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With the Big Guns
At the outbreak of World War 1, Ernest Randolph Holmes, eldest of seven children, from Kew Victoria, couldn't enlist in the artillery fast enough. This is his story, told through...
Over the Top: Great Battles of the First World War
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The book titled Over the Top: Great Battles of the First World War by the author Martin Marix Evans. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of
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A comprehensive guide to the aces of the British Empire fighting scout units during World War I. It gives biographies of 800 British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, South African and...
German Anzacs and the First World War
By 1914 Australia's German immigrants were well-regarded in their communities and made up (after Irish and Scots) the fourth-largest white ethnic community in Australia. This thoroughly readable history, with lively...
Leadership in Conflict 1914-1918
The First World War was a conflict in which personality and character mattered. Its course and outcome were decided by determined individuals who had to make momentous decisions in very...
The First Anzacs: The incredible untold stories of Aussie and Kiwi
They were airbrushed out of history. Official historian Charles Bean claimed the first Australian ashore at the Gallipoli landing on 25 April 1915 was an infantry officer. But Bean wasn't...
Windermere and Grasmere in the Great War
Windermere and Grasmere in the Great War is an expert account of these Lake District town's fascinating contributions to the Great War effort from the outbreak of war in 1914,...
The Real Great Escape: The Story of the First World War's Most Daring
Bigger than The Great Escape. The story of the first successful mass tunnel escape from a POW camp in First World War Germany. Bigger than The Great Escape. The story...
The First World War in the Middle East
The First World War in the Middle East is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia...
Year of the Locust: A Soldier's Diary and the Erasure of Palestine's
Year of the Locust captures in page-turning detail the end of the Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. In the diaries of Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman (1893-1917), the...
Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918
This important new contribution to the successful textbook series New Approaches to European History explores the comprehensive impact of the First World War on Imperial Germany. It examines military aspects...
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of T.E. Lawrence - also known as 'Lawrence of Arabia' - of his service in the Arab Revolt during the First World...
Naval Battles of the First World War
With the call to action stations of August 1914, the Royal Navy faced its greatest test since the time of Nelson. Geoffrey Bennett's classic history of the Great War at...
Haig's Command: A Reassessment
Dennis Winter sets out to expose and analyze a major historical fraud. His theme is the Western Front in Haig's time - from the Somme to the Armistice - and...
The Secrets of Rue St. Roch: Hope and Heroism Behind Enemy Lines in
As the fate of the war hangs in the balance, she and an intrepid group of men and women including priest Father Cambron, schoolteacher Joseph Hansen and, above all, dashing...
Australian Code Breakers: Our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich
The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T....
The Great War: 1914-18
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
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
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...
The Diver and The Lover: From the bestselling author of MURDER ON LINE
'The lives of the characters get entangled in this powerful read' WOMAN'S OWN 'A pacy, gripping tale of secrets, love and betrayal in 1950s Catalonia, written with skill and colour....
Walking with the ANZACS: The authoritative guide to the Australian
The essential companion, fully revised and updated, to the Australian battlefields on the Western Front, this new edition features: - Fully updated tour itineraries, including a new dedicated Villers-Bretonneux tour...
A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War
In the First World War, Australian reactions to death were defined by distance, a circumstance that impelled mourners towards communal responses to their loss. It drove them to create and...
Airfields & Airmen of Cambrai: Battleground
Airfields and Airmen Cambrai covers the earliest days of the RFC with the retreat from Mons. We visit the graves of Fokker Eindecker aces and the airfields where the first...
Airfields and Airmen: Ypres
This is the first book in the Battleground Europe Series discovering the airfields and airmen of the Great War. It is sometimes forgotten that the Wright Brother's first flight took...
Millington's Mission
On April 25th, 1915, Australian troops landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula, and thousands died as they landed at the incorrect position and faced steep cliffs and barrages of enemy fire....
Fifteen Rounds a Minute: The Grenadiers at War, August to December
This book, originally published in 1976, is an account of the first five months of the First World War, as seen by members of a battalion of the Grenadier Guards...
Cavalry of the Clouds: Air War over Europe 1914-1918
In 1917, David Lloyd George declared that airmen were 'the cavalry of the clouds - the knighthood of this war.' This romantic image was fostered post-war by writers of adventure...
Making the Legend: The War Writings of C.E.W. Bean
The book titled Making the Legend: The War Writings of C.E.W. Bean by the author C.E.W. Bean. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Undertones of War
With a new introduction and editorial apparatus by eminent military historian Hew Strachan In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the...
World War One: A Short History
In 1914, a new kind of war came about, bringing with it a new kind of world. World War One began on horseback, with generals employing bayonet charges to gain...
The Unseen Anzac: how an enigmatic explorer created Australia's World
The previously untold story of an extraordinary man and a great war photographer. The previously untold story of an extraordinary man and a great war photographer. Cameras were banned at...
Nation in Arms: The British Army in the First World War
The Great War was the first conflict to draw men and women into uniform on a massive scale. From a small regular force of barely 250,000, the British Army rapidly...
Hero on the Western Front: Discovering Sergeant York's WWI Battlefield
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...
The First World War: A Miscellany
Have you ever wondered... Who fired the first British shot of the First World War? Who claimed the glory of downing the Red Baron? Who was the first WW1 soldier...
The Final Days 1918
The latest volume in the series covering the final days of the war on the Western Front from the Allied Armies being poised to capture the Hindenburg Line to the...
The War Poets: Lives and Writings of the 1914-18 War Poets
The book titled The War Poets: Lives and Writings of the 1914-18 War Poets by the author Robert Giddings. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
And in the Morning: A Novel of Love and War
Based on thorough research, this is the story of Gallipoli as seen through the eyes of two brothers fighting on the beach and a female Australian nurse. It gives an...
The Airman's War, 1914-18
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The book titled The Airman's War, 1914-18 by the author Peter Liddle. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Images of Gallipoli
The 150 photographs in this extraordinary book have been drawn from a newly discovered collection, to tell the story of the Gallipoli campaign. They show how the British and Australians...
The First Day on the Somme: 1 July 1916
Martin Middlebrook's "The First Day on the Somme" is a compelling and intensely moving account of the blackest day in the history of the British army. On 1 July, 1916,...
Haig's Command: A Reassessment
This book sets out to expose and analyse a major historical fraud. The author's theme is the Western Front in Haig's time - from the Somme to the armistice. Using...
Beneath Hill 60
The extraordinary little-known true story of the cat-and-mouse war waged beneath the trenches of the Western Front and the subject of a powerful new film. The extraordinary little-known true story...
Peace and War: Britain in 1914
1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war; suffragette agitation was assuming an ever more violent...
On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War
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
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...
Christmas 1914: The First World War at Home and Abroad
By December 1914, it had become clear to even the most optimistic observer that the war would not be over by Christmas. That month brought the first enemy inflicted deaths...