War, combat and military adventure fiction

Selena Daly's work is the first comprehensive study of Futurism during the First World War period.

On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops.

The historic city of Chester in Cheshire, in the north-west of England, experienced tragedies and hardships during the two World Wars.

In the history of civilizations, sea power has always played a preponderant role.

In Cosmopolitics of the Camera, the leading experts in the field present Les Archives de la Planete (The Archives of the Planet) - Albert Kahn's stunning collection of early colour photography and documentary film - and discuss the extraordinary intellectual context from which it grew.

The Great War - An Illustrated History looks at the causes of the war and the actual events themselves.

This book explores the differing ways in which language has been used to try to make sense of the First World War.

The train was packed with men.

Commentators writing soon after the outbreak of the First World War about the classic problems of women's employment (low pay, lack of career structure, exclusion from "e;men's jobs"e;) frequently went on to say that the war had "e;changed all this"e;, and that women's position would never be the same again.

This volume aims to provide a wider view of First World War experience through focusing on landscapes less commonly considered in historiography, and on voices that have remained on the margins of popular understanding of the war.

During the First World War, delousing became routine for soldiers and civilians following the recent discovery that the louse carried typhus germs.

The inspiration for the film Testament of Youth, this book from Mark Bostridge (Vera Brittain's biographer) tells the story of a remarkable woman and her extraordinary account of the destructive power of war.

An original investigation dedicated to the captivity experiences of British military servicemen captured by Germany in the First World War.

Over the last 30 years, hydrographical marine surveys in the English Channel helped uncover the potential wreck sites of German submarines, or U-boats, sunk during the conflicts of World War I and World War II.

This volume presents carefully selected, and annotated, articles about major-leaguers serving at home and overseas in the U.

This study is among the first works in English to comprehensively address the Scandinavian First World War experience in the larger international context of the war.

This book explores the lives and social histories of Indians soldiers who fought in the First World War.

This revised and updated interpretation of World War I highlights the revolutionary nature and legacy of the conflict of 1914–1919.

The Sunday Times bestseller - a thrilling new adventure in Simon Scarrow's acclaimed Eagles of the Empire series.

Depuis la Première Guerre mondiale jusqu’au conflit ukrainien, la percée militaire ne serait réalisable que par des moyens rapides s’appuyant sur la technologie.

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Lieutenant John Huddleston Taber was a New Yorker assigned to the 168th "e;Third Iowa"e; Infantry Regiment of the American Expeditionary Force's 42nd "e;Rainbow"e; Division during World War I.

The New York Times bestselling author of THE PARIS LIBRARY returns with a moving new novel based on the true story of a New York librarian determined to bring books to the children of war-torn France.

A gorgeous tale of friendship and love from Sunday Times bestseller Erica James.

Ces carnets de notes apportent une description passionnante de la stratégie mise en œuvre par le général Thevenet pour protéger la place de Belfort et mordre en Alsace au début de la Grande Guerre.

The last volume of Prit Buttar's best-selling series on the Eastern Front in World War I in paperback.

In this gripping, unusual volume, insight into the Battle of the Bulge is told through firsthand accounts by German officers.

How the Treaty of Versailles is still influencing current events—with a new Foreword by Sir Harold Evans and a new Introduction by the authorFor more than half a century, it has been widely recognized that the Treaty of Versailles created the circumstances that led inevitably to World War II.

Kaiser Wilhelm II is one of the key figures in the history of twentieth-century Europe: King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to the collapse of Germany in 1918 and a crucial player in the events that led to the outbreak of World War I.

`We Can Take It!

No army went to war in 1914 ready to conduct trench warfare operations.

Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the First World War examines it from a predominantly political angle, focusing on the story of the state.

What did popular song mean to people across the world during the First World War?

The sector north of Ypres is best known for the inundation of much of the ground to the east of the Yser that acted as a block to the German advance in the autumn of 1914.

Originally published in 1980 'Luxury' Fleet (the phrase was Winston Churchill's) was the first history of the Imperial German navy from 1888 to 1918.

The First World War, with its mud and the slaughter of the trenches, is often taken as the ultimate example of the futility of war.

Stirringly told from the view of everyday soldiers, Covenant with Death is acclaimed as one of the greatest novels about war ever written.

The Care of the Witness explores the historical shifts in the crises of witnessing to genocide, war, and disaster and their contribution to nongovernmental politics.

An estranged daughter returns home to discover her father's WWII history in a ';beautifully written' novel of family rifts and the burdens of racism (Historical Novel Society).

Christmas Eve, 1957: An RAF pilot needs a miracle to make it home as his fighter jet begins to fail, in a story by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.

'[Taylor] has the gun metal ring of authenticity and the crisp writing of a military communique' NELSON DeMILLE They're the US Government's secret weapon.

This book recasts the role of the Indian Army on the Western Front, questioning why its performance was traditionally deemed a failure.

A STUNNING SECOND WORLD WAR THRILLER SET IN OCCUPIED GREECE FROM THE AUTHOR OF BLACKOUT AND DEAD OF NIGHTThe fierce courage of the men and women of the Greek Resistance is brought to vivid life in Sunday Times bestseller Simon Scarrow's powerful novel.

This is the first study in English of the French general who led the Allies to victory in 1918.

It was close to the small southern Belgian town of Mons that the shooting war began or the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914.

On the eve of World War II, twin brothers are divided by the murder of a German Jew, in this epic tale from New York Times–bestselling author Taylor Caldwell.