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World War I Non-Fiction, Pre-2000
1999 and Earlier
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one about the U. S. Marines: Devil Dogs: The Fighting Marines of World War
One, written by another WFA member George B. Clark, released late in 1999
by Presidio Press. This is the first book we've seen that deals with the entire
scope of Marine participation in The Great War from the five-fold expansion of
the Corps in 1917 and 1918 through demobilization in mid-1919, and all its
battles, not just the celebrated fight at Belleau Wood.
The Neglected War: The German South Pacific and the Influence of World War I, Hermann Joseph Hiery, University of Hawaii Press, 1995, 364 pages, photos, index, $24.00 from Barnes & Noble. The little-known story of how Australia, New Zealand and Japan occupied and annexed the German Pacific Island possessions in 1914 and 1915.
Generals in Khaki, Henry Blaine Davis, Jr., Pentland Press. Raleigh, NC, 1998, 411 pages, photos, ISBN 1-57197-088-6, $50.00. Brief biographies of the 476 general officers of the United States Army in World War One. A valuable reference work. From
Frank Cass comes a study of tactics and operations in the BEF edited by the
redoubtable Paddy Griffith and entitled British Fighting Methods in the
Great War, published in the US in May 1998. Each of its eight chapters is
written by a specialist in the field. Also
from Frank Cass Sir Frederick Sykes and the Air Revolution, 1912-1918, Curson
and British Imperialism in the Middle East, 1916-19, Arab Movements in
World War I by Eliezer Tauber, and Allenby and British Strategy in the
Middle East, 1917-1919. For those interested in German raiders there's Konigsberg:
A German East African Raider by Kevin Patience (1997). This book is privately
printed and is available from the author at P.O. Box 699, Bahrain for US$25
plus postage. It is filled with dozens of illustrations, many not previously
published. Also
on a naval theme is Austro-Hungarian Naval Policy, 1904-14 by Milan N.
Vego published in paper by Frank Cass. More
on naval history from Frank Cass: The Washington Naval Conference, 1921-22
-- Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability and the Road to Pearl Harbor, Eric
Goldstein and John Maurer (editors). Published
in the spring of 1999 from Greenwood (a Praeger imprint) was James Cooke's
study of the 82nd All-American Division in World War I. Medal of Honor-winner
Sergeant Alvin C. York served in this division. Cook, a long-time WFA member,
is Professor of History at the University of Mississippi. His most recent book
is Pershing and His Generals: Command & Staff in the AEF (Greenwood
1997). To the Maginot Line: The Politics of French Military Preparation in the 1920s, Judith M. Hughes, Harvard, 1971 (2007), 296 + x pages, map, index, bibliography, tables, ISBN 0 67402 386 2, $16.95 trade paperback. First published in 1971 and now available in paperback this brief summary of French post-war French defense policy is skillfully drafted to illuminate the tough choices facing civilian and military policy makers dealing with domestic political and economic uncertainties and an deteriorating strategic situation as they struggled both to lead French recovery from the devastation of The Great War and to defend against renewed German aggression.
Haig: A Reappraisal 70 Years On, Brian Bond & Nigel Cave, Leo
Cooper, UK, 1999, 286 pages, index, ISBN 0-85052-698-1, $45.00 hardback. Available
from Casemate, 21145 Darby Road, Havertown, PA 19083, phone (610) 853-9131. A
sympathetic treatment of a controversial commander.
A Peripheral Weapon? -- The Production and Employment of British Tanks in
the First World War, David J. Childs, Greenwood, Westport, CT, 1999, 221
pages, maps, illustrations, index, bibliography, ISBN 0-313-30832-2, $57.95. A
revisionist view of the tank as a would-be stalemate breaker. Available from
Greenwood, 88 Post Road West, Box 5007, Westport, CT 06881 (800) 225-5800,
http://greenwood.com, e-mail bookinfo@greenwood.com.
No Place to Run -- The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War,
Tim Cook, UBC Press, Vancouver, 1999, 204 pages, illustrations, notes, index,
ISBN 0-7748-0739-3, CDN$85 from Raincoast Books, 9050 Shaughnessy St.,
Vancouver, BC V6P 6E5, (800) 663-5714. A well-documented revisionist monograph
on why chemical weapons were important and effective in WWI.
Sepoys in the Trenches - The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914-1915,
Gordon Corrigan, Spellmont, UK, 1999, 287 pages, index, maps, b&w photos,
bibliography, genealogy of regiments, ISBN 1-86227-054-6, 24.95 pounds
sterling. Available from Books International, 101 Lynchford Road, Farnborough,
Hampshire GU14 6ET, UK, e-mail booksinter@aol.com. The only readily
available trained and organized reserves for the BEF in 1914, the Indian Corps
took massive casualties in Flanders until it was withdrawn in the fall of 1915.
Curzon and British Imperialism in the Middle East, 1916-1919, John
Fisher, Frank Cass, London 1999 (1990), ISBN 0-7146-4429-3, $27,50 paper. A
reexamination of the role of an often-neglected wartime British Foreign
Secretary.
The U. S. Navy in World War I - Combat at Sea and in the Air, A. B.
Feuer, Greenwood, 1999, 224 pages, index, ISBN, 0-275-96212-1, $55.00 cloth. A
survey, with much useful emphasis on naval aviation, mine and anti-submarine
warfare where the US Navy was on the cutting edge.
The Washington Conference, 1921-22 - Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability and
the Road to Pearl Harbor, Brik Goldstein and John Maurer (editors), Frank
Cass, Portland, 1999 (1994), 319 pages, ISBN 0-7146-4136-7, $34.50 paper.
A Whole Empire Walking - Refugees in Russia During World War I, Peter
Gatrell, Indiana University Press, 1999, 327 pages, index, bibliography, maps,
illustrations, ISBN 0-253-33644-9, $35.00, hardcover. Social history of a
conflict largely ignored in the west.
Doughboy War - American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, James
Hallas, Lynne Rienner, Boulder, 1999, 353 pages, index, maps, ISBN
1-55587-855-1, $55.00, hardcover. Hallas has written previously on the St.
Mihel Offensive. This book draws heavily on Doughboy diaries, and narratives,
as well as on AEF unit histories.
Allenby and British Strategy in the Middle East, 1917-1919, Matthew
Hughes, Frank Cass, London-Portland, 1999, 224 pages, ISBN 0-7146-4473-0,
$24.50 paper. A political history of the Palestine Campaign.
Soissons, 1918, Douglas V. Johnson II and Robert L. Hillman, Jr., Texas
A&M, 1999, 245 pages, index, maps, illustrations, ISBN 0-89096-893-4,
$29.95 hardcover. First AEF engagement at the divisional level.
The Anglo-Irish War, 1916-1921 - A People's War, William H. Kautt,
Praeger, Westport, 1999, 198 pages, index, biographical appendix, map, tables,
ISBN 0-275-96311-X, $57.95 hardcover. Available from Greenwood, e-mail bookinfo@greenwood.com.
Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution, Nicholas A. Lambert, University of
South Carolina Press, 1999, ISBN 1-57003-277-7, $39.95. A new, revisionist look
at Fisher's penchant for submarines and fast, but lightly armored battle
cruisers. Winner of WFA's Annual Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize for 1999. Now available in paperback from the University of South Carolina Press for $24.95, ISBN 1 57003 452 3
Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War,
Joe Lunn, Heinemann, 1999, 280 pages, index, maps, illustrations, ISBN
0-325---138-3, 29.95 paper. Army life and trench warfare from the African
perspective. Over 160,000 Tirailleurs Senegalais fought in France from 1914 to
1918. Available from Greenwood.
Fisher, Churchill and the Dardanelles, Geoffery Pen, Leo Cooper, UK, 1999, 293 pages, index, illustrations, maps, bibliography, ISBN 0-85052-646-9, $37.95 cloth. Available from Casemate Publishing (casemate@casematepublishing.com) in the US.
Shot in the Tower: The Story of the Spies Executed in the Tower of London During the First World War, Leonard Sellers, Pen & Sword, 1997, 299 pages, ISBN 0 85052 553 5, $35.00 hardcover.
The Arab Movements in World War I, Eliezer Tauber, Frank Cass, London,
1999, (1993), 333 pages, ISBN 0-7146-4983-2 paperback, $24.50. The author is a
professor at Tel Aviv University.
Doctors in the Great War, Ian R. Whitehead, Leo Cooper, UK, 1999, 319
pages, index, illustrations, ISBN 0-85052-691-4, $36.95, cloth. Available from
Casemate Publishing.
Labor Market Politics and the Great War - The Department of Labor, the States, and the First U. S. Employment Service, 1907-1933, William J. Breen, , Kent State University Press, OH, 1997, 252 pages, index, photos, ISBN 0 87338 559 4, $17.95.
WWI marked a massive intervention of the Federal Government into the lives of the people, as well as the growth of a more powerful labor movement. This book tells part of that story.
V.
E. Tarrant’s Jutland – The German Perspective first published in 1995,
is also once again available from Cassell in paperback for $9.95 at www.sterlingpub.com.
Sailor of the Air: The 1917-1919 Letters and Diary of USN CMM/A Irving Edward Sheely, Lawrence D. Sheely (ed.), Alabama University Press, Tuscaloosa, 1993, 233 pages, index, illustrations, index, ISBM 0 8173 1208 0, $29.95 wraps. Memoirs of a US Navy enlisted observer-gunner who flew as a crew member with US Navy pilots on Royal Naval Air Service and RAF bombers on the Flanders coast.
Shadows of the Argonne - The Story and Letters of Lieutenant Charles Burns, Sixth Infantry, Robert M. Jackson, Jr., private printing, Hampton, NH, 1994, 182 pages, photos, available from the author Box 1391, Hampton, NH 03043-1391.
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