First World War

James Norman Hall & John MacGavock Grider
The experiences of two American pilots in the Great War When the First World War broke out, volunteers from many nations of the free world rushed to join the French in their struggle against the in..

Edited by John Humphrey
The stories of the German surface raiders during the Great War The creation of surface merchant raiders by the Imperial German Navy at the outset of the First World War, was an innovative departure..

A. Donaldson, F. G. Trayes & John Stanley Cameron
Exploits of one of the most successful German surface raiders in the Great War The Amazing Cruise of the German Raider “Wolf” by A. Donaldson, A Captive on a German Raider by F. G. Trayes & Ten..

C. Sanford Terry & Keble Howard
The 1918 amphibious raids on the Belgian coast After three years of grinding attrition, the First World War on the Western Front remained in a stalemate with the German and Allied armies stuck in o..

Mark Severn & Valentine Williams
A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916 by Mark Severn & The Adventures of an Ensign by Valentine Williams
The experiences of two young men in a momentous conflict The Battle of the Somme, fought in 1916 on the Western Front, became emblematic of the futility of the First World War. This grand attack wa..

Harold F. B. Wheeler & Charles W. Domville-Fife
War in the Underseas by Harold F. B. Wheeler & Submarines, Mines and Torpedoes in the War by Charles W. Domville-Fife
The worldwide undersea war—1914-18 This Leonaur volume brings together two excellent works on submarine warfare during the First World War in a single good value edition. Wheeler’s work provides an..

George F. Campbell & Pat O’Brien
A Soldier of the Sky by George F. Campbell & Outwitting the Hun by Pat O’Brien
Two outstanding accounts of high adventure by WWI fighter pilots This unique Leonaur edition offers two personal accounts by pilots with the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. George Ca..

Pierre Gilliard
An intimate view of the last Russian Tsar and his family                        ..

Wilson McNair
A War Correspondent’s Impression of the First Months of the Great War on the Western Front to the Second Battle of Ypres
A well observed account of the opening campaigns of the Great War in Europe There have been many books about warfare written by those who experienced war at first-hand. Until the middle years of th..

Herbert A. Stewart
From Mons to Loos with the Army Service Corps During the First World War
Personal recollections of a little reported unit of the British Army This book is one of many first-hand accounts written by soldiers about their experiences in the First World War. Originally titl..

Alfred F. B. Carpenter & Arthur H. Pollen
The Zeebrugge Raid April 23rd 1918 by Alfred F. B. Carpenter & The Zeebrugge Raid a Short Account by Arthur H. Pollen
A desperate raid to save the merchant ships that supplied the Allied cause From the first months of 1915, when the Great War on the Western Front ground to a stalemate of fixed lines of trenches, t..

Douglas Jerrold
The sailors and marines of the Royal Naval Division at war Douglas Jerrold’s history of the campaigns and battles of the Royal Naval Division during the First World War is an acknowledged classic o..

F. A. Bolwell
A Personal Recollection and Unit History of Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Battalions on the Western Front During the First World War—With a Reservist in France by F. A. Bolwell & The War History of the 1st/4th Battalion the Loyal North Lancashire Re
The men of the ‘Red Rose’ county during the Great War This unique ‘two-in-one’ edition concerns the First World War activities of The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, a renowned British army county..

John Buchan
the War in the East—the First Months of the First World War on the Eastern Front—June to December 1914
The outbreak of the great war on the Eastern Front The Great War broke out in 1914. For those who live in the western world impressions of that catastrophic conflict are, perhaps inevitably, inspir..

Leland M. Carver Gustaf A. Lindstrom A. T. Foster George C. Kenney Horace Moss Guilbert
Two Accounts of American Pilots and Aircraft During the First World War—The Ninetieth Aero Squadron American Expeditionary Forces by Leland M. Carver, Gustaf A. Lindstrom and A. T. Foster & History of the 91st Aero Squadron Air Service U. S. A. by Geo
The U. S Army’s ‘eyes in the sky’ on the Western Front The enormous loss of life among European populations in the First World War created a sense of national sacrifice which is memorialised in vir..