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Verdun: The Lost History of the Most Important Battle of World War 1,
$20.00 AUD
Amongst the place names that have become legendary as the sites of horrific battles, the Battle of Verdun during the First World War stands as one of history's greatest clashes....
Thirteen Days: The Road to the First World War
Enormously gripping popular history of the 13-day crisis that led to world war. At the end of WWI, Germany was demonised. The Treaty of Versailles contained a 'war guilt' clause...
On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the
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
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...
First Blitz
Fighting was raging on the other side of the Channel, but in London, in the warmth of a drowsy late-September afternoon, the war seemed a long way away. The roads...
Barbed Wire and Bamboo: Stories of Captivity and Escape from the 1st
This book contains a collection of stories of captivity and escape from World Wars I and II, all involving Australian soldiers. The stories tell of capture, imprisonment and escape -...
The World War 1 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from
$12.00 AUD
Welcome to World War I, formerly known as the "Great War," where men fought and died in trenches and did whatever they could to avoid chemical weapon attacks. You may...
Verdun 1917: The French Hit Back
Unlike the popular view, the French army did not cease offensive operations after the disastrous Nivelle Offensive of spring 1917 and the subsequent mutinies. Nor did the fighting at Verdun...
Aug-14
'A magnificent achievement, a masterpiece of the historian's art.' Guardian 'It is a brilliant achievement.' Sunday Times August 1914 recounts the insane, uncontrollable plunge into war and the bloody catalogue...
The Ministry of Munitions in the First World War: Doing Their Bit
This is the history of Britain's munitions industry in the First World War. It begins with the shortages caused by an expanding army required to fight in trenches, then shows...
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War,
Through a lively blend of memoirs, reminiscences, and modern day adventure, John Baxter (author of The Perfect Meal and Immoveable Feast ) takes us into the heart of Paris during...
Letters Home: To Mother from Gallipoli and Beyond
A Globite suitcase, a diary, and a bundled pile of postcards and letters left abandoned in a barn. Lying unknown to his family, here was the life of a young...
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War
Ian Buruma's grandparents, Bernard Schlesinger and Winifred Regensburg (Winnie & Bun), wrote to each other regularly over their sixty years together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bernard...
World War One: Five Continents in Flanders
Much has been written about the horrors of the First World War, however this is the first book to offer an overview of the more than 50 different cultures present...
First World War
Magisterial in its scope, beautifully written and literally unputdownable.I cannot recommend Keegan's book too highly.'Julian Critchley, Scotsman 'Nobody describes a battle as Keegan does, vividly relating the unfolding events to...
War on Hospital Ships, The: 1914-1918
It is often said 'The first casualty of war is the truth' and there is no better example of this than the furor caused by the claims and counter-claims of...
Central Powers of the Russian Front 1914-1918
Arranged in five sections, one for each year of the War, this superbly illustrated book covers the fluid fighting that took place on the Russian Front from August 1914. Each...
German Prisoners of the Great War: Life in the Skipton Camp
In Munich in 1920, just after the end of the First World War, German officers who had been prisoners of war in England published a book they had written and...
The White Ships: New Zealand's First World War Hospital Ships
$100.00 AUD
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
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...
The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War
The definitive history of the Eastern Front in WWI, from the bestselling author of The Western Front In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Professor Nick...
Chronicles of the Great War: Western Front 1914-1918 - 80th
$12.00 AUD
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...
Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One
In 1914 the world changed forever. When World War One broke out and a generation of men went off to fight, bestselling author Kate Adie shows how women emerged from...
Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack
"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
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...
1918: the Year of Victories
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Arcturus Military Classics discuss the strategies, tactics and weapons of the two World Wars, and vividly bring to life how these were employed on the battlefields of Europe, North Africa...
Expertise, Authority and Control: The Australian Army Medical Corps in
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
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...
Great War Illustrated 1916: Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI
The third in a series of five titles, which will cover each year of the war graphically. Many thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the...
The Great War Illustrated 1917: Archive and Photographs of WWI
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...
Krithia: Gallipoli
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 Road to Passchendaele: The Heroic Year in Soldiers' own Words and
Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly-regarded series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once again, using the winning formula of diaries and...
Walking Gallipoli
Gallipoli was a First World War tragedy, a side show that had ambitious hopes to end the war early. Despite the immense gallantry displayed by those fighting, from the beginning,...
Letter To An Unknown Soldier: If you could write a letter to a First
On Platform One of Paddington Station in London, there is a statue of an unknown soldier; he's reading a letter. On the hundredth anniversary of the declaration of war everyone...
Somme
This book looks at the Battle of the Somme, which was planned as "The Big Push" that would at last break the long stalemate on the Western Front in World...
Anzac: An Illustrated History 1914-1918
This beautifully illustrated book is a moving pictorial record of World War I as experienced by the Anzacs, the soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. Over 500...
Walking Gallipoli
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Montauban: Somme
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The World's War
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Forgotten Voices Of The Great War
$1,210.00 AUD
A fascinating history of World War I in the words of those who were there - 'an extraordinary and immensely moving book' Stephen Fry This unique landmark oral history uses...
French and Germans, Germans and French: A Personal Interpretation of
A magnificent account of Occupied France in both the First and Second World Wars The most difficult and often savage relationship in 20th century western Europe was between the French...
The Western Front: A History of the First World War
\"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
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,...
Victory at Villers-Bretonneux: from the author of Gallipoli, Batavia
On Anzac Day 1918, when the town of Villers-Bretonneux falls to the British defenders, it is the Australians who are called on to save the day, the town, and the...
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth
Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle, fought from July to November 1917, the worst year of the...
Victory at Villers-Bretonneux: from the author of Gallipoli, Batavia
On Anzac Day 1918, when the town of Villers-Bretonneux falls to the British defenders, it is the Australians who are called on to save the day, the town, and the...
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth
Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle, fought from July to November 1917, the worst year of the...