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....

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.....

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

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....

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....

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.

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

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

A few of these fighters were young enough to fight in both wars, and Eddie Rickenbacker was one of them, one of the "best of the best."....

Step into the extraordinary life of Alvin C. York, a humble farmer from Tennessee whose unparalleled bravery during World War I transformed him ...

More than three million American men, many of them volunteers, joined the AEF in the first twenty months of US involvement in the First World War. Of these, over 50,000 were killed on European soil. These were the Doughboys....

Parker Hitt's proactive mentorship of Army cryptology during World War I laid the groundwork for the modern American cryptologic system. Though he considered himself an infantryman, Hitt is best known as the "father of American military cryptology"....

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

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

George S. Patton is one of the most controversial, celebrated, and popular military leaders in American history, and his accomplishments and victories have been greatly documented. Yet Patton spent years in the Army before garnering national attention....

"The Diary of a Dead Officer" paints a picture critical of everyday army life, shows us the moral and psychological struggles of soldiers during...

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....

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

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....

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

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....

Eddie Rickenbacker was a WWI fighter ace. He arrived in France as a fresh greenie who knew little about flying and less about air combat....

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....

While Lawrence of Arabia himself has been the subject of many biographies and an award-winning film, the context of his war in the desert, and his ideas on war itself, are less well-known....

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....