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Free Download Germany, Turkey and Zionism, 1897-1918 By Isaiah Friedman
1997 | 475 Pages | ISBN: 0765804077 | PDF | 13 MB
Using previously unpublished official German and Zionist records and contemporary diaries, memoirs and o ther private sources, Isaiah Friedman aims to prove that the German government was the foremost protector of the Zionist cause during WW1.

Free Download Black September 1918: WWI’s Darkest Month in the Air by Norman Franks, Russell Guest, Frank Bailey
English | September 27, 2018 | ISBN: 1911621114 | 192 pages | PDF | 23 Mb
The follow-up to Bloody April 1917 continues fifteen months later into World War I. Much had happened over this period. More battles had been fought, won and lost on both sides, but now the American strength was feeding in to France with both men and material. With the mighty push on the French/American Front at St Mihiel on 12 September and then along the Meuse-Argonne Front from the 26th, once more masses of men and aircraft were put into the air. They were opposed by no less a formidable German fighter force than had the squadrons in April 1917 although the numbers were not in their favour. Nevertheless, the German fighter pilots were able to inflict an even larger toll of British, French and American aircraft shot down, making this the worst month for the Allied flyers during the whole of World War I – and this just a mere six weeks from the war’s bloody finale. As with their previous book, the authors of Black September 1918 have analysed the daily events throughout September with the use of lists of casualties and claims from both sides. The book also contains seven detailed appendices examining the victory claims of all the air forces that fought during September 1918. Although it is difficult to pin-point exactly who was fighting who high above the trenches, by pouring over maps and carefully studying almost all the surviving records, the picture of ‘who got who’ in the air slowly begins to emerge with deadly accuracy. Coinciding with the centenary of the end of World War I, Black September 1918 is a profusely illustrated and essential reference piece to understanding one of the crucial months of war in the skies.

Free Download Under Observation: Austria Since 1918
by Manfried Rauchensteiner, Alex J. Kay
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3205207041 | 582 Pages | PDF | 33 MB

Free Download The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933 by Frank McDonough
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 1803284781 | 592 pages | PDF | 96 Mb
Established in 1918-19, in the wake of Germany’s catastrophic defeat in the First World War and the revolution that followed swiftly on its heels, the Weimar Republic ushered in widespread social reform, a radical cultural flowering and the most democratic conditions the German people had ever known.

Free Download Romain Fathi, "Exiting war: The British Empire and the 1918-20 moment "
English | ISBN: 1526155842 | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Exiting war explores a particular 1918-20 ‘moment’ in the British Empire’s history, between the First World War’s armistices of 1918, and the peace treaties of 1919 and 1920. That moment, we argue, was a challenging and transformative time for the Empire. While British authorities successfully answered some of the post-war tests they faced, such as demobilisation, repatriation, and fighting the widespread effects of the Spanish flu, the racial, social, political and economic hallmarks of their imperialism set the scene for a wide range of expressions of loyalties and disloyalties, and anticolonial movements. The book documents and conceptualises this 1918-20 ‘moment’ and its characteristics as a crucial three-year period of transformation for and within the Empire, examining these years for the significant shifts in the imperial relationship that occurred and as laying the foundation for later change in the imperial system.

Free Download Jack Woodhouse, G.A.Embleton – The War in the Air 1914-1918
Almark Publishing | 1974 | ISBN: 0855241799 | English | 104 pages | PDF | 68.74 MB
The author traces the development of the aircraft as a fighting machine and describes the changing pattern of air tactics and supremacy. The book contains many superb illustrations of famous machines and provides a thorough guide to the types of aircraft used by the Allies and by Germany during the four years of war.

Free Download Andrew Rawson, "Somme Offensive – March 1918"
English | 2018 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 1526723328 | EPUB | 99,5 mb
This is an account of the British Expeditionary Force’s defensive battle on the Somme in March and April of 1918. It starts with the huge German offensive along a 60 mile front on 21 March. Third and Fifth Armies then had to make a series of fighting withdrawals in which some battalions had to fight their way out while others were overrun.

Free Download Tim Benbow, "Naval Warfare 1914-1918: From Coronel To The Atlantic And Zeebrugge (The History of World War I)"
English | 2012 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1906626162 | EPUB | 12,4 mb
The struggle for naval supremacy and the naval arms race inspired by HMS Dreadnought may have captured the headlines, but the opening stages of the naval war were dominated by the threat from German cruisers stationed outside European waters, until they were hunted down and sunk by the Royal Navy, notably at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914. Germany switched its focus to the U-boat, seeing it as a weapon capable of winning the war by starving Britain into surrender. Unrestricted submarine warfare led to the sinking of millions of tons of shipping, but it would also force the USA to enter the war on the Allied side in 1917. In the Mediterranean, the French fleet took the lead, while Austria-Hungary supported German actions. The Allied attempt in 1915 to use maritime power to break the strategic deadlock with an amphibious operation in the Dardanelles ultimately failed, although Allied sea power helped sustain the successful campaigns against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East.

Free Download Tim Benbow, "Naval Warfare 1914-1918: From Coronel To The Atlantic And Zeebrugge (The History of World War I)"
English | 2012 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1906626162 | EPUB | 12,4 mb
The struggle for naval supremacy and the naval arms race inspired by HMS Dreadnought may have captured the headlines, but the opening stages of the naval war were dominated by the threat from German cruisers stationed outside European waters, until they were hunted down and sunk by the Royal Navy, notably at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914. Germany switched its focus to the U-boat, seeing it as a weapon capable of winning the war by starving Britain into surrender. Unrestricted submarine warfare led to the sinking of millions of tons of shipping, but it would also force the USA to enter the war on the Allied side in 1917. In the Mediterranean, the French fleet took the lead, while Austria-Hungary supported German actions. The Allied attempt in 1915 to use maritime power to break the strategic deadlock with an amphibious operation in the Dardanelles ultimately failed, although Allied sea power helped sustain the successful campaigns against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East.

Free Download Patrick Bade, "Klimt, 1862-1918"
English | 2011 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 1844845907 | PDF | 42,4 mb
Gustav Klimt first made himself known by the decorations he executed (with his brother and their art school companion F. Matsch), for numerous theatres and above all (on his own this time) for the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, where he completed, in a coolly photographic style, the work begun by Makart. At the age of thirty he moved into his own studio and turned to easel painting. At thirty-five he was one of the founders of the Vienna Secession; he withdrew eight years later, dismayed by the increasingly strong trend towards naturalism.