HIS 328 The First World War

[Event Overview]
Keene, Jennifer D.
"World War I." Encyclopedia of Military Science, edited by G. Kurt Piehler, vol. 4, SAGE Reference, 2013, pp. 1678-1685. Gale eBooks.
(Includes: causes, American entry, strategy, key battles, interpretations.)

Dive deep into your exploration of World War I history with this social studies book that piques students' curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. Primary sources give students unique insights and personal connections to history. Examples of primary sources include a Royal Navy recruitment poster, a painting of the death of Archduke Ferdinand, newspaper headlines, a 1917 Liberty Bond poster, an image of the Harlem Hellfighters, and many more. This 32-page book includes text features that help students increase reading comprehension and their understanding of the subject. Packed with interesting facts, sidebars, and essential vocabulary, this book is perfect for reports or projects.

Includes primary and secondary scholarship on the frequently misunderstood First World War, arranged chronologically and by theme. Covers causes, the experiences of soldiers and their leaders, battlefield strategies and conditions, home front issues, diplomacy, and peacemaking. Includes a time-line and maps.

The first comprehensive investigation and analysis of the English language trench periodicals of the First World War,

Hidden away in the back of an old desk drawer were the recollections of a young officer who fought with the Essex Regiment in the First World War from the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915, through the mud and misery of Ypres, to see victory in 1918. The memoirs of Lieutenant Robert D'Arblay Gybbon-Monypenny shows how vividly life and death in the trenches was portrayed. Robert was hit by a sniper's bullet, buried in appalling mudslides, choked in a chlorine gas attack, and almost bayoneted by one of his own men, driven insane by the perpetual shelling. Includes letters home from both Robert Moneypenny and his brother. The collection of memoirs, letters and personal photographs produce a gripping and powerfully frank testimony - one that will come to be recognized as amongst the finest personal accounts of the First World War ever to be published.

In the late summer of 1918, after four long years of senseless, stagnant fighting, the Western Front erupted. The bitter four-month struggle that ensued-known as the Hundred Days Campaign-saw some of the bloodiest and most ferocious combat of the Great War, as the Allies grimly worked to break the stalemate in the west and end the conflict that had decimated Europe. In Hundred Days, acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd leads readers into the endgame of World War I, showing how the timely arrival of American men and materiel-as well as the bravery of French, British, and Commonwealth soldiers-helped to turn the tide on the Western Front. Many of these battle-hardened troops had endured years of terror in the trenches, clinging to their resolve through poison-gas attacks and fruitless assaults across no man's land. Finally, in July 1918, they and their American allies did the impossible: they returned movement to the western theater. Using surprise attacks, innovative artillery tactics, and swarms of tanks and aircraft, they pushed the Germans out of their trenches and forced them back to their final bastion: the Hindenburg Line, a formidable network of dugouts, barbed wire, and pillboxes. After a massive assault, the Allies broke through, racing toward the Rhine and forcing Kaiser Wilhelm II to sue for peace. An epic tale ranging from the ravaged fields of Flanders to the revolutionary streets of Berlin, Hundred Days recalls the bravery and sacrifice that finally silenced the guns of Europe.