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1	Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World more books like this by Margaret MacMillan, Richard Holbrooke (Foreword by) add to wishlist This history of the Paris peace talks after World War I was a New York Times "Editor's Choice" for 2002. see all copies from $5.95! new only from $10.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Good-bye to all that; an autobiography more books like this by Robert Graves add to wishlist Robert Graves, English novelist, poet and essayist, describes the events of his youth, and how he came--along with the rest of the world--to the end of his innocence during World War I. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea more books like this by Robert K Massie add to wishlist In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. This is a book about leadership and command, bravery and timidity, genius and folly. see all copies from $2.43! new only from $8.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Storm of Steel more books like this by Professor Ernst Junger, Michael Hofmann (Translator) add to wishlist A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, "Storm of Steel" illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war, seen through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. Young, tough, patriotic, but also disturbingly self-aware, JA1/4nger exulted in the Great War, which he saw not just as a great national conflict ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $8.00! \| SVS
5	The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, the Only Surviving Veteran of the Trenches more books like this by Harry Patch, Richard Van Emden add to wishlist Harry Patch, the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War, is now 108 years old and one of very few people who can directly recall the horror of that conflict. Harry vividly remembers his childhood in the Somerset countryside of Edwardian England. He left school in 1913 to become an apprentice plumber but ... see all copies from $9.37! new only from $9.37!
6	Guns of August more books like this by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman add to wishlist Winner of a 1963 Pulitzer Prize, this profile of World War I captures the changes that took place at the turn of the 20th century, up until the tense days of the summer of 1914. Tuchman details these first several days of the conflict, paying special attention to people and events in the major capitals of Europe. She examines why the war began, as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	World War One: A Short History more books like this by Professor Norman Stone add to wishlist The First World War was the overwhelming disaster from which everything else in the twentieth century stemmed. Fourteen million combatants died, a further twenty million were wounded, four empires were destroyed and even the victors' empires were fatally damaged. The sheer complexity and scale of the war have encouraged historians to write books ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? more books like this by David Fromkin add to wishlist In a gripping narrative that has eerie parallels to current events, "Europe'sLast Summer" is a striking re-creation of the start of World War I--a crucialmoment in 20th-century history. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $5.10! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 more books like this by Mark Thompson add to wishlist In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random members of units that retreated or rebelled. ... see all copies from $5.75! new only from $5.87! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power more books like this by Marc Wortman add to wishlist The Millionaires Unit is the story of a gilded generation of young men from the zenith of privilege: a Rockefeller, a Taft, and several who counted friends and relatives among presidents and statesmen of the day. Driven by the belief that their membership in the American elite required certain sacrifices, they were determined to be first into the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918 World War I and Its Violent Climax more books like this by Joseph Persico add to wishlist Putting the reader in the trenches with the forgotten and the famous in this compelling narrative, Persico follows ordinary soldiers' lives, illuminating their fate as the end of World War I approaches. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The First World War more books like this by John Keegan add to wishlist In this history of World War I, a professor of military history discusses the causes of the war and provides in-depth analyses of the major battles on two fronts. He reports on the great changes Europe underwent as the result of the conflict, and how it was set up for the second conflict later in the century. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.30! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Dreadnought : Britain, Germany, and the coming of the Great War more books like this by Robert K. Massie add to wishlist From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Nicholas and Alexandra and Peter the Great--a grand, sweeping chronicle of the coming of World War I. Massie's masterwork is a gripping narrative that brilliantly illuminates the personal rivalries and twisted ambitions that plunged Europe into a war of unprecedented carnage. 16 pages of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914 to 1918 more books like this by G J Meyer add to wishlist In this absorbing and epic account of the First World War, Meyer brilliantly tells how empires were shattered, nearly 20 million lives lost, and how the later calamities of the 20th century took root. see all copies from $9.85! new only from $12.56! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Pity of War Explaining World War I more books like this by Niall Ferguson add to wishlist In The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson makes a simple and provocative argument: that the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely Englands fault. Britain, according to Ferguson, entered into war based on nave assumptions of German aimsand Englands entry into the war transformed a Continental conflict into a world war, which they then badly ... see all copies from $5.77! new only from $5.77! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph more books like this by Thomas Edward Lawrence add to wishlist Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the monumental work that assured T.E. Lawrence's place in history as "Lawrence of Arabia". Not only a consummate military history, but also a colorful epic and a lyrical exploration of the mind of a great man, this is one of the indisputable classics of 20th century English literature. Line drawings throughout. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.13! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Somme: The Darkest Hour on the Western Front more books like this by Peter Hart add to wishlist On July 1, 1916, the British Army launched the "Big Push" that was supposed to bring an end to the horrific stalemate on the Western Front. What resulted was one of the greatest single human catastrophes in 20th-century warfare. "The Somme" presents the definitive account of one of the bloodiest battles in world history. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95! \| SVS
18 view cover	Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce more books like this by Stanley Weintraub add to wishlist This World War I history tells the strange and compelling true story of December, 1914, when combatants from both sides put down their arms and observed a cease fire. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.16! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Great War and Modern Memory more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist Paul Fussell's great book explores World War I as a cultural phenomenon--a cataclysmic force that wrought indelible changes in patterns of thought, habits of trust, and the literary imagination. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.92! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War more books like this by Sir Martin Gilbert add to wishlist From one of our most distinguished historians, an authoritative and vivid account of the devastating World War I battle that claimed more than 300,000 lives At 7:30 am on July 1, 1916, the first Allied soldiers climbed out of their trenches along the Somme River in France and charged out into no-man's-land toward the barbed wire and machine guns ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.90! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front more books like this by Winston Groom add to wishlist "A Storm in Flanders" is novelist and prizewinning historian 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. 16-pages of illustrations. see all copies from $2.32! new only from $3.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Over Here: The First World War and American Society more books like this by David M Kennedy add to wishlist The Great War of 1914-1918 left a residue of disruption and disillusion that spawned an even more ruinous conflict scarcely a generation later, and it confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history. Over Here is the first full-scale discussion of the impact of World War I on American society. This 25th ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.39! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Seven Pillars of Wisdom more books like this by T E Lawrence add to wishlist Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a result of fraudulent British promises of self-rule, Lawrence led them in a triumphant campaign which revolutionized the art of war. "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" recreates epic events with extraordinary vividness. In the words of E. M. Forster, 'Round ... see all copies from $4.09! new only from $5.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today more books like this by David A Andelman add to wishlist "The peace settlements that followed World War I have recently come back into focus as one of the dominant factors shaping the modern world. The Balkans, the Middle East, Iraq, Turkey, and parts of Africa all owe their present-day problems, in part, to these negotiations. David Andelman brings it all back to life - the lofty ideals, the ugly ... see all copies from $9.77! new only from $9.91! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Origins of the First World War more books like this by James Joll add to wishlist James Joll's study is not simply another narrative, retracing the powder trail that was finally ignited at Sarajevo. It is an ambitious and wide-ranging analysis of the historical forces at work in the Europe of 1914, and the very different ways in which historians have subsequently attempted to understand them. The importance of the theme, the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.55! \| first editions \| SVS

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