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Defiance!: Withstanding the Kaiserschalcht
This fascinating volume charts the progress of the Allied breakout of Normandy through German eyes. Beginning with Operation COBRA and ending with the offensive which led to the liberation of...
Walking into Hell 1st July 1916
The 1st July 1916 was the blackest day in the history of the British Army when 60,000 unsuspecting men of the British 4th Army advanced into the teeth of a...
Star Shell Reflections 1916
The Great War Diaries of Jim Maultsaid As the centenary of the Great War approaches, this book offers a unique perspective told in the words and illustrations of someone who...
Burgoyne Diaries
These are the diaries of Gerald Achilles Burgoyne, wrote from the trenches just south of Ypres while he was with the Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War. The author's...
Defiance!: Withstanding the Kaiserschalcht
This fascinating volume charts the progress of the Allied breakout of Normandy through German eyes. Beginning with Operation COBRA and ending with the offensive which led to the liberation of...
The Lost History of 1914: How the Great War Was Not Inevitable
In The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty examines the First World War and its causes, testing against fresh evidence the long-dominant assumption that it was inevitable. 'Most books set...
Johnny: The Legend and Tragedy of General Sir Ian Hamilton
The Gallipoli campaign was launched in April 1915 in an effort to knock Turkey out of the war but the force that was deployed was too small to achieve its...
Passchendaele 1917: The Tommies' Experience of the Third Battle of
The Battle of Passchendaele was the most gruesome yet fought during the First World War. The British offensive, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, was launched on the...
A Higher Form of Killing: Six Weeks in World War I That Forever
Between April 22 and May 30, 1915, Western civilization was shocked. World War I was already appalling in its brutality, but it had until then been fought on the battlefield...
Churchill and Sea Power
Winston Churchill had a longer and closer relationship with the Royal Navy than any British statesman in modern times, but his record as a naval strategist and custodian of the...
Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack
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...
Air Wars 1920-1939: The Development and Evolution of Fighter Tactics
Spain (1936-9), China (1937 onwards), Mongolia (1939), Finland (1939-40) and France (1939-40) were a testing ground for a new approach to air tactics with western democracies and totalitarian states analyzing...
Great War Fighter Aces 1914 - 1916
Here, Norman Franks tells the story, in words and images, of the emergence of some of the greatest fighter aces to see action during the first half of the First...
The British Sailor of the First World War
How the Royal Navy saw off the U-boat challenge in the Great War, and the daily lives of its sailors.In 1914 Great Britain's navy was the largest and most powerful...
The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South
The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina was founded in 1997 by Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli and named for Professor Bruccoli's father, who...
Man Who Ran London During the Great War
In 1912 Lieutenant General Sir Francis Lloyd was appointed to the supreme position reserved for Guardsmen, the command of the London Districts. The war saw an extension of his responsibilities...
The Creation of the Modern German Army: General Walther Reinhardt and
Civil-military relations have been a consistent theme of the history of the Weimar Republic. This study focuses on the career of General Walther Reinhardt, the last Prussian Minister of War...
Germany in the Great War - The Opening Year: Mobilisation, the Advance
Germany in the Great War Illustrated - Mobilisation and the Western Advance is the first volume of a projected six-part series that details, graphically, the Central Powers - Germany and...
Great Scientists Wage the Great War
Six men made major scientific breakthroughs during the First World War and in doing so altered its course. Lawrence Bragg pinpointed the position of enemy artillery pieces with sound ranging,...
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...
By Sword and Fire: Cruelty And Atrocity In Medieval Warfare
Sean McGlynn investigates the reality of medieval warfare. For all the talk of chivalry, medieval warfare routinely involved acts which we would consider war crimes. Lands laid waste, civilians slaughtered,...
Battle of Jutland: History's Greatest Sea Battle Told Through
Since the days of the Battle of Trafalgar, the Royal Navy had been the acknowledged as the most powerful maritime force on the planet. Britain could boast more warships, and...
Walking the Western Front: The Somme in Pictures
The Walking the Western Front series started in 2012 with the release of two films on the Ypres Salient. Directed by acclaimed film maker Ed Skelding with guest historian Nigel...
Britain and the Widening War, 1915-1916
In a series of concise, thought-provoking chapters the authors summarize and make accessible the latest scholarship on the middle years of the Great War 1915 and 1916 and cover fundamental...
Battles of French Flanders
The battles fought by the British army in 1915, in the second year of the First World War, are less well known than those fought immediately after the outbreak of...
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War
Ian Buruma's maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still...
Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War
Ian Buruma's maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still...
Arras Campaign
This is an account of the British Expeditionary Force's actions during the spring of 1917. It begins with the Allied plans for the New Year and shows how they were...
Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War
Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writingThe natural history of the Western Front during the First World War'If it weren't for the birds, what a...
The Porcelain Moon: A Novel of France, the Great War, and Forbidden
From the critically acclaimed author of The Library of Legends comes a vividly rendered novel set in WWI France about two young women-one Chinese, one French-whose lives intersect with unexpected,...
The Hidden Letters
On the eve of a world war, a forbidden love will blossom in the garden of a stately home, where one young woman will make a choice that will change...
A Disappearance in Fiji: A charming debut historical mystery set in
A charming debut historical mystery set in 1914 Fiji. Perfect for fans of Abir Mukherjee, Vaseem Khan and Sujata Massey.'AN UTTERLY CHARMING NOVEL ... NILIMA RAO IS AN AUTHOR WELL...
The Chanel Sisters
'Delicious and utterly absorbing... This is a book to be relished and savoured. I can't recommend it enough' GILL THOMPSON, author of THE CHILD ON PLATFORM ONE'Historical fiction at its...
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...
Daily Telegraph Dictionary of Tommies' Songs and Slang, 1914-18,
During the First World War the British soldiers were renowned for their chirpy songs and plucky sayings. Indeed nothing would lift the spirits of the often exhausted and demoralized troops...
1918: The Last Act
By 1918, after three years of war, Europe was weary of the stalemate and the terrible slaughter on the Western Front. The Russian Front had collapsed but the United States...
The Great War - The Persuasive Power of Photography
World War I could be called the 'war of the camera'. While earlier conflicts were documented using photography, WWI represented a turning point in how the medium was applied and...
The Porcelain Moon: A Novel of France, the Great War, and Forbidden Love
From the critically acclaimed author of The Library of Legends comes a vividly rendered novel set in WWI France about two young women-one Chinese, one French-whose lives intersect with unexpected,...
Bad Boy: Bert Hall, Aviator and Mercenary of the Skies
Weston Birch (Bert) Hall carved out his place in history with an almost devilish delight. Much of what has been written about him, including his own two autobiographies, has proven...
German Airforce I Knew 1914-1918
Major Georg Paul Neumann was a former German Air Force officer who had served in the Great War. He produced his outstanding survey of the German Air Force in 1920...
Royal Naval Air Service in the First World War
This book makes five original documents relating to the work of Britain's Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) during the First World War readily available to students and historians. To enhance...
The Road to Passchendaele: The Heroic Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs
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...
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
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,...
Fight the Good Fight
Whilst a toxic mixture of nationalism and militarism tore Europe and the wider world apart from 1914 to 1919, there was one factor that united millions of people across all...
The Hidden Perspective: The Military Conversations 1906-1914
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....
Great Scientists Wage the Great War
Six men made major scientific breakthroughs during the First World War and in doing so altered its course. Lawrence Bragg pinpointed the position of enemy artillery pieces with sound ranging,...
Tanks on the Somme: from Morval to Beaumont Hamel
Author: Trevor PidgeonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 160 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2010On 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, tanks - one of...
Images of The National Archives: Codebreakers
Author: Stephen TwiggeFormat: Paperback, 189mm x 234mm, 136 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2020The book reveals the story of British Codebreakers from the reign of Elizabeth I...