World War I

This classic war memoir, first published in 1920, is based on the author's extensive diaries describing hard combat experienced on the Western Front during World War I.....

Ernst Jünger was a famous German soldier who saw action during World War I. He is best known for his memoirs Storm of Steel, which chronicle his experiences during World War I....

Michael Korda's Hero is the story of an epic life on a grand scale: a revealing, in-depth, and gripping biography....

Ronald Drabkin tells the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland—a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars—who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor....

Andrew Carroll's intimate portrait of General Pershing, who led all of the American troops in Europe during World War I, is a revelation....

African Kaiser is the almost-forgotten true account of Wiemar Germany's military escapades on the dark continent. A story of 1,000-mile marches through the harshest landscapes....

Told for the first time, here is the story of a stray dog who eventually became affectionately known as Sergeant Stubby, the most famous war dog of World War I....

Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier—his great-uncle Harry....

Perfect for fans of Peter Hart, Max Hastings, and Barbara W. Tuchman, this is the astounding account of one young infantryman's personal experience of the Western Front in the last year of World War One....

The incredible story of the first African-American military pilot, who went on to become a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer....

My Boy Jack is the extraordinary story of Kipling's search for his son. John Kipling was reported missing in the Battle of Loos on the Western Front in 1915....

How the US Army developed historical programs since World War I―sending combat historians into the fray to interview soldiers and collect documents for the benefit of history....

Few participants in World War I are more famous than Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron....

Cecil Lewis was an illustrious and passionate fighter pilot of the First World War, described by Bernard Shaw in 1935 as 'a thinker, a master of words, and a bit of a poet'. In this account the author sets his love of the skies and flying against his bitter experience of the horrors of war.

The Last of the Doughboys is more than simply a war story; it is a moving meditation on character, grace, aging, and memory....

Brought together first as enemies in the Anglo-Boer War and later as allies in the First World War, the remarkable and often touching friendship between Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts is a rich study in contrasts....

A riveting history of Alvin York, the World War I legend who killed two dozen Germans and captured more than 100, detailing York's heroics yet also restoring the unsung heroes of his patrol to their rightful place in history - from renowned World War I historian James Carl Nelson....

In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous task....

Douglas V. Mastriano sorts fact from myth in the first full-length biography of York in decades. He meticulously examines York's youth, his service in the Great War, and....

This intimate biography is the first to focus on Lawrence in his twenties, the untold story of the awkward archaeologist from Oxford....

Drawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War I....

On the centenary of the Great War, there are now no longer any veterans alive of the six million men who served on the Western Front. Although this means that the Great War as a living history is to all intents and purposes over....

William Arthur Human was 22 years old and serving as a British soldier in India when war broke out in 1914. This is his story, in his own words, covering his first eight months on the Western Front and featuring the Battle of Neuve Chapelle....

And We Go On is a nuanced response to the trauma of war, suffused with an interest in the spiritual and the paranormal not found in other war literature. Long out of print, it is a true lost classic that arguably influenced numerous works in the Canadian literary canon....

In the midst of her studies at Oxford, when war broke out across Europe, Vera Brittain left university in 1915 to become a VAD (voluntary aid detachment) nurse....