General History

Book cover of The Road Less Traveled by Philip Zelikow, illustrating soldiers in uniform walking in formation during World War I.

$30.00

The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917

White book cover of A World on Edge in black text : The end of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age by Daniel Schönpflug in blue text, featuring soldiers and civilians celebrating the end of the Great War. Red poppy petals are scattered on the cover.

$21.00

A World on Edge: The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age [Paperback]

$22.00

The Great War and Modern Memory

Cover of Voices from the Front by Peter Hart, featuring soldiers in a trench during World War I, with the subtitle An Oral History of the Great War by British veterans.

$45.00

Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War

$30.00

WWI Trench Systems

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Cover of "Stumbling Towards Victory" features soldiers trudging through a trench during the final year of World War I. Subtitled "The Final Year of the Great War," it includes Royal Armouries photographs and is edited by Martyn Lawrence.

$23.00

Stumbling Towards Victory: The Final Year of the Great War

$28.00 ~~$34.95~~

A Handful of Bullets: How the Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Still Menaces the Peace

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$43.00

Empires in World War I: Shifting Frontiers and Imperial Dynamics in a Global Conflict

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$40.00

The True Story of the Christmas Truce

Cover of the book 1917: War, Peace, & Revolution by David Stevenson, featuring soldiers walking through a barren, war-torn landscape amidst tensions of the Russian Revolution.

$20.00

1917: War, Peace, and Revolution

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$50.00

Trial of the Kaiser

Book cover titled *Voices From The Past: Armistice 1918* by Paul Kendall, featuring historical military personnel celebrating Armistice Day. Subtext highlights World War I accounts and documents.

$42.00

Armistice 1918: Voices From The Past

Book cover of The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree by Gloria Houston, illustrated by Barbara Cooney, depicting a child with an axe near a snowy tree and lantern under a starry night sky.

$9.00

The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story

Cover of The Western Front by Nick Lloyd, depicting soldiers trudging through a dark, muddy battlefield. The highlighted text details the book's focus on modern warfare and critical acclaim.

$22.00

The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918

Cover of World War I: The Definitive Visual History by DK and Smithsonian, with an image of a soldier in a helmet in the foreground and a crowd of soldiers in the background overlaid with white and greenish text on a blue background.

$40.00

World War I: The Definitive Visual History, New Edition (DK Definitive Visual Histories)

The cover of The World War I Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained features various war-themed quotes and illustrations against a black background overlaid with white text.

$28.00

The World War I Book (DK Big Ideas)

$50.00

Teachers at the Front, 1914–1919

A historic photo captures people joyously celebrating in a car on Armistice Day, waving flags. The text reads: Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day by Guy Cuthbertson, marking the end of World War I.

$30.00

Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918

$40.00

Cataclysm 1914: The First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics

$30.00

Civilians in a World at War, 1914-1918

$40.00

The Great War Illustrated

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$42.00

With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918

Book cover titled World War I Heroes, spotlighting images of historical figures with a backdrop of marching silhouettes. Subheading reads Unforgettable Tales of Courage, Selflessness, and Resilience.

$10.00

World War 1 Heroes: Unforgettable Tales of Courage, Selflessness, and Resilience

Book cover of On a Knife Edge by Holger Afflerbach, featuring silhouettes of soldiers against an orange-red sky. Subtext: How Germany's wartime politics and strategy led to losing the First World War.

$25.00

On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War

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