A Decade Like No Other, Vol. III: The Birth of a New World, 1917-1920

A Decade Like No Other, Vol. III: The Birth of a New World, 1917-1920Description by Dennis Cross Paperback This is the third and last volume of an illustrated history of the world from September 1911 to March 1920, before, during and after the First World War. Rather than telling a single story, it follows the news of the world, month by month, much as it was experienced by those who lived through it. In doing so, it reminds us that the battles raging in Europe and elsewhere, significant as they were in the overall arc

In telling the story of these soldiers

Manstan's new book documents the rise of German submarines in World War I and the Allies' successful response of tracking them with innovative listening devices―precursors to modern sonar

he received a tumultuous public welcome and a flood of offers from businessmen eager to capitalize on his acclaimed feat

trajectories and consequences of the First World War

they and their American allies did the impossible: they returned movement to the western theater

Historians have dismissed the American war effort as largely economic and symbolic

A beleaguered government and a vengeful public target two groups as scapegoats: pacifists and homosexuals

and learn about key battles in this compelling new book in the popular Everything series

Millman's able account of an earlier foreign attack on America should draw the espionage audience and more

the lines on the Western Front moved scarcely at all

for those writers who--with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning--most effectively memorialized World War I as an historical experience

More than sixteen thousand New Mexicans joined the military