More than a century has passed since the arrival of British, French, and Italian forces in Istanbul in 1918, marking the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. The almost five-year-long occupation of the city that followed remains larg...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192843784)
The story of Churchills relationship with the various kings and queens he served during his long political career, from his time as a radical Liberal under Edward VII, through his Finest Hour in the Second World War, to his last premiership under El...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009769723)
Blending social, cultural, and political history, this book reveals how and why Americans mobilized the nations youth during World War I. It is for students and scholars interested in American history, the history of childhood, World War I, foreign...Loe edasi...
Blending social, cultural, and political history, this book reveals how and why Americans mobilized the nations youth during World War I. It is for students and scholars interested in American history, the history of childhood, World War I, foreign...Loe edasi...
Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Kapka Kassabova, Ian Campbell
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited, ISBN-13: 9781846977510)
Oh, she hated and loved in a breath!Faced with the choice between her harsh farming life and the seductive world of books and learning, the spirited Chris Guthrie decides to remain in rural Scotland. But as the devastation of the First World War lea...Loe edasi...
This book charts the Chicago White Soxs dual rise and fall before, during, and after World War I, ultimately revealing how the people, conditions, and conflicts that had simmered during wartime baseball led to the infamous Black Sox scandal surround...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837052097)
Gerald Gliddons classic survery of the Somme battlefield in 1916, first published in 1987 to great acclaim, has been greatly expanded and updated to include the latest research and analysis....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487550097)
When William Hearst succeeded James Whitney as leader of Ontario’s Conservative party and Premier in 1914, he was relatively unknown and represented northern Ontario, a region that was emerging as the province’s richest source of resources and gov...Loe edasi...
This book, the second in a two-volume work resulting from a 2018 conference organized by the International Railway History Association (IRHA), examines the relationship between the railways and the First World War from a global theoretical, method...Loe edasi...
The amazing story of the Zeppelin airship attacks on Essex during World War I illustrated with contemporary photographs and other images from the time. Potential aviation and military market as well as Essex local historyPote...Loe edasi...
A major new account of Britain’s military strategy between 1914–1945, including the two world wars and everything between The First and Second World Wars were separated by a mere two decades, making the period 1914–1945 an unprecedente...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Penguin USA, ISBN-13: 9780593493892)
“Riveting . . . There is a wealth of new information here that adds considerable texture and nuance to his story and helps to set Russia apart from previous works.”—The Wall Street JournalAn epic new account of the conflict t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: G P Putnam's Sons, ISBN-13: 9780593851432)
Four young women. Four very different lives. One unshakeable friendship.Following the unlikely friendship of four women in the first female class at Oxford, their unshakable bond in the face of male contempt, and their coming of age in a w...Loe edasi...
The true story of the most extraordinary and little-known escapades of a German light cruiser called into the thick of battle during World War I. The Last Cruise of the Emden is the true story of one of the most extra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780197851234)
A fascinating study of the British Empires Middle Eastern intelligence section during the First World War, drawing on government files and secret publications. In the midst of the First World War, an extraordinary intelligence unit operated...Loe edasi...
Battleship Nevada holds the unique distinction of having survived Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Iwo Jim, and Okinawa, and being the target of atomic bomb testing during Operation Crossroads. Battleship Nevada holds the unique...Loe edasi...
A wargame of raiding and skirmishes in the trenches of WWI. Trench Raiders is a wargame of skirmishes and raiding in the trenches of World War I. Gathering information and pressuring the enemy lines, as well as patrol...Loe edasi...
Pershing’s aim had always been to fight the Germans with an independent American Army (the AEF, the American Expeditionary Forces) instead of dividing his divisions between the allies. When the Germans launched the first attack of their Spring Offens...Loe edasi...
The Kfz. 13/14 represented a significant step forward for the German army in the realm of armoured scout cars following the devastation of First World War. The Kfz. 13/14 represented a significant step forward for the German army in the realm...Loe edasi...
How, for just over a century, Britain ensured it would not face another Napoleon Bonapartemanipulating European powers while building a global maritime empire At the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars, a fragile peace emerged in Europe. The contine...Loe edasi...
A Penguin Classics Hardcover Galvanized by youthful idealism and patriotic fervor, eighteen-year-old Paul Baumer and his schoolmates enlist in the German army at the onset of World War I, but their dreams of heroism shatter beneath the first shells...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Sona Books, ISBN-13: 9781917259545)
Featuring an exceptional selection of historic photographs, detailed battle maps, personal accounts, and expert analysis of the tactics and strategy employed, The Greatest Battles: The Somme and Ypres provides a comprehensive and moving account of t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837051731)
The unbelievable true story of a boy who went to sea at 13, became a war hero in both world wars, and survived four shipwrecks, including Titanic...Loe edasi...
For Valour: The Complete History of the Victoria Cross will be the definitive work on the subject and compelling as a narrative as well as the ultimate reference source. This ambituous project in association with The Victoria Cross Trust will be pub...Loe edasi...
For Valour: The Complete History of the Victoria Cross will be the definitive work on the subject and compelling as a narrative as well as the ultimate reference source. This ambituous project in association with The Victoria Cross Trust will be pub...Loe edasi...
More than a century has passed since the arrival of British, French, and Italian forces in Istanbul in 1918, marking the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. The almost five-year-long occupation of the city that followed remains larg...Loe edasi...
Encouraged by the success of an attack on Messines Ridge on 7 June 1917, Field Marshal Haig ordered that his generals should continue their preparations for the Third Battle of Ypres. Delayed due to a number of reasons, one of which was poor weather,...Loe edasi...
Journey to the Western Front was first published in 1936; Ralph Mottram served on the Western Front for most of the war, first with the Royal Norfolks and then as a liaison with the civilians in the forward zone of the BEF, mainly on the Franco-Belgi...Loe edasi...
Winston Churchill is famous these days primarily for his role as the wartime leader of the British Empire during World War 2. He led Britain through the darkest days of the war and won timeless fame through his defiant oratorical eloquence in defendi...Loe edasi...
As well as over 60 million soldiers who fought in the First World War, 16 million animals also ‘served’ and suffered colossal casualties. Over 8 million horses died, as did tens of thousands of dogs, cats and pigeons. They were killed hauling guns, r...Loe edasi...
Focusing on the dramatic events below the Passchendaele ridge on 9 October 1917, the author has drawn on British, Australian and German sources to reconstruct the battle in unprecedented detail. This thoroughly researched study relates the story of...Loe edasi...
Predicted to fail and outnumbered and outgunned, the National Guardsmen who withstood the last German onslaught of World War I The Champagne-Marne Defensive in July 1918 occurred at a crucial moment in World War I and proved to be the tur...Loe edasi...
Major Thomas Falcon Hazell DSO, MC, DFC and bar, Britain and Irelands most successful fighter ace to survive the Great War, is one of the unsung heroes who out-fought Herrman Goerings Jasta and duelled with Ernst Udet, second only to Baron von Richt...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192843784)
The story of Churchills relationship with the various kings and queens he served during his long political career, from his time as a radical Liberal under Edward VII, through his Finest Hour in the Second World War, to his last premiership under El...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781668074749)
From the author of the New York Times bestselling The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel comes the enthralling hidden history of one of the world’s most successful business titans, a rival to the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, whose...Loe edasi...
How did an Anglo-Indian division, fighting its first battle, in an obscure sideshow, facing the worst environmental conditions, fight and win what is possibly the most perfectly fought battle of the First World War Histories of the Mesopotamia (Iraq)...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009769723)
Blending social, cultural, and political history, this book reveals how and why Americans mobilized the nations youth during World War I. It is for students and scholars interested in American history, the history of childhood, World War I, foreign...Loe edasi...
Blending social, cultural, and political history, this book reveals how and why Americans mobilized the nations youth during World War I. It is for students and scholars interested in American history, the history of childhood, World War I, foreign...Loe edasi...
Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Kapka Kassabova, Ian Campbell
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited, ISBN-13: 9781846977510)
Oh, she hated and loved in a breath!Faced with the choice between her harsh farming life and the seductive world of books and learning, the spirited Chris Guthrie decides to remain in rural Scotland. But as the devastation of the First World War lea...Loe edasi...
How African societies influenced the two major global conflicts of the 20th century. The First and Second World Wars were pivotal events in modern global history. Although colonial empires were involuntarily drawn into both global conflic...Loe edasi...
