Smith, Jay Winter, and John Horne. Italian and German historians are also represented. Subjects covered are eclectic and include campaigns, weapons, diplomacy, food rations, finance, science and technology, cinema, war literature, the peace treaties, and refugees with emphasis on the Western Front.

If you read only English, I recommend The European Powers in World War I, an Encyclopedia, Sterling Tucker (ed.), Garland, NY, 1997, ISBN 0 8153 0399 8. Also by from Tucker and colleagues:

The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social and Military History, Spencer C. Tucker and Priscilla M. Roberts (eds.), five volumes, ABC Cleo, 2004, photos, maps, index, chronology, glossary, documents, ISBN 1 85109 420 2, $244.80 cloth, a 33% discount from International Book Exchange on www.bn.com. This massive reference work originally published at $485 and also available at $388 from Barnes and Noble contains dozens of articles on all aspects of the conflict, including several by frequent speakers at WFA seminars. Tucker is professor emeritus at VMI and one of America's most distinguished historians.

The War of 1898 and U.S. Interventions, 1898-1934 An Encyclopedia,
Benjamin R. Beede (ed.) Garland, NY, 1994. Still in print, this volume details American foreign adventures and advances from the Spanish-American War through the advent of Franklin Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor Policy," from TR's and Wilson's interventions to accommodation with Latin American caudillos. Other encyclopedias in this series include The United States in the First World War and The European Powers in the First World War.

The Great World War - 1914-1945, Volume 1 - Lightening Strikes Twice, John Bourne, Peter Liddle, Ian Whitehead, editors, Harper Collins, London, 2000, 624 pages, index, photos, ISBN 0 00 472454 2, $19.95 (wraps). A series of insightful essays on both world wars.

The Costs of the World War to the American People, John Maurice Clark, Reprints of Economic Classics, Augustus M. Kelly Publishers, NY, 1970, 316 pages, index, graphs, $12.95 from the Scholar's Book Shelf, 16 Melrich Rd., Cranbury, NJ 08512, ISBN 0 678 00662 8. First edition, 1931, Yale University Press.

On Irish participation in the conflict: Irish Voices from the Great War by Myles Dungan, just released in America by ISBS, 5804 NE Hassalo St., Portland, Oregon 97213-3644, e-mail info@isba.com.

American Voices of World War I - Primary Source Documents, Martin Marix Evans, Fitzroy Dearborn, Chicago and London, 2001, 252 pages, $65.00, ISBN 1 57958 309 1.

We Shall Remember Them is the companion volume to a prospective BBC-Discovery Channel documentary commemorating the Armistice. The book written by Steve Humphries and Richard Van Emden -- is a social rather than a military account, concentrating on the British experience. Due out in October from Combined Publishing, it focusses on Great Britain as it was in 1914 through 1918: a society of classes and a nation whose people still maintained many regional variations in speech and personality. The country was forever changed by the deadly affects of prolonged industrialized warfare, the mobilization of large numbers of women to work in factories and by the world's first aerial bombardment.

Also released in October 1998 was a new book by well-known British historians Peter Liddle and Hugh Cecil The Eleventh Hour: The Eightieth Anniversary of Armistice Day. The book examines the impact of the war's end on the participants drawing on letters, diaries and contemporary newspapers. In addition to the major powers, there are also descriptions of the end of the war in India, Japan, Eastern Europe and the Balkans, Italy and Belgium. Ordering information below. Other new books offered from Combined Publishing in 1999, but now from Casement, include:

• Dugouts in the Ypres Salient by Andrew Mullen
• The British Army in Italy, 1917-1918 by J. W. Wilks and E. M. Wilks
• My Boy Jack: Kipling--A Search for my Son by Toni and Valmi Holt

The Unending Vigil, Phillip Longworth, Pen & Sword, 2003, 364 pages, illustrated, ISBN 1 84415 004 6, $23.95 paperback. The story of the Imperial (Commonwealth) War Graves Commission. Available from Casemate Publishing.

Of interest to WFA and Great War Society Members will be the continuation of the Battleground Europe series of guidebooks to the Western Front from Pen & Sword Books. New titles out in 1999 include guides to the battles of Delville Wood, Polygon Wood, Epehy, Riqueval and Cambrai (The Hindenburg Line), Mautauban (Somme) and the Ypres Salient.

Genealogical Publishing of Baltimore is offering A Guide to the Service Records of All the World's Fighting Men and Volunteers by Christina K Schaefer. This will answer your questions about how to trace WWI veterans from practically any warring nation.

Released in August 1999 from The Cambridge University Press in the "New Approaches to European History" series is Roger Chickering's work on Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918. This comprehensive survey of the impact of the war on German society examines the domestic political, as well as military aspects of the conflict. It is available in both hardback and paper. Chickering is Professor of History at Georgetown University.

Great War, Total War: Combat & Mobilization on the Western Front, Roger Chickering and Stig Forster (eds.), Cambridge University Press, NY, 2000, 533 pages, ISBN 0 521 77352 0, $54.95. How total was WWI? How do you define totality? Read on...

Another new work on the final 100 days of the war--Amiens to the Armistice: The British Expeditionary Force in the Hundred Days Campaign, 8 August - 11 November 1918 -- published by Brassey's in 2000. By British historians J. P. Harris and Niall Barr of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, this book traces the final three months of continuous offensive operations conducted by the 59 British and Dominion divisions on the Western Front. Ordering information below.

Aftermath: The Remnants of War, Donovan Webster, Vantage, NY, 2000 (1996), 279 pages, ISBN 0-679-75153-X, $14.00 paper. Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize. An examination of the devastating and long-lasting after effects of modern industrial warfare from Verdun to Stalingrad, Kuiwait, Viet Nam and the Nevada atomic test site...

Also treating the final year of conflict are:

• To the Last Man by celebrated British historian Lyn Macdonald (Viking, 1998)
• And, 1918: Year of Victory, Malcolm Brown's latest title in the Imperial War Museum WWI series (Sidgewick & Jackson).

From the University of Kentucky Press come two volumes released in late 1998:

• Almanac of World War I by David F. Burg and L. Edward Purcell, a day-to-day synopsis of events on all fronts from August 1914 through November 1918 complete with maps and biographical sketches of major leaders (November).
• The War to End all Wars, a reissue of what many consider the definitive account of American participation in WWI, by long-time WFA member Edward M. Coffman (December). WFA member Paul “Pete” Guthrie interviewed Dr. Coffman for the January 1999 issue of Stand To!.

Two reprinted Great War novels from Derek Robinson, author of the WWII classic novel and Public TV production “A Piece of Cake” – Goshawk Squadron and War Story, Cassell, London, 2000, are available from Sterling Publishers, 387 Park Avenue South, NY 10016-8810 for only $9.95 in paper (wraps).  As good as anything from Len Deighton or Ernest K. Gann…

Among a number of new memoirs and correspondence from World War I are the following:

• Letters from a Lost Generation, Mark Bostridge and Alan Bishop, editors (Little Brown) presents a collection of correspondence between Vera Brittain ((Testament of Youth), her brother Edward, her fiancée, Roland Leighton and their two friends, Victor Richardson and Geoffery Thurlow, as well as the letters they wrote to her and to each other. In the end, only Brittain was left alive...
• Comrades in Arms: The World War I Memoir of Captain Henri De Lecluse, the Count of Trevoedal, edited by Roy E. Sandstrom and translated by Jacques F. Dubois (Kent State University Press). Daily life on the Western Front as seen by a French cavalry officer, an ardent patriot and a devout Catholic who came to hate his enemy.

Worth a Second Look!

The Citizen Soldiers: The Plattsburgh Training Camp Movement, 1913-1920, John Garry Clifford, University of Kentucky Press, 1972, 335 pages, ISBN 0-8131-1262-1, hardback, available for various prices used from several booksellers affiliated with Barnes and Noble (bn.com). Written by a speaker at our August 2004 WFA Annual National Seminar at Plattsburgh, New York. Army Chief of Staff Leonard Wood and his friend Theodore Roosevelt were prime movers behind this aspect of national preparedness in the WWI era.

Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Movement, 1910-1917, Arthur S. Link, and Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1920, Robert M. Ferrell, both published by Harper & Row and available from used booksellers in hardcover and paperback. Excellent short histories of the Wilson presidency, the final years of the Progressive Era and American involvement in The Great War written by distinguished American historians.

Military Strategy and the Origins of the First World War, Steven E. Miller, Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Stephen Van Evera (eds.), Princeton University Press, 1991, 320 pages, ISBN 0-691-02349-2, $21.00 paperback. With essays by the editors, as well as Holger Herwig and Michael Howard among others.

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