by kris helt | Jun 10, 2019 | WWI
Graves, Robert. Good-Bye to All That. New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 1929, 1998. English poet Robert Graves, in his autobiography Good-Bye to All That, traces the first three decades of his life. He opens with his childhood, growing up in the middle-class Victorian...
by kris helt | Sep 25, 2018 | WWI
Ellis, John. Eye-Deep In Hell: Trench Warfare in World War I. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Eye-Deep In Hell: Trench Warfare In World War I is not an account of trench warfare or a sketch of trench construction. John Ellis has written...
by kris helt | Jul 19, 2018 | WWI
Edward M. Coffman’s main focus in The War to End All Wars was to showcase the American military experience during World War I. America was not prepared for the Great War. Over half the book deliberated the path of preparation. The administrative and logistical...
by kris helt | Jun 23, 2018 | WWI
Carrington, Charles. Soldier from the Wars Returning. South Yorkshire, Great Britain: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 1965, 2015. Having been a part of both World Wars, Charles Carrington is no stranger to the military. In Soldier from the Wars Returning...
by kris helt | Jun 21, 2018 | WWI
Brose, Eric Dorn. The Kaiser’s Army: The Politics of Military Technology in Germany during The Machine Age, 1870-1918. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001. Eric Dorn Brose focuses all his energy in The Kaiser’s Army on the feuding...
by kris helt | Jun 10, 2018 | WWI
Ferguson, Niall. The Pity of War: Explaining World War I. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1999. Niall Ferguson’s The Pity of War: Explaining World War I is not a chronological account of the war, but rather he has attacked...