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Blasted Things

Blasted Things

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Sometimes love hurts. Sometimes love kills... It's 1920 and Britain is trying to move on after World War 1. Clementine, who nursed on the front and suffered her own losses,...
Churchill's Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm

Churchill's Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm

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A major new history of Churchill in the 1930s, showing how his meetings at Chartwell, his country home, strengthened his fight against the Nazis In the 1930s, amidst an impending...
The White Lady: The Story of Two Key British Secret Service Networks

The White Lady: The Story of Two Key British Secret Service Networks

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A major new history of the two most important British secret service networks in the First and Second World Wars Intelligence gathering was essential to both sides in the First...
Amiens 1918: From Disaster to Victory

Amiens 1918: From Disaster to Victory

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Gregory Blaxland has written a superb account of 1918, the final year of the war when the balance of advantage between the combatants changed so dramatically in a matter of...
Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory

Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory

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Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory explores the transformation of Gallipoli's landscape in antiquity, during the famed battles of the First World War and in the present...
The Western Front Illustrated 1914-1918

The Western Front Illustrated 1914-1918

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The book titled The Western Front Illustrated 1914-1918 by the author John Laffin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918

Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918

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What happened on the last day of the Great War? Each year since we have marked the end of the war with tributes and remembrance, solemnity and respect. But as...
The Cambrai Campaign 1917

The Cambrai Campaign 1917

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Cambrai Campaign 1917 is an account of the British Expeditionary Force s battles in November and December of 1917. It starts with the plan to carry out a tank raid...
Spirits of the Somme: Visions of  War

Spirits of the Somme: Visions of War

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The 1st of July 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, was the blackest day in the history of the British Army. 60,000 men became casualties on...
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy

Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy

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On May 7, 1915, toward the end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R.M.S. Lusitania --pride of the Cunard Line and one of the greatest...
Riding in the Zone Rouge: The Tour of the Battlefields 1919 -

Riding in the Zone Rouge: The Tour of the Battlefields 1919 -

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'An evocatively thoughtful wider history of the race, the war and the peace' GUARDIAN 'Occasionally funny and regularly poignant, brilliantly focused in its research . . . His drive, wit...
On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the

On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the

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Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the...
The White Ships: New Zealand's First World War Hospital Ships

The White Ships: New Zealand's First World War Hospital Ships

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This first book in the Centenary History of New Zealand and the First World War tells the story of the hospital ships. Based on extensive research, it brings to life...
Lawrence of Arabia: The definitive 21st-century biography of a

Lawrence of Arabia: The definitive 21st-century biography of a

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An enthralling and illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the inspiration for the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from \"The World's Greatest Living Explorer\" Ranulph Fiennes Co-opted by...
Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack

Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack

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"A beguiling tale of espionage and double-dealing in the years leading up to World War II. ... Strap in for a narrative that demands a suspension of disbelief-and richly rewards...
The Times Churchill

The Times Churchill

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A must-read for anyone with an interest in history, politics, or the fascinating story and enduring legacy of an extraordinary figure: Winston Churchill. Widely regarded as one of the most...
Expertise, Authority and Control: The Australian Army Medical Corps in

Expertise, Authority and Control: The Australian Army Medical Corps in

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Expertise, Authority and Control charts the development of Australian military medicine in the First World War in the first major study of the Australian Army Medical Corps in over seventy...
War Poems

War Poems

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At the dawn of World War I, Siegfried Sassoon exchanged his pursuits of cricket, fox-hunting, and romantic verse for army life amid the muddy trenches of France. The first English...
The Great War Illustrated 1917: Archive and Photographs of WWI

The Great War Illustrated 1917: Archive and Photographs of WWI

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The Great War Illustrated 1917 covers the battles at Arras, Passchendaele and Cambrai, the use of aviation and the role of the tanks. Some images will be familiar, and many...
British Aviation: The First Half Century

British Aviation: The First Half Century

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The first half of the 20th century saw the birth of the airplane and its development as an instrument of war and commerce. Within five decades, contraptions barely able to...
Krithia: Gallipoli

Krithia: Gallipoli

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Krithia was a key objective in the land offensives; a killing ground greater than Anzac or Suvla. This book adds to the Gallipoli story and the preceding Battleground books on...
The Times Churchill

The Times Churchill

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A must-read for anyone with an interest in history, politics, or the fascinating story and enduring legacy of an extraordinary figure: Winston Churchill. Widely regarded as one of the most...
Russian Supply Efforts in America During the First World War

Russian Supply Efforts in America During the First World War

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The Imperial Russian government's efforts to procure much-needed military supplies in the American market before and after America's entry into World War I are the focus of this work. It...
The Western Front: A History of the First World War

The Western Front: A History of the First World War

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\"The best modern single-volume history of the war on the Western Front\" (The Spectator), by the acclaimed author of the bestselling Passchendaele In the annals of military history, the Western...
1914: The Year the World Ended

1914: The Year the World Ended

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Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth- 1914 did. Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth- 1914 did. In July that year,...
Gallipoli: from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty

Gallipoli: from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on

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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Fascinatingly imaginative popular history.' Sydney Morning Herald On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between...
Lenin on the Train

Lenin on the Train

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A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and changed the history of the...
Monash and Chauvel: How Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history

Monash and Chauvel: How Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history

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Monash and Chauvel follows the extraordinary campaigns of the two most outstanding battlefield commanders of the First World War across all the Allied armies: John Monash and Harry Chauvel. John...
Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor

Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack

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In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland-a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and...
Pioneers of Armour in the Great War

Pioneers of Armour in the Great War

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AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS 'Pioneers of Armour in the Great War' tells the story of the only Australian mechanised units of the Great War. The 1st Australian Armoured Car Section, later the...
Hero on the Western Front: Discovering Sergeant York's WWI Battlefield

Hero on the Western Front: Discovering Sergeant York's WWI Battlefield

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They knew it was the end. Weakened by four years of war, the reality had finally dawned on the Germans that their armies could never stop the combined might of...
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

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National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post,...
The Hidden Perspective: The Military Conversations 1906-1914

The Hidden Perspective: The Military Conversations 1906-1914

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In 1905, British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey agreed to speak secretly with his French counterparts about sending a British expeditionary force to France in the event of a German attack....
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

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Author: Adam HochschildFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 440g, 432 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK...
Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America

Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
War is Over

War is Over

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From the bestselling, award-winning author of SKELLIG comes a vivid and moving story, beautifully illustrated, written to commemorate the hundred-year anniversary of the end of the First World War. "I...