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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...
Attacks

Attacks

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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...
The First World War in 3D: A Unique View of the Great War in Original

The First World War in 3D: A Unique View of the Great War in Original

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Collection of WW1 stereographs offers a unique photographic journey through the war that allows us to glimpse a realistic view only previously available to those that were there. The First...
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 Great War Illustrated 1918: Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI

The Great War Illustrated 1918: Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI

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The final book in a series of five titles which graphically cover each year of the war. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the...
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...
Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War

Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War

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The long-running Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War is one of Te Papas most popular exhibitions, attracting over three million visitors since it opened in 2015. There is still strong...
War, 1914: Punishing the Serbs

War, 1914: Punishing the Serbs

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Dealing with the events leading up to the outbreak of the First World War, and mirroring recent events in Serbia, this report contains the diplomatic exchanges that followed the assassination...
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...
Dublin's Great Wars: The First World War, the Easter Rising and the

Dublin's Great Wars: The First World War, the Easter Rising and the

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For the first time, Richard S. Grayson tells the story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the...
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...
At All Costs: The British Army on the Western Front 1916

At All Costs: The British Army on the Western Front 1916

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1916 was a pivotal year for the British Army. It was a year of intense combat that was defined by the Battle of the Somme and the appalling casualties 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. 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...
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...
The Battle That Won the War - Bellenglise: Breaching the Hindenburg Line 1918

The Battle That Won the War - Bellenglise: Breaching the Hindenburg

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It is no exaggeration to claim that 46th North Midland Division s action on 29 September 1918 was the hammer blow that shattered the will of the German High Command....
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...
Southern Thunder: The Royal Navy and the Scandinavian Trade in World War One

Southern Thunder: The Royal Navy and the Scandinavian Trade in World

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During World War One the Scandinavian countries played a dangerous and sometimes questionable game; they proclaimed their neutrality but at the same time pitched the two warring sides against one...
The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet: From Mutiny to Scapa Flow

The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet: From Mutiny to Scapa Flow

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On 21 June 1919 the ships of the German High Seas Fleet - interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice - began to founder, taking their British custodians completely by...
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...
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...
Odd People: Hunting Spies in the First World War

Odd People: Hunting Spies in the First World War

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