940.3-940.4: History of World War I (2023)

This collection spotlights books, published in the last 10 years, that discuss World War I which lasted from 1914 to 1918. Books featured in this collection will discuss causes and the aftermath of "The Great War" as well as contain histories of significant events and battles.

Updated June 9, 2023
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American midnight : the Great War, a violent peace, and democracy's forgotten cr
Hochschild, Adam
National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfiction A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast Company From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "masterly" (New York Times) reassessment...

2

Dark invasion : 1915 : Germany's Secret War and the hunt for the first terrorist
Blum, Howard
Combining the pulsating drive of Showtime's Homeland with the fascinating historical detail of such of narrative nonfiction bestsellers as Double Cross and In the Garden of Beasts, Dark Invasion is Howard Blum's gritty, high-energy true-life tale of German espionage and terror on American soil...

3

Dead wake : the last crossing of the Lusitania /
Larson, Erik, 1954-
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania "Both terrifying and enthralling."--Entertainment Weekly"Thrilling, dramatic and powerful."...

4

The great Halifax explosion : [large print] a World War I story of treachery, tr
Bacon, John U., 1964-
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The "riveting" (National Post) tick-tock account of the largest manmade explosion in history prior to the atomic bomb, and the equally astonishing tales of survival and heroism that emerged from the ashes "Enthralling. ... Gripping. ... A...

5

March 1917 : [sound recording(CD)] on the brink of war and revolution /
Englund, Will.
"We are provincials no longer," said Woodrow Wilson on March 5, 1917, at his second inaugural. He spoke on the eve of America's entrance into World War I, as Russia teetered between autocracy and democracy. Just ten days after Wilson's declaration, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne, ending a...

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The Oxford illustrated history of Britain /
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An illustrated history of Britain since the Roman occupation, which traces its political, social, economic and cultural development.

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Tales from the borderlands : making and unmaking the Galician past /
Bartov, Omer
The story of the diverse communities of Eastern Europe's borderlands in the centuries prior to World War II   "A powerful combination of history and personal memoir. . . . A richly contextual, skillfully woven historical study."--Kirkus Reviews (starred...

8

To hell and back : Europe, 1914-1949 /
Kershaw, Ian.
TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND EDITOR'S CHOICE 2015 BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its...

9

The trigger : hunting the assassin who brought the world to war /
Butcher, Tim, 1967-
On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost a hundred years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo...

10

The vanquished
Garfield, Brian
"For the Western allies 11 November 1918 has always been a solemn date - the end of fighting which had destroyed a generation, but also a vindication of a terrible sacrifice, with the total collapse of their principal enemies- the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. But for much...

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A world undone : the story of the Great War, 1914-1918 /
Meyer, G. J., 1940-
The First World War is one of history’s greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the...

12

World War I : the definitive visual history : from Sarajevo to Versailles /
Grant, R. G.
2014 marks the centennial of the start of World War I -- DK will mark the occasion with the publication of World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide, a vividly illustrated, in-depth account of the Great War. Written by historian R. G. Grant, and created by DK's award-winning editorial and...

13

Wounded : a new history of the Western Front in World War I /
Mayhew, E. R.
The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. On the battlefield, the injuries were shocking, unlike anything those in the medical field had ever witnessed. The bullets hit fast and hard, went deep and took...

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