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List Of World War I Books
This list contains a selection of books on World War I, using APA style citations. Reference works * * Ellis, Robert, John, and Mike Cox. ''The World War I Databook: The Essential Facts and Figures for All the Combatants'' (2002) * ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (12th ed. 1922) comprises the 11th edition plus three new volumes 30–31–32 that cover events since 1911 with very thorough coverage of the war as well as every country and colony. partly online in ascii, with guide to article titles *full text of vol 30 Abbe to English History*scans of each page of vol 30–31–32* Herman, Gerald. ''The Pivotal Conflict: A Comprehensive Chronology of the First World War, 1914–1919'' (1992) 824pp * Higham, Robin and Dennis E. Showalter, eds. ''Researching World War I: A Handbook'' (2003), highly detailed historiography, stressing military themes; annotates over 1000 books * Hirschfeld, Gerhard, Gerd Krumeich and Irina Renz, eds. ''Brill's Encyclopedia of the First World War''. (201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kill That Eagle--1914 JH Amschewitz
Kill often refers to: * Homicide, one human killing another *cause death, to kill a living organism, to cause its death Kill may also refer to: Media *''Kill!'', a 1968 film directed by Kihachi Okamoto * ''Kill'' (Cannibal Corpse album), 2006 * ''Kill'' (Electric Six album), 2009 * "Kill" (song), a 2008 song by Mell Places in Ireland Republic of Ireland * Kill, County Dublin *Kill, County Kildare *Kill, County Waterford *Kill, Kilbixy, County Westmeath *Kill, Kilcar, County Donegal *Kill, Kilcleagh, County Westmeath United Kingdom * Kill, County Tyrone, a townland in County Tyrone Sports * Baserunner kill, a baseball term *Penalty kill, an ice hockey term *Kill, a type of attack in volleyball Other uses *Kill (body of water) *Kill (command), a computing command See also * * * Keal (other) * Keel (other) * Keele (other) * Kiel (other) * Kil (other) * Kile (other) * Kyl (other) * Kyle (other) * Kyll * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Ponting
Clive Sheridan Ponting (13 April 1946 – 28 July 2020)Richard Norton-Taylor, "The Ponting Affair", Cecil Woolf, London, 1985, p. 14. was a senior British civil servant and historian. He was best known for leaking documents about the sinking of the ARA ''General Belgrano'' in the Falklands War in 1982. At the time of his resignation from the civil service in 1985, he was a Grade 5 (assistant secretary), earning £23,000 per year (£70,214 in 2020). He wrote a number of books on British and world history. His most influential works include a ''Green History of the World'' (1991), which was revised as ''A New Green History of the World'' in 2007, and a biography of Winston Churchill (1994) and '' 1940: Myth and Reality'' (1990). Early life Ponting was born in Bristol, the only child of Charles Ponting, who is thought to have worked in sales, and his wife, Winifred (née Wadham). He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and the University of Reading. Bureaucratic career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Other ANZACs
''The Other ANZACs: Nurses at War 1914-1918'' is a 2008 history book by Peter Rees. It is about the involvement of Australian and New Zealand nurses overseas during World War I, especially at Gallipoli and the Western Front. It is the basis for the 2014 ABC television series ''ANZAC Girls''. To tie in with the television series it was reissued in 2014 under the title ''ANZAC Girls''. Contents :Author's note :Introduction :Gallipoli :The '' Marquette'' :The Western Front :Australian World War I nurses honour roll :New Zealand World War I nurses honour roll :Notes :Bibliogryaphy :Acknowledgements :Index Publication history *2008, ''The Other ANZACs: Nurses at War 1914-1918'', Australia, Allen & Unwin *2014, ''Anzac Girls: The Extraordinary Story of World War One Nurses'', Australia, Allen & Unwin Reception A review on H-Net of ''The Other ANZACs'' called it "a wonderful book", and a reviewer for ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' found it a "profoundly moving book" that "tells a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Kahn (writer)
David Kahn (b. February 7, 1930* ) is an American historian, journalist, and writer. He has written extensively on the history of cryptography and military intelligence. Kahn's first published book, '' The Codebreakers - The Story of Secret Writing'' (1967), has been widely considered to be a definitive account of the history of cryptography. Biography David Kahn was born in New York City to Florence Abraham Kahn, a glass manufacturer, and Jesse Kahn, a lawyer. Kahn has said he traces his interest in cryptography to reading Fletcher Pratt's ''Secret and Urgent'' as a boy. Kahn is a founding editor of the ''Cryptologia'' journal. In 1969, Kahn married Susanne Fiedler; they are now divorced. They have two sons, Oliver and Michael. He attended Bucknell University. After graduation, he worked as a reporter at ''Newsday''. He also served as an editor at the ''International Herald Tribune'' in Paris in the 1960s. It was during this period that he wrote an article for the '' N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamish Hamilton
Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half- Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton (''Hamish'' is the vocative form of the Gaelic Seumas eaning James ''James'' the English form – which was also his given name, and ''Jamie'' the diminutive form). Jamie Hamilton was often referred to as ''Hamish Hamilton''. The Hamish Hamilton imprint is now part of the Penguin Random House group. History and current publishing Hamish Hamilton Limited originally specialized in fiction, and was responsible for publishing a number of American authors in the United Kingdom, including Nigel Balchin (including pseudonym: Mark Spade), Raymond Chandler, James Thurber, J.D. Salinger, E. B. White and Truman Capote. In 1939 Hamish Hamilton Law and Hamish Hamilton Medical were started but closed during the war. Hamish Hamilton was established in the literary district of Bloomsbury and went on to publish many promising British and American auth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lewis-Stempel
John Lewis-Stempel (born 1967) is an English farmer, writer, and '' Sunday Times'' Top 5 best selling author. He was born in Herefordshire, where his family have lived for over 700 years. Career He has written on a range of subjects from Native Americans to fatherhood, but specialises in military history and natural history under his family name. He is a former columnist for ''The Sunday Express'' (for which he still writes features), and currently a columnist for '' Country Life'' and The Times. His column on nature and farming in ''Country Life'' won him Magazine Columnist of the Year in the 2016 BSME Awards. His new monthly column in ''The Countryman'' magazine will begin in March 2023. Lewis-Stempel's book ''Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field'' won the Thwaites Wainwright Prize and was also short-listed for BBC ''Countryfile'' Country Book of the Year 2014. In 2016 ''The Running Hare'' was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and a '' Sunday Times'' best seller, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The 1917 Campaign
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guns Of August
''The Guns of August'' (1962) (published in the UK as ''August 1914'') is a volume of history by Barbara W. Tuchman. It is centered on the first month of World War I. After introductory chapters, Tuchman describes in great detail the opening events of the conflict. Its focus then becomes a military history of the contestants, chiefly the great powers. ''The Guns of August'' thus provides a narrative of the earliest stages of World War I, from the decisions to go to war, up until the start of the Franco-British offensive that stopped the German advance into France. The result was four years of trench warfare. In the course of her narrative Tuchman includes discussion of the plans, strategies, world events, and international sentiments before and during the war. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for publication year 1963, and proved very popular. Tuchman later returned to the subject of the social attitudes and issues that existed before World War I, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany And Austria-Hungary At War, 1914–1918
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of , with a population of almost 84 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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