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By Miranda Carter. 2010
Examines the bonds between the royal families of Europe, fostered by matriarch Queen Victoria, that led to World War I.…
Discusses the childhoods, education, marriages, and leadership of the three cousins who became George V of England, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. 2009By Adam Hochschild. 2011
Award-winning historian examines the pro- and anti-war movements in Great Britain before and during World War I. Portrays social reformers,…
suffragettes, conscientious objectors, and other pacifists who aligned against military and political leaders and the general public. Highlights the carnage that followed. Some violence. 2011By Michael Korda. 2010
Biography of T.E. Lawrence, the British officer who led Arab armies against the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Discusses…
Lawrence's childhood, Oxford education, complicated relationship with fame, role as a national hero, anonymous military reenlistments, and death at age forty-six. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 2010By Graydon A. Tunstall. 2010
Historian uses World War I material from Vienna and Budapest archives to portray Austria-Hungary's winter campaign to rescue soldiers besieged…
by Russian troops. The armies entered the Carpathian Mountains inadequately equipped with food, clothing, and shelters, which led to the death of almost a million men. Violence. 2010By Alan Axelrod. 2007
Military historian uses primary sources to recount the epoch month-long battle in June 1918 at Belleau Wood, a hunting preserve…
outside of Paris. Describes the U.S. Marine Corps' efforts to save the Allies from defeat by holding off, at great odds, the German army--who employed mustard gas. Violence. 2007By Jim Murphy. 2009
Examines the events that brought European countries into battle in the First World War. Describes one particular day, Christmas Eve…
1914, when all along the Western Front German soldiers exchanged hymns with their British and French enemies and a fragile peace temporarily prevailed. For grades 4-7. 2009By Jonathan Locke Hart. 2019
By Jackson Lears, T. J. Jackson Lears. 2009
Cultural history of the United States in the years between the Civil War and World War I. Examines the rise…
of industrial capitalism, the expansion of the American empire, and the violence of the Jim Crow regime. Highlights the efforts of reformists and anti-imperialist intellectuals to remedy societal ills. 2009By Jeff Miller, Jeffrey B. Miller. 2014
1914. During World War I, the Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) initiated, organized, and supervised the largest food and…
relief drive the world has ever seen. The CRB fed and clothed for four years more than 9 million Belgians and French trapped behind German lines. Young, idealistic Americans volunteered to go into German-occupied Belgium and had to maintain strict neutrality as they watched the Belgians suffer under the harsh German regimeBy Adrian Tinniswood. 2016
A history of English country houses and high society during the years between the World Wars. Drawing on thousands of…
memoirs, letters, and diaries, as well as eye-witness testimonies, Tinniswood offers a glimpse behind the veil of these great estates during a period of extraordinary societal changeBy Elizabeth Williams. 2013
When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Pittsburgh was a city of immigrants, but they threw their…
support into the war effort united as Americans. Pittsburgh and Allegheny County produced half of the steel and much of the munitions used by the Allies. Sixty thousand men went to war, women served on the front lines as nurses, and the city's large Red Cross provided support on the homefront. 2013By R. Jackson Marshall. 1998
By William Philpott, William James Philpott. 2014
The Great War of 1914 to 1918 was the first mass conflict to fully mobilize the resources of industrial powers…
against one another. It resulted in a brutal, bloody, protracted war of attrition among the worlds' great economies. Politically, the emergence of the United States on the world stage is directly related to her support for the allied forces in the European conflagration. The war that ruined Europe enabled the rise of America. Contains strong languageBy Robert Cowley. 2002
Twenty-five essays examine alternate outcomes in western history. Contributors ponder the implications of Jesus being pardoned by Pontius Pilate, William…
failing to conquer England in 1066, China discovering the New World, Lincoln consenting to slavery, and an assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Companion to What If? (DB 49463). 2001By Hew Strachan. 2004
British historian analyzes the impact of World War I in Africa, the Middle East, the Pacific, and eastern Europe in…
addition to the familiar western European arena. Discusses the political backgrounds of the combatant nations, the social consequences of the conflagration, and the roots of twenty-first-century wars. 2003By Douglas C. Waller. 2004
Reconstructs the 1925 insubordination trial of World War I brigadier general Billy Mitchell, the "intellectual father" of the Air Force.…
Describes the aviation hero both as a brilliant and innovative officer and also as an egotistic opportunist whose public condemnation of his superiors led to his downfall. 2004By Barbara W. Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim Tuchman. 1996
An analysis of the social conditions in Western Europe, Britain, and the United States during the quarter century before the…
outbreak of World War I. Examines the consequences of far-reaching changes in science, political thought, and industrial arrangements. 1962. 1962By Modris Eksteins, Modris Eksteins Professor. 1989
History professor traces the origins, the impact, and the influence of World War I. Discusses how the death and destruction…
of the Great War marked a turning point in the cultural history of western society, changed its psychological viewpoint, and led to the spirit of the modern age. 1989By John Keegan. 1999
British military historian examines the chain of events that led to the conflict that began in August 1914. He analyzes…
major battles and the role of mechanized warfare; discusses the political outcome of World War I, its long-term implications, and impacts still felt at the end of the century. BestsellerFrom Canada’s top war historian, a definitive medical history of the Great War, illuminating how the carnage of modern battle…
gave birth to revolutionary life-saving innovations. It brings to light shocking revelations of the ways the brutality of combat and the necessity of agonizing battlefield decisions led to unimaginable strain for men and women of medicine who fought to save the lives of soldiers.Medical care in almost all armies, and especially in the Canadian medical services, was sophisticated and constantly evolving, with vastly more wounded soldiers saved than lost. Doctors and surgeons prevented disease from decimating armies, confronted ghastly wounds from chemical weapons, remade shattered bodies, and struggled to ease soldiers’ battle-haunted minds. After the war, the hard lessons learned by doctors and nurses were brought back to Canada. A new Department of Health created guidelines in the aftermath of the 1918-19 flu pandemic, which had killed 55,000 Canadians and millions around the world. In a grim irony, the fight to improve civilian health was furthered by the most destructive war up to that point in human history. But medical advances were not the only thing brought back from Europe: Lifesavers and Body Snatchers exposes the disturbing story of the harvesting of human body parts in medical units behind the lines. Tim Cook has spent over a decade investigating the history of Canadian medical doctors removing the body parts of slain Canadian soldiers and transporting their brains, lungs, bones, and other organs to the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) in London, England. Almost 800 individual body parts were removed from dead soldiers and sent to London, where they were stored, treated, and some presented in exhibition galleries. After being exhibited there, the body parts were displayed in Canada. This uncovered history is a shockingly revelation never told before and part of the hidden legacy of the medical war. Based on deep archival research and unpublished letters of soldiers and medical personnel, Lifesavers and Body Snatchers is a powerful narrative, told in Cook’s literary style, which reveals how the medical services supported the soldiers at the front and forged a profound legacy in shaping Canadian public health in the decades that followed.