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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...
An Airman's Wife: A True Story of Lovers Seperated by War
Aimee McHardy and William Bond enjoyed a racy and passionate life together long before they were married in January 1917. In her book she speaks of their pre-war vagabond existence,...
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...
Wars of Latin America, 1899-1941
The years 1899 through 1941 are remarkable even by Latin America's uniquely turbulent standards. During this time, border disputes and domestic insurrections forcefully shaped the history of this area, as...
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe
This is a biography of American writer Thomas Wolfe by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Herbert Donald. The book follows Wolfe from improbable affairs to drunken brawls, from his mother's "Old...
The Russian Revolution: A Short History
This study deals with the events of the Russian Revolution and the Civil War from 1917-1921. It provides a factual, chronological account of the main political events of the period,...
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...
Writers in Hollywood, 1915-51
The book titled Writers in Hollywood, 1915-51 by the author Ian Hamilton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The World Crisis 1911-1918
The classic history of World War I, and essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the twentieth century Winston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of...
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...
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...
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...
British Naval Aviation: Fleet Air Arm, 1917-90
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From conducting the first deck landing to deployment of the first vertical take-off aircraft, the British Fleet Air Arm has been at the forefront of international naval air development. Through...
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 Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
Unrivalled for its range and intensity, the poetry of the First World War continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains,...
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...
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 Unknown Warrior: The Extraordinary Story of the Nation's Hero
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER Chosen by WATERSTONES as one of their BEST HISTORY BOOKS for 2024 'Compelling... [Nichol has a] terrific eye for detail; an ability to blend...
The Faces of World War I: The Great War in words & pictures
Charting the BEA's entry into warfare in 1914, he tells the story in words and pictures of the new conscripted army s life through the five years of slaughter and...
In The Footsteps of Private Lynch
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When Will Davies discovered the manuscript for Somme Mud he knew he had found a lost treasure. Private Lynch's powerful, personal story of his time in the trenches of the...
Silent Voices
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Silent Voices explores the lives of the men of 10th Infantry battalion, from its formation in September 1914 at Morphettville in South Australia to its disbanding after the Great War...
Five Children on the Western Front: 10th Anniversary Edition
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION PRIZE ' Magnificent .' -The Times ' Outstanding .' - Independent ' Deeply...
British Expeditionary Force - The 1915 Campaign
'The British Expeditionary Force - The 1915 Campaign' is a thorough account of the BEF's actions during the battles of 1915 and early 1916, starting with the success at Neuve...
Visitor's Guide - The First Day of the Somme
Many guidebooks cover the Somme offensive in 1916, the five-month struggle that has come to be seen as one of the defining episodes in the history of the fighting on...
Victoria Crosses on the Western Front - April 1915 to June 1916
During visits to the First World War battlefields the author often wondered where various Victoria Cross actions took place; he resolved to find out. Research commenced in 1988 and numerous...
Hidden Faces
In swirling, surreal prose, the iconic artist Salvador Dali portrays the intrigues and love affairs of a group of eccentric aristocrats who, in their luxury and extravagance, symbolize decadent Europe...
Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945
The story of how the British really won two world wars - by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and bluffing their way out of trouble. Pretend German radio stations broadcast...
Private Peaceful
Heroism or cowardice? A stunning story of the First World War from a master storyteller 'Full of warmth as well as grief, conveying vividly how precious it is to be...
The Guns of August: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of
Tuchman's spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war - reissued for the 2014 Centenary War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted...
Virginia Woolf
This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or...
In Flanders Fields: A WWI children's picture book
Representing a moment of humanity in the brutality of war, In Flanders Fields is a gentle introduction for young readers to the horrors of the battlefield. Inspired by the true...
Lighthouse Girl: An illustrated anniversary edition of a classic
Based on the true story of Fay Howe, this gentle, illustrated tale brings to life the hardships of those left at home during WWI - those waiting, wondering and hoping....
Letters Home
Robert Byron is best remembered now for The Road to Oxiana. Less well-known is that, like many of his generation, notably Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, he was...
D. H. Lawrence: Triumph to Exile 1912-1922: The Cambridge Biography of
This second volume of the acclaimed Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence covers the years 1912-22, the period in which Lawrence forged his reputation as one of the greatest and...
A Question of Character: John F. Kennedy in Image and Reality
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Questioning how the less than exemplary life of JFK related to the actions and decisions of his public career, Thomas Reeves probes the bewildering vagaries of Kennedy's character. He shows...
To Arras, 1917: A Volunteer's Odyssey
A biography of the author's uncle, Ernest Reid, who died in 1917, an officer in the Black Watch, of wounds sustained in the Battle of Arras. Born and raised in...
Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End
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 were the three great powers...