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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,...
July 1914: Countdown to War
Popular historian Sean McMeekin's story of Europe's countdown to war, told through the eyes of men who, even a century later, still seem larger than life. We meet the brooding...
Sniping in the Great War
Military snipers are highly trained marksmen who target individual enemy soldiers. They are regarded as vital specialists in modern warfare, and their role evolved throughout the Great War. As Martin...
Last Great Cavalry Charge: The Battle of the Silver Helmets, Halen 12
The First World War saw many changes to the way that warfare was conducted. Today, it is hard to believe that the use of cavalry was still seriously contemplated in...
Challenge of Battle: The British Army's Baptism of Fire in the First
In this timely new book, Adrian Gilbert clears away the layers of sentiment that have obscured a true historical understanding of the 1914 campaign to provide a full, unvarnished picture...
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A treasure-trove of previously unpublished letters and first hand accounts from British 'tommies' of life and death in the trenches during the First World War.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...
Somme: Into the Breach
No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front during the First World War than the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The tragic loss of life...
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...
For King And Country: Voices from the First World War
Far more than an anthology, FOR KING AND COUNTRY is Brian MacArthur's attempt to write a history of the First World War by drawing on the writings of those who...
The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's
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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...
Storm of Steel
To read this extraordinary book is to gain a unique insight into the compelling nature of organized, industrialized violence. Michael Hofmann's superlative translation retains all the coruscating vitality of the...
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...
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern
'An outstanding history ... one of the best writers on the First World War' Simon Sebag Montefiore Shortlisted for the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature The Ottoman Endgame...
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...
First Victory: The Hunt for the German Raider Emden
HMAS Sydney's hunt for the German raider, Emden. HMAS Sydney's hunt for the German raider, Emden. When the ships of the new Royal Australian Navy made their grand entry into...
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...
The German Offensives of 1918
On March 21, 1918 the German Army launched a massive offensive on the Western Front in a last desperate attempt to score a decisive victory. The results were spectacular. They...
1914: Fight the Good Fight
No part of the Great War compares in interest with its opening , wrote Churchill. The measured, silent drawing together of gigantic forces, the uncertainty of their movements and positions,...
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...
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 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...
Battleships of World War I: Over 185 Archive Photographs and
A fully illustrated country-by-country directory of Dreadnoughts, including armoured cruisers, battlecruisers and battleships from 1906-1918. Includes Bellerophon, Queen Elizabeth, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Kongo, Bayern, Courbet, Radetzky and many more
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...
Great War Illustrated 1914: Archives and Colour Photographs of WW1
First of a series of five titles which will cover each year of the war graphically. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First...
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...
ANZAC
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...
Military Vehicles from World War I
This authoritative book chronicles the evolution of the tank, as well as jeeps, trucks, personnel carriers, and other land-based military vehicles that play an integral role in modern combat. From...
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...
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...
All the Kaiser's Men: The Life and Death of the German Soldier on the
Convinced that both God and the Kaiser were on their side, the officers and men of the Imperial German Army went to war in 1914, supremely confident that they were...
British Army Handbook 1914-1918
Comprised of Regulars, Territorials, Kitchener's 'New Army' volunteers and conscripts, the British Army of the First World War reached a strength of over 7 million men. In this book, Andrew...
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...
The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command
When hundreds of warships clashed off the coast of Denmark in 1916, the British Grand Fleet should easily have crushed its German rival. Why did it fail to do so?...
Gallipoli: Reckless Valour
Every year, thousands of young people make a pilgrimage to Turkey, to visit a place where men fought and died almost 100 years ago. Why does ANZAC Day still hold...
Gallipoli: A Ridge Too Far
In early August 1915, after months of stalemate in the trenches on Gallipoli, British and Dominion troops launched a series of assaults in an all-out attempt to break the deadlock...