2010

The 500 Best Cockney War Stories, Amberley, 2010, 224 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 84884 424 0, $18.95, paperback. First published in the early 1920s, this collection of humorous tales masks the grimness of the war in the trenches. Such tales served to help men keep their sanity.

Arras: The Spring 1917 Offensive in Panoramas, Peter Barton, Constable, 304 pages, photos, index, ISBN 1 8452 9421 1, $ 35.00 HB. Ninety rediscovered panoramic photos of the spring 1917 Battles of the Scarpe and Vimy Ridge

This Carnival of Hell: German Combat Experience on the Somme, 1916, Richard A. Baumgartner, Blue Acorn, 2010, 432 pages, photos, illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 1 855033 36 9, $39 postpaid in hardcover from the publisher www.BlueAcornPress.com. Drawing on personal narratives, the book tells the story of the Battle of the Somme from the German perspective.

The Grand Fleet: Warship Design and Development, 1904-1922, D. K. Brown, US Naval Institute, 2010, 208 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 1 8483 2085 7, $32.95 paperback. The Royal Navy dreadnoughts that fought WWI. Sequel to the highly acclaimed Warrior to Dreadnought.

War is War, Alfred McLelland Burrage, Pen & Sword, 228 pages, ISBN 978 1 8488 4154 3, £15.99 HB. The experiences of a private soldier in the AEF in the Western Front.

Sovereignty at Sea: U. S. Merchant Ships and American Entry into World War I, Rodney Carlisle, University Press of Florida, 2010, 232 pages, index, notes, bibliography, ISBN 978 0813 0342 1, $69.95 HB. Examines at the strategic level the loss to German U-boats of 10 US merchantmen between February 3 and April 4, 1917 that sparked American entry into the war.

Ironclads of Cambrai, Brian Cooper, Pen & Sword, 2011, 244 pages, photos, ISBN 978 1 84884 176 5, $39.95 HB. The bungled first massed tank attack at Cambrai, 1917.

The ANZAC Book, Les Carlyon, University of New South Wales Press, 2010. 240 pages, illustrations, ISBN 1 7422 3134 9, At $49.50, from Amazon.co.uk. Revised third edition with new material of a book first published in 1916 featuring material provided by Gallipoli veterans.

American Lions: The 332nd Infantry Regiment in Italy in World War I, Robert J. Dallesandro and Rebecca S. Dallesandro, Schiffer, 2010, 240 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 0 7643 3518 1, $69.95 HC.

Fishermen Against the Kaiser, Volume I: Shockwaves of War, 1914-1915, Douglas d'Enno, Pen & Sword, 2010, 240 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 84415 979 6, $39.95 HB. British fishermen enlisted in large numbers to man all manner of small patrol craft.

Breakthrough: The Gorlice-Tarnow Campaign, 1915, Richard DiNardo, ABC-Clio, 2010, maps, photos, index, ISBN 0 2759 9110 5, $35.95 HB. The first extensive study in English of the major German victory on the Eastern Front which resulted in a 200-mile Russian retreat accompanied by a scorched-earth policy and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Polish, White Russian and Jewish civilians.

Food Will Win the War: Minnesota Corps, Cooks and Conservation During World War I, Rae Katherine Eighmey, Minnesota Historical Society, 2010, 272 pages, ISBN 0 8735 1718 0, $19.95 paperback. America had no food rationing in WWI, but led by Food Administrator Herbert Hoover, citizens banded together voluntarily to conserve with Meatless Mondays, Wheatless Wednesdays and Victory Gardens.

The Kaiser's U-Boats in American Waters, Gary Gentile, Bellerophon Bookworks, 2010, 382 pages, photos, index, ISBN 1 8830 5640 3, $25 paperback from Amazon. Examines the record of German submarine operations in American waters 1917-18 drawing on USN action reports and Kaiserlichmarine submarine logbooks.

The Wolf: How One German Terrorized The Allies in the Most Epic Voyage of World War One, Richard Guilliatt & Peter Hohnen, Simon & Schuster, 2010, 400 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 1 4265 7317 8, $27 HB. The German commerce raider Wolf, a six thousand-ton armed freighter, left Kiel in November 1916, sailed some 64 thousand miles capturing over 400 mariners and sinking some 29 vessels before returning home 15 months later.

Balkan Breakthrough: The Battle of Dobro Pole, 1918, Richard C. Hall, Indiana, 2010, 240 pages, illustrations, maps index, ISBN 978 0 253 35452 5, $27.95 HB. Balkan specialist Hall's third volume on Balkan conflicts examines the decisive battle of the war on the Salonika Front and its consequences. Dr. Hall is a frequent speaker at WFA seminars in Florida.

War Planning, 1914, Richard F. Hamilton & Holger H. Herwig (eds.), Cambridge, 2010, 269 + xi pages, maps, index, ISBN 978 0 521 11096 9, $85 HB. Analytical essays by established WWI historians including Bob Doughty and Annika Mombauer on the war plans of Austria-Hungary, Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain and, Italy placing them in a broader political, diplomatic and military context.

Aircraft of World War I - The Essential Aircraft Identification Guide, Amber Books, 2010, 192 pages, maps, drawings, tables, ISBN 978 1 9066 2666 2, $34.95 HB. A detailed and comprehensive guide to aircraft arranged by theater. Includes orders of battle, lists of commanders and aces. Well worth the modest price for aircraft and military historians, and modelers. Available from www.casematepublishing.com

Verdun: Fort Douaumont, Chistina Holstein, Pen & Sword, 2010, 192 pages, maps, index, photos, ISBN 978 1 8488 4345 5, £10.39 paperback. Second, revised edition of a fine guide and history book by WFA a member who specializes in the Verdun battlefields.

Companion to World War I, John Horne (ed.), Wiley, John & Sons, 2010, 729 pages, ISBN 1 4051 2386 9, $126.50 HB. Essays on the world before, during and after The Great War edited by a winner of the WFA Annual Tomlinson Book Prize. Military, diplomatic and cultural legacies of the war; war crimes, film and gender issues. A less expansive paperback version is promised. Order from www.blackwellreference.com.

Germany's Western Front: Translations from the German Official History of the Great War, 1915. Mark Osborne Humphries and John Maker (eds.), Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010, 516 pages, ISBN 978 1 55458 051 4, C$85 HB. One of a planned seven volumes of the first English translation (with introduction and annotations) of Der Weltkrieg, the official German history produced between 1925 and 1944.

The Riddles of Wipers: An Appreciation of the Trench Journal "The Wipers Times", John Ivelaw-Chapman, Pen & Sword, 2010, 208 pages, illustrated, ISBN 978 1 84884 191 8, $24.95 paperback. Written by trench soldiers of the BEF and distributed all along the Ypres front, this newspaper bears witness of the realities of trench warfare.

Underground Warfare, 1914-1918, Simon Jones, Pen & Sword, 2010, 288 pages, photos, ISBN 978 1 84415 962 8, $50 HB. Draws on personal reminiscences to examine military tunneling and mining on the Western Front.

Hermann Göring Fighter Ace: The World War I Career of Germany's Most Infamous Airman, Peter Kilduff, Grub Street, 2010, 192 pages, notes, index, glossary, bibliography, photos, drawings, map, ISBN 978 1 9065 0266 9, $39.95 HB. A master WWI aviation historian examines Göring's record as a military flyer and combat leader.

For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front, Celia Malone Kingsbury, Nebraska, 2010, 326 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 978 0 8032 2474 2, $45 HB. Propaganda in America and Europe came in myriad forms including cook books, novels, magazines and even children's' toys.

An Eyewitness Account of Gallipoli: Ellis Silas, John Laffin (ed.). Rosenberg, 2010, 90 pages, b&w sketches, ISBN 978 1 8770 5891 2. $24.95 HB. First published in 1916 this is the work of an Australian signaler illustrating his experiences in Egypt, at Gallipoli and en route home after being wounded.

The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War, David Laskin, Harper Collins, 2010, 592 pages, index, ISBN 0 0619 4620 6, $26.99 paperback. The stories of a dozen recent immigrants who served in the AEF.

Lusitania: An Illustrated Biography, J. Kent Layton, Amberley, 2010, color and B&W plates, ISBN 978 1 84884 834 9, $75 hardback. A journey back in time in a ship that nearly propelled American into The Great War.

The Rising: Ireland: Easter 1916, Fearghal McGarry, Oxford, 2010, 304 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 0 1928 0184 4, $29.95 HB. Based on the testimony of participants.

Bossenghe, Stephen McGreal, Pen & Sword, 2010, 208 pages, maps, photos, ISBN 1 8488 4046 1, £12.99 paperback. A Battlefield Europe Series look at the fight for the northern extremity of the British line west of Ypres in the summer of 1917.

Mons, Anzac and Kut by an MP (Lieutenant Colonel The Hon, Aubrey Herbert, MP) Edward Melotte (ed.), Pen & Sword, 224 pages, photos, ISBN 978 184884 175 8, $19.95 HB. Memoirs of a BEF intelligence officer on several fronts.

The Man Who Ran London During the First World War: The Diaries and Letters of Lieutenant General Francis Lloyd, GCVO, KCB, DSO (1853-1936), Richard Morris, OBE (ed.), Pen & Sword, 2010, 224 pages, b&w photos, ISBN 978 1 84884 164 2, $39.95 HB. Lloyd's remit covered hospitals, the main railway termini, and a defensive circle of trenches.

Spies of the First World War: Under Cover for King and Kaiser, James Morton, The National Archives, 2010, 240 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 0 7524 4975 3, £20 HB. Drawing from published and unpublished sources, the author cut through the legends surrounding WWI espionage. Order from Amazon.co.uk.

The Origins of the First World War, William Mulligan, Cambridge, 2010, photos, maps, bibliography, index, ISBN 0 5218 8633 3, $70 HB. A scholarly reinterpretation of the origins examining key issues from 1870 to 1914, and arguing that WWI was far from inevitable.

Turkish Infantryman, 1914-1918, David Nicolle, Christa Hook, illustrator, Osprey, 2010, 64 pages, photos, color illustrations, index, ISBN 978 1 8460 3506 7, $17.95 paperback. Uniforms, equipment, training and combat experience of the tough Anatolian foot soldier.

Albert Ball, VC: The Fighter Pilot Hero of World War I, Colin Pengelly, Pen & Sword, 2010, 208 pages, photos, ISBN 978 1 84415 904 8, $19.95 HB.

Three Armies on the Somme: The First Battle of the Twentieth Century, William James Philpott, Knopf Doubleday, available in the US October 2010, 640 pages, photos, maps, index, ISBN 0 3072 6585 4, $35 HB. Published in 2009 in the UK by Little Brown under the title Bloody Victory. The author sees the Somme as a British victory in the war of attrition. The winner of the 2009 WFA Tomlinson Book Prize; destined to become the standard work on this much-studied campaign.

'Blinker' Hall: Spymaster, The Man who Brought America into World War I, David Ramsay, The History Press, 2010 (first published by Spellmont in the UK in 2008), 320 pages, ISBN 0 7524 5398 X, 29.95 paper. The story of the British Director of Naval Intelligence and Room 40 which broke the German naval and diplomatic codes revealing to Woodrow Wilson the infamous Zimmerman Telegram. Also available in hard cover.

Stalking the U-Boat: U. S. Naval Aviation in Europe during World War I, Geoffrey L. Rossano, Florida, 2010 (November), 496 pages, index, bibliography, ISBN 0 8130 3488 4, $85 HB. One of several recent studies of American involvement in WWI at sea from the University of Florida Press.

Brief Glory: The Life of Arthur Rhys-Davids, DCO, MC, Alex Revell, Pen & Sword, 2010, photos, ISBN 978 1 84884 162 8, $39.95 HB. In only six months flying before being killed in 1917, Rhys-Davids achieved fame by shooting down German ace Verner Voss.

The Story of The Great War, sixteen volumes, Francis J. Reynolds, Allen L. Churchill & Trevelyan Miller (eds.), Weider History Group, 2010, photos, color drawings, maps, index, no ISBN listed, $24.95 per volume HB. First published in 1916-1920, this reprint offers contemporary first-hand accounts, biographies and narratives. Available from the publisher Weider History Group, Box 664, Holmes, PA 19043-9956. Weider publishes MHQ and several other military history magazines.

Gunther Plüschow: Airman, Escaper and Explorer, Anton Rippon, Pen & Sword, 2010, 208 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 84884 132 1, $19.95 HB. Plüschow flew against the British and Japanese out of Tsing Tao and was the only POW to escape England and make his way back to Germany.

All the Tsar's Men: Russia's General Staff and the Fate of the Empire, 1890-1914, John W. Steinberg, John Hopkins, 2010, 408 pages, index, ISBN 0 8018 9545 6, $60 HB. A study in the institutional reforms that failed to prevent defeat in either the Russo-Japanese War or WWI.

Famous, 1914-1918, Richard Ven Emden, Vic Piuk, Pan & Sword, 2010, 352 pages, color plates, photos, ISBN 978 1 84884 197 0, $19.95 paperback. The stories of 20 of Britain's most respected, best known and notorious celebrities in action on WWI.

Imperial Russian Field Uniforms and Equipment, 1907-1917, Johan Somers, Schiffer, 2010, 336 pages, color & black and while images, ISBN 978 0 7643 3522 8, $89.95 HB. Another in a growing number of volumes on WWI uniforms and equipment from Schiffer.

Blood on the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War of 1915, Graydon Tunstall, Kansas, 2010, 320 pages, index, maps, ISBN 0 7006 1720 5, $29.95 HB. The Russian and Austro-Hungarian armies each suffered about a million casualties in this disastrous series of three offensives which paved the way for the disintegration of the Habsburg army. Dr. Tunstall is executive Director of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honor society, and chairs WFA's Undergraduate Essay Prize award panel.

Tracing the Rifle Volunteers: A Guide for Military & Family Historians, Roy Westlake, Pen & Sword, 2010, 288 pages, ISBN 978 1 8488 4211 2, £15.99 HB. A resource book for WWI specialist from a veteran British historian.

The Other Side of the Wire, Volume 1: With the German XIV Reserve Corps on the Somme, September 1914-June 1916, Ralph J. Whitehead, Helion, 2010, 565 pages, photos, index, ISBN 1 9060 3329 3, £37.50 HB. Limited edition available from Amazon.co.uk. How the Germans created a formidable defensive system to meet the BEF offensive starting in July 1916.

Flamethrower Troops of World War I: The Central and Allied Powers, Thomas Woctor, 272 pages, photos, ISBN 978 0 7643 526 6, $69.95 HB. Technical data on flamethrowers used by both sides in The Great War.

The Mons Myth: A reassessment of the Battle, Terence Zuber, The History Press, 2010, 256 pages, photos, maps, index, ISBN 0 75245247 9, $30.95 HB. A new description and analysis of this 1914 battle asserting that the Germans did not massively outnumber the British, did not attack in a solid mass, and that BEF 'rapid rifle fire' did not mow down Germans in rows.

2009

The Bantams, Sidney Allinson, Pen & Sword, 2009, 320 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 1 8488 4030 0, $39.99 hardcover. New edition of a book authored by the Chairman of the Pacific Coast Branch of WFA about British and Canadian soldiers well below the army's five foot - three inch minimum height.

The Glorious Dead: Figurative Sculpture of 1st World War Memorials, Geoff Archer, Frontier, 2009, 416 pages, incl. 270photos, notes, appendices, locator lists, 978 1 872914 38 1, £30 paperback. For art historians, a survey of WWI memorial art in Great Britain. Available from frontierpublishing@ymail.com

Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front, Diane Atkinson, Preface Publishing, 2009, 256 pages, ISBN 978 1 8480 9133 7, £20 hardback. The story of two remarkable volunteer ambulance drivers.

Selling the Great War: The Making of American Propaganda, Alan Axelrod, Palgrave Mcmillan, 2009, 256 pages, ISBN 978 0 2306 0503 9, $21.54 hardcover. Motivated by fears than America's multi-ethnic population would not support the war effort, President Wilson launched the federal government's first concerted public information campaign headed by journalist George Creel.

The British Army in Battle and Its Image, 1914-1918, Stephen Badsey, Continuum, Birmingham War Studies edited by Gary Sheffield, 2009, 238 + xvii pages, photos, index, bibliography, notes, ISBN 978 0 8264 3718 1, $120 cloth. Essays covering the army's relations with the press, propaganda, filming the war, and Black Adder TV series.

Armenian Golgotha, Gregory Balakian, Peter Balakian translator, Knopf, 2009, 560 pages, ISBN 978 0 3072 6288 2, $35 hardback. The memoirs of an Armenian Apostolic priest and intellectual who disguised himself as a railway worker and escaped the WWI Armenian bloodbath. The translator is author of The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and the American Response (Harper Collins, 2004). One of a spate of books being published as the 100 anniversary of the Ottoman massacres of Armenians nears.

Haig's Generals, Ian F. W. Beckett (ed.), Pen & Sword, 240 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 84415 892 8, $25.99 paperback. A study of BEF army commanders with contributions from John Bourne, Gary Sheffield, Peter Simkins and Steven J. Corvi among others.

1917: Beyond the Western Front, Ian F. W. Beckett (ed.), Brill, 2009, 182 + xvii pages, ISBN 978 90 04 17139 8, $120 hardcover. Essays examining the burgeoning costs of war in this significant year of conflict marked by the exit of Russia and the entry of America. Like all Brill publications, this one is too expensive; get it from the library.

Camoupedia: A Compendium of Research on Art Architecture and Camouflage, Roy R. Behrens, Bobolink Books, 2009, 464 pages, illustrations, photos, timeline, bibliography, index, $35 paperback. A delightful look at the development of camouflage themes in war and peace with particular reference to WWI. You will be surprised at the number famous artists and designers (like Edison) involved in war camouflage work. The author teaches graphic design at the University of Northern Iowa.

Captain Roy Brown: The Definitive Biography, Including His Encounter with the Red Baron, Alan Bennett, Brock Tower, 2009, 350 pages, index, combat reports, log book, photos, ISBN 1 8832 8356 3, $24.95. Sheds new light on Brown's encounter with The Red Baron.

Images: The Germans on the Somme, David Bilton, Pen & Sword, 2009, photos, index, ISBN 978 18441 5865 2, £12.99 paperback. Images of the German army on the River Somme from 1914 to 1918. A view of events through German eyes.

Gentlemen, We Will Stand and Fight, Antony Bird, Zenith, 2009, 160 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 1 8479 7062 6, $35 hardcover. The stand of II Corps, BEF at Le Gateau, August 26, 1914.

The British Naval Staff in the First World War, Nicholas Black, Boydell Press, 2009, figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 1 8438 3442 7, $115 HB. A revisionist look at a much reviled institution finds it worthy of merit.

The Russian Military Air Fleet in World War I, August G. Blume, two volumes, Schiffer 2009, 240 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Volume 1, A Chronology, 1910-1917, ISBN 978 0 7643 3351 4, Volume 2, Victories. Losses, Awards, ISBN 978 0 7643 3552 1, both volumes $79.95 hardcover. Solidly researched by a premier aviation historian.

Survivors of a Kind: Memoirs of the Western Front, Brian Bond, Continuum, 2009, 256 pages, ISBN 978 1 8472 5004 9, $44.95 hardcover. An introduction to WWI memoirs as being of both literary and historical value.

Haig: A Reappraisal 80 Years On, Brian Bond, Pen & Sword, 2009, 288 pages, illustrated, ISBN 978 1 84415 887 4, $25.99 paperback. Another look at Great Britain's controversial field commander.

The Great War Handbook: A Guide for Family Historians & Students of the Conflict, Geoff Bridger, Pen & Sword, 2009, 240 pages, ISBN 1 8441 5936 1 hardback. A sourcebook for researchers surveying the lives of the ordinary British soldiers.

Bodies of War: World War I and the Politics of Commemoration in America, 1919-1933, Lisa M. Budreau, NYU Press, 2-9, 336 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 0 8147 9990 1, $60 hardcover. A serious analysis of the issues surrounding the repatriation of American war dead, the creation of the American Battle Monuments Commission and the Gold Star mother's pilgrimage. Dr. Budreau is a member of WFA and frequent speaker at our seminars.

Mont St. Quentin: A Soldier's Battle, Bill Bullett, Rosenberg, Australia, 2009, 184 pages, maps, photos, index, appendices, notes, ISBN 978 1 87705887 5, $32.95 trade paperback. A fine analysis of the successful and innovative August-September 1918 ANZAC Corps attack against strong German positions along the Somme at Peronne and St. Quentin.

The Czech Legion, 1914-1920, David Bullock, Osprey, 2009, 48 pages, color and black and white illustrations, ISBN 1 8460 3236 9, $17.95 paperback. Czechs fought on the Western, Eastern and Italian fronts, as well as along the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road of World War I, Mirinda Carter, 544 pages, ISBN 978 1 4000 4363 7, $22.50 hardback. published by Penguin in the UK, Knopf in America. The story of three cousins: King George V of Great Britain, Tzar Nicholas II of Russia and Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany and the road to war in 1914.

The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome, Roland Chambers, Faber & Faber, 2009, 390 pages, ISBN 0 5712 2261 7, £20 cloth. The story of an MI6 agent who lived in Russia and the Baltic States from 1913 to 1922. Ransome is best remembered as the successful author of children's stories.

US 110' Subchasers in Action, T. Garth Connell, Squadron/Signal Publications, 2009, 64 pages, photos, drawings, ISBN 0 8974 7587 9, $14.95 paperback. The evolution of an American type (the so-called Splinter Fleet) of anti-submarine vessels from 1916 through World War Two.

Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, John Milton Cooper, Knopf, 2009, 702 pages, illustrations, index, bibliography, ISBN 0 3072 6541 2, $35 HB. The first bio of the 28th President in some 20 years written by the noted historian John Milton Cooper, author of several books on the Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, the Progressive Era and WWI. A sympathetic examination of the life and politics of the 28th President by a master historian and reigning expert on Wilson's career.

Machine Guns and The Great War, Paul Cornish, Pen & Sword, 2009, 176 pages, illustrations, photos, index, ISBN 978 1 8488 4047 8, $39 hardback. Reassessment of the tactical role of the key infantry weapon of the war.

The Desert Baron: Friedrich, A Warrior for All Seasons, The Military History of Baron Friedrich Kress von Kressenstein, Conrad Crease, BookSurge, 2009, 260 pages, index, photos, maps, bibliography, ISBN 1 4392 2100 6, $19.99 paperback from Amazon.com. Biography of the German officer who led the 1916 Turkish attack on the Suez Canal, defended Armenians against Turkish genocide and Georgia from both the Turks and the Bolsheviks. Order from www.booksurge.com

Willing Patriots: Men of Color in the First World War, Robert J. Dallesandro & Gerald Torrance, Schiffer, 2009, 256 pages, photos, illustrations, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 0 7643 3233 3, $69.95 hard cover. Treats the organization, combat history of black troops including two infantry division, services of supply and special troops of the US Army in WWI.

Russia in War and Revolution, 1914-1922, Jonathan Daly and Leonid Trofimov (editors & translators), Hackett, 2009, 371 pages, maps, photos, glossary, bibliography, ISBN 978 0 87220 987 9, $14.95 wraps. A source book for scholars rather than a narrative history.

Magnificent But Not War: The Second Battle of Ypres, John Dixon, Pen & Sword, 2009, 388 pages, ISBN 978 1 84415 890 4, $25.99 paperback. Detailed day-to-day accounting of the battles of April and May 1915 around the Belgian cloth town of Ypres.

The Missing of the Somme, Geoff Dyer, Phoenix, 2009, 176 pages, ISBN 0 758 2735 4, £9.99 paperback. Myth and memory influencing our memory of the conflict.

The Greek Media in World War I and its Aftermath, Georgia Eglezou, I. B. Tauris, 2009, 288 pages, ISBN 1 8451 1785 5, £54.50 cloth. A study of the Athens' press coverage of Greece in WWI and in the conflict between Greece and Turkey which followed the signing of the Treaty of Sèvres (1920). The resultant Greek defeat led to the Greeks being driven from Turkey and Turkey regaining many of the territories (Smyrna, Thrace) lost after WWI and regained in the Treaty of Lausanne (1923).

When Europe Went Mad: A Brief History of the First World War, Terrance T. Finn, Ivy House, 2009, 100 pages, ISBN 1 5719 4497 0, $10 hardback. A survey history for general readers.

Tanks and Trenches: First Hand Accounts of Tank Warfare in the First World War, David Fletcher, The History Press, 2009, 192 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 979 0 7523 4493 6. Reprint of the Bovington Tank Museum curator's 1994 book filled with accounts from wartime tankers.

Eden to Armageddon: World War I in the Middle East, Roger Ford, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009, 536 pages, maps, index, photos, ISBN 0 297 8448 14, £17.50 hardback. A new survey history of the war in Mesopotamia and Palestine.

Ghosts on the Somme: Filming the Battle, June-July 1916, Alistair H. Fraser, Andrew Robertshaw, and Steve Roberts, Pen & Sword, 2009, 224 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 1 84415 836 5, £25 hardcover. The story of how Jeffrey Malins filmed The Battle of the Somme, an officially-sponsored feature motion picture first shown to British audiences in 1916. The original film is still available remastered on DVD in Region Two (PAL) format from Amazon.co.uk and the Imperial War Museum shop.

British Destroyers from the Earliest Days to the Second World War, Norman Friedman, US Naval Institute, 2009, 320 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 59114 081 8, $85 hardback. First detailed study of Royal Navy destroyers and their predecessors from the 1880s to the 1930s.

Americans All!: Foreign-Born Soldiers in World War I, Nancy Gentile Ford, Texas A&M, 208 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 1 60344 131 2, $19.95 paperback. New paperback edition of a book nominated for the Army Historical Association Distinguished Book Award for 2001. A surge of immigrant draftees in 1917 permanently challenged the way the US Army approached citizenship training.

The Flatpack Bombers: The Royal Navy and the Zeppelin Menace, Ian Gardiner, Pen & Sword, 2009, 224 pages, index, photos, ISBN 978 1 8488 4071 3, $39.99 hardback Early long-distance RN bombing raids against German Zeppelin sheds led to the development of aircraft carriers.

From Jutland to Junkyard, S. C. George, Birlinn, 2009, 150 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 978 1 8434 1010 2, $15.95 paperback. The interwar salvage for scrap of a portion of the German High Seas Fleet scuttled by its crews at Scapa Flow in June 1919.

Dover & Folkstone During the Great War, Michael George, Pen & Sword, 2009, 176 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 84415 842 3, $22.99 paperback. How the war impacted two Kentish ports vital to supplying and reinforcing the BEF in Flanders.

The Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy, 1867-1918, András Geró, New Holland, 2009, 240 pages, illustrations, index, $50 hardcover. A survey history of an often neglected major player in WWI; an experiment in multi-national, multi-ethnic empire.

We hope to Get Word Tomorrow: The Garvin Family Letters, 1914-1918, J. L. Gerard & Christine Garvin, Pen & Sword, 2009, ISBN 978 1 8483 2545 6, £15.99 paperback. Collection of letters from a young British subaltern to his mother and father at home.

The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography, D. M. Giangreco, Zenith, 2009, 304 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 0 7603 3209 2, $28 cloth. Future President Harry "Give 'Em Hell" Truman as an artillery officer on the Western Front.

A Terrible Beauty: War, Art, and the Imagination, 1914-1918, Paul Gough, Samsom, 2009, 256 pages, color & black and while illustrations, ISBN 978 1 9065 9300 6, $43.97 from Barnes & Noble. Available in December 2009. Artists look at the conflict.

Belfast Boys: How Unionists and Nationalists Fought and Died Together in the First World War, Richard S. Grayson, Continuum, 2009, 256 pages, index, photos, ISBN 978 1 84725008 7, £25 hardcover. The story of Irish Volunteers of the 36th and 16th Divisions challenges popular perceptions and explains why remembrance remains controversial in Belfast.

The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War, Adrian Gregory, Cambridge, 2009, 351 pages, index, ISBN 0 5214 5037 3, $81 HB. A new social history.

The Resurrection and Collapse of Empire in Habsburg Serbia, 1914-1818, Johathan Gumz, Cambridge, 2009, 312 pages, index, ISBN 978 0 521 88101 2, $99 cloth. Efforts to denationalize and depoliticize occupied Serbia and bring it back into the Dual Monarchy.

The Origin of the Fighter Aircraft, Jon Gutman, Westholm, 2009, 294 + vii pages, photos, map, index, ISBN978 1 59416 083 7, $26 cloth. A new history of the First Air War and the early evolution of air power, by one of the masters of aviation history.

The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery that Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler, Thomas Hager, Harmony, 2009, ISBN 978 0 3073 5178 4, $24.95 hardback. The story of German chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch who developed a process for synthesizing and mass producing ammonia from hydrogen and atmospheric nitrogen. The invention was used to replace natural nitrates as the base for fertilizer and explosives, fueling Germany's 1914-1918 war effort. Haber also helped develop Germany's poison gas capabilities. The author is a science and health writer.

Doughboy War: The American Expeditionary Force in World War I, James H. Hallas (ed.), Stackpole, 2009, 368 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 0 8117 3467 7, $21.95 softcover. Essays on the AEF experience.

Cambrai, 1917: The Myth of the First Great Tank Battle, Bryn Hammond, Phoenix, 2009, 528 pages, index, photos, map, ISBN 0 7538 2605 4, £10.99 paperback edition of a book first published in hardcover in 2008 . The author asserts that that innovative artillery tactics, not tanks (400 of them), were responsible for short-lived British successes at Cambrai.

The Somme: the Darkest Hour on the Western Front, Peter Hart, Pegasus Books, 2009, 589 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 6059 8016 4, $35 hardback. Popular British historian Hart argues that the Somme battle was hardly senseless and that its participants were by no means "helpless victims." Hart is also the author of many other books on the WWI era including A Very British Victory, Aces Falling and Bloody April.

Aces Falling: War Above the Trenches, 1918, Peter Hart, Phoenix, 2009, 416 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 0 7538 2407 8, $14.95 paperback. Dogfighting, bombing and sudden death.

Letters from Verdun: Frontline Experiences of an American Volunteer in World War I France, William C. & Eric T. Harvey (eds.). Casemate, 2009, 240 pages, maps, photos, drawings, glossary, bibliography, ISBN 978 1 9320 3394 9, 39.95 cloth. The diary and letters of Avery Royce Wolfe recounting his service as a volunteer ambulance driver with the American Field Service near Verdun and with French occupation forces in the Rhineland from June 1917 to April 1919. Excellent photos taken by Avery Wolfe illustrate this volume.

Kaiser's U-Boote, Histoire & Collections, 2009, 192 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 2 9139 0396 7, $59.95 HB. History of German submarine operations during WWI.

The Best of Fragments from France by Capt. Bruce Bairnsfather, Tonie & Valmai Holt (eds.), Pen & Sword, 2009, ISBN 978 1 8488 4169 7, £19.99 paperback from www.pen-and-sword.com. Cartoons from the famous British WWI officer who created the characters Old Bill, Bert and Alf, forerunners of Carl Mauldin's WWII GIs Willie and Joe.

The Marne, 1914: Opening of World War I and the Battle that Changed the World, Holger H. Herwig, Random House, 2009, 416 pages, maps, index, bibliography, notes,ISBN 978 1 4000 6671 1, $28 HB. An important and well-crafted new look at the decisive days between September 5 and September 11, 1914 drawing on archival material thought destroyed in WWII by a distinguished Canadian historian and winner of the WFA Tomlinson Book Prize.

The A to Z of World War I, Ian V. Hogg, Scarecrow Press (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield), 2009, 322 pages, ISBN 978 0 8108 6862 5, $40 paperback. A new survey history from an imprint known for its historical dictionaries.

Living with Enza: The Forgotten Story of Britain and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918, Mark Honigsbaum, Palgrave McMillan, 2009, 256 pages, ISBN 978 0 23021774 4, $45 hardcover. The story of the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 in which over a quarter of a million died in the UK and another three million in British India.

Picture This: World War I Posters and Visual Culture, Pearl James (ed.), University of Nebraska Press, 440 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 0 8032 2610 4, $30 paperback. The war years marked the high water mark of the mass-produced poster. Essays by Jay Winter and Jennifer Keene among others reveal the impact of this art form on contemporary popular understanding of the conflict.

Untold War: New Perspectives in First World War Studies, Heather Jones, Jennifer O'Brien, & Christopher Schmidt-Supprian (eds.), Brill, 2009, 544 pages, index, tables, illustrations, ISBN 978 9 0041 6659 2, $192 cloth. Scholarly essays re-examining the global civil and military impact of the conflict; how the war changed societies. Contributors include prize-winning historians Alan Kramer and Dan Todman, with an introduction by John Horne. (I will be reviewing this for Stand To!)

The Will to Believe: Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America's Strategy for Peace and Security, Ross Kennedy, Kent State, 2009, 291 + xiv pages, notes, bibliography, index, maps, photos, ISBN 978 0 87338 971 6, $45 cloth. The author, an Assistant Professor of History at Illinois State University, takes a new, sophisticated look at how three competing groups -- pacifists, liberal internationalists and Atlanticists -- addressed national security issues during the Wilson Administration.

Black Fokker Leader: The First World War's Airfighter Knight, Peter Kilduff, Grub Street, 2009, 256 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 1 9065 0228 7, $32.95 hardcover. The story of German ace Carl Degelow and his squadron of mostly Fokker D-VII recounted by a premier aviation historian.

On the Western Front with the Rainbow Division, Vernon E. Kniptash, E. Brice Geelhoed, ed., Oklahoma, 2009, 236 + xiii pages, illustrations, photos, maps, index, ISBN 978 0 8061 4032 2, $29.95 cloth. Memoirs of an Indiana National Guardsman who served as a radio operator in the 42nd Division.

Armed Progressive: General Leonard Wood, Jack C. Lane, Nebraska, 2009, 376 pages, photos, maps, ISBN 978 0 8032 2658 6, $19.95 paperback. A new biography of an American imperialist, Harvard Medical School graduate and political collaborator of Teddy Roosevelt who rose to be Army Chief of Staff, Governor General in Cuba and the Philippines and presidential wannabe. Also a available from Nebraska is Chasing Geronimo: The Journal of Leonard Wood, May-September 1886, Lack C. Lane (ed.), 176 pages, photos, map, ISBN 978 0 8032 2527 5, $14.96 paperback. Wood, then an Army contract surgeon, won the Medal of Honor for helping capture Apache chief Geronimo.

The Gas Attack: Ypres, 1915, John Lee, Pen & Sword, 2009, 192 pages, photos, ISBN 978 1 8441 592 1, £19.99 hardback. A new book on the first German use of poison gas.

Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I, Adriane Lentz-Smith, Harvard, 2009. 336 pages, ISBN 0 6740 3592 5, $30 HB. World War I viewed as a watershed moment in the evolving civil rights struggle in America.

A German Officer During the Armenian Genocide: A Biography of Max von Scheubner-Richter, Paul Leverkeuhn, Alasdair Lean translator, Gomidas Institute, 2009, 282 + cxxx pages, photos, maps, index, ISBN 1 9036 5681 8, $25 paperback. The biography first published in 1938 of a German Vice Consul at Erzerum and Bitlis during the Armenian genocide. Von Scheubner, a founder of the Nazi Party, was killed in Hitler's failed Munich Putsch of 1923, found racism at the root of Ottoman persecution of Armenians.

Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps, James T. B. McCudden, Pen & Sword, 2009, 288 pages, ISBN 1 9351 4910 5, £16.99 hardcover. Autobiography of a British aero ace with 57 victories and winner of the Victoria Cross.

The War on Hospital Ships, 1914-1918, Stephen McGreal, Pen & Sword, 2009, 272 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 84415 858 4, $39.99 hardback. German submarine sinkings of unarmed hospital ships outraged the American, British and French publics and caused the UK to paint hospital ships in drab colors, defensively arm and sail them in protected convoys.

Mons, Anzac and Kut by an MP, Lieutenant Colonel the Hon. Aubrey Herbert, MP, Edward Melotte (ed.), Pen & Sword, 2009, 224 pages, ISBN 978 1 8488 4175 2, $39.95 HB. The WWI experiences of a British soldier, diplomat and adventurer.

The Day We Won the War: Turning Point at Amiens 8th August 1918, Charles Messenger, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2009, 288 pages, index, photos, ISBN 0 2978 5281 7, $29.95. The fateful day Ludendorff became convinced the German army was beaten.

Men of War: Masculinity and the First World War in Britain, Jessica Meyer, Palgrave Mcmillan, 2009, 323 pages, index, ISBN 987 0 2302 2201 4, $74.95 hardcover. A scholarly examination of masculinity among British soldiers based in part on their correspondence.

Zeppelin Over Suffolk: The Final Raid of L48, Mark Mower, Pen & Sword, 2009, 160 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 84415 737 2, $25.99 paperback. Good, brief work on a popular subject on the L48's fatal raid of June 17, 1917.

American Military Vehicles of World War I: An Illustrated History of Armored Cars, Staff Cars, Motorcycles, Ambulances, Trucks and Tanks, Albert Mroz, McFarland, 2009, 300 photos, index, ISBN 978 0 8764 3906 7, $45 hardcover. Useful reference work.

Truce, Jim Murphy, Scholastic, 2009, 144 pages, ISBN 0 5451 3049 2, $19.99 HB. More on the 1914 Christmas Truce on the Western Front

The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War, James Carl Nelson, St. Martins, 384 pages, maps, photos, notes, bibliography, ISBN 0 312 551001, $25.99 hardcover. A tale of battle and the search for the legacy of the author's Doughboy grandfather. Available in November 2009.

The Remains of Company D: A Story of the Great War, James Carl Nelson, St. Martin's, 2009, 347 + ix pages, maps, photos, bibliography, notes, ISBN 978 0 312 55100 1, $25.99 paperback. Follows the members of Company D, 28th Infantry Regiment, First Division from enlistment to combat at Cantigny, St. Mihiel and The Meuse-Argonne.

A More Unbending Battle: The Harlem Hellfighters' Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home, Pete Nelson, Basic Books, 2009, photos, ISBN 0 4650 0317 6, $15.99 hardcover from Amazon.com. A new history of the celebrated 369th Infantry, a segregated New York National Guard outfit recruited almost exclusively from Harlem. A History Book Club selection.

The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War, Juliet Nicholson, John Murray, 2009, 304 pages, ISBN 0 7195 6256 3, £10 cloth from Amazon.co.uk. A social history of post-war Britain. Totally unprepared for peace following an expansion of the franchise and the 'khaki election' of 1918, the Lloyd George government was unable meet to expectations raised by its promise to create "a land fit for heroes" for returning trench veterans. By the same author: The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadows, 1911, 304 pages, John Murray, 2007, ISBN 0 7195 6243 0. £5.55 from Amazon.co.uk. A glimpse of British society at the end of the Edwardian Era on the brink of The Great War.

They Called it High Wood: The Somme, 1916, Terry Norman, Pen & Sword, 2009, 224 pages, ISBN 978 1 84415 897 3, $25.99 paperback. Study of a bloody series of battles at a focal point of the Somme Campaign of 1916.

Digging Up Plugstreet: The Archeology of a Great War Battlefield, Richard Osgood & Martin Brown, J. H. Hayes, 2009, 224 pages, index, photos, ISBN 1 8442 5542 5, £25 HB. Digging up the battlefield at Ploegsteert, Belgium, south of Ypres to unearth the story of the men of the 3rd Australian Division.

The Atlas of Kaunas Fortress, Vladimir Orlov & Karo Paveldo Centras, 2009, 68 pages, photos, drawings, plans, maps, ISBN 978 9955 30 080 0, €55. A series of concrete and steel reinforced forts, artillery and infantry emplacements, barracks and warehouses guarding the border with Prussia and key Russian rail lines begun in 1885 and modernized from 1912. Kaunas, now in Lithuania, is a former capital of that nation. Drawn largely from Russian archives.

The Morbid Age: Britain Between the Wars, Richard Overy, Allan Lane, 2009, 522 pages, ISBN 978 0 7139 9 9563 9, £25 hardback. A prize-winning British historian looks at the sense of dread, a presentiment of impending disaster, which seized England in the interwar years. Favorably reviewed in the Economist.

The Whole Armour of God: Anglican Army Chaplains in the Great War, Linda Parker, Helion, 2009, 112 pages, photos, ISBN 978 1 906033 32 3, $59.95 hardcover. Attempts to judge the sometimes maligned service of chaplains by the ideals and standards of their time.

Pilgrimage: A Guide to the Royal Newfoundland Regiment in World War One, David Parsons, DRC, 2009, 244 pages, illustrations, maps, index, roll of honor, ISBN 978 1 9890369 03 6, C$16.95 paperback. The author is chairman of the Newfoundland Branch of WFA. Available form the publisher at info@drcpublishingnl.com.

The Best Small Boat Seamen in the Navy, David & Ean Parsons, DRC, 2009, 244 pages, illustrations, maps, index, roll of honor, ISBN 978 0 9890369 4 0, $19.95 paperback.. Newfoundlanders in the Royal Navy during WWI. Available from info@drcpublishingnl.com.

Guarding the Border: The Military Memoirs of Ward Schrantz, 1912-1917, Jeff Patrick (ed.), Texas A&M, 2009, 224 pages, maps, photos, appendices, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 1 60344 096 7, $29.95 cloth. This memoir offers a look at a professional soldier's life and attitudes in the early 20th century.

Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century, The Battle, Myth and Legacy, William J. Philpott, Little Brown, 2009, 721 pages, 721 pages, maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, index. Despite the over-blown title, this is an uncommonly good history of the battle covering French and German forces, as well as the performance of the BEF's Kitchener armies.

The Rise of Militarism in the Progressive Era, 1900-1914, Roger Possner, McFarland, 2009, illustrations, maps, index, ISBN 970 0 7864 4418 2, $39.95 paperback. How the War Department and Army worked to build a martial spirit among the American people.

Hope We Get Word Tomorrow: The Garvin Family Letters, Mark Pottle and John Ledingham (eds.), Pen & Sword 2009, 256 pages, ISBN 1 8483 2545 2, $42.50 HB. Exchanges of letters between a young subaltern and his family in England.

Strategy and Command: The Anglo-French Coalition on the Western Front, 1914, Roy A. Prete, McGill-Queens, 2009, 280 pages, ISBN 0 7735 3522 5, $75 hardback. First of three planned volumes on the ever-evolving Anglo-French alliance in WWI.

Gallipoli: End of the Myth, Robin Pryor, Yale, 2009, 288 pages, maps, illustrations, index, ISBN 0 3001 4995 6, $35 cloth. Australian historian Pryor (author of excellent books on the Somme and Passchendale) examines in detail planning of the campaign and concludes that it was doomed from the start.

To the Line of Fire: Mexican Texans and World War I, José A. Ramirez, Texas A&M, 224 pages, photos, bibliography, index, ISBN 1 6034 4136 0, $29.95 hardback. An examination of mixed Mexican reactions to the war and veterans efforts to overcome discrimination in the post war era.

John Galsworthy and Disabled Soldiers of The Great War, Jeffrey S. Reznick, Palgrave MacMillan, 2009, 240 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 0 7190 7792 3, £55 cloth. The winner of the 1931 Nobel Prize and author of The Forsyte Saga writes about the care of soldiers disabled by war wounds both physical and psychological. Available in the US in 2010, or immediately from Amazon.co.uk.

The Plot to Kill Lloyd George: The Story of Alice Wheeldon and the Peartree Conspiracy, Nicola Rippon, Pen & Sword, 2009, photos, ISBN 978 1 84563 079 9, $39.99 hardcover. An apparent attempt by government to discredit the British anti-war movement by falsely charging the Wheeldon family with plotting to murder the Prime Minister and a member of his cabinet, Arthur Henderson.

Scorched Earth: The Germans on the Somme, 1914-1918, Irina Renz, Gerd Krumeich, & Gerhard Horschfeld, Pen & Sword, 2009, 224 pages, photos, index, ISBN 1 84415 973 6, £19.99 hardback. A detailed examination of German warfare.

The Harding Affair: Love and Espionage During The Great War, James David Robenalt, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 416 pages, index, photos, ISBN 0 230 60964 3, $27 hardcover from Barnes & Noble. A real pot boiler: the story of a 12-year affair between Senator Warren G. Harding and Carrie Phillips, who - with her daughter - was allegedly a German agent. Drawing on Library of Congress files, the author also looks at wartime pro-German sentiment in America though he fails to establish the historical or political significance of the Harding-Phillips affair.

Handbook of Imperial Germany, Janet Robinson & Joe Robinson, Authorhouse, 2009, 333 pages. photos, drawings, maps, glossary, order of battle, ISBN 978 1 4490 2113 9, $30 paperback. A summary overview of Imperial German government, the constituent states and kingdoms and the organization of the armies of Prussia and the several kingdoms, including an order of battle for August 1914. Appendices contain a timeline, notes on the Imperial Constitution, and on tactics. An outstanding and affordable reference source on Imperial German government, society and military.

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Infantry Attacks, Irwin Rommel, MBI, 2009, 288 pages, $12.95 HB. First published in 1937, Rommel's work quickly became a standard military text.

The Secret Battle: Emotional Survival in the Great War, Michael Roper, Manchester University Press, 368 pages, index, bibliography, ISBN 978 0 7190 7918 4, $94.94 cloth. Personal experience and psychological impact of WWI on soldiers and their families.

The Ordeal of Peace: Demobilization and the Urban Experience in Britain & Germany, 1917-1921, Adam R. Seipp, Ashgate, 2009, 306 pages, index, ISBN 978 0 7546 6749 0, $92 cloth from bn.com. Victorious and vanquished soldiers home from the war.

Shot in the Tower: The Story of Spies Executed in the Tower of London During the First World War, Leonard Seller, Pen & Sword, 2009, 224 pages, ISBN 978 1 84884 026 3, £10.99 paperback. None of the men had any proper training for espionage, but their lives were forfeit despite their amateur status.

Wings over the Desert: In Action with an RAF Pilot in Palestine, 1916-18, Desmond Seward, Zenith, 224 pages, photos, index, IBSN 978 1 8442 5672 3, $34.96 hardcover. Air battles with the Germans over the Sinai Desert with a pilot of Number 14 Squadron, RAF.

The German Army at Cambrai, Jack Sheldon, Pen & Sword, 2009, 352 pages, photos, maps, index, ISBN 978 1 8441 5944 4, $50. The see-saw November-December 1917 battle from the German point of view based on German archival material.

Another Life: Lawrence After Arabia, Andrew R. B. Simpson, Spellmont, 2009, 384 pages, ISBN 978 1 8622 7464 8, $39.95 cloth. Yet another in an unending line of books about Lawrence of Arabia, this one focussing on his post-war career, particularly in the Tank Corps and the RAF.

Drawing Fire: The Diary of a Great War Soldier and Artist, Len Smith, Collins, 384 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 0 0073 1384 5, £20 hardcover. The diary of an infantrymen sniper and artist who carried both a rifle and a sketchbook to war.

Holy Night: The Peace of 1914, Michael C. Snow, Evangel Press, 2009, 96 pages, drawings, no ISBN or price given. The Christmas Truce of 1914. Order through Evangel Press, Nappannee, Indiana (800) 253-9315.

Captured at Kut, Prisoner of the Turks, the Great War Diaries of Colonel William Sparkman, Colonel R. A. Sparkman, edited by Tony Spackman, Pen & Sword, 2009, 224 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 84415 873 7, $39.99 hardback. The edited diary of a British Indian Army doctor.

Private Beatson's War: Life, Death and Hope on the Western Front, Shawn Springer & Stuart Humphreys (eds.), Pen & Sword, 2009, illustrations, index, ISBN 978 1 8488 4082 9, $30.00 hardback. From the dairy of British soldiers killed at High Wood on the Somme.

The Men of Mont St. Quentin: Between Victory and Death, Peter Stanley, Scribe, 2009, 304 pages, ISBN 1 9212 1533 X, $39.77 hardcover from Amazon.com. The focus is on the dozen men who fought in Nine Platoon, 21st Australian Infantry Battalion on September 1, 1918, tracing their battle and the survivors' lives after the war.

Banned in Berlin: Literary Censorship in Imperial Gemany, 1871-1918, Gary D. Stark, Berghahn, 2009, 384 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 1 8454 5570 5, $95 cloth. Imperial Germany took a broad view of measures permissible and necessary to maintain moral and religious norms and political order, but this did not stifle literary life.

No Labour, No Battle: The Labour Corps in the First World War, J. A. Starling & Ivor Smith, History Press, 2009, ISBN 0 7524 4973 3, £30 HB. Beginning in 1917, soldiers too old or unfit for front line service were drafted into the Labour Corps which eventually grew to some 350 thousand.

The Final Battle: Soldiers of the Western Front and the German Revolution of 1918, Scott Stephenson, Cambridge, 2009, 354 + xvi pages, illustrations, maps, list of abbreviations and glossary, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 0 521 51946 5, $99 HB. A scholarly look at the morale and political outlook of the German army following the armistice of November 11, 1918.

Images of Conflict: Military Aerial Photography and Archeology, Birgen Stichelbaut, Jean Bourgeois, Nicholas Saunders and Piet Chielens (eds.), Cambridge Scholars, 2009, 320 pages. Photos, ISBN 978 1 4438 0171 3, $67.99 hardcover. An exploration of aerial photography in World Wars I and II by military historians with the emphasis on The Great War.

The First World War: A Concise Global History, William Kelleher Storey, Rowman & Littlefield, 2009, 176 pages, ISBN 0 940 32247 1, $34.95 hardback. A new history concentrating on environmental and technical aspects of the conflict and how the war changed peoples' perceptions of their surroundings and relations to machinery.

The Killing Ground: The British Army on the Western Front & the Emergence of Modern War 1900-1918, Tim Travers, Pen & Sword, 2009, 342 pages, biographical appendix. ISBN 978 1 84415 889 8, $25.99 paperback. A distinguished Canadian historian integrates social and military history to illuminate the evolution of British war- fighting doctrine. Available from www.casematepublishing.com in America.

The Railway Operating Division on the Western Front: The Royal Engineers in France and Belgium, 1914-1919, Shaun Tyas, Shaun Tyas, 2009, 208 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 978 1 9002 8999 3, £24.95 HB. The BEF's rail operation expanded mightily into an integrated rail, road and waterway system based on Channel supply depots all under command of a civilian, Sir Eric Geddes. Order from Amazon.co.uk.

Before My Helpless Sight: Suffering, Dying and Military Medicine on the Western Front, 1914-1918, Leo van Bergen, Ashgate, 2009, 527 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 978 0 7546 5853 5, £31.50. Drawing on French, Dutch, British and German sources, the author examines the impact of modern war on individual soldiers. Translation from the Dutch recommended by Hubert van Tuyll of Augusta State University.

Prisoners of the Kaiser: The last POWs of The Great War, Richard Van Emden, Pen & Sword, 2009, 208 pages, index, photos, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 8488 4078 2, $19.99 paperback, Draws on the memories of the last surviving British POWs.

Sapper Martin: The Secret Great War Diary of Albert Martin, Richard Van Emden (ed.), Bloomsbury, 2009, 288 pages, ISBN 1 4088 9267 8, £18.99 HB. The diary of a Royal Engineer on the Western. Available from Amazon.co.uk.

The Dardanelles Disaster: the Extraordinary Story of Churchill's Most Spectacular Defeat, Dan van der Vat, Overlook, 2009, 258 pages ISBN 1 5902 0223 6, $26.95 hardcover. A new look at a much-studies campaign.

Tank Action in The Great War, Ian Verrinder, Pen & Sword, 224 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 1 8488 4080 5, $39.99 hardbound. An account of the attacks of B Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (later the Tank Corps) on the Somme, at Messines, Ypres, Cambrai and Fontaine-Notre-Dame.

Verdun: An Integrated Defense, Neil J. Wells, Naval & Military Press, 2009, 264 pages, photos, maps, index, appendices, ISBN 1 8457 4715 2, $23 paperback. Details on the Verdun forts.

Tracing British Battalions on the Somme, Ray Westlake, Pen & Sword, 2009, 320 pages illustrations, ISBN 978 1 84415 885 0, $25.99 paperback. A research guide for Somme enthusiasts by a recognized British historian and researcher.

Media, Memory and the First World War, David Williams, McGill-Queens, 2009, 321 + xvi pages, notes, index, ISBN 978 0 7735 3507 7, $49.95 cloth. An interdisciplinary look at how The Great War was depicted at the time, over time and is depicted now.

Dublin 1916: Siege of the GPO, Clair Wills, Harvard, 2009, 272 pages, index, bibliography, ISBN 978 0 6740 3633 8, $23.95 cloth. A new history of the Easter Uprising, which sparked the ultimately successful Irish revolt.

The Last Century of Sea Power: From Port Arthur to Chanak, 1894-1922, H. P. Willmott, Indiana, 2009, 568 pages, photos, index, maps, ISBN 978 0 253 35214 9, $34.95 cloth. Analyses the complex nature of transition to modern war at sea, changes in shipbuilding, armament technology and doctrine. Written by a foremost military historian.

Mediterranean Submarine: Submarine War in World War I, Michael Wilson & Paul Kemp, Crecy, 2009, 219 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 0 9475 5457 6, $29.95 hardback. With statistics on early sinkings on an often ignored front.

The Legacy of the Great War: Ninety Years On, Jay Winter (ed.), Missouri, 2009, 240 pages, ISBN 0 8262 1872 5, $39.95 cloth. Also available in paperback for $19.95. Papers from a 2007 forum sponsored by the Western Front Association, The National WWI Museum at the Liberty Memorial and the Kansas City Public Library edited by Yale scholar Jay Winter. Contributors include Niall Ferguson, Paul Kennedy, Sir John Keegan, Hew Strachan, John Horne, Leonard Smith, John Milton Cooper, Margaret MacMillan and Paul Fussell.

Letters from Verdun: Frontline Experience of an American Volunteer in World War I France, Avery Royce Wolfe, Casemate, 2009, 226 pages, illustrations, photos, ISBN 978 932033 94 6, $39.95 hardback. Letters of a volunteer ambulance driver in the French army at Verdun and during the Ludendorff offensives of 1918.

World War I Almanac, David R. Woodward, Facts on File, 2009, 554 pages, ISBN 0 8160 7134 9, $95 HB. A new reference work from a first-rank scholar of the Great War who teaches at Marshall University. Dr. Woodward is also the author of a fine biography of British WWI Chief of Staff Field Marshall Sir William Robertson (Greenwood 1998) and a more recent history of the Palestine Campaign Hell in the Holyland (Kentucky 2006).

Uniforms of the German Colonial Troops, 1884-1918, Charles Woolley, Schiffer, 2009, 192 pages, color and b&w illustrations, ISBN 978 0 7643 3357 6, $69.99 hardback Also see Uniforms of the Schutztruppen, the Expedition Corps and III, the Batallion of the Imperial Marines assigned to protect Germany's far-flung pre-WWI colonial possessions.

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The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War, Mustafa Aksakal, Cambridge, 2008, 264 pages, ISBN 978 05218 8060 2. A revisionist history of Ottoman "Young Turk" politics and policies leading to belligerency on the side of Germany.

Kitchener's Last Volunteer: The Life of Henry Allingham, Britain's Oldest Man and the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Great War, Henry Allingham, Mainstream, 2008, 240 pages, ISBN 1 84596 416 0, £17.99, hardback, less from Amazon.co.uk. Alingham served on land, at sea at Jutland and in the air with the Royal Naval Air Service.

A Shattered Peace: Versailles and the Peace We Pay Today, David A. Andelman, John Wiley & Sons, 2008, 326 + ix pages, index, ISBN 978 0 471 78898 0, $25.96 hardback. One of a recent series of popular pot boiler journalistic-style histories blaming most of world's troubles on the Versailles Treaty.

Doctrine and Reform in the British Cavalry, 1880-1918, Stephen Badsey, Ashgate, 2008, 378 pages, appendix, bibliography, index, illustrations, ISBN 978 0 7546 6467 3, £60 from ashgate@bookpoint.co.uk. A scholarly analysis of the development of successful doctrine for horsed soldiers in the face of increasing firepower.

Never Been a Time: The 1917 Race Riot that Sparked the Civil Rights Movement, Harper Barnes, Walker, 2008, 293 + xii pages, ISBN 0 80271 575 3, $25.99 cloth. History of the bloody 1917 East St. Louis, Illinois, riots against Black citizens, one of a series sparked in part by the migration of large numbers of unskilled African-American workers north in search of war work, which was not always available. East St. Louis continues to be haunted by the enormity of these events.

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.

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War, Michele Barrett, Verso, 2008, 224 pages, ISBN 978 1 84467 230 1, $24.95 cloth. An account of the psychological havoc of war inflicted on five British soldiers.

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 Germans at Arras, David Bilton, Pen & Sword Images of War Series, 2008, 160 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 1 84415 768 6, $24.95 paperback. German photographs of the Arras region in 1917.

The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914, Phillip Blom, Basic Books, 2008, 466 pages, ISBN 978 0 4650 1116 2, $29.95 cloth. The author contends that growing self-doubt among European elites led then to glorify war and welcome the cataclysm as the only way to cleanse their cultures of its sickness. Foretastes of disaster include Britain near-defeat in the Anglo-Borer War, Russia's humiliation in the Russo-Japanese War and America's 1907 Wall Street crash

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The Unquiet Western Front: Britain's role in Literature and History, Brian Bond, Cambridge, 2008, 140 pages, ISBN 978 0 52103 641 2, $20.99 paper. First published in 2002, this is a critique of the anti-war culture that pervades writing and teaching The Great War. Favorably reviewed by History Today as a bid to rescue WWI history from popular myth.

Survivors of a Kind: Memoirs of the Western Front, Brian Bond, Contuum, 2008, 192 pages, ISBN 978 1 8422 50004 9, $49.95 cloth. An analysis of Western Front memoirs published by a range of British luminaries including Anthony Eden, Harold McMillan, General F. P. Crozier and several war poets including Edmund Blunden.

Flanders Fields, Stefan Boness, Verlag für Bildschöne Bücher, 2008, 108 pages, photos, ISBN 978 939181 15 6, €35 hardcover. Contemporary photos of the remains of World War One in the Ypres Salient, Belgium taken by the author. Distributed internationally by Idea Books.

The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1909-1922, William R. Braisted, US Naval Institute, 2008 (1971), 741 + xii pages, ISBN 978 1 59114 088 7, $29.95 paperback. The second of two volumes, analyses rising tensions with Japan during the Taft Administration, the US Navy in the Pacific during WWI, the decision to build a navy second to none, the 1916 Naval Construction Act, and the post-war Washington Navel Disarmament Conference ending in 1922.

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.

Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, Patrick J. Buchanan, Crown, 2008, ISBN 978 0 3704 0515 9, $29.95 cloth. A replowing of familiar and well-tilled fields by a former Nixon speech writer, presidential candidate and perennial right wing TV talk show bloviator. Buchanan is best at setting up straw men and then knocking them down.

Answering the Call: The U. S. Army Nurse Corps, 1917-1919: A Commemorative Tribute to Military Nursing in World War I, Lisa Budreau (ed.), Office of Medical History, US Army, 2008, 254 pages, IBSN 0 1608 1724 2, less than $20 cloth from Amazon.com used booksellers. The author is a research historian in the Army Office of Medical History.

An Officer's Manual of the Western Front, 1914-1918, Stephen Bull, Conway, 2008 144 pages, illustrations, maps, ISBN 978 18446072 2, $14.95 paperback. A compendium of 30 whole manuals and shorter extracts.

The Diary & Letters of a World War I Fighter Pilot, Christopher M. Burgess, Pen & Sword, 2008, 224 pages, photos, ISBN 978 1 84415 686 3, $39.95 hardback. The war of 65 Squadron RFC pilot Guy Mainwaring Knocker written by his grandson drawing on his letters and diaries.

Big Gun Monitors: Design, Construction and Operations, 1914-1945, Ian Buxton, US Naval Institute, 2008, photos, drawings, plans, index, bibliography, ISBN 978 1 59144 045 0, $74.95 cloth. Reprint of a 1978 book. The Royal Navy designed the first of these unusual vessels in late 1914 to bombard German coastal emplacements in Flanders. The earliest models mounted Bethlehem Steel 14-inch inch guns and turrets.

Band of Brigands: The First Men in Tanks, Christy Campbell, HarperPerennial, 2008, 384 pages, photos, index, ISBN 0 00721 460X, £8.99 paperback from Amazon.co.uk. A new history of the creation of the Royal Tank Corps.

The Devil Dogs at Belleau Wood: U. S. Marines in World War I, Dick Camp, Zenith Press, 2008, 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.

Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen, Christopher Capazzola, Oxford, 2008, 352 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 978 0 19533 559 1, $35 cloth. America turns over unprecedented power to the Federal Government creating a new American state and a new citizen. One of a series of recent social and political histories reexamining the American home front society and politics in WWI. The author is Associate Professor of History at MIT.

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.

Anzac: The Landing at Gallipoli, Stephen Chambers, Pen & Sword, Battleground Series, 2008, 208 pages, photos, maps, ISBN 978 1844 1572 28, $19,95 paperback. Detailed account of the April 15, 1915 landings.

Battle Cruiser HMS Renown, 1916-1948, Maurice Cocker, Pen & Sword, 2008, 144 pages, illustrated, ISBN 978 1 84415 733 4, $39.95 hardcover. A famous ship which joined the Grand Fleet in 1916 and fought in WWII.

World War I: Primary Documents on Events from 1914 to 1919, Ross F. Collins (ed.), Greenwood, Debating Historical Issues in the Media Series, 2008, 411 + xii pages, illustrations, bibliography, study questions, index, $65 cloth. Anthology of American magazine and newspaper excerpts with explanatory text dealing with contemporary war issues. In the days before radio, TV and public opinion polls, the print media was both the primary reflector and molder of public opinion. This book highlights both the propaganda campaign that accompanied the war and the challenges faced by German Americans as their adopted nation was drawn into the conflict.

Shock Troops: Canadians Fighting the First World War, Tim Cook, Viking Canada, 2008, 464 pages, maps, photos, index, ISBN 0 67006 735 0, C$40 hardcover. Continues the story of the Canadian Corps on the Western Front begun in The Sharp End (Viking Canada 2007) through the battles of Vimy Ridge, Hill 70 and Passchendaele. The author is historian at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.

Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War and Peace, John Milton Cooper (ed.), John Hopkins, 2008, 352 pages, ISBN 978 0 8018 9074 1, $60 cloth. A series of essays reexamining Wilson's policies and legacy.

Pour la France: French Land Forces, 1914-1918, Volume two: Higher Formations and Orders of Battle, Michael Cox & Graham Watson, Helion, 2008, 206 pages, ISBN 978 1 906033 23 1, $79.95 paperback. Builds on the work on the first volume's coverage of French regiments and divisions.

The Devil's Own War: The First World War Diary of Brigadier-General Herbert Hart,John Crawford (ed.), Exisle Publishing, Australia, 2008, 336 pages, photos, ISBN 1 877437 30 4, AU$55 cloth with slipcase. Wairarapa lawyer Hart jointed the New Zealand Expeditionary Force as a Major in 1914 rising to brigade command after serving as a battalion CO at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. After the war he was knighted and served as Administrator of Western Samoa.

World War One: Five Continents in Flanders, Dominiek Dendooven and Piet Chielens,Lannoo, 208 pages, illustrations, ISBN 9 02097 727 X, £23.75 from Amazon.co.uk. A book about the various foreign armies fighting in Flanders arising from an exhibition at the Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres.

Tactics, Training and Technology, Peter Dennis and Jeffrey Grey (eds.), Loftus Australia, 2008, notes, ISBN 978 0 9803 7967 9, A$40 including airmail from warbookshop@bigpond.com. Collection of 11 essays based on papers presented at the 2007 Australian Chief of Army's Military History Conference in 2007. Contributors include Robin Prior, Gary Sheffield, Dan Todman, Tim Cook and Andrew Wiest, Robert Doughty and Michael Neiberg.

The Brusilov Offensive, Timothy C. Dowling, Indiana University Press, 2008, 208 pages, maps, photos, index, ISBN 798 0 253 35130 2, $24.95 cloth. The Brusilov Offensive of June 1916 rolled back massive German gains of 1915, brought Romania into the war extinguishing once and for all the offensive capabilities of the Austro-Hungarian Army forcing Vienna into political and military subservience to Berlin. A skillful analysis and welcome addition to the short Eastern Front bookshelf.

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.

Mons, 1914-1918: the Beginning and the End, Don Farr, Helion, 2008, 256 pages, photos, maps, ISBN 978 1 906033 28 6, $49.95 hardback. A four-year catastrophe in and around a Flemish cloth town.

In Search of the Zeppelin War: The Archeology of the First Blitz, Neil Faulkner and Nadia Durrant, History Press/Tempus, 2008, 176 pages, illustrations, ISBN 0 7524 4842 5, $33.95 paperback. Technical details and other information on the German Zeppelin attacks against Great Britain.

Mons 1914-1918: the Beginning and the End, Don Farr, Helion, 2008, photos, maps, index, ISBN 1 9060 3228 5, $49.95 hardback. Describes the catastrophic events that took place at Mons in 1914 and again in 1918.

The Question of MacArthur's Reputation: Côte de Châtillon, October 14-16, 1918, Robert H. Ferrell, Missouri, 2008, 139 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 978 1 8262 1830 8, $19.95 softcover. Army records indicate that MacArthur's subordinates deserve most of the credit for this successful Meuse-Argonne action for which MacArthur was nominated for the Medal of Honor. By the prolific author of Five Days in October: The Lost Battalion in World War I (Missouri, 2005) and many other WWI histories. Reviewed in the Wall Street Journal November 25, 2008.

Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918, Richard S. Fogarty, Johns Hopkins, 2008, 320 + ix pages, maps, photos, index, notes, bibliography, appendix, ISBN 0 8018 8824 7, $60 cloth. An excellent scholarly analysis of colonial troops at war; a study of contradictory and paradoxical French policies on race, culture and religion in wartime drawing on individual experiences among the half million African, Arab and Asian soldiers who served France in WWI. Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta First Book Prize. The author teaches at SUNY Albany.

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).

Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War and the Right to Dissent, Ernest Freeberg, Harvard, 2008, 380 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 0 6740 2792 3, $29.95 hardcover. This is the story of an early 20th century conflict between the perceived demands of national security and the constitutional guarantee of free speech that led to the creation of the American Civil Liberties Union. Railway labor leader and five-time Socialist Party presidential candidate, Eugene Debs (1855-1926) is forgotten today, but won nearly a million popular votes in 1912 and 1920. Debs ran for President in 1920 from a jail cell convicted under the 1917 Espionage Act cell because of his outspoken opposition to American entry into WWI. He was pardoned in 1921 by President Warren G. Harding. The author teaches at the University of Tennessee.

The Gun and the Pen: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and the Fiction of Mobilization, Keith Gandal, Oxford, 2008, 271 + xii pages, notes, index, illustrations, ISBN 978 0 18 533891 1, $55 cloth. Analyses post-war fiction of the "Lost Generation" and finds it less anti-war than anti-mobilization in reaction to the authors personal rejection for service with the US forces.

The Routledge Atlas of the First World War, Third Edition, Martin Gilbert, 2008, 224 pages, ISBN 978 0 415 46038 5, $27.97 paperback. New edition of a fine atlas.

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.

Lutyens and The Great War, Gerald Gliddon & Tom Skelton, Francis Lincoln, 2008, 224 pages, illustrations ISBN 0 71122 8778 8, £30 hardcover. Sir Edwin Lutyens is known principally for his residential architecture. Here range of his memorials from the Cenotaph at Whitehall to the Memorial at Theipval and many lesser known monuments in England, France and overseas is explored.

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.

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.

Lawrence of Arabia: Mirage of a Desert War, Adrian Greaves, Orion, 2008, 272 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 07538 23668, $14.95 softcover. Yet another book about T. E. Lawrence, part of a recent plethora sparked, no doubt, by the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.

The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War, Adrian Gregory, Cambridge, 2008, 362 pages, illustrations, tables, notes, index, ISBN 978 0 521 72883 6, paperback $31.99; also in hardcover at $81 from Barnes and Noble. A ground-breaking new cultural and social history of the British home front.

The Great War on the Western Front, A Short History, Paddy Griffith, Pen & Sword, 2008, 176 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 1 84415 764 8, $39.95 cloth. A short introduction to the conflict from a fine British historian available from www.casmatepublishing.com.

The German Infantryman 1914-1918, Jean-Claude Laparra & Pascal Hesse (Sally and Lawrence Brown translators), Histoire & Collections, Paris, 2008, 66 pages, black & white and color illustrations, photos, bibliography, $22.95 soft cover. A view of the war as experienced by a typical German infantryman based on memorabilia and notes left by an unidentified infanterist found in a Berlin flea market.

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.

Cambrai 1917: The Myth of the First Great Tank Battle, Bryn Hammond, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2008, 320 pages, illustrations, maps ISBN 978 0 2978 4553 9, $34.95 hardback. The author sees the battle as a draw, but a nonetheless useful lesson leading toward more mobile warfare.

A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire, M. Sükrü Hanioglu, Princeton, 2008, 241 pages, index, ISBN 978 0 6911 3452 9, $29.95 cloth. Traces the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire beginning in the 19th century into 27 successor states after 1918. The author is Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton. A History Book Club selection for summer, 2008.

The First Blitz, Neil Hanson, Doubleday, 2008, 560 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 0 3856 1170 6, £17.99 from Amazon.co.uk. Popular history of the German Gotha bomber offensive against England in 1917-1918.

Images of War: New Zealand and the Great War, Glynn Harper, HarperCollins, New Zealand, 2008, ISBN 1 8695 0676 6, £24.99 softcover from Amazon.co.uk. Some 800 photographs from all theaters of war taken from the New Zealand Army Memorial Museum and private archives. Includes photos of facial wounds and results of reconstructive surgery from Gilles Archive.

The Greater Game: Sporting Icons Who Fell in the Great War, Clive Harris and John Whippy, Pen & Sword, 2008, ISBN 978 1 8441 5762 5, $45 cloth. Reviews the lives of British sportsmen and athletes who fell in The Great War.

Douglas Haig and the First World War, J. P. Harris, Cambridge, 2008, 664 pages, index, ISBN 0 5218 9802 1, £25 cloth. Accuses Haig of first underestimating German strength in 1916 and then exaggerating German's power in 1918, advocating a compromise peace. A new biography which has stoked another round in the never-ending controversy over the most pilloried military leader in British history. The author is a lecturer at Sandhurst.

Shots from the Front: The British Soldier, 1914-1918, Richard Holmes, Harperpress, 2008, 256 pages, photos, index, ISBN 0 00727 548 X, £20 retail, less from Amazon.co.uk in hardcover. Picture essays covering the pre-war army, conscription, weapons and infantrymen, the war in Mesopotamia as well as on the Western Front drawing on period photographs and modern photos from Mike Sheil; written by a major British military historian.

A Part of History: Aspects of British Experience of the First World War, Michael Howard et al , Continuum, 2008, 238 pages, ISBN 978 0 8264 9813 7, $34.95 cloth. A scholarly examination of revisionism and traditionalism in studies of The Great War by British historians.

The Oil Hunters: Exploration and Espionage in the Middle East, Roger Howard, Continuum, 2008, 232 pages, ISBN 978 1 84725 232 6, $29.95 cloth. Anecdotal history of the search for oil in the Middle East from 1880 to 1940, including the 1908 discovery of oil in Persia and Mesopotamia which had a vast impact on WWI and the post-war world.

1918: A Very British Victory, Peter Hart, WN Publishers, (October) 2008, 576 pages, maps, index, illustrations, ISBN 0 29784 652 3. A new look at the final German and British offensives of 1918, now available in the America from Orion for $29.95. Also available as an audio book.

Our War: Ireland in the Great War, John Horne (ed.), Royal Irish Academy, 2008, 336 pages, ISBN 978 1 904890 50 8, $50 hardcover. A series of essays edited by Tomlinson Prize-winner John Horne on the experiences of Irishmen at home and in the trenches. Emblematic of renewed Irish interest in WWI, in the past a fraught subject in the Irish Republic. For a contemporary view of Ulster see: Unionists and Great War Commemoration in the North of Ireland, 1914-1919: People, Places and Politics, Catherine Switzer, 211 pages, Irish Academy Press, 2007, ISBN 0 7165 2872 X, £19 from Amazon.co.uk.

A Part of History: Aspects of the British Experience in the First World War, Michael Howard (ed.), Continuum, 2008, 288 pages, ISBN 978 0 8264 9813 7, $34.95 cloth. A series of brief essays written by British historians (Gary Sheffield, Julian Putkowski, Terry Castle, Malcom Brown among others) who engage in much critical comment on present and past historians and histories of The Great War. Labeled by Hew Strachan in a review for the Times Literary Supplement as a rehash of old, insular arguments.

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.

Kitchener's Men: The Kings Own Royal Lancasters on the Western Front, John Hutton, Pen & Sword, 2008, 256 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 978 1 8441 5721 1 £19.99 hardbound. Summarizes the raising, training and battle experience of the territorial and service battalions of a British regiment.

Shoestring Soldiers: the First Canadian Division at War, 1914-1915, Andrew Iarocci, University of Toronto Press, 2008, 362 pages, ISBN 978 0 8020 9822 1, C$50 hardcover. The training and early battles of the first Canadians to go to war.

Immelmann: the Eagle of Lille, Frantz Immelmann, Casemate, 2008, 256 pages, photos, ISBN 978 193203360 1, $29.95 hardcover. Originally published in the 1930s, this is the story of the ace after whom the "Blue Max" is named written by his brother.

A Lack of Offensive Spirit: The 46th (North Midland) Division at Gommecourt, 1st July 1916, Iona Books, 2008, 681 + xvii pages, appendices, index, ISBN 978 0 9558119 0 6, £19.99 boards. Highly detailed examination of a failed attack on the first day of the BEF's Somme offensive.

Mobilizing Minerva: American Woman in the First World War, Kimberly Jensen, Illinois, 2008, 264 pages, index, notes, ISBM 0 2520 7496 7, $30 paperback. Also available for $65 hardback ISBN 978 0 2520 3237 9. WWI opened a new front in the debate over women's place in society and the military.

Fort Lawton (Images of America Series), Jack W. Jaunal, Arcadia, 2008, 127 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 978 0 7385 5811 0, $19.99 paperback. The story of Fort Lawton, an Army infantry post outside Seattle during WWI.

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.

Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of the 93rd Division in World War I and Postwar America, Robert E. Jefferson, John Hopkins, 2008, 352 pages, halftones, index, ISBN 978 0 8018 8828 1, $55 HB. The experience of the first complete all-Black division to go into combat. See also American Foreign Legion, Frank E. Roberts, Naval Institute, 2004.

Untold War: New Perspectives in First World War Studies, Heather Jones, Jennifer O'Brien & Christoph Schmidt-Supprian (eds.), Brill, 2008, 449 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 978 90 04 16659 2, $190 hardback. Essays covering diverse themes such as combat, occupation, civil identity, juvenile delinquency, chaplains, art and remembrance across several countries: Germany, France, Britain, colonial Africa, Belgium and Romania. Fourth in the series of edited proceedings from conferences sponsored by the International Society for First World War Studies. Other titles are Uncovered Fields, Warfare and Belligerence, and Untold War.

King of Airfighters: The Biography of Major "Mick" Mannock, VC, DSO, MC, Ira Jones, Casemate (reprint), 2008, 256 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 1 933033 97 7, $29.95 hardcover. Some sources claim 73 "kills" for Mannock while he himself claimed only 51 aerial victories.

French Army, Volumes One & Two, 1914 August - December and 1915 to Victory, Andre Jouineau, Histoire & Collections, 2008, 68 pages each, color illustrations, ISBN 978 2 35250 104 6 (Vol 1) 978 2 35250 105 3 (Vol 2), $22.95 each in paperback. France mobilized 2.9 million men in 21 infantry corps during the summer of 1914. By 1918, 40% of all troops on the Western Front were artillerists. Written in French.

The Zeebrugge Raid 1918: The Finest Feat of Arms, Paul Kendall, The History Press, 2008,353 pages, illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index, ISBN978 1 866227 477 8, $40 hardcover. Contains new material on this famous, but only partially successful action.

The Will to Believe: Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America's Strategy for Peace and Security, Ross A. Kennedy, Kent State, 2008, 320 pages, index, maps, illustrations, Bibliography, ISBN 978 0 87338 971 6, $45 cloth. A fresh analysis of Wilson's foreign policy focusing on three competing groups: pacifists, liberal internationalists, and Atlanticists.

Pershing, James Lacey, Palgrave Mcmillan, 2008, illustrated, ISBN 978 0 2306 0383 7, $21.95 hardcover. One of several recent biographies of "Black Jack" Pershing.

Combats en Champagne, Gérard Lachaux, Histoire and Collections, 2008, ISBN 978 2 35230 063 6, $59.95 hardback. In French; the history of the costly and unsuccessful 1915 French Army attacks in the Champagne region. Available from www. Casematepublishers.com.

Admirals: The Naval Commanders who made Britain Great, Andrew Lambert, Faber & Faber, 2008, 492 pages, ISBN 978 0 57 123156 0, £20. Embraces three centuries of naval history centering on the biographies of eleven British admirals including Robert Blake, George Anson, Samuel Hood, St. Vincent, John Fisher, Davie Beattie and Andrew Cunningham. Written by a premier British naval historian.

The German Soldier, 1914-1918, Jean-Claude Laparra, Histoire & Collections, 2008, 68 pages, photos, ISBN 978 2 35250 071 1, $22.95. Explores the life of the German infantryman. In French.

Passchendaele: Canada's Triumph and Tragedy on the Fields of Flanders, an Illustrated History, Norman Leach, Coteau Books, 2008, 48 pages, maps, black & white photos and color illustrations, ISBN 1 55050 399 5, $19.95 hardback. Canadian historian Leach crafted this richly illustrated book for teenage readers, but it is equally suitable for grownups. Available from www.coteaubooks.com. Leach was historical advisor for Paul Gross's war movie Passchendaele, released this year in Canada.

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 was a speaker at the the WFA-USA National Seminar at Carlisle, Pennsylvania in September where he was awarded 2007 WFA Norman B. Tomlinson Book Prize for this book.



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.

Forgotten Voices of the Somme: The Most Devastating Battle of the Great War in the Words of Those who Survived, Joshua Levine, Elbury Press, 2008, 304 pages, ISBN 0 9192 267 2, £19.99 in hardcover from Amazon.co.uk. A look at the 1916 battle drawn from the writings of British participants.

Balfour and Weizmann: The Zionist, the Zealot and the Emergence of Israel, Geoffrey Lewis, Continuum, 2008, 320 pages, index, ISBN 978 1 8472 5040 7, $26.95 cloth Explores the relationship between the British Foreign Secretary and Chaim Weizmann the British chemist, Zionist and first President of Israel.

Stanley Spencer's Great War Diary, 1915-1918, Arthur Littlewood, (ed.), Pen & Sword, 2008, ISBN 978 1 8441 5778 5, £19.99 hardcover. The editor provides a commentary for these recently-discovered letters from a VC winner.

Somme Mud: War Experiences of an Infantryman in France, 1914-1919, E. P. F. Lynch, Will Davies (ed.), Bantam, 2008, 432 pages, ISBN 0 5538 1913 5, £7.99 paperback. Memoir of a British veteran first published in 2006.

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.

Trench Warfare, 1914-1918, Antonio Mayoralis, Casemate, 2008, 112 pages, color illustrations, index, ISBN 978 84 96658 15 8, $57.96 hardback. A brief summary chronology of the development of trench warfare techniques, as well as associated transportation and communications systems.

The War on Hospital Ships, 1914-1918, Stephen McGreal, Pen & Sword, 2008, ISBN 978 1 8441 5858 4 hardback. German sinkings of Entente hospital ships detailed.

War by Revolution: Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I, Donald M. McKale, Kent, 2008, ISBN 978 0 8733 8972 3, $28 paperback. A reprint of a 1998 publication analyzing one segment the so-called "Great Game" for Mid East domination.

History's Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks, Sean McKeekin, Yale, 2008, 336 pages, index, photos, ISBN 0 3001 3558 0 $30. Exploring the final years of the Tzarist regime and the early years of Bolshevism with WWI as the backdrop.

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.

The Day We Won the War, Charles Messenger, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2008, 320 pages, maps, index, ISBN 0 29785 281 7, $32.72 HB. Also coming in paperback from Phoenix ISBN 0 75382 593 7. Ninetieth anniversary analysis of the August 1918 break- through at Amiens which opened the victorious "100 days" ending World War I. The mixed arms attack of the British 4th Army also included troops from Australia, Canada and America.

British Popular Culture and the First World War, Jessica Meyer (ed.), Brill, 2008, 368 + xvi pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 978 9 0416 658 5, $131 hardcover. Essays by British social/cultural historians focusing on the cultural forms produced by a wide range social groups including veterans, women, museum visitors and film goers.

Paradise Lost: Smyrna, 1922: The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance, Giles Milton, Sceptre, July 2008, 426 pages, index, photos, ISBN 978 04650 011 93, $27.97 cloth. Smyrna was a multi-ethnic home to a cosmopolitan population and bastion of Greek and Christian civilization. When the Turks drive Greek forces out of Smyrna (now Ismir) some 100 thousand were killed. This book presents a timely reminder of the appalling cost of (in this case Greek) expansionist political ambitions as the victorious Allies carved up The Ottoman Empire with varying degrees of success.

Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East, Karl E. Meyer & Shareen Blair Brysac, Norton, 2008, 507 pages, ISBN 978 03930 619 94, $27.95 cloth. A survey history of the evolution of the modern Middle East beginning in 1882, extending though two world wars and the Cold War, told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. A synthesis rather than original research, but nonetheless a good foundation for understanding the region today.

Shrapnel and Whizzbangs, Jeremy Mitchell, The Memoir Club, 2008, 98 +xii pages, illustrations, maps, index, ISBN 1 84104 192 0, £12.95 hardback. Based on the diary and notes of George Oswald Mitchell, one of the early members of the Royal Engineer "Special Companies" engaged in gas warfare. Available from memoirclub@email.msn.com.

Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt: The First Modern Intelligence War, Polly A. Mohs, Routledge, 2008, 238 + xviii pages, notes, map, glossary, index, ISBN 978 0 415 49331 4, $37.95 wraps. His book goes far beyond Lawrence of Arabia. It examines the imaginative exploitation of intelligence in formulating an effective British strategy for supporting the Arab Revolt again the Ottomans during the First World War. For more on this subject see: War by Revolution: Germany & Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I, Donald McKale, Kent State, 2008.

Liverpool VCs, James Murphy, Pen & Sword, 2008, 240 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 84415 7870 8, $45.00 hardback.

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 Second Battle of the Marne, Michael S. Neiberg, Indiana, 2008, 232 +x pages, photos, index, bibliography, notes, ISBN 978 0 253 31546 3, $27.95 cloth. Winner of the Annual WFA Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize for 2008, this book breaks new ground on a key battle in the last year of the war.

Springboks on the Somme: South Africa in the Great War 1914-1918, Bill Nasson. Penguin, 2008, 257 pages, ISBN 978 0 14302 5351, $41.60 paperback. A study of South African participation in far-flung campaigns from German South West Africa, to Egypt and the Western Front.

Major Sam Woodfill, the Greatest Soldier of WWI, Ben Newell, Publish America, 2008, ISBN 1 60563 710 6, available from the author at 3133 Graham Road, Madison, Indiana 47250 www.bennewell.wordpress.com for $20 postage paid. A biography of WWI medal of honor-winner Major Sam Woodfill, the career military man considered by John Pershing to be the outstanding soldier in the AEF.

After the Trenches: The Transformation of the U.S. Army, 1918-1939, William D. Odom, Texas A&M, 2008, 296 pages, bibliography, index, tables, figures, ISBN 978 30288 081 3, $19.95 paperback. A distinguished army veteran and military historian examines the evolution of army doctrine between the two world wars.

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 Great War in the Heart of Dixie: Alabama during World War I, Martin T. Olliff (ed.), University of Alabama, 2008, 275 + viii pages, ISBN 0 8173 1616 7, $48 hardback. Also in paperback, IBSN 978 0 8173 5492 3, $29.95. How Alabama responded to and was changed by the war.

The 1910s Scrapbook: The Decade of The Great War, Robert Opie (complier), PI Global, 2008, 62 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 0 9547 9547 4, $27.95 hardback. A look at day-to-day life in the decade of WWI.

Terror of the Autumn Skies: The Story of Frank Luke, America Rogue Ace of World War I, Blaine Pardoe, Skyhorse, 2008, index, photos, ISBN 978 16023 252 6, $24.95 hardcover. Biography of America's first aviator to win the Medal of Honor.

The Late Victorian Navy: The Pre-Dreadnought Era and the Origins of the First World War, Roger Parkinson, Boydell & Brewer, 2008, 328 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 884383 409 0, $145, hardcover. Reappraisal of the late Victorian Navy and the emergence of crucial new technology defined by steel and electricity.

The German Offensives of 1918: The Last Desperate Gamble, Ian Passignham, Pen & Sword, Campaign Chronicle Series, 2008, 208 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 84415 636 8, $39.95 hardback. Another assessment of German doctrine, military thinking and the effectiveness of storm troop tactics, and how the poor state of military morale and civilian unrest contributed to defeat.

Pals on the Somme, 1916, Martin Pegler, Pen & Sword, 2008, 224 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 1844 1576 55, $32.95 hardcover. History of creation the British Pals Battalions made up of men from the same town or craft

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Sniping in the Great War, Martin Pegler, Pen & Sword, 2008, 224 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 84415 755 6, $32.95 hardback. Development of the practice of sniping from 1914 on the Western and other fronts; training, field craft and counter-sniping methods described in detail.

Jews in the Russian Army, 1827-1917: Drafted into Modernity, Yohan Petrovsky-Shtern, Cambridge, 2008, 328 pages, ISBN 0 52151 537 4, $90 hardback. The military experience of one and a half million Jews, communal responses to conscription, efforts at conversion, alleged draft evasion and Jewish military performance.

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.

Postcards from the Trenches: Images of the First World War, introduction by Andrew Roberts, Oxford, Bodleian Library, 2008, 111 pages, photos, illustrations, ISBN 1 85124 391 7, $20 paperback. A collection of post cards from the WWI era. A separate volume from Oxford has postcards from the Russian Revolution.

Digging the Trenches: the Archeology of the Western Front, Andrew Robertson and David Kenyon, Pen & Sword, 2008, 240 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 1 84415 567 19, £25 hardcover. A survey of archeological exploration of the Western Front.

Battles in the Alps: A History of the Italian Front of the First World War, G. Irving Root, PublishAmerica, 2008, 351 pages, maps, illustrations, notes, ISBN 1 60703 937 3, $29.95 trade paperback. By the author of Battles East.

Woodrow Wilson and the American Myth in Italy: Culture, Diplomacy and War Propaganda, Maniela Rossini, Antony Shugarr translator, Harvard, 2008, 253 + x pages, index, notes, map, tables, ISBN 978 0 674 02824 1, $49 cloth. A new look at Wilsonian diplomacy, or lack there of, through an examination of Italo-American relations during WWI and during the Paris peace conference.

The Summer of the Archduke: On Wars and Warriors, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Missouri. 2008, 184 pages, index, bibliography, ISBN 978 0 8262 8110 0, 24.95 paperback. Essays on World War I, its horror, mismanagement by well meaning but inept leaders and a review of worthwhile literature on the conflict.

Gallipoli: Attack from the Sea, Victor Rudenno, Yale, 2008, 352 pages, illustrations, maps, index, ISBN 978 0 3001 2440 8, $45 cloth. An analysis of the strategy and actions of land, sea and air forces with particular emphasis on the naval aspects (including use of submarines) of the campaign.

The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire, Jan Rüger, Cambridge, 2007, 356 pages, index, ISBN 978 0 521 87576 9, $10i hardcover. An analysis of the Anglo-German naval race.

Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East, Priya Satia, Oxford, 2008, 472 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 0 19 533141 7, $55 trade cloth. Scholarly critique of British imperialism as a paranoid and brutal arm of military policy with its roots in Edwardian England; questions the liberal underpinnings of imperial ideology. A cultural history of the interwar British imperial state.

"Who are we so cosmopolitan": The War Diary of Constance Graeffe, 1914-1918, Sophie de Scheapdrijver, Studies on World War One, No. 14, Brussels, 2008, Publ. No 4729, €21 from the publisher publicat@arch.be. The Great War's impact on a trans-national family (German-French-English) living in Brussels, 1914-1918.

Diary of a Night Bomber Pilot in World War I, Clive Semple, Spellmont/The History Press, 2008, 352 pages, illustrations, ISBN 1 86277 452 5, $39.95 cloth. Available from the Scholars Bookshelf.

The Versailles Settlement: Peacemaking After the First World War (Making of the 20th Century), Alan Sharp. Palgrave Macmillan, Second Edition, 2008, 288 pages, 288 pages, index, bibliography, maps, chronology, ISBN 0 3338 0077 X. Revision of a 1991 textbook.

Crisis of Conscience, Amy Shaw, UBC Press, 2008, 240 pages, index, ISBN 0 7748 1593 0, C$85 hardcover. Examination of the experiences of Canadian conscientious objectors in WWI.

Yankee Division in the First World War, Michael E. Shay, Texas A&M, 2008, 312 pages, maps, photos, table, appendices, index, ISBN 978 1 60344 030 1, $49.95 cloth. The author defends the record of the Yankee Division against its detractors. By the author of The Grateful Heart on the Yankee Division's 103rd Field Hospital (Greenwood 2001).

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.

The Western Front Experience (1914-1918), Gary Sheffield, Imperial War Museum, London, 2008, 80 pages, maps, plans, orders, diaries, poster illustrations, ISBN 1 84732 132 1, £30 (£18 from Amazon.co.uk). Heavily illustrated work describing the development of trench warfare spotlighting the appalling conditions endured by troops as well as specific actions and major battles. A coffee table book recommended by History Today.

Command and Control on the Western Front: The British Army's Experience, 1914-1918, Gary Sheffield & Dan Todman (eds.), Spellmont, September 2008, 256 pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 8622 7420 4, $34.95 cloth.

The British Soldier of the First World War, Shire, 2008, 56 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 0 7478 0683 7, $13.95 paperback. The soldiers' life training, working and resting behind the front.

Through the Wheat: the U.S. Marine Corps in World War I, Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons, USMC (Ret.) and Colonel Joseph H. Alexander, USMC (Ret.), Naval Institute Press, 2008. 256 pages, photos, maps, index, ISBN 978 1 59114 791 6, $34.95 cloth. The long-awaited history of the Marines in WWI by a former Marine Corps Historian. Completed following Simmons' death by Joe Alexander. Recounts action by the Fourth Marine Brigade of the 2nd Division at Belleau Wood, Soissons, Blanc Mont, St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne.

Maxime Weygand: A Biography of the French General in Two World Wars, Barnett Singer, McFarland, 2008, 320 pages, index, photos, ISBN 0 78543 357 12, $35.00 paperback. Biography of General Foch's chief of Staff in WWI who inherited command of a defeated French army in 1940. See also: Maxime Weygand and Civil-Military Relations in Modern France, Philip Charles et al, Harvard, 1997, 445 pages, ISBN 978 0674 4557 017, $33.50 from Barnes & Nobel; less from used booksellers.

Unknown Soldiers: The American Expeditionary Forces in Memory & Remembrance, Mark A. Snell (ed.), Kent State, 2008, 274 pages, photos, maps, notes, annotated list of contributors, index, ISBN978 0 8733 8940 2, $34.95 cloth. Essays from established historians on American participation in WWI and how that experience was and is remembered. Several of the authors are WFA members or frequent speakers at our seminars.

The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe, Timothy Snyder, The Bodley Head, 2008, 344 pages, index, ISBN 0 244 08152 8, £20 cloth. A view of the breakup of the Habsburg Empire and the aftermath through the life of Archduke Wilhelm von Habsburg (1895-1949), ardent supporter of an independent Ukraine. Also available as The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke, Perseus and Basic Books, 2008, ISBN 978 0 4650 0237 5, $27.95 cloth.

Stanley Spencer's Great War Diaries, Stanley Spencer, Pen & Sword, 2008, 176 pages, Illustrations, ISBN 978 1844 1577 85, $45 hardcover. Diaries of a British veteran.

Battle for the Baltic Islands, 1917, Gary Staff, Pen & Sword, 2008, 192 pages, photos, maps, ISBN 978 1 84415 787 7, 39.95 cloth. Successful German amphibious invasion, Operation Albion. See also: Operation Albion, Michael Barrett, Indiana, 2008.

British Civil Detainees in Germany: Ruhleben Camp, 1914-1918, Matthew Stibbe, Manchester University Press, 2008, 210 pages, index, ISBN 978 0 7190 7084 6, $84.95 hardbound. Germany's largest WWI internment camp for enemy aliens.

Harry's War: A British Tommy's Experiences in the Trenches in World War One, Harry Stinton & Virginia Mayo, Conway, 2008, 224 pages, color drawings, ISBN 978 1 84486085 2, $16.95 hardcover. First publication of the memoirs of an infantry soldier's combat service at Arras, Albert and Ypres before he was wounded in 1917.

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.

The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919, Mark Thompson, Faber & Faber, 2008, 464 pages, index, photos, maps, ISBN 0 57122 333 8, $30 hardbound. Published in the US by Basic Books, ISBN 0 46501 329 5. A new survey history about a major front often ignored in telling the history of The Great War. Taking its title from the battle lines in the snow-covered Alps, this book recounts Italy's abandonment of its German and Austro-Hungarian allies, its entry into the war on the side of the Entente in May 1915 and the resulting stalemate which cost 689 thousand Italian dead before Vienna sued for peace in October 1918.

Famous, 1914-1918, Richard Van Emden and Vic Piuk, Pen & Sword, 2008, 342 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 1 8441 5762 4, £25 hardback. Tells the stories of British celebrities and literati such as Basil Rathbone, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Toiken who served in WWI.

The Netherlands Indies and the Great War, 1914-1918, Kees Van Jijk, Kitlv Press, 2008, 674 pages, ISBN 9 0671 8308 3, $47.50 HB. By 1917, the Dutch East Indies was facing a radical nationalist movement, as well as economic an pinch caused by loss of exports, wartime trade restrictions, the war at sea and shortages of shipping.

Les Canons de la Victoire, 1914-1918 (two volumes), Francois Vauviller, Pierre Touzin and Guy Francois, Histoire et Collections, 2008, 80 and 64 pages respectively, photos, drawings, tables, ISBN 2 3525 0022 2 & 2 3525 0085 0, €14.50 paperback. Two volumes covering field and heavy artillery deployed by the French in WWI. Available from Amazon France.

Lessons of War: The Experience of Seven Future Leaders in the First World War, William ven der Kloot, Nonsuch/The History Press, 2008, 240 pages, ISBN 1 8458 8634 8, $34.95 hardback. The experiences of de Gaulle, Hitler, Mussolini, Mannerheim, Atäturk, Harold MacMillan and Herbert Hoover.

Hanging a Rebel: The Life of C. R. W. Nevinson, Michael J. K. Walsh, Lutterworth Press, 2008,267 pages, ISBN 0 7188 3090 3, £26. The life of British war artist and futurist author D. R. W. Nevinson highlights the development of intellectual thought before and during the First World War.

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.

Our Friend "The Enemy": Elite Education in Britain and Germany before World War I, Thomas Weber, 2007, Stanford University Press, 360 pages, index, tables illustrations, ISBN 0 80470 014 1, $65 cloth. A scholarly look at Oxford and Heidelberg University, as well as the character of European society on the eve of WWI. Challenges the concept that pre-1914 Europe was bound to collapse.

Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War, Elaine F. Weiss, Potomac, 2008, 364 pages, photos, index, ISBN 978 1 59797 273 4, $29.95 clothbound. From 1917 to 1920 the Women's Land Army (WLA) mobilized women from all walks of life to take over farm work from men drafted into the army. The WLA was deeply rooted in the political and social movements of the late Progressive Era and mirrored changing gender roles in 20th century America.

The Other Side of the Wire, Volume One: With the German XIV Reserve Corps on the Somme, September 1914-June 1918, Ralph J. Whitehead, Helion, 2008, 656 pages, photos, maps, ISBN 978 1 906033 29 3, $79.95 hardcover.

Pals on the Somme, 1916, Roni Wilkinson, Pen & Sword, 2008, 224 pages, illustrated, ISBN 978 1 84415 765 5, $29.95, paperback. Looks at the participation of the Pals battalions which fought on the Somme in 1916 and how the Pals phenomenon was born.

Stanley Spencer's Great War Diaries, Karen Wilks (ed.), Pen & Sword, 2008, 176 pages, illustrations, ISBN 978 1 84415 778 5, $45 cloth. Written by a veteran of the Royal Fusiliers and West Yorkshire regiments who served from 1915 on the Somme, at Moutaubon and Vimy.

Isaac Rosenberg: The Making of a Great War Poet, A New Life, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2008, 486 pages, ISBN 0 297 85145 4, £25 cloth. Neither a moist-eyed patriot nor a disillusioned veteran, Rosenberg was killed in action with the BEF during the spring of 1918. Also available in paperback from Phoenix (March 2009). Rosenberg's poems are still in print.

Nexus: Strategic Communications, and American Security in World War I, Jonathan Reed Winkler, Harvard, 2008, 358 pages, maps, tables, index, ISBN 0 6740 2839 2, $55 cloth. A new way of looking at evolving global strategy: the technology, economics and politics of commercial and military communications during WWI.

Letters from Verdun: Frontline Experiences of an American Volunteer in World War I France, Avery Royce Wolf, Casemate, 2008, 226 pages, ISBN 978 1 932033 94 6, $39.95 hardback. Letters of an American volunteer ambulance driver in the French Army.

Us and Them: A Pictorial History of the War on the Western Front, Susan Yates, No Name No Number Ltd., 2008, 314 pages, photos, postcards, documents, letters, ISBN 978 0 965-193 0 1, £28 hardback. A coffee table picture history published to mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice.

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.

If Germany Attacks: The Battle in Depth in the West, G. C. Wynne, edited by Robert T. Foley, Tom Donovan Editions, 2008, 261 + xxx pages, maps, index, ISBN 978 1 9905968 01 5m £75 cloth. Abridged reprint of a series of articles appearing in Army Quarterly from 1939 to 1940 concentrates on German defensive measures in the West 1914-18; trenchantly critical of the British High Command.

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.

The Battle of the Frontiers, Ardennes 1914, Terance Zuber, Tempus - The History Press, 2007, 336 pages, index, notes, maps, photos, ISBN 978 0 7524 4424 6, $39.95 hardcover. A new history of the often neglected series of battles opening WWI. By the author of the controversial Inventing the Schlieffen Plan (Oxford 2002) and German War Planning, 1891-1914: Sources and Interpretation (Boydell & Brewer 2004). The author is a WFA member, and retired US Army officer with a Ph.D. from Würtzburg

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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.

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.

The Second Infantry Division in World War I: A History of the American Expeditionary Force Regulars, 1917-1919, George B. Clark, McFarland, 2007, photos, maps, appendices, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 0 7864 2960 8, $35 softcover. Follows the Second Division through major AEF campaigns including Second Marne, Soissons, Blanc Mont and the Meuse-Argonne. Clark authored an earlier history of the Marine component of this division.

Decorated Marines of the Fourth Brigade in World War I, George W. Clark, McFarlane, 2007, illustrations, index, appendix, bibliography, ISBN 978 0 7864 2826 7, $49.95 paperback. A reference work on the Marine infantry of the AEF's Second Division.

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.

The Lost Battalion and the Meuse-Argonne, 1918, Michael Clodfelter, McFarlane, 2007, photos, maps, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 0 7864 2679 9, $55 hardcover. Looks at the Meuse-Argonne battles with emphasis on the "Lost Battalion" of the 77th Division.

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.

At the Sharp End: Canadians Fighting the Great War, 1914-1918, Volume 1, Tim Cook, Penguin, 2007, photos, maps, index, ISBN 978 0 6700 6734 3, C$30 hardback from Penguin Canada; ASIN B000XJS11S, £26.95 from Amason.co.uk. Winner of the 2007 J. W. Dafoe Prize for Canadian non-fiction. First of a two-volume study by a premier military historian.

The Russian Army and the First World War, Nik Cornish, Spellmont, 2006, The History Press, and Tempus 2007, 247 pages, photos, index, maps, ISBN 1 86227 288 3. Out of print; check used booksellers.

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.

The War From Within: German Women in the First World War, Ute Daniel, Margaret Reis translator, Berg, 2007, 256 pages, ISBN 1 85973 147 5, £14.99 from Amazon.co.uk. Examination of the roles of working class women in Germany during WWI.

1917: Tactics, Training and Technology, Peter Dennis & Jeffrey Grey (eds.), Australian Military Publications, 2007, 202 pages, ISBN 978 0 9803 3796 79, £40 from Amazon.co.uk An anthology focusing mainly but not exclusively on the BEF. Favorably reviewed by Bruce Gudmundsson in The Journal of Military History.

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).

The War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and The Descent of the West, Niall Ferguson, Penguin, 2007, 808 + lxxi pages, illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 0 14 311239 6, $18.00. Now available in paperback, this is panoramic study of war, conflict and violence in the first half of the 20th century. Economic historian Ferguson sees three overlapping factors as key to understanding what happened: ethnic conflict, economic volatility and the decline of empires.

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.

Naval Firepower: British Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era, Norman Friedman, Naval Institute Press, 2007, 256 pages, illustrations, index, $69.95 hardback.

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.

The Great War and Medieval Memory: War, Remembrance, and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940, Stefan Goebel, Cambridge, 2007, 332 + xvii pages, photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 0 521 85415 3, $90 cloth. The author believes that people in Britain and Germany grappled with the horrors of industrialized war by arranging the sacrifices of its victims on a historical continuum stretching back to and emphasizing the Middle Ages.

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.

Dark Journey: Three Key New Zealand Battles of the Western Front, Glyn Harper, Harper Collins New Zealand, 2007, 544 pages, maps, photos, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 1 86950 579 0, NZ$49.99 hardcover. Combines first-hand accounts with a cogent overview of the New Zealand division's 1917-18 actions at Passchendale, Second Somme (Amiens) and Bapaume.

Trench Warfare under Grant & Lee: Field Fortifications in the Overland Campaign, Earl J. Hess, University of North Carolina, 2007, 313 + xvii pages, photos, sketch maps, notes, index, ISBN 978 0 8078 3154 0, $39.95 cloth. The ever expanding Civil War use of trenches and other field works in the battles for Richmond from The Wilderness to Cold Harbor presaged both the Russo-Japanese War and WWI. A second volume will cover the Petersburg Campaign.

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.

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.

A Thousand Miles of Battles, Ian Jones, Australian War Memorial, 2007, 304 pages, illustrations, photos, ISBN 978 0 9757 1238 2, A$69.95 hardcover. Published to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the charge at Beersheba; an account of the campaigns of the legendary Australian Light Horse from Gallipoli, to the deserts of Egypt, Palestine and Syria, and the Western Front. Order from http://tinyurl.com/5gf936 or http://cas.awm.gov.au.

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.

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.

The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism, Erez Manela, Oxford, 2007, 331 + xiv pages, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 0 1953 7853 5, $29.95 cloth, $19.95 paperback. An examination of how Wilson's policy of self-determination became a negative factor among disillusioned nationalist movements in Egypt, China, Korea and India.

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 Sanusi's Little War: The Amazing Story of a Forgotten Conflict in the Western Desert, 1915-1917, Russell McGuirk, Arabian Publishing (London), 2007, 349 pages, ISBN 0 9544 7927 0, $50 cloth. Religious warriors of Libya who fought the occupying Italians for two decades following the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12. With Turkish backing the warriors led by Ahamad al-Sharif, the charismatic Grand Sanusi, raided into Egypt and French Sudan.

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.

Military Intelligence and the Arab Revolt: The first Modern Intelligence, Polly A. Mohs, Routledge, 2007, 238 + xvii pages, map, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 978 0 415 37280 0, $37.95 cloth. The creation and ascendancy of the Foreign Office's Arab Bureau created specifically to coordinate imperial operations in Arab lands. The hard, often dirty work behind the glamour behind Lawrence of Arabia.

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.

An Arizona Aviator in France: The Life of Ernest A. Love, 147th Aero Squadron, USAS, Alan L. Roesler, Roesler Enterprises, 2007, 300 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 978 0 979 9190 1, $24.95 hardcover. To order E-mail troes7718@msn.com.

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.

Zeppelin: Germany and the Airship, Guillaume de Syon, Johns Hopkins, 2007, index, photos, drawings, ISBN 978 0 8018 8634 8, $25 paper. A history of the development of the Zeppelin airship.

Tigers Along the Tigris: The Leicestershire Regiment in Mesopotamia during the First World War, E. J. Thompson, Leonaur, 2007, 144 pages, ISBN 978 1 8467 7366 2, $15.99 paperback. An account a battalion of the 7th (Meerut) Division of the British Indian Army in the 1917 battles at Istabulat, Samarra, Juber Island and Tekrit.

Woodrow Wilson and the Great War: Reconsidering America's Neutrality, 1914-1917, Robert W. Tucker, University of Virginia Press, 2007, 246 pages, notes, time line, index, ISBN 978 0 8139 2629 2, $39.50 cloth. The author breaks with Arthur Link and others in asserting that Wilson should have combined strict neutrality with military preparedness. He also provides a useful analysis of the concept of neutrality in the pre-1914 international system.

The Netherlands Indies and the Great War, 1914-1918, Kees van Dijk, KITLV Press, 2007, 674 +vii pages, illustrations, photos, note, bibliography, index 978 90 6718 308 9, $39.95 hardcover. How severe trade restrictions imposed by the British impacted colonial economy and society, threatening Dutch rule in the Indies. See also Hubert van Tuyll The Netherlands and World War I (Brill, 2001) for a broader diplomatic and political-economic study of armed Netherlands neutrality.

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.

Flanders: A Cultural History, André de Vries, Oxford, 2007, 256 pages, ISBN 978 0 1953 1493 9, $30. A Flanders native looks at a region - the cockpit of WWI -- that has been a battle ground since the Middle Ages.

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.

The General and the Jaguar, Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa: A True Story of Revolution and Revenge, Eileen Welsome, Nebraska, 2007, 432 pages, photos, index, maps, ISBN 978 0 8032 2224 3, $21.96 paperback. Pershing's unsuccessful chase of Rancho Villa across northern Mexico in 1916 helped qualify him for AEF command.

Capital Cities at War: Paris, London and Berlin, 1914-1919, Volume II: A Cultural History, Jay Winter & Jean-Louis Robert (eds.), Cambridge, 2007, 545 +xiii pages, index, bibliography, figures, ISBN978 0 251 87043 6, $118 cloth. The first volume in this useful and finely-crafted comparative study covered social and economic effects of the war; this volume concentrates on the cultural impact of the conflict on the home front. Contributors include Tomlinson Prize- winner Annette Becker.

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.

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

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