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  • 'Luxury' Fleet: (RLE The First World War)

    The Imperial German Navy 1888-1918

    by Holger Herwig ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The First World War
    Originally published in 1980 ‘Luxury’ Fleet (the phrase was Winston Churchill’s) was the first history of the Imperial German navy from 1888 to 1918. After tracing the historical background to German naval ambitions, the first two sections of the book analyse Admiral Tirpitz’s programme of building a battle fleet strong enough to engage the Royal Navy in the North Sea. The author shows the fleet ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Marne, 1914

    The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World

    by Holger H. Herwig ...
    For the first time in a generation, here is a bold new account of the Battle of the Marne, a cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of two wars and the world. With exclusive information based on newly unearthed documents, Holger H. Herwig re-creates the dramatic battle and reinterprets Germany’s aggressive “Schlieffen Plan” as a carefully ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The First World War

    Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918

    by Holger H. Herwig ...
    Series series Modern Wars
    The Great War toppled four empires, cost the world 24 million dead, and sowed the seeds of another worldwide conflict 20 years later. This is the only book in the English language to offer comprehensive coverage of how Germany and Austria-Hungary, two of the key belligerents, conducted the war and what defeat meant to them.This new edition has been thoroughly updated throughout, including new ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • The Demon of Geopolitics

    How Karl Haushofer "Educated" Hitler and Hess

    by Holger H. Herwig ...
    Karl Haushofer, a Bavarian general and professor, is widely recognized as the “father of geopolitics.” In 1945 the United States sought to put him on trial at Nuremberg as a major war criminal for being “Hitler’s intellectual godfather” and the true author of Mein Kampf. In this definitive biography, noted historian Holger H. Herwig assesses the fiction and reality behind these claims. Making ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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    One Christmas in Washington

    Roosevelt and Churchill Forge the Grand Alliance

    by David Bercuson, Holger Herwig ...
    Narrated by Lloyd James ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 4 min

    One Christmas in Washington is the fascinating, in-depth look at one of the most crucial periods in modern history: the Washington war conference of 1941, when two proud and accomplished statesmen struggled to overcome biases, suspicion, and hubris to create what turned out to be the war-winning alliance.The authors take a penetrating look at the high-level meetings and the scenes behind the ... Read more

    $20.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Origins of World War I

    Edited by Richard F. Hamilton, Holger H. Herwig ...
    This work poses a straightforward - yet at the same time perplexing - question about World War I: Why did it happen? Several of the oft-cited causes are reviewed and discussed. The argument of the alliance systems is inadequate, lacking relevance or compelling force. The arguments of mass demands, those focusing on nationalism, militarism and social Darwinism, it is argued, are insufficient, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • World War I

    The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection [5 volumes]

    Edited by Spencer C. Tucker ...
    Offering exhaustive coverage, detailed analyses, and the latest historical interpretations of events, this expansive, five-volume encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and detailed reference source on the First World War available today.One hundred years after the beginning of World War I in 1914, this conflict still stands as perhaps the most important event of the 20th century. World War I ... Read more

    $430.39 USD

  • Long Night of the Tankers

    Hitler's War Against Caribbean Oil

    by David J. Bercuson, Holger H. Herwig ...
    Series Book 4 - Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defence and Strategic Studies
    Long Night of the Tankers presents a fresh account of a lesser-known but critical component of the Atlantic naval theatre during World War II. Using war diaries, after-action reports, and first-hand accounts, authors Bercuson and Herwig examine the story behind Operation Neuland, the German plan to interrupt vital oil supplies from reaching the United States and the United Kingdom by preventing ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • War Planning 1914

    Edited by Richard F. Hamilton, Holger H. Herwig ...
    The major European powers drafted war plans before 1914 and executed them in August 1914; none brought the expected victory by Christmas. Why? This tightly focused collection of essays by international experts in military history reassesses the war plans of 1914 in a broad diplomatic, military, and political setting for the first time in three decades. The book analyzes the war plans of Austria ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Lossberg's War

    The World War I Memoirs of a German Chief of Staff

    by Fritz von Lossberg ...
    Series series Foreign Military Studies
    "This book is a work of detail and scholars can now envision the campaigns and battles of the First World War from a high-level German perspective." — Journal of Military HistoryGen. Fritz von Lossberg (1868-1942) directed virtually all the major German defensive battles on the Western Front during the First World War. Hailed as "the Lion of the Defensive," he was an extremely influential military ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Collision of Empires

    The War on the Eastern Front in 1914

    by Prit Buttar ...
    Collision of Empires is the first major historical work on the Eastern Front during World War I since the 1970s.One of the primary triggers of the outbreak of World War I was undoubtedly the myriad alliances and suspicions that existed between the Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian empires in the early 20th century. Yet much of the actual fighting between these nations has been largely ... Read more

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  • 1918 Year of Victory: The end of the Great War and the shaping of history

    by Ashley Ekins ...
    World War I, The Great War involved the mobilisation of some 70 million soldiers worldwide. It produced images of such pervasive horror on the Western Front that it defined warfare in human memory long into the twentieth century. The war also left a grim legacy: 13 million people died, 9 million of them combatants. Over one-third of those who died were missing, having no known graves. The chapters ... Read more

    $8.69 USD