World War 1

Bill the Bastard Bill the Bastard is a remarkable tale of the bond between a determined trooper and his stoic but cantankerous mount during the Light Horse campaigns against the...

Monash and Chauvel follows the extraordinary campaigns of the two most outstanding battlefield commanders of the First World War across all the Allied armies: John Monash and Harry Chauvel. John...

Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History 2014 Winner of the NSW Premier's History Awards, Australian History Prize 2014 Winner of the Queensland Literary Awards, History Award...

The history of quilts, their makers, and usage is an important part of our country's heritage presented here in full detail through 330 vintage photographs. Books on quilt history have,...

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Author: Healy JaquelineBinding: SoftbackPublished: Medical History Museum, University of Melbourne, 2015Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the experiences of Australian medical professionals during World War...

Author: Davies, Vice Admiral Richard BellBinding: HardbackPublished: Peter Davies, 1967, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Ex-libraryJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis memoir recounts the thrilling career of Vice Admiral...

Author: Smithers, A. J. (Alan Jack)Binding: HardbackPublished: Angus and Robertson, 1973, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a comprehensive biography of Sir John Monash,...

Author: Charles BugnetBinding: HardbackPublished: Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press, 1929, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsFoch Speaks is a translation by Russell Green of the...

Author: Chris ChantBinding: HardbackPublished: Silverdale, 2005Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book offers a thorough exploration of the world's most significant bombers, detailing their design, development, and...

Author: Australian War MemorialBinding: HardbackPublished: Australian War Memorial, 1941, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a visual account of two wars through...

Author: J.L. TreloarBinding: HardbackPublished: Australian War Memorial, 1933Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book features photographic reproductions in colour and duo-tone of official war paintings,...

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 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...

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...

The 1st of July 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, was the blackest day in the history of the British Army. 60,000 men became casualties on...

It is no exaggeration to claim that 46th North Midland Division s action on 29 September 1918 was the hammer blow that shattered the will of the German High Command....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This extraordinary book is both an engaging military history and an enthralling mystery. Australia's Lost Heroes tells the astonishing little-known story of the Australian soldiers who fought the Red Army...

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...

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...

A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I. The Great War of 1914-1918 burst on...

The Battle of the Aisne fought in September 1914 introduced a new and savage mode of warfare to the soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force, their French allies and to...

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 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...

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...

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...

AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS 'Pioneers of Armour in the Great War' tells the story of the only Australian mechanised units of the Great War. The 1st Australian Armoured Car Section, later the...

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...

AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS 'Pioneers of Armour in the Great War' tells the story of the only Australian mechanised units of the Great War. The 1st Australian Armoured Car Section, later the...

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,...

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...

They knew it was the end. Weakened by four years of war, the reality had finally dawned on the Germans that their armies could never stop the combined might of...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

During World War One the Scandinavian countries played a dangerous and sometimes questionable game; they proclaimed their neutrality but at the same time pitched the two warring sides against one...

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...

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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...

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...