Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich : ideology, scholarship, and individual biographies /

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Hitler's first war : Adolf Hitler, the men of the List Regiment, and the First World War / by Weber, Thomas, 1974-

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Mountbatten : apprentice war lord / by Smith, Adrian, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Lord Louis Mountbatten -- a royal parvenu? The First World War and the 1920s -- Fast-tracking in the 1930s -- HMS Kelly, 1939-40 -- HMS Kelly, 1941 -- From Adviser to Chief of Combined Operations, 1941-42 -- The Dieppe Raid, 19 August 1942 -- Dieppe -- the aftermath, the inquest, and the debate -- 'The steel hand from the sea' -- Combined Operations at its zenith -- Conclusion.…”
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Maharajah of Bikaner ; India / by Purcell, Hugh

Table of Contents: “…Life and the land -- Maharaja of Bikaner and the Indian Princes -- Indian Army in the First World War -- SP Sinha and the Indian National Congress -- Imperial War Cabinet and Conference, March -- May 1917 -- Montagu-Chelmsford reforms -- Paris Peace Conference -- Call to peace -- Paris Peace Conference -- India and the League of Nations / India and the Ottoman Empire -- Legacy -- Reform and revolt, 1919-24 -- Towards independence : the rise of the Congress Party / Bikaner and the fall of the princes.…”
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Loyal service : perspectives on French-Canadian military leaders /

Table of Contents: “…FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Hertel and Canada's First Tacticians in the Seventeenth Century; CHAPTER TWO: Marin and Langis: Master Practitioners of La Petite Guerre; CHAPTER THREE: Ascending to Leadership: The Militia Commanders of Montreal, Lower Canada (1790-1839); CHAPTER FOUR: Adolphe Caron: Canada's Successful War Minister; CHAPTER FIVE: The Military Career of Colonel Oscar Pelletier: An Example of French-Canadian Leadership Before the First World War; CHAPTER SIX: The Strength of Character: Major-General F.L. …”
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Père Marie-Benoît and Jewish rescue : how a French priest together with Jewish friends saved thousands during the Holocaust / by Zuccotti, Susan, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Pierre Péteul : Family Heritage and Education -- Pierre Péteul and the First World War -- The Years between the Wars, 1919 to 1939 -- First Steps toward Jewish Rescue : Marseille, May 1940 to August 1942 -- With Joseph Bass in Marseille, August 1942 to June 1943 -- With Angelo Donati in Nice, November 1942 to June 1943 -- Père Marie-Benoît and the Donati Plan, June to September 1943 -- Early Rescue in Rome, September and October 1943 -- With Stefan Schwamm in Rome : Securing Documents for Jewish Rescue -- With Stefan Schwamm in Rome : Securing Funds for Jewish Rescue -- After the Liberation of Rome -- The Final Decades -- Epilogue.…”
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Haig : the evolution of a commander / by Wiest, Andrew A.

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Suffrage days : stories from the women's suffrage movement / by Holton, Sandra Stanley

Table of Contents: “…From 'surplus woman' to independent person : Elizabeth Wolstenholme and the early women's movement -- 'The revolt of the women' : sexual subjection and sexual solidarity -- A 'strange, erratic genius' : Jessie Craigen, working suffragist -- 'The grandest victory' : married women and the franchise -- Among the 'insurgent women' : Hannah Mitchell, socialist and suffragist -- 'A merry, militant saint' : Mary Gawthorpe and the argument of the stone -- Women's suffrage among the bohemians : Laurence Housman joins the movement -- 'On the horns of a dilemma' : Alice Clark, liberal Quaker and democratic suffragist -- Men, women's suffrage and sexual radicalism, 1912-14 -- Women's suffrage and the First World War -- Last words : women's suffragists and women's history after the vote.…”
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Foch : Supreme Allied Commander in the Great War / by Neiberg, Michael S.

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Becoming my mother's daughter : a story of survival and renewal / by Gottlieb, Erika

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Walther Rathenau : the life of Weimar's fallen statesman / by Volkov, Shulamit, 1942-

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The invention of Palestinian citizenship, 1918-1947 / by Banko, Lauren

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Chemistry was their life : pioneering British women chemists, 1880-1949 / by Rayner-Canham, Marelene F.

Table of Contents: “…Women chemists and the First World War. The war and young women. Women chemists and the war gases. …”
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