Category: Military History/WW1

"Bascomb has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, and heroism."
--David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon

Neal Bascomb, New York Times best-selling author, delivers the spellbinding story of the downed Allied airmen who masterminded the remarkably courageous--and ingenious--breakout from Germany's most devilish POW camp.
In the winter trenches and flak-filled skies of World War I, soldiers and pilots might avoid death, only...
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The Lost History of 1914: How the Great War Was Not Inevitable

By: Beatty, Jack

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA: February 2015

Seller ID: 466614

ISBN: 1632862026

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Now in paperback, a brilliant history of the year it began--"a year forever memorable," in Woodrow Wilson's words--that examines the war and its causes through new eyes.

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I

By: Carter, Miranda

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Vintage: March 2011

Seller ID: 468564

ISBN: 1400079128

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the world had ever seen, a war that set twentieth-century Europe on course to be the most violent continent in the history of the world.

Through brilliant and often darkly comic portraits of these men and their lives, their foibles and obsessions, Miranda Carter delivers the tragicomic story of...
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1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

By: Charles Emmerson

Price: $6.00

Publisher: PublicAffairs: Jun-14

Seller ID: 456473

ISBN: 1610393805

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features--last summers in grand aristocratic residences--or its most destructive ones: the unresolved rivalries of the great European powers, the fear of revolution, violence in the Balkans.

In this illuminating history, Charles Emmerson liberates the world of 1913 from this "prelude to war" narrative, an...
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Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage

By: Cold/Waller, Douglas

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Free Press: February 2012

Seller ID: 467460

ISBN: 1416576207

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Now in paperback: "Entertaining history...Donovan was a combination of bold innovator and imprudent rule bender, which made him not only a remarkable wartime leader but also an extraordinary figure in American history" (The New York Times Book Review).

He was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals--the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. A mythic figure whose legacy is still intensely debated, "Wild Bill" Donovan was director of the Office of Strategic Services (the country's first national intelligence agency) and the father of today's CIA. Donov...
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World War I

By: Edward Paice

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Pegasus Books: Mar-10

Seller ID: 453323

ISBN: 1605980803

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This eye-opening account of the Great War in East Africa recounts in full the daily horrors of an ill-fated campaign alongside tales of extraordinary courage and the kind of adventure that inspired C. S. Forester's The African Queen, William Boyd's An Ice-Cream War, and Wilbur Smith's Shout at the Devil.
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Eye-Deep in Hell: Trench Warfare in World War I

By: Ellis, John

Price: $2.50

Seller ID: 468227

ISBN: 0801839475

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Millions of men lived in the trenches during World War I. More than six million died there. In Eye-Deep in Hell, the author explores this unique and terrifying world--the rituals of battle, the habits of daily life, and the constant struggle of men to find meaning amid excruciating boredom and the specter of impending death.

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies

By: Fagone, Jason

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Dey Street Books: August 2018

Seller ID: 467605

ISBN: 0062430513

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

NPR Best Book of 2017

"Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie." -- The New York Times

Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving puzzles that unmasked Nazi spies and help...
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Pity of War, The

By: Ferguson, Niall

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Jan-14

Seller ID: 453424

ISBN: 046505711X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson makes a simple and provocative argument: that the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. Britain, according to Ferguson, entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims--and England's entry into the war transformed a Continental conflict into a world war, which they then badly mishandled, necessitating American involvement. The war was not inevitable, Ferguson argues, but rather the result of the mistaken decisions of individuals who would later claim to have been in the grip of huge impersonal forces.That the wa...
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The Great War and Modern Memory

By: Fussell, Paul

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: March 2000

Seller ID: 470763

ISBN: 0195133323

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blu...
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The World Remade: America in World War I

By: G. J. Meyer

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Bantam: Feb-18

Seller ID: 455166

ISBN: 553393340

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire

By: Geoffrey Wawro

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Basic Books: Apr-15

Seller ID: 456897

ISBN: 465057950

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front

By: Groom, Winston

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Grove Press: April 2003

Seller ID: 467651

ISBN: 0802139981

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Storm in Flanders is novelist and prizewinning historian Winston Groom's gripping history of the four-year battle for Ypres in Belgian Flanders, the pivotal engagement of World War I that would forever change the way the world fought -- and thought about -- war. In 1914, Germany launched an invasion of France through neutral Belgium -- and brought the wrath of the world upon itself. Ypres became a place of horror, heroism, and terrifying new tactics and technologies: poison gas, tanks, mines, air strikes, and the unspeakable misery of trench warfare. Drawing on the journals of the men...
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The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World

By: Herwig, Holger H.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: February 2011

Seller ID: 467119

ISBN: 0812978293

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

For the first time in a generation, here is a bold new account of the Battle of the Marne, a cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of two wars and the world. With exclusive information based on newly unearthed documents, Holger H. Herwig re-creates the dramatic battle and reinterprets Germany's aggressive "Schlieffen Plan" as a carefully crafted design to avoid a protracted war against superior coalitions. He paints a fresh portrait of the run-up to the Marne and puts in dazzling relief the Battle of the Marne itself: the French resol...
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Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire

By: Hopkirk, Peter

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Kodansha USA: May 1997

Seller ID: 466656

ISBN: 1568361270

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A GRIPPING STORY OF IMPERIAL AMBITION, SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE, AND THE KAISER'S OWN JIHAD.

An acclaimed historian tells, for the first time, the full story of the conspiracy between the Germans and the Turks to unleash a Muslim holy war against the British in India and the Russians in the Caucasus. Drawing on recently opened intelligence files and rare personal accounts, Peter Hopkirk skillfully reconstructs the Kaiser's bold plan and describes the exploits of the secret agents on both sides--disguised variously as archaeologists, traders, and circus performers--as they sought to foment o...
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The Making of the First World War

By: Ian F.W. Beckett

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: Jun-14

Seller ID: 456462

ISBN: 030020664X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An original and spellbinding reinterpretation of the most significant events of the Great War

Nearly a century has passed since the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Ferdinand, yet the repercussions of the devastating global conflict that followed echo still. In this provocative book, historian Ian Beckett turns the spotlight on twelve particular events of the First World War that continue to shape the world today. Focusing on episodes both well known and scarcely remembered, Beckett tells the story of the Great War from a new perspective, stressing accident as ...
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The First World War

By: Keegan, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage Uk: August 1999

Seller ID: 467626

ISBN: 0712666451

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

World War I created the modern world. A conflict of unparalleled ferocity, it broke the century of relative peace we associate with the Victorian era, and unleashed the demons of the 20th century - pestilence, military destruction and mass death.
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The First World War

By: Keegan, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage: May 2000

Seller ID: 456892

ISBN: 0375700455

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The definitive account of the Great War and national bestseller from one of our most eminent military historians, John Keegan.

The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times--modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society--and in so doing shattered the faith in rationali...
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The First World War

By: Keegan, John

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage: May 2000

Seller ID: 458042

ISBN: 0375700455

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The definitive account of the Great War and national bestseller from one of our most eminent military historians, John Keegan.

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Category: Military History/WW1