August 1914

August 1914Description by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Paperback In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill fated Russian offensive into East Prussia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has written "a dramatically new interpretation of Russian history" (Nina Krushcheva, The Nation). The assassination of the tsarists prime minister Pyotr Stolypin, a crucial event in the years leading up to the Revolution of 1917, is reconstructed from the

locate broken communications wire for the Signal Corps to repair

fought courageously on—and off—the battlefield to make Europe

the climax of a century of rapid

who was an ordinary boy sent to fight in a war the likes of which the world had never seen

the 369th infantry regiment marched home triumphantly from World War I

“Tiger” Georges Clemenceau of France

Pershing told Conner: “I could have spared any other man in the A

radical reconfigurations of socioeconomic

This intriguing addition to the Images of War series is set to ignite new discussions about this most legendary of fighter aces as we approach the centenary of his death

There a little boy named Christopher Robin came along and played with Winnie -- he could care for this bear too

but the titanic clashes between three towering empires--Russia

where it remained docked for nearly three years—until the United States officially entered the fight to turn the tide of the war