World War I

All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy (Hardcover)

By Tom Clavin, Phil Keith

$27.99

ISBN: 9781335005564

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Published: Hanover Square Press - November 5th, 2019

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A rousing account of a most improbable life: a descendant of slaves, Eugene Bullard fled rural Georgia as a kid to become, among other things, a French citizen and its first black fighter pilot, a boxer, a nightclub owner, an associate of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Josephine Baker, and a spy whose story strangely resembles Rick in the movie Casablanca, right down to Bullard's relationship with Dooley Wilson. By retrieving Bullard from the shadows, the authors have revealed a one-of-kind, unforgettable personality. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare

Never in Finer Company: The Men of the Great War's Lost Battalion (Hardcover)

By Edward G. Lengel

$28.00

ISBN: 9780306825682

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Published: Da Capo Press - September 18th, 2018

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The "Lost Battalion" gained immense acclaim throughout America after withstanding unimaginable horrors of trench warfare in World War I. After returning home as heroes, their celebrity faded and their physical and emotional wounds festered. Now, a century later, Lengel's work helps ensure their legacy will not be forgotten. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare

The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War (Hardcover)

By Neal Bascomb

$28.00

ISBN: 9780544937116

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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - September 18th, 2018

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A select group of POWs gave their German captors a great deal of trouble during World War I. The word "escape-proof" simply didn't apply. The author of The Winter Fortress chronicles the ingenious methods these determined men used to escape to freedom and rejoin the war effort. Many of them were eventually recaptured, punished, and sent to camps where the rugged terrain and the heightened security made the prospect of escape even more daunting. An exciting look at a little known facet of The Great War. ~ Reviewed by Alden Graves

Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror (Hardcover)

By W. Scott Poole

$26.00

ISBN: 9781640090934

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Published: Counterpoint LLC - October 16th, 2018

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Seeking the roots of society's fascination and obsession with horror, Poole lands on World War I. The unimaginable carnage and obliteration of life wrought by that war, according to Poole, impacted artists in their creation of horror novels and films, and, more dangerously, infected cultures, breeding Nazism, totalitarianism, and fascism. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Paperback)

By Erik Larson

$18.00

ISBN: 9780307408877

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Published: Crown - March 22nd, 2016

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The cross-currents of one of history's deadliest and momentous maritime acts come achingly to life in Larson's account. From the cramped German U-boat to a lovelorn Woodrow Wilson, from British intelligence to the Lusitania's captain, and, hauntingly, from scores of passengers, the gripping story steams toward its tragic end. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare

America and the Great War: A Library of Congress Illustrated History (Hardcover)

By Margaret E. Wagner, David M. Kennedy (Introduction by)

$45.00

ISBN: 9781620409824

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Published: Bloomsbury Press - May 30th, 2017

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America's deliberate entry into World War I, fueled by patriotism, jingoism, militarism, and pivoted by Germany's indiscriminate submarine warfare, is thoroughly chronicled by Wagner. The Great War's end result: America's emergence as a great world power, remains the foundation of international relations a century later. ~ Reviewed by Mike Hare