Terrible Terry Allen
Combat General of World War II - The Life of an American Soldier
Written by Gerald Astor

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Presidio Press
On Sale: June 29, 2004
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-89141-834-4 (0-89141-834-2)

Terry de la Mesa Allen was one of the most remarkable soldiers in American military history. He failed out of West Point twice, yet ended up as a fearless battalion commander during World War I— personally leading patrols into no-man’s-land.

During World War II, following hard and successful combat in North Africa... Read more >

The Absolutist

Written by John Boyne

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-552-5 (1-59051-552-8)

2012 ALA STONEWALL HONOR BOOK
It is September 1919: twenty-one-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a package of letters to the sister of Will Bancroft, the man he fought alongside during the Great War.

But the letters are not the real reason for Tristan’s visit. He... Read more >

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
Written by Miranda Carter

Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7912-4 (1-4000-7912-8)

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... Read more >

George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
Written by Miranda Carter

Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 23, 2010
Price: $37.50
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4363-7 (1-4000-4363-8)

A story of the self-delusion of royalty: three monarchs who were also three first cousins—Wilhelm II, the last kaiser of Germany; George V of Britain; and Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia—and their mistaken belief, on the very brink of World War I, that their family connection could save Europe... Read more >

1901

Written by Robert Conroy

Format: Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Presidio Press
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-89141-843-6 (0-89141-843-1)

The year is 1901. Germany’s navy is the second largest in the world; their army, the most powerful. But with the exception of a small piece of Africa and a few minor islands in the Pacific, Germany is without an empire. Kaiser Wilhelm II demands that the United States surrender its... Read more >

Woodrow Wilson
A Biography
Written by John Milton Cooper, Jr.

Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27790-9 (0-307-27790-9)

The first major biography of America’s twenty-eighth president in nearly two decades, from one of America’s foremost Woodrow Wilson scholars.

A Democrat who reclaimed the White House after sixteen years of Republican administrations, Wilson was a transformative president—he helped create the regulatory bodies and legislation that prefigured FDR’s New Deal and would... Read more >

First World War Britain
1914-1919
Written by Peter Doyle

Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publisher: Shire
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-7478-1098-8 (0-7478-1098-2)

When Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914, most expected the war to be over by Christmas, and only a handful forecast the length of the conflict, or the impact it would have on a civilian population whose experience of war to date had been reading of the exploits of... Read more >

The Missing of the Somme

Written by Geoff Dyer

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-74297-1 (0-307-74297-0)

From one of our most beloved, original authors, a classic book never before published in the U.S.—a personal meditation on war and remembrance.

Geoff Dyer has won fans writing about everything from jazz to D.H. Lawrence, from photography to neurotic enlightenment, from Cambodia to Rome. The Missing of the Somme, his... Read more >

The Beauty and the Sorrow
An Intimate History of the First World War
Written by Peter Englund and Peter Graves

Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-73928-5 (0-307-73928-7)

An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe--a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like.

In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average... Read more >

The Beauty and the Sorrow
An Intimate History of the First World War
Written by Peter Englund
Translated by Peter Graves

Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-59386-3 (0-307-59386-X)

In this masterly, highly original narrative history, Peter Englund takes a revelatory new approach to the history of World War I, magnifying its least examined, most stirring component: the experiences of the average man and woman—not only the tragedy and horror but also the absurdity and even, at times, the beauty... Read more >

Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure
The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika
Written by Giles Foden

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7526-3 (1-4000-7526-2)

The Whitbread Award-winning author of The Last King of Scotland brings his extensive knowledge of Africa to his first work of nonfiction: the incredible true story that inspired the classic film The African Queen.

When the First World War breaks out, the British navy is committed to engaging the enemy wherever there... Read more >

Hat in the Ring
The Birth of American Air Power in the Great War
Written by Bert Frandsen

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-281-2 (1-58834-281-6)

When Congress declared war in April 1917, the Europeans had already deployed their third generation of fighters, equipped with machine guns and capable of speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour, while the American Air Service consisted of only a handful of aviators in unarmed trainers. In this first in-depth... Read more >

Man's Search for Meaning

Written by Viktor Frankl
Afterword by William J. Winslade
Foreword by Harold S. Kushner

Format: Paperback, 184 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: June 1, 2006
Price: $8.99
ISBN: 978-0-8070-1429-5 (0-8070-1429-X)

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945, Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the... Read more >

Europe's Last Summer
Who Started the Great War in 1914?
Written by David Fromkin

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72575-3 (0-375-72575-X)

When war broke out in Europe in 1914, it surprised a European population enjoying the most beautiful summer in memory. For nearly a century since, historians have debated the causes of the war. Some have cited the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; others have concluded it was unavoidable.

In Europe’s Last Summer... Read more >

In The Time Of The Americans
FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur-The Generation That Changed America 's Role in the World
Written by David Fromkin

Format: Trade Paperback, 800 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 30, 1996
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76728-2 (0-679-76728-2)

Coming of age during World War I and attaining their finest hour in World War II and the Cold War, these men—FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur—transformed America from an isolated frontier nation into a global superpower. As he tells their stories, Fromkin, author of A Peace to End All Peace, shows... Read more >

Unknown Soldiers
The Story of the Missing of the First World War
Written by Neil Hanson

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27654-4 (0-307-27654-6)

The First World War was a conflict of unprecedented ferocity. After the last shot was fired and the troops marched home, approximately three million soldiers remained unaccounted for. An unassuming English chaplain first proposed a symbolic burial in memory of all the missing dead; subsequently the idea was picked up by... Read more >

The First World War

Written by John Keegan

Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 16, 2000
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70045-3 (0-375-70045-5)

From the much-debated causes to the blood baths to the collapse of empires and Victorian Europe, John Keegan explores and communicates the details, themes, and mind-numbing horror of the First World War with clarity, authority, and compassion. Central to his thesis is the assertion that the war was avoidable; a tragic... Read more >

Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die
Memoirs of a World War I Marine
Written by Elton Mackin

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Presidio Press
On Sale: November 1, 1993
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-89141-593-0 (0-89141-593-9)

A Marine Corps veteran recounts his service with the Marine Brigade's 1st Battalion during World War I Read more >

Paris 1919
Six Months That Changed the World
Written by Margaret MacMillan
Foreword by Richard Holbrooke

Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-76052-5 (0-375-76052-0)

• Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize
• Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize
• Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize

Between January and July 1919, after “the war to end all wars,” men and women from around the world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time... Read more >

Castles of Steel
Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
Written by Robert K. Massie

Format: Trade Paperback, 880 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: November 2, 2004
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-40878-5 (0-345-40878-0)

Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War.

The predominant image of this first world war is of mud and trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, poison... Read more >

Dreadnought

Written by Robert K. Massie

Format: Trade Paperback, 1040 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: September 15, 1992
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-37556-8 (0-345-37556-4)

From the author of Peter the Great comes a richly textured and gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth century's first great arms race and the bloodbath of World War I. With the biographer's rare genius for expressing the essence of extraordinary lives, Massie brings... Read more >

A World Undone
The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
Written by G.J. Meyer

Format: Trade Paperback, 816 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Press
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $21.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38240-2 (0-553-38240-3)

The First World War is one of history’s greatest tragedies, and it also unique in the number of questions about it that remain unsettled. After ninety years, scholars remain divided on such questions, and it seems likely that they always will. A World Undone does not claim to have all the... Read more >

A Few Good Women
America's Military Women from World War I to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Written by Evelyn Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9560-5 (1-4000-9560-3)

In this riveting narrative history, women veterans from the world wars, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq tell their extraordinary stories.

Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee spent fifteen years combing through archives, journals, histories, and news reports, and gathering thousands of eyewitness accounts, letters, and interviews for this unprecedented chronicle... Read more >

The Road to Verdun
World War I's Most Momentous Battle and the Folly of Nationalism
Written by Ian Ousby

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: June 10, 2003
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72173-8 (0-385-72173-0)

On February 21, 1916, the Germans launched a surprise offensive at Verdun, an important fortress in northeastern France, sparking a brutal and protracted conflict that would claim more than 700,000 victims. The carnage had little impact on the course of the war, and Verdun ultimately came to symbolize the absurdity and... Read more >

Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour
Armistice Day, 1918 World War I and Its Violent Climax
Written by Joseph E. Persico

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-76045-7 (0-375-76045-8)

November 11, 1918. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M, yet in the final hours they flung men against an already beaten Germany. The result? Eleven thousand casualties suffered–more than during the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Why? Allied commanders wanted to punish the enemy to the... Read more >