2008

Setting the Desert on Fire: T. E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918, James Barr, Norton, 2008, 382 pages, photos, maps, index, ISBN 9 78039 3060 40 9, $27.95 cloth. Barr makes the point that the British were no more duplicitous that the Arabs, many of whose leaders (Hussein for example) maintained open lines of communications to the Turks up to the end of the war. Absent a unified Arab national movement, the British and French -- the author argues -- had no choice but to assume responsibility for the former Ottoman provinces.

Operation Albion: The Conquest of the Baltic Islands, Michael Barrett, Indiana, 2008, 312 pages, photos, maps, index, ISBN 0 253 34969 9, $29.95 cloth. This Eastern Front battle featured action between German dreadnoughts and a Russian battleship, the use of aircraft and zeppelins, and the most successful amphibious landing of WWI on the islands of Dago, Osel and Moon at the head of the Gulf of Riga. A History Book Club selection. The author teaches at The Citadel and spoke at our 2006 WFA seminar in Tampa.

The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War Really Ended, Nicholas Best, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2008, index, ISBN 0 29785 190 5, £11 hardback. Reactions of war survivors, many of whom went on to success after the conflict.

The Imperial German Eagles in World War I: Their Postcards and Pictures, Lance J. Bronnenkant, Schiffer, 2008, 400 pages, b&w images, ISBN 978 0 7643 2928 9, $69.95 hardcover. The second in a planned three-part series looks at the collectible Sanke, Liersch and NPG postcards featuring German WWI aviators. Available in April 2008.

The Daily Telegraph Dictionary of Tommies' Song and Slang: Sayings and Songs From, the First World War, John Brophy & Eric Partridge, Frontline Books/Casemate, 2008, 240 pages, illustrations, maps, glossary, index, ISBN 978 1 84415 710 5, $39.95 hardback. Each song is accompanied by a brief explanation of its origins and variations. There is also a large glossary of soldier slang.

Petain: Verdun to Vichy, Robert B. Bruce, Potomac, 2008, 160 pages, index, photos, maps, chronology, bibliographic note, ISBN 978 1 57488 598 9, $21.95 cloth; ISBN 978 1 57488 757 0, $13.95 paperback. A short biography by the winner of the WFA 2004 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize.

The Devil Dogs at Belleau Wood: U. S. Marines in World War I, Dick Camp, Zenith Press, 2006, 128 pages, index, bibliography, maps, color and monochrome illustrations, ISBN 978 0 7603 3189 7, $19.95 paperback. The familiar story of how the Marines stopped the last of the German spring 1918 offensives.

Unlikely Allies: Britain, America and the Victorian Beginnings of the Special Relationship, Duncan Andrew Campbell, Continuum, 2008, 320 pages, ISBN 1 84725 191 6, $29.95 hardcover. Putting aside residual antagonisms stemming from the War of 1812, America and Great Britain lay the basis for an alliance that survived two world wars and is still operative today.

Le Cateau, Nigel Cave and Jack Sheldon, Pen & Sword, Battlefield Europe Series, 2008, 224 pages, illustrated, maps, index, ISBN 978 085052 842 8, $19.95 paper. The second major action fought by the BFE in 1914 examined by two experienced WWI historians.

We Will Not Fight: The Untold Story of World War One's Conscientious Objectors, Will Ellsworth-Jones, Arum Press, 2008, 320 pages, ISBN 1 84513 300 5, £18.99 hardbound. The story of England's conscientious objectors, many of whom were jailed for refusing to serve in the armed forces.

Tirpitz: Architect of the German High Seas Fleet, Michael Epkenhans, Potomac, 2008, 144 pages, photos, maps, chronology, notes, index, ISBN 978 1 57488 444 9, $21.95 cloth; ISBN 978 1 57488 732 7, $13.95 paperback. A biography of Alfred von Tirpitz (1849-1930) whose long career took him from naval command to the postwar Reichstag.

John Masefield's Great War - Collected Works, Phillip Errington (ed.), Pen & Sword, 2008, 320 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 84415 650 4, $50 hardcover. Collected shorter pieces by Britain's Poet Laureate who also penned books on Gallipoli, The Old Front Line, War and the Future, and the Somme.

The Great War in America: Civil Military Relations during World War I, Nancy Gentile Ford, Praeger/Greenwood, 2008, 191 + xii pages, index, notes, documents, bibliography, ISBN 978 0 275 98199 0, $49.95 cloth. Starting with the preparedness movement, Ms. Ford traces civil-military relations in America through the draft and training of citizen soldiers, mobilization of public opinion and suppression of dissent, the application of science and technology through demobilization and reemployment starting in 1919. Documents include the Sedition Act of 1918. The author also wrote Americans All: Foreign Born soldiers in World War I (Greenwood 2001).

A Strange and Formidable Weapon: British Reponses to World War I Poison Gas, Marion Girard, Nebraska, 2008, 400 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 0 8032 2223 6, $45 cloth. This is a social history. Although most Britons considered poison gas an abominable weapon, many eventually condoned its use as necessary for victory. The author teaches at the University of New Hampshire.

Four Hats in the Ring: the 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics, Lewis L. Gould, University Press of Kansas, 2008, 256 pages, photographs, index, ISBN 978 0 7006 1564 3, $29.85 cloth. A snap shot of American politics on the eve of The Great War. Roosevelt, Wilson, Taft and socialist candidate Eugene Debs duke it out at the apogee of the Progressive Era.

Sopwith Camel vs. Fokker Dr. I, Western Front 1917-18 (DUE-7), Jon Guttman, H. Dempsey, J. Laurier illustrators, Osprey, 2008, 96 pages, color and b&w illustrations, index, ISBN 978 1 84603 293 6, $17.95 paperback. A comparison of these famous WWI pursuit aircraft by a premier American aviation historian.

The Nieuport 28, America's First Fighter, Theodore Hamady, Schiffer, 2008, 272 pages, color and monochrome photos, drawings and aircraft profiles, ISBN 978 0 7643 2933 3 $59.95 hardcover. Douglas Campbell, Jimmy Meissner and Eddie Rickenbacker honed their skills on Nieuport 28s. This is a history of this major WWI aircraft from its design inception in 1917 through the postwar era. Available in April 2008.

The Selected Papers of Sir Arthur Currie: Diaries, Letters and Report to the Ministry, 1917-1933, Mark Humphries, (ed.). Wilfrid Laurier University Center for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies, 2008, 408 pages, maps, sketches, charts, index, bibliography, ISBN 978 0 9783441 2 2, C$34.95 . The first complete collection of the papers of Canada's top soldier of WWI. Currie was a land speculator and militiaman from British Columbia who rose to command the four divisions of the CEF. He is best remembered for the Canadian Corps successful 1917 attack at Vimy Ridge. Purchase directly from Wilfred Laurier University at www.wlu.ca or phone Andrew Thomson, at (519) 884-0710.

Brushes and Bayonets, Lucinda Gosling, Osprey, 2008, 200 pages, illustrations, index, IBSN 978 1 84603 095 6, $34.95 paperback. Collection of 250 WWI illustrations taken from the archives of the London Daily News.

1918: A Very British Victory, Peter Hart, WN Publishers, (October) 2008, 576 pages, maps, index, illustrations, ISBN 0 29784 652 3, £13.30 from Amazon.co.uk. A new look at the final German and British offensives of 1918. Also available as an audio book.

Contesting the German Empire, Matthew Jefferies, Wiley, John & Sons (Blackwell in the UK), 2008, 232 pages, ISBN 1 405 12997 2, 34.95 paperback. A bottom-up examination of the dynamics of politicization under Bismarck and Wilhelm II; "democracy in an undemocratic state." Germany had universal male suffrage from 1871, but lacked parliamentary control over anything but the budget as government as ministers remained responsible only to the Kaiser who often became a spanner in the works.

To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918, Edward G. Lengel, Henry Holt, 2008, 521 pages, maps, index, ISBN 978 80805 09731 9, $26.00 cloth. A new history of this major battle, the most costly in American history, by a Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Draws on primary sources including memoirs and letters of US veterans. Professor Lengel will be a speaker at the the WFA-USA National Seminar at Carlisle, Pennsylvania in September.



One Night at a Bad Inn, Cristy Leskovar, Pictorial Histories Publishing, 2008, 606 pages, maps, illustrations, ISBN 1 57510 123 8, $24.95 hard bound. A true tale of war (the 91st "Wild West Division"), murder and mayhem set largely in the mining town of Butte, Montana in the 19 teens and 20s. Order from phpc@montana.com and look for a review in a future issue of Camaraderie.

Somme Mud, E. P. F. Lynch, William Davis (ed.), Doubleday, 2008, 368 pages, ISBN 0 38561 278 8, £17.99 cloth. Memoir written in 1919 from the infantryman's perspective by a Somme survivor and now published for the first time.

For King and Country: Voices from the First World War, Brian MacArthur (ed.),Little Brown, 2008, £20 cloth. A new anthology of poetry, letters, and memoirs available from www.amazon.co.uk.

Richthofen Jagdstaffel Ahead, Peter McManus, Grub Street/Casemate, 2008, 224 pages, color and b&w images and photos, ISBN 978 1 90650 200 3, $39.95 hardcover. RFC 40 Squadron takes on a technically superior Flying Circus.

German Army Handbook of 1918, David Nash (ed.), Frontline Books/Casemate Publishing, 2008, 196 pages, maps, diagrams, plates, index, ISBN 978 1 84415 711 2, $39.96 hardcover. Compiled by British intelligence as a comprehensive assessment of the German Army organization, tactics and equipment at the end of WWI.

The First Year of World War II, 1919, Richard Osborne, Riebel Roque/Seaforth, 256 pages, ISBN 978 0 9628324 8 2, $22.95 paperback. Traces the key events of the tumultuous first post war year such as the emergence of Hitler and Mussolini, the Bolshevik victory in Russia, the treaty of Versailles and the political upheavals in Germany. Available from www.casematepublishing.com.

The World on Fire: 1919 and the Battle with Bolshevism, Anthony Read, W. W. Norton, 2008, 340 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 978 039306 124 6, $27.85 cloth. Published by Jonathan Cape in the UK. International alarm over terrorism is nothing new. Read examines the "Reds under the bed" scare of 1918-1920 that threatened free speech in North America and Western Europe in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the abortive Marxist uprisings in Germany, labor unrest in the UK and terror bombings in America. As with the current al-Qeada menace, liberal democratic governments of this era often overreacted to a shadowy and inchoate Red Menace.

Images of War: the 1918 German Offensives, John Sheen, Pen & Sword, 2008, 160 pages, illustrated, index, ISBN 978 1 84415 661 0,. $28.95 paperback. An richly illustrated history of the spring 1918 German offensives. Available in America from www.casematepublishing.com.

Clausewitz's On War: A Biography, Hew Strachan, 2008, Grove Press, 256 pages, ISBN 978 08021 436 36, $13.00 paperback. A premier military historian examines Clausewitz's dense dicta on military strategy.

Enduring the Great War: Combat, Morale and the Collapse of Armies, 1914-1918, Alexander Watson, Cambridge, 2008, 312 pages, index, appendices, ISBN 978 05218 810 12, $99.00 hardcover. Comparative scholarly study of German and British morale. The author argues that at the heart of armies' robustness lay human resilience; that the "ordered surrender" by junior officers led to Germany's defeat in 1918.

Borrowed Soldiers: Americans under British Command, 1918, Michell A. Yockelson, Oklahoma, (April) 2008, Volume 17 in the Campaigns and Commanders Series, 256 pages, maps, photos, index, ISBN 978 0 8061 3919 7, $29.95. A case study in coalition warfare, focusing on the AEF's 27th and 30th Divisions (II Corps) which fought in Flanders and under ANZAC command along the Somme, breaching the Hindenburg Line in fall of 1918. The author is archivist at the National Archives and Records Service, teaches history at Annapolis and Norwich University and spoke at the 2007 WFA US national seminar at the Naval War College. To order, go to http://borrowedsoldiers.com/index.html.

Greater Love: A Directory of Chaplains of the British Army, Australian, Canadian, East African, New Zealand and South African Forces and Ministers of Religion Who Gave Their Lives in the Period 1914-1922, David T. Youngson, 2008, $40 postpaid. Order from the author, D. T. Youngson, 35 Buxton Gardens, Billingham TS22 5AL England, e-mail david.youngson@ntlworld.com. A resource for WWI historians and researchers; as advertised in Stand To!.

Chief of Staff: The Principal Officers Behind History's Great Commanders, Vol. 1- Napoleonic Wars to World War I, David T. Zabecki (ed.), Naval Institute, 2008, 288 pages, photos, ISBN 978 1 59114 990 3, $39.95 cloth. First of two volumes examining the role of the military chief of staff.

Warsaw 1920: Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe, Adam Zamoyski, Harper, 2008, 160 pages, maps, photos, index, ISBN 0 00722 552 0, £8.88 cloth from Amazon.co.uk. History of the Polish-Soviet War which threatened the Versailles settlement and put paid to Lenin's ambitions for spreading bolshevism to the west.

2007

A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility, Taner Akçam (translated from the Turkish by Paul Bessemer), Metropolitan, 2007, 483 pages, ISBN 0 80508 665 X, $17 paperback. Drawing on official records, a Turkish historian risks incarceration by his government to accuse the Ottoman Turks of perpetrating genocide against the Armenians during WWI. Favorably reviewed in the New York Review of Books. Turkey's application for entry into the European Union has rekindled interest in the dark chapter of its Ottoman past.

A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today, David A. Andelman, Wiley, John & Sons, 2007. 336 pages, index, ISBN 978 04718 78898 0, $25.95 cloth. An analysis linking current day international political woes to the Versailles treaty.

Faces of World War One: The Tragedy of the Great War in Words and Pictures, Max Arthur, Cassell, 2007, 288 pages, photos, illustrations, index, ISBN 1 84403 561 8, £10 from Amazon.co.uk. From the archives of the Imperial War Museum combined with contemporary accounts of events pictured.

Lest We Forget: Forgotten Voices from 1914-1945, Max Arthur, Ebury Press, 2007, 320 pages, illustrations ISBN 0 09192 294 1, £10 paperback. Part of the "Forgotten Voices" series; first-hand recollections of ordinary people illustrated from Imperial War Museum archives.

The Great War Diaries of Brigadier Alexander Johnston, Edwin Astill, Pen & Sword, 2007, 256 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 1 8441 581 1, $45 hardcover. Story of an officer who rose from subaltern to brigade commander in the Third Division, BEF.

Lawrence of Arabia and the Light Horse, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 2007, 48 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 921353 05 5, A$9.95. Pamphlet on the current exhibition at the Memorial; order on line at www.awm.gov.au.

Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the Modern U. S. Marine Corps, Alan Axelrod, Lyons Press, 2007, 272 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 978 15992 21054 4, $24.95 hardcover from Barnes & Noble. A new popular history of Marine participation as part of the AEF's Second Division in the Aisne-Marne battles of mid-1918. See also At Belleau Wood, Robert Asprey, first published in 1965 and available in paperback reprint from the University of North Texas Press, $24.95, ISBN 978 81574 41016 7.

Argonne Days in World War I, Horace L. Baker (Robert H. Ferrell, ed.), Missouri, 2007, 157 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 0 82621 708 7, $29.95 cloth. The memoir of a Mississippi Doughboy edited by the prolific author of America's Deadliest Battle and editor of Meuse-Argonne Diary: The Divisional Commander in World War I.

War Bird Ace: The Great War Exploits of Capt. Field E. Kindley, Jack Stokes Ballard, Texas A&M Press, 2007, 224 pages, photos, maps, index, bibliography, appendices, ISBN 1 58544 554 1, $29.95 cloth. Captain Kindley's 12 victories tied him for ninth place among American air aces.

Victory at Vimy: Canada Comes of Age, April 9-12, 1917, Ted Barris, Thomas Allen, 2007, 300 pages, $44.00 cloth. Another work commemorating the 1917 battle. Available from Amazon.com.

The Midwest Goes to War: The 32nd Division in the Great War, John W. Barry, Scarecrow Press, 2007, 165 + vii pages, photos, notes, appendix, bibliography, index, ISBN 0 8108 5424 4, $45.00 cloth. For another history of the 32nd Division, see Argonne Days in World War I, Robert H. Ferrell (ed.) Missouri, 2007.

Passchendaele, Peter Barton, Constable & Robinson, 2007, 486 pages, photos, maps, diagrams, index, ISBN 1 84529 422 X, $60 hardcover. Third volume in an ongoing project to recover and publish previously unseen WWI battlefield panoramas and aerial photographs. Also contains unpublished memoirs and letters of the combatants.

Images of War: The German Army on the Western Front, 1917-1918, Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives, David Bilton, Pen & Sword, 2007, 160 pages, b&w photos, chronology, bibliography, ISBN 1 84415 502 1, $24.95 paper. Focusses on the withdrawal from the Somme in early 1917 through the Kaiser's Battle of spring 1918. Text summaries action on the Western Front as home front morale in Germany collapsed during the final two years of the war.

Passchendaele, 1917: The Story of the Fallen and Tyne Cot Cemetery, Franky Bostyn & Jan van der Fraenen, Pen & Sword, 2007, 352 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 97 818441 562 14, £25 cloth. Available on line from www.pen-and-sword.co.uk. This is one of several new and reprinted works brought out by Pen & Sword in time for the 90th anniversary of Third Ypres -- Passchendeale. Other titles include Passchendaele: The Hollow Victory by Martin Marix Evans, Passchendaele in Perspective by Peter Liddle, and Passchendaele by Phillip Warner.

The Russian Civil War, 1917-1921, David Bullock, Potomac (Essential History series), formerly Brassey's, 2008, 96 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 18460 32714, $16.95 paperback. A new short narrative history.

Larousse de la Grande Guerre, Bruno Cabenes & Ann Duménil, Larousse, 2007, 475 pages, photos, maps, drawings, chronology, index, ISBN 978 203583 350 1, €39.90 from www.amazon.fr. A superbly illustrated coffee table-size book in French summarizing all major aspects of war on the Western Front, and other fronts, as well. Contains an interesting chapter on Belgian collaborators and another on medical advances.

Britain, France and the Entente Cordiale Since 1904, Antoine Capet, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 225 + x pages, index, ISBN 0 23000 902 6, £45, $74.95 cloth. A scholarly study tracing the Anglo-French alliance from the signing of the Entente Cordiale in 1904 through World War One, Lloyd George and Clemenceau, the inter-war years and disarmament, World War Two, Churchill and DeGaulle, the Cold War and beyond.

King, Kaiser, Tzar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War, Cartine Clay, Walker & Co., 2007, photos, index, ISBN 0 71986 537 5, $26.95, also available in paperback. Narrative history first published in the UK by Gardners Books last year; written by the British producer/director of a television documentary of the same name. Based in part on royal letters and diaries.

Happy Odyssey, Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, Pen & Sword, 2007, 288 pages, illustrations index, ISBN 978 1 84415 539 2, $24.95 paper. An autobiography by the highly decorated WWI officer who was the model for Brigadier Ben Ritchie Hook in Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honor trilogy.

Imagining the Unimaginable: World War One, Modern Art, and the Politics of Public Culture in Russia, 1914-1917, Aaron J. Cohen, University of Nebraska Press, 2007, 544 pages, illustrations, tables, graphs, index, ISBN 978 0 8032 1547 4, $45 cloth. The experience of artists set against developments in mass culture and the press among the broader trends in war-torn Russian society and politics leading to revolution in 1917.

Pour la France: A Guide to Formations & Units of French Land Forces, 1914-1918, Volume I: Divisions and Regiments, Michael Cox and Dr. Graham Watson, Helion, 2007, 480 pages, maps, index, ISBN 978 1 906033 13 2, $69.95 paperback. The first of two volumes including as well a listing of those divisions of the British, Italian and America armies coming under French command. A useful reference.

New Zealand's Great War: New Zealand, the Allies and the First World War, John Crawford and Ian McGibbon (eds.), Exisle, no ISBN given, $79 cloth. Consists of 32 scholarly papers given at the Zealandia's Great War conference in Wellington, November 2003. For more on New Zealand in WWI, go to www.bn.com.

Underground Battlefields: Uncovering the Mines and Tunnels of Vimy and Beaumont Hamel, Mike Dolamore, Pen & Sword, 2007, 244 pages, photos, illustrations, index, ISBN 978 1 84415 486 9, $24.95 hardcover from Casemate Publishing. The work of the Durand Group exploring surviving mines and tunnels along what was the Western Front.

Ottoman Army Effectiveness in World War I: A Comparative Study, Edward Erickson, Routledge, 2007, 236 pages, maps, tables, figures, appendices, notes, index, bibliography, ISBN 978 0415 77099 6, $125 cloth. By a Turkish-speaking expert on the Ottoman army who served in Turkey during his U.S. Army career. Colonel Erickson makes the case for an army of unusual skill and cohesiveness even in defeat. The author has spoken at several GWS and WFA seminars.

The Silent General: Horne of the First Army, a Biography of Haig's Trusted Great War Comrade in Arms, Don Farr, Helion, 2007, 352 pages, illustrations, maps, index, ISBN 978 1 874622 99 4, $59.95 cloth. Biography of a long overlooked British army commander Henry Sinclair Horne.

Das Begleitbuch zu Ernst Jünger, Nils Fabiansson, E. S Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Hamburg, 2007, 160 pages, maps, photos, drawings, ISBN 3 81320 888 5, €19.90 available in the USA from www.abebooks.com and www.bookfinder.com. A reader's companion and battlefield guide to Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel (1920).

America's Deadliest Battle: Meuse-Argonne, 1918, Robert H. Ferrell, Kansas, 2007, 216 pages, maps, photos, index, ISBN 0 70061 499 0, $29.95 cloth. A new analysis of America's largest and costliest (26 thousand dead) WWI battle by a premier American historian.

Military History on the Web, Simon Fowler, Pen & Sword, 2007, 192 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 84415 606 1, $19.95 paper. A resource for those seeking information on battles or on individual British, Canadian or American soldiers, sailors and airmen.

Julius Buckler: "Malaula" the Battle Cry of Jasta 17, Norman Franks (ed.) from a translation by Adam M. Wait, Grub Street, 2007 152 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 1 904943 80 8, 39.95 hardback. First published in Germany in 1939 this is the story of a German 36-victory ace and his mates.

The Red Baron's Last Flight: An In-Depth Investigation into what Really Happened on the Day von Richthofen was Shot Down, Norman Franks & Alan Bennett, Grub Street, 2007, 144 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 978 904943 33 4, $19.95 paperback. Franks is a premier historian of WWI aviation, but even he can't settle this never-ending argument.

The Meinertzhagen Mystery: The Life and Legend of a Colossal Fraud, Brian Garfield, Potomac Books, 2007, 386 pages, photos, index, ISBN 1 59797 041 7, $27.50 cloth. Lt. Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen (1878-1967) got his start as a politically- and socially-connected British Army intelligence officer chasing Paul von Lettow Vorbeck around the East Africa bush. Later, invalided out of Africa, he was assigned to MI7 in Cairo, and claimed authorship of the legendary "haversack ruse" of 1917. A committed Zionist, Meinertzhagen was a flamboyant player in the Middle East in the inter-war years, a noted ornithologist, founder of the post-war Anglo German Fellowship, and intimate of Winston Churchill, T. H. Lawrence and Chaim Weizmann. He also perpetrated scientific fraud, was a tireless self-promoter and may have even murdered his wife. Fittingly, this lively tale is authored by a past president of the Mystery Writers of America.

Baptism of Fire, Nathan M. Greenfield, Harper Collins Canada, 2007, 359 pages, photos, maps, appendices, index, bibliography, ISBN 0 00200 727 4, C$34.95 hardback. Examination of the untried Canadian First Division's first engagement, the Second Battle of Ypres, 1915, with particular focus on the earliest major use of gas on the Western Front. Draws on the testimony of soldiers on both sides.

The AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War I, Mark Ethan Grotelueschen, Cambridge, 2007, 387 + x pages, index, maps, photos, ISBN 0 521 86434 8, $75.00 cloth. An analysis of how AEF commanders devised improved tactics to meet unforeseen conditions on the Western Front written by an Assistant Professor of History at the USAF Academy. A welcome professional reexamination of the AEF's combat record.

Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919, Ann Hagedorn, Simon & Schuster, 2007, 560 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 0 74324 371 4, $30 hardcover. History of a tumultuous year: lynchings, race riots, the recrudescence of the Klu Klux Klan, widespread labor unrest, anarchist bombings, the first Red Scare, prohibition, thousands of returning Doughboys looking for work and the abrupt end of the reformist Progressive Era. The author, a staffer at the Wall Street Journal reviews the unruly and often politically repressive aftermath of the "War to End All Wars."

Through the Dark Night: The War Diary of the Master of Belhaven, Royal Artillery 1914-1918, Ralph G. A. Hamilton, Helion, 2007, 312 pages, photo, maps, ISBN 978 1 874622 83 3, $49.95 cloth. Complete diary entries of a career officer supplemented by sketch maps.

Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History, Mary Hammond & Shafquat Towheed, Palgrave McMillan, 2007, 248 pages, index, sources, ISBN 0 23050 076 5, $69.95. Twelve essays explore changes in British publishing practices wrought by WWI.

The Public Schools Battalion in the Great War: The History of the 16th (Public Schools) Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment (the Duke of Cambridge's Own) August 1914 to July 1916, Steve Hurst, Pen & Sword, 2007, 302 pages, index, photos, maps, appendices, $39.95 cloth. Another in a long series of BEF battalion histories from Pen & Sword.

Britain's Greatest Aircraft, Robert Jackson, Pen & Sword, 2007, 320 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 1 84415 600 9, $50 hardcover. Describes the design history, development and operational careers of 22 legendary military and civil aircraft starting with the WWI era.

Diary of a Dead Officer, Being the Posthumous Papers of Arthur Geaeme West, introduction by Nigel Jones, Greenhill, 2007, 192 pages, ISBN 1 85367 7298, $29.95 cloth. A young English scholar enlists in a rush of enthusiasm in 1915, becomes an officer, and then bitterly disillusioned with army life. First published in 1917, this work includes a number of West's poems.

A Zouave's Journey: Recollections of a Footsoldier in the 37th African Division, Marilène Patten Henry, Peter Lang, 2007, 142 pages, figures, index, ISBN 0 82049 708 8, $61.95 cloth. Biography of a French Great War conscript, an orphan, based on the diary of poilu Archille Lecreux. Dr. Henry is the author of Monumental Accusations about popular resentment in memorializing WWI in France.

The Winter of the World: Poems from the First World War, Dominic Hibberd and John Onions (eds.), Constable & Robinson, 2007, ISBN 978 1 84529 515 8, £20 hardcover from the publisher www.constablerobinson.com. An extensive anthology of over 200 poems from both well known and obscure poets of the era.

Shamrock Battalion in the Great War, Martin J. Hogan, James J. Cooke (ed.) Missouri, 2007, 132 pages, ISBN 0 82621 710 9, $24.95 hardcover. Memoirs of a Doughboy in the 165th Infantry of the Rainbow Division edited by a professor emeritus of history at Old Miss who write a history of the 28th Division in the Great War.

The Retreat: Mons to the Marne, 1914, Richard Holmes, Pimlico, 2007, 320 pages, maps, ISBN 1 84595 109 3, paperback. New edition of book blending military history, personal testimonies and a recounting the author's ride along the route taken by the retreating BEF in the summer of 1914. Available in April 2007 from Amazom.com. Holmes is a widely published historian and reserve Brigadier in the British Army.

Gertrude Bell Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations, Georgina Howell, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 512 pages, ISBN 0 37416 162 3, $27.50 cloth. Biography of a British "Arabist," a contemporary of T. E. Lawrence who also worked with British intelligence in Cairo during WWI and lived after the war in Baghdad, her favorite city. A History Book Club selection for 2007. Favorably reviewed in the June 2007 Atlantic. This is the women who outlined Iraq's borders and drafted its first constitution. See also Desert Queen, Janet Wallach, Doubleday, 1996, now in paperback from Knopf, 464 pages, ISBN 1 40009 619 7, $15.95.

World War I Almanac, Jennifer D. Keene (ed.), Facts on File, 2007, 512 pages, ISBN 081606 191 2, price unknown hardcover.

The Fourth Horseman: The Tragedy of Anton Dilger and the Birth of Biological Terrorism, Robert Koenig, Public Affairs, 2007, 376 pages, index, ISBN 1 58648 372 2, $26 hardcover. The convoluted story of attempts by an American agent of Germany to infect with anthrax and ganders mules and horses being shipped to the Allies in Europe from America during WWI. Also examines other German sabotage efforts, as well as attempts to precipitate a Mexican attack on the US.

Dynastic Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War, Alan Kramer, Oxford, 342 pages, index, bibliography, ISBN 0 19280 342 5, $34.00 cloth. Explores how the total warfare of The Great War changed European society and culture. Not a pretty picture. The author is winner of the WFA Tomlinson Book Prize for his monograph on German conduct in Belgium, German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial, co-authored with John Horne. Kramer teaches at Trinity University, Dublin.

North American Indians in the Great War, Susan Applegate Krouse and Joseph Kossuth Dixon, University of Nebraska Press, 2007, 288 pages, index, ISBN 978 08032 22778 1 , $45 cloth. Some 10 thousand native Americans served in the armed forces during WWI. This book examines their experiences and how the war changed these men. See also American Indians in World War I, Thomas A. Britten, University of New Mexico Press, 1997, 264 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 08263 20902, $21.95 paperback.

Smoke and Mirrors: Q-ships Against the U-boats in the First World War, Deborah Lake, Sutton, 2007, 224 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 0 75094 605 9, $39,95 cloth. The story of Britain's controversial effort to sink German submarines by deploying heavily-armed merchant vessels with RN crews. The author has also written on the Zeebrugge Raid under the pseudonym of David Lomas.

Rehearsals: The German Army in Belgium, August 1914, Jeff Lipkes, Leuven University Press, 2007, 832 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 978 90 5867 596 5, $55.95 paper. A revisionist historian looks at German looting, arson and executions of Belgian civilians asserting that these were neither figments of Entente propaganda, nor simply results of collective paranoia (fear of franc tireurs), but rather part of a deliberate campaign of terrorism ordered by military authorities. The author is a Princeton Ph.D. Another in a lengthening series of books examining German military government and occupation policies in World War One.

Prisoners of War in British Hands during WWI: A Study in Their History, the Camps and Their Mails, Graham Mark, Postal History Society, 2007, 266 pages, ISBN 0 85322 266 8, $70 hardcover available from Philatelic Bibliopole, Box 36006, Louisville, KY 40233-6006 e-mail Leonard@pbbooks.net or go to www.pbbooks.com, or buy it from www.amazon.co.uk for £26.99. For stamp collectors.

Conservative Party and Anglo-German Relations, 1905-1914, Frank McDonough, Palgrave McMillan, 2007, 184 pages, index, ISBN 0 20352 171 0, $69.95 cloth. A scholarly corrective to the traditional depiction of the Conservatives as "scaremongers" and the chief source of anti-German views in the pre-war period.

Cheshire Bantams: 15th, 16th and 17th Battalions of the Cheshire Regiment, Stephen McGreal, Pen & Sword, 224 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 1 84415 524 8, $29.95 paperback. The story of battalions formed from diminutive (five-foot tall) volunteers.

An Airman's Wife: A True Story of Lovers Separated by War, Aimée McHardy, Grub Street, 320 pages, ISBN 978 904943 94 5, $19.95 paper. The correspondence of Aimée Hardy and Captain William Bond.

The Good Soldier: A Biography of Douglas Haig., Gary Mead, Atlantic Books, 2007, 608 pages, index, ISBN 1 84354 280 3, £20 hardcover from amazon.co.uk. Billed as a new, sympathetic bio of the BEF commander whose life and military career has been the subject of dozens of monographs and books. Mead is a British Historian and author of The Doughboys (Penguin, 2000), a fine study of America's political, economic, financial and military role in WWI

The World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918, G. J. Meyer, Dell, 2007, 814 pages, photos, maps, index, ISBN 0 55338 240 3, $30 paperback. A general overview first published in 2006 new in a Delta trade paperback that breaks no new ground.

The Landings at Suvla Bay, 1915: An Analysis of the British Failure During the Gallipoli Campaign, Michael J. Mortlock, McFarlane, 2007, maps, illustrations, index, IBBN 0 78643 035 4, $35 paperback.

The Russian Civil War, Evan Mowdsley, Pegasus, 2007, 400 pages, index, ISBN 078 19336 48156, $26.95 cloth. The author is a professor of history at Glasgow University.

The Death of Glory, Robin Neillands, John Murray, 2007, 320 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 0 71956 245 7, £6.59 paperback from Amazon.co.uk. The beginning of attritional battles in trench warfare as successive British and French offensives fail. See also 1915: The Death of Innocence by Lynn MacDonald, Johns Hopkins, 2000.

Medicine and Duty: the World War I Memoir of Captain Harold W. McGill, Medical Officer, 31st Battalion, CEF, Marjorie Barron Norris (ed.), Calgary University Press, 2007, 379 + xx pages, index, maps, appendix, photos, ISBN 978 1 55238 193 9, $29.80 trade paperback.

To the Limit of Endurance: A Battalion of Marines in the Great War, Peter F. Owen, Texas A&M, 2007, 288 pages, maps, figures, photos, appendices, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 1 58544599 8, $32.50 cloth. The author draws on first-hand accounts from Marines of the 2nd Battalion, Sixth Regiment tracing their experiences from formation at Quantico through fighting at Belleau Wood and Soissons to the Armistice with particular emphasis on evolving AEF infantry tactics.

Tip and Run: The Untold Story of the Great War in Africa, Edward Paice, Weidenfeld, Gardners Books, 2007, 488 pages, ISBN 0 29784 709 0, £25 cloth. A retelling of the familiar story of the long and largely futile British campaign against German General Paul von Lettow Vorbeck, a masterful nineteenth century-style guerrilla fighter with a persistently romantic image. See also The First World War in Africa, Hew Strachan, Oxford, 2004 and The Forgotten War, Ross Anderson, Tempus, 2004.

The Life of Harry Patch, The Only Surviving Veteran of the Trenches, Harry Patch with Richard van Emden, Bloomsbury, 2007, 320 pages, ISBN 0 74759 115 6, £16.99 hardback. The story of the last surviving (as of August 2007) British trench veteran of WWI. Van Emden is author of several books on WWI including The Trench, Boy Soldiers of the Great War, and Britain's Last Tommies.

Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War, Roland Perry, Random-Australia, 2007, ISBN 1 74166 847 6, Aus$27.95 paperback. Reprint of a biographical history first published in 2004 examining the career of Lt. General Sir John Monash, commander of the Anzac Corps. Won a major Australian book prize despite mixed reviews.

1920, The Year of the Six Presidents, David Pietrusza, Carroll & Graff, 2007, 531 pages, index, photos, ISBN 978 0 78671 422 7, $28.95 cloth. The election campaign of 1920 marked the end of the Progressive Era, the start of Prohibition, the height of the post-war Red Scare and a bright line between Wilsonian internationalism and the isolationist "normalcy" of the Harding-Coolidge era; a snapshot of a changing America in the wake of The Great War.

Battleship Texas, Hugh Power, Texas A&M, 2007, 166 pages, photos, drawings, appendices, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 0 89096 519 1, $19.95 paperback. Reissue of the definitive guide to the last surviving Great War dreadnought, veteran of the Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow on display outside Houston and soon to undergo major preservation work.

Architect of Victory, Douglas Haig, Walter Reid, Berlin, 2007, ISBN 1 84158 517 3, $50 cloth. A new sympathetic analysis of Haig's still controversial leadership of the BEF.

Zionist Masquerade: The Birth of the Anglo-Zionist Alliance, 1914-1918, James Renton, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 256 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 978 02305 54718 6, $69.95 cloth. A reexamination of British policy towards Jews and Zionism during the First World War, a fundamental turning point in the history of the Middle East.

The Battleship Dreadnought, John Roberts, Conway's Anatomy of a Ship Series, 2007 reprint, 256 pages, illustrations, line drawings, ISBN 978 0 85177 895 2, 36.95 hardcover. Accurate scale drawings for model makers and historians of the prototype for 20th century line-of-battle ships.

The First World War, Stuart Robson, Longman/Pearson Education, second edition, 2007, 192 pages, maps, glossary, chronology, index, ISBN 1 40582 471 9, $18 in paperback from Amazon. A survey history of the war intended for use as a classroom text.

Battles East: A History of the Eastern Front of the First World War, G. Irving Root, Publish America, 2007, 387 pages, maps, bibliography, notes, ISBN 1 4241 6800 7, $24.95 from www.PublishAmerica.com. Advertised as the first in a new series being privately published by the author. A chronological narrative history based largely on secondary sources. A useful addition to the all too few studies of war in the East.

The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire, Jan Rüger, Cambridge, 2007, 380 pages, index, ISBN 0 52187 576 5, $90.00 cloth. Anglo-German antagonism fanned by popular pro-naval sentiments.

Killing Time: Archeology and the First World War, Nicholas J. Saunders, Sutton, 2007, 256 pages, photos, index, ISBN 0 75094 519 3, $40 hardcover. Uncovering the artifacts of war in Flanders. Saunders is a reader at the University College London and the author of a work on trench art.

Battle of Vimy Ridge, 1917, Jack Sheldon, Pen & Sword, 2007, 240 pages, maps, photos, index, ISBN 1 84415 552 8, $23.99 paperback. A successful British part of the allied 1917 spring offensives most remembered for General Neville's disastrous attack at the Chemin des Dames. Published in time for the 90th anniversary of Canada's most famous battle and the rededication of the refurbished Vimy Memorial.

The German Army at Passchendaele, Jack Sheldon, Pen & Sword, 2007, maps, photos, index, ISBN 1 84415 564 1, $34.89 cloth. A history of the Third Battle of Ypres, 1917, from the German point of view. One of several new histories marking the 90th anniversary of this battle of attrition that fell far short of its original objective of overrunning German naval bases at Ostend and Zeebrugge.

Femme Fatale: Love Lies and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari, Pat Shipman, Harper Collins, 2007, 450 pages, ISBN 0 06081 728 3, $25.95 cloth. A pot boiler about the much pawed over life and career of a WWI female double agent resurrecting the possibility that Mata was a victim.

When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy, William L. Silber, Princeton, 2007, 232 pages, illustrations, halftones, index, ISBN 0 69112 747 6, $27.95 cloth. Traces Treasury Secretary William McAdoo's triumph over the monetary crisis sparked by the start of WWI. With the central bank (the Federal Reserve System) authorized by the Owen-Glass Act of December 1913 not yet in place, he closed the American Stock Exchange for four months to prevent foreigners from selling their holding and demanding gold in return. McAdoo both honored America's commitment to the gold standard and sustained public confidence in the banking system, preventing a repeat of the disastrous 1907 run on American banks. The author is a professor at the Stern School of Business, NYU.

Kitchener's Army: The Rising of the New Armies, 1914-1916, Peter Simkins, Pen & Sword, 2007, 358 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 184415 585 9, $39.95, hardback. Examines the main political, economic and social effects of raising tens of thousands of volunteers, as well as their training, feeding, housing and equipment. Written by the author of several well-received WWI histories.

A People's War: Germany's Political Revolution, 1914-1918, Jeffrey R. Smith, University Press of America, 2007, 232 pages, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 7618 3642 1, $32 paperback. The author sees WWI in Germany as the occasion for the assertion of popular sovereignty, a movement that unified Germans across social and political lines shattering the monarchy.

The Embattled Self: French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War, Leonard V. Smith, Cornell University Press, 2007, 248 pages, ISBN 0 89144 523 X, $39.95 cloth. An examination of fiction and non-fiction writings by French war veterans reveals how they viewed their service and suffering. The author is Professor of History at Oberlin and the author or co-author of several prize-winning works on French society during WWI.

Improbable War? Outbreak of World War I and the European Political Culture before 1914, David Stevenson (ed.), Berghahn Books, 2007, 368 pages, index, ISBN 978 18454 527 59, $27.95 hardcover. A new scholarly look at causes of The Great War edited by the author of Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe 1904-1914, Oxford, 1996.

Battlefilm: U.S. Army Signal Corps Motion Pictures of the Great War, Phillip W. Stewart, PMS Press, 157 pages, ISBN 978-0-9733243-1-4, $29.95 cloth. Also available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble in paperback at $23.95. Catalogs the 467 WWI motion picture film titles held by the National Archives.

World War I: A Short History, Norman Stone, Allen Lane, 2007, index, maps, ISBN 1 84614 013 7, £16.99, cloth. Stone, prolific British historian and the author of The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 (Simon & Schuster, 1975) remains agnostic on the Armenian genocide and a proponent of the view that Germany -- responding to the Russian threat -- started WWI. A survey history reviewed in History Today August 2007. Stone now teaches in Turkey.

The Battle of Jutland, Jon Sutherland and Diane Canwell, Pen & Sword, 2007, 224 pages, photos, charts, index, ISBN 978 m1 84415529 3, $39.95 cloth. Yet another look at The Great War's greatest and most controversial naval engagement.

War in a European Borderland: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and the Ukraine, 1914-1918, Mark von Hagen, University of Washington Press, 2007 128 pages, notes, index, maps, ISBN 0 295 98753 7, $22.50 paperback. Rapidly shifting battle lines, haphazard implementation and often contradictory national policies complicated the sometimes violent German and Austro-Hungarian occupation of Russian territories on the Eastern Front.

To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander, Georg von Trapp (translated by Elizabeth M. Campbell), Nebraska, 2007, 196 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 0 80324 667 6, $21.95 cloth; History Book Club selection. The memoirs of the Austro-Hungarian submarine ace and founder of the Trapp Family Singers first published in the early 1930s before Trapp fled the Nazis and immigrated to America.

Pacifists, Patriots and the Vote: The Erosion of Democratic Suffragism in Britain during the First World War, Jo Vellacott, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 248 pages, index, ISBN 0 23001 355 X, £45 cloth. Argues that the vote for British women was no foregone conclusion despite their significant contributions to the war effort.

Forgotten Soldiers: Irishmen Shot at Dawn, Stephen Walker, Gill & Macmillan, 2007, 256 pages, ISBN 0 71714 189 2, £20 cloth. Traces the lives of 22 Irish volunteers in the British Army who were shot for cowardice. These men, along with dozens of others, were recently pardoned by an act of parliament. Available from www.amazon.co.uk.

Brothers at War, Michael Walsh, Ebury, 2007, 432 pages, photos, ISBN 0091 9088 33, £7.00 paperback. First published by Crown in cloth in 2006 this is the story of Beechey family, who endured with dignity and courage the loss of five sons in WWI. Based on family letters and diaries. Also available from Amazon UK on DVD and audio cassette, or used from Barnes & Noble. Compared by some reviewers to the story Saving Private Ryan.

Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914-1918 - Vol. 2, A Cultural History, Jay Winter & Jean-Louis Robert (eds.), Cambridge, 2007, 504 pages, index, halftones, figures, ISBN 0 52157 171 5, $110 cloth. Second volume in this useful and interesting analysis of the home fronts in WWI.

War Experiences in Rural Germany, 1914-1918, Benjamin Ziemann, Berg, 2007, 320 pages, index, ISBN 1 84520 245 7, $32.95 paper; also available in cloth. Social history.

A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War, Bart Ziino, University of Western Australia Press, 2007, 243 + xi pages, photos, notes, index, ISBN 978 1 920694 89 0, $24.90 trade paperback. The role of war graves and cemeteries in private grief and mourning for Australia's 60 thousand dead of WWI.

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