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Woman War Doctor: The Life of Mary De Garis
One of the first of the women 'medicals' to graduate from Melbourne University, Mary De Garis was a pioneering doctor in the early 20th...
The Killing Season: A New History of Autumn 1914
An in-depth, authoritative account of the autumn of 1914 on the Western Front and the First Battle of Ypres, a true turning point in modern warfare. The final months of...
The Secrets of Anzac Ridge: In Flanders Fields - An extraordinary
The impact of World War I ripples through time. In this moving and essential book, historian Patricia Skehan brings to light secret details of Anzac experiences on the Western Front....
The Thunder from the Silent Zone: Re-thinking China
Challenging conventional wisdom about China and its relationship to the rest of the world, this study offers a sophisticated critique of Samuel Huntington's influential "clash of civilizations" hypothesis. Arguing that...
Sinai 1916-17: The Fight for the Suez Canal
A fascinating dive into the overlooked fight between the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force and the Ottoman Empire for control of the Suez Canal. The Battle of Romani was fought...
Royal Navy Grand Fleet 1914-18: Britain's last supreme naval fleet
World War I was Britain's last moment as the world's naval superpower, and its Grand Fleet was then the most powerful ever seen . Fully illustrated, this explores its fighting...
Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918-40
'A compelling history.' - The Sunday Times 'Thought-provoking.' - The Spectator 'Interesting and well-researched.' - The Sunday Telegraph A compelling history of the decline of an army from the triumph...
ANZAC Soldier vs Ottoman Soldier: Gallipoli and Palestine 1915-18
In 1915-18, ANZAC and Ottoman soldiers clashed on numerous battlefields, from Gallipoli to Jerusalem. This illustrated study investigates the two sides' fighting men. The Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 pitched the...
The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Turning Point of the Great War,
This revealing historical examination looks at the pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War, when all sides-Germany, Britain, and America-believed the war could have been concluded...
Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918-40
'A compelling history.' - The Sunday Times 'Thought-provoking.' - The Spectator 'Interesting and well-researched.' - The Sunday Telegraph A compelling history of the decline of an army from the triumph...
The Football Battalions: The Elite Footballers Who Fought in the Great
WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARD WINNER - Best Non-Fiction or Fiction by a Parliamentarian 'An extraordinary story' - David Williamson, Chief Political Commentator at the Daily Express 'Lovely book ... a lot...
The Cambridge History of the First World War
Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the First World War offers a history of the war from a predominantly political angle and concerns itself with the story of the...
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a result of fraudulent British promises of self-rule, Lawrence led them in a triumphant...
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914
The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian...
The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the
Harry Patch, 110 years old, is the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War. From his vivid memories of an Edwardian childhood,...
The Marne, 1914: the Opening of World War I and the Battle That
It is one of the essential events of military history, a cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of two wars...
Pillars of Fire: The Battle of Messines Ridge June 1917
'Gentleman, we may not make history tomorrow, but we shall certainly change the geography.' So said General Plumer the day before 600 tons of explosives were detonated under the German...
Ypres Diary 1914-15: The Memoirs of Sir Morgan Crofton
Sir Morgan Crofton fought in the Boer War and joined the 2nd Life Guards at 34 years old as a cavalry office. His diary charts his experiences on the front-line...
Voices From the Trenches: Life & Death on the Western Front
A treasure-trove of previously unpublished letters and first hand accounts from British 'tommies' of life and death in the trenches during the First World War. This is the story of...
The Western Front
It was along the Western Front, the trench line stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss border, that most of nine million soldiers from the United Kingdom and British...
Cambrai 1917: The Myth Of The First Great Tank Battle
Cambrai was the last battle fought by the British on the Western Front in 1917. With Russia out of the war, Italy on the brink of collapse and the French...
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
A gripping chronicle of the personal and political rivalries from the birth of Queen Victoria to the unification of Germany during the decades leading up to WW1 from Pulitzer Prize...
Great War
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The magnitude and horror of the First World War becomes increasingly hard to comprehend, it shaped the world we inhabit. It pitted the mightiest imperial powers against one another in...
Images of War World War One
They shall not grow old . . . they shall not grow old . . . In 1914, despite being forbidden, many a Kiwi soldier's kitbag included a portable camera,...
Five Days From Defeat: How Britain Nearly Lost the First World War
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...
First Day of the Somme: The Complete Account of Britain's Worst-ever
A groundbreaking history of the first, horrific day of one of the most notorious, bloody offensives of all time, from its inept planning to its disastrous execution. It took several...
1918: The Decisive Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs
1918 proved to be the Allies year of victory, but what a monumental effort it was! From the moment Germany launched its all-out Spring offensive to win the war, British...
The Journey's End Battalion: The 9th East Surrey in the Great War
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R.C. Sherriff, author of Journey's End, the most famous play of the Great War, saw all his frontline service with the 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. This intense experience profoundly...
Invasion 1914: The Schlieffen Plan to the Battle of the Marne
For a century, accounts of the German invasion of France and the opening year of the First World War have been dominated by histories of British troops and their experience...
1915: The Death of Innocence
A blend of military history and memories, this text represents the fruits of 20 years of research. It is a chronicle of World War I, told from the viewpoint of...
The Lost Tommies
'Lost Tommies' brings together stunning never-before-seen images of Western Front tommies and their amazing stories in a beautiful collection that is part thriller, part family history and part national archive....
Fighter Heroes of WWI: The untold story of the brave and daring
The first heroes of the air. Rewriting the rules of military engagement and changing the course of modern history as a result, the pioneering airmen of the First World War...
The Hindenburg Line Campaign 1918: Volume 26
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...
The Landing at Anzac 1915
The Landing at Anzac, 1915 challenges many of the cherished myths of the most celebrated battle in Australian and New Zealand history - myths that have endured for almost a...
The Somme: The Untold Story in Never Before Seen Panorama
Peter Barton's landmark volume presents over 50 original panoramas of the battlegrounds of the Somme. They show what no other photographs can: the view from the trench parapet, and a...
Germans in Flanders 1914-1916 (Images of War Series)
The book follows in photographs, captions and text the German Army's presence in Flanders from its arrival in September 1914 until the summer of 1916. It looks at the Kaiser's...
Machine Guns of World War I: Live Firing Classic Military Weapons in
All the guns examined in this new paperback edition of "Machine Guns of World War 1" belong to the class known as "automatic" and seven classic World War 1 weapons...
Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918
Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2014 Winner of the 2014 Wolfson History Prize, the 2014 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History, the Society for Military History's 2015 Distinguished Book...
1918 the German Offensives (Images of War Series)
In March 1918 the German Army launched a series of offensives that brought them very close to winning the war. Military photographers followed their advance and took many photographs of...
Salford Pals: A History of the Salford Brigade: 15th, 16th, 19th and
Salford was late in recruiting for its Pals battalions, with many of its men already joining Territorial units and a new Pals battalion in Manchester. Yet within a year it...
Fred's War: A Doctor in the Trenches
The extraordinary story of a young doctor who in 1914 illegally took his camera to war... This book shows his remarkable photographs for the first time and offers an unusually...
Gallipoli: The Dardanelles Disaster in Soldiers' Words and Photographs
Presenting more than 150 never-before-published photographs of the campaign, many taken by the soldiers themselves, together with unpublished written material from British, Anzac, French and Turkish, including eyewitness accounts of...
Battle of Fromelles 1916
The Battle of Fromelles remains the single bloodiest day in terms of soldiers killed, wounded or missing, in Australia's military history. Remains of soldiers were recently discovered in mass graves...
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...
Somme 1916
Gerald Gliddon's classic survery of the Somme battlefield in 1916, first published in 1987 to great acclaim, has been greatly expanded and updated to include the latest research and analysis....
The Zeebrugge Raid 1918: 'The Finest Feat of Arms'
The Zeebrugge Raid was a daring mission to attempt to block the German submarines at Bruges. These submarines were responsible for sinking a third of all Allied merchant shipping during...
Elegy: The First Day on the Somme
On 1 July 1916, after a five-day bombardment, 11 British and 5 French divisions launched their long-awaited 'Big Push' on German positions on high ground above the Rivers Ancre and...
The Salient: Ypres, 1914-18
Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace', but in 1914 the town, and the Salient, the 35-mile bulge in the Western Front, of which it is part, saw a...