Top 10 Best "1918" Books

A World Undone

G.J. Meyer

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With Our Backs to the Wall

David Stevenson

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With Our Backs to the Wall

With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper—an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than four years of desperate fighting, with victories sometimes measured in feet and inches, why did the Allies reject the option of advancing into Germany in 1918 and taking Berlin? Most histories of the Great War focus on the avoidability of its beginning. This book brings a laser-like focus to its ominous end—the Allies’ incomplete victory, and the tragic ramifications for world peace just two decades later.

In the most comprehensive account to date of the conflict’s endgame, David Stevenson approaches the events of 1918 from a truly international perspective, examining the positions and perspectives of combatants on both sides, as well as the impact of the Russian Revolution. Stevenson pays close attention to America’s effort in its first twentieth-century war, including its naval and military contribution, army recruitment, industrial mobilization, and home-front ...

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1918

Peter Hart

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CAPORETTO AND THE ISONZO CAMPAIGN

John Macdonald
�eljko Cimpric

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The Great Influenza

John M. Barry

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Flu

Gina Kolata

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Paris 1919

Margaret MacMillan
Richard Holbrooke
Casey Hampton

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Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations ... Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918 eBook

Anonymous

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To Conquer Hell

Edward G. Lengel

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Britain and Europe

N.J. Crowson

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To End All Wars

World War I stands as one of history's most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war's critics, alongside its generals and heroes. Thrown in jail for their opposition to the war were Britain's leading investigative journalist, a future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and an editor who, behind bars, published a newspaper for his fellow inmates on toilet paper. These critics were sometimes intimately connected to their enemy hawks: one of Britain's most prominent women pacifist campaigners had a brother who was commander in chief on the Western Front. Two well-known sisters split so bitterly over the war that they ended up publishing newspapers that attacked each other.  Today, hundreds of military cemeteries spread across the fields of northern France and Belgium contain the bodies of millions of men who died in the "war to end all wars." Can we ever avoid repeating history?...

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To End All Wars

Adam Hochschild

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Imperial Germany 1871-1918 (The Short Oxford History of Germany)

James Retallack

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