The World War One Source Book

By Philip J. Haythornthwaite

Book Overview

One of the most tumultuous eras in history is given a chronological account in each theater of the war, along with surveys of all the nations involved, accounts of their infantry, naval, and aviation forces, their weaponry and operational practices, and their unit organization, uniforms, and equipment -- as well as biographies of major military and naval personalities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854091026
• ISBN13: 9781854091024
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Arms & Armour Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.7" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

An epic book on World War I

The book has everything you need in order to understand all aspects of the war. The first part reviews the campaigns, naval operations, casualty lists, and chronology of the different fronts. The second part reviews the weapons and tactics from both sides. And, the third part, which is truly amazing, the author gives detailled reports on all the nations involved. The author obviously spent a great amount of time researching all the information required for the novel. The novel should be highly recommended for anyone interested in this dark period of our history.

Just shy of everything you need to know about WWI

This is a pretty good book, with a lot of details on how the war was fought itself, on all the fronts. It's the only book I know of that tells of every single nation's involvement, like for example: Brazil. Brazil didn't do a whole lot for the war effort, but apparantly it did enough to get a place in the book. The maps are sorta tricky to understand, and a few more would have made the book a little better. If you like World War I, then this wouldn't be a bad book to buy, Haythornthwaite is one of my favorite historical authors.