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First Over There: The Attack on Cantigny, America's First Battle of

First Over There: The Attack on Cantigny, America's First Battle of

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The riveting true story of America's first modern military battle, its first military victory during World War One, and its first steps onto the world stage At first light on...
Jutland 1916: Twelve Hours to Win the War

Jutland 1916: Twelve Hours to Win the War

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Drawing on a wealth of first-hand accounts, some of which were previously unknown, it weaves a highly original narrative, which intertwines original research, into a fast-paced account of the fighting....
Five Days From Defeat: How Britain Nearly Lost the First World War

Five Days From Defeat: How Britain Nearly Lost the First World War

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On 21 March 1918, Germany initiated one of the most ferocious offensives of the First World War. During the so-called Kaiserschlacht, German troops advanced on allied positions in a series...
The Hindenburg Line Campaign 1918: Volume 26

The Hindenburg Line Campaign 1918: Volume 26

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In the last devastating months of the First World War, the British Fourth Army pursued the Germans to their final defensive position - the Hindenburg Line, a formidable series of...
Arms and Armour of the First World War

Arms and Armour of the First World War

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The First World War was a watershed in human history. Beginning in the European summer of 1914, the conflict reverberated around the world, destroying four empires and costing nearly ten...
The Somme: Then and Now - A Visual History

The Somme: Then and Now - A Visual History

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The book titled The Somme: Then and Now - A Visual History by the author Duncan Youel. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
1918: How the First World War Was Won

1918: How the First World War Was Won

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Produced in association with Imperial War Museums, 1918: How the First World War Was Won gives a detailed account of the final year of the war. It examines each battle...
Lost Anzacs

Lost Anzacs

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This book is intended for students of military history and of Commonwealth history.
Jutland: The Unfinished Battle

Jutland: The Unfinished Battle

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More than one hundred years after the battle of Jutland, the first and largest engagement of Dreadnoughts in the twentieth century, historians are still fighting this controversial and misunderstood battle....
The Digger's View: WWI in Colour

The Digger's View: WWI in Colour

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The Digger's View - WWI in Colour offers an unprecedented view of Australia's military history - the way the soldiers saw themselves during the 1914-1918 period. Painstakingly brought to life...
The Great War: 1914-18

The Great War: 1914-18

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On the 4th of August 1914 the First World War started with the German invasion of Belgium. Four years later, on November 11th 1918, the weapons fell silent, and on...
Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War. Lawrence's...
Masters of Mayhem: Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission

Masters of Mayhem: Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission

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Silver Medal winner in Military History Matters 'Book of the Year' Award "Written with great accuracy, detail, enthusiasm, and insight " Military History Matters judges' comment Striking where the enemy...
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...
On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War

On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War

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Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of...
The Last Battle: Soldier Settlement in Australia 1916-1939

The Last Battle: Soldier Settlement in Australia 1916-1939

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When Australian soldiers returned from the First World War they were offered the chance to settle on 'land fit for heroes'. Promotional material painted a picture of prosperous farms and...
Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End

Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End

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After the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the three great powers...
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,...
Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars

Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars

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A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary...
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...
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...
Forgotten Voices of the Somme: The Most Devastating Battle of the

Forgotten Voices of the Somme: The Most Devastating Battle of the

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The definitive oral history of the most infamous and bloody conflict of the Great War 1916. The Somme. With over a million casualties, it was the most brutal battle of...
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. In July that year, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain and France were poised to plunge the world into...
The Month that Changed the World: July 1914

The Month that Changed the World: July 1914

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On 28 June 1914 the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Balkans. Five fateful weeks later the Great Powers of Europe were at war. Much time and ink...
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...
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World

Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World

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Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart...
Death Sat on a Pale Horse: the WW1 Experiences of Two Gunners of 3rd

Death Sat on a Pale Horse: the WW1 Experiences of Two Gunners of 3rd

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The World War One Diaries, Letters and Sketches of Harold Stephens and W 'Billy' O'Neil. Over 90 years ago two friends from the farming community of Cowra, New South Wales...
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...
Chronicles of the Great War: Western Front 1914-1918 - 80th

Chronicles of the Great War: Western Front 1914-1918 - 80th

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An absorbing narrative, brought together with a series of special editorial features and some 400 photographs to produce a unique and thought-provoking view of the horror that was the Western...
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...
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...
The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force

The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force

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A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its founding The dizzying pace of technological change in the early 20th century meant that it...
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...
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...
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...