World War 1

This work explores how communism was portrayed in plays in the British theatre between 1917 and 1945, and how at a time when the capitalist system seemed on the verge...

British Theatre in the Great War deals with a theatrical phase customarily dismissed by those charting twentieth-century developments. What becomes clear is that assessment by unsuitable literary criteria has masked...

With so much at stake and so much already lost, why did World War I end with a whimper--an arrangement between two weary opponents to suspend hostilities? After more than...

The First World War appears as a fault line in Britain's twentieth-century history. Between August 1914 and November 1918 the titanic struggle against Imperial Germany and her allies consumed more...

This account of the cataclysmic events in Russia in 1917 begins with the murder of Rasputin by an Oxford-educated transvestite, and the collapse of Old Russia. It ends with the...

In two World Wars, nearly 200 railway-owned ships were converted to operate as troop carriers, hospital ships, minesweepers, and seaplane-carriers, while others carried on normal sailings in a world suddenly...

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...

With themes of love, deception, rivalry and grand world events, this will be our biggest paperback campaign yet THE BOOK OF THE YEAR, THE TIMES, INDEPENDENT, SPECTATOR, i NEWS A...

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...

Travel back to the trenches with the fourth book in the thrilling children's history series 'The whistles blew, the cheers went up, and thousands of men were scrambling up into...

Author: E.E. CummingsBinding: HardbackPublished: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon/Granada, London, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis poignant memoir, The Enormous Room, chronicles the author's experiences as a civilian internee in a...

Author: -Binding: PaperbackPublished: The Albert Coates Memorial Trust, 2007Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Cover has some light tanning on back panelThe historical account The Volunteer:...

Author: Arthur BanksBinding: PaperbackPublished: Da Capo, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, cover has tanning along spineThis comprehensive historical atlas, A World...

Author: Edited By Peter Dennis And Jeffrey GreyBinding: PaperbackPublished: Army History Unit, Department of Defence, 1999Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, cover...

Author: J.N.D. Davies, L.L. RobsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, 1977Condition:Book: Fair, ex-libraryJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Ex-library book with associated markings/stamps/inclusions, dust jacket damagedCitizen To Soldier: Australia...

Author: Geoffrey SerleBinding: HardbackPublished: Melbourne University Press, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light wear to DJ. Minor denting to spine of board. Light staining...

Author: Georges BlondBinding: HardbackPublished: Stackpole Books, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsGeorges Blond's The Marne chronicles the pivotal World War I engagement that dramatically altered the course of...

Author: Philip GibbsBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1946Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Light bumping on corners. Philip Gibbs' The...

Author: Patsy Adam-SmithBinding: HardbackPublished: Nelson Publishers, Australia, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account, The Anzacs, chronicles the experiences of Australian and New Zealand soldiers during...

Author: edited by Bernard FitzsimonsBinding: HardbackPublished: Ure Smith, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded boards. Minor nick/tear on DJ, internally soundThis historical account chronicles the pivotal...

Author: The Editors Of Time-Life BooksBinding: HardbackPublished: Time-Life Books, 1990Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe historical volume The World In Arms; Ad 1900-1925...

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...

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...

These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler--patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat--present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle epoque...

In a world torn apart by war, a brother and sister fight to find each other. The sweeping new novel from New York Times bestselling author Katherine Arden. Discover the...

The Sunday Times bestseller. They raised themselves on stories. Now it's time for them to write their own... This is the story of an old English manor house by the...

WINNER OF WATERSTONES NOVEL OF THE YEAR- A gripping, heart-shattering love story between two soldiers in the First World War It's 1914, and talk of war feels far away to...

Author: Michael CannonBinding: HardbackPublished: Nelson, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has some light general wear, tanning along spine and some tearing along some edges,...

Author: Kit DentonBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby, 1981Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Mild wear on boards. Rubbed edges and...

Author: Vera BrittainBinding: HardbackPublished: Victor Gollancz, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis poignant historical document, Chronicle Of Youth: Vera Brittain's War Diary 1913-1917, chronicles the formative...

Author: Rupert BrookeBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber & Faber, 1941Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded and yellowed boards with light bumping on...

Author: John MastersBinding: PaperbackPublished: Transworld Publishers., 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Foxing throughout book, slight soiling to back of...

Author: Michael McKernanBinding: HardbackPublished: Nelson, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Dust jacket has tanning along spine and top edge, previous owner emblem pressed into first pageMichael...

Author: C.E.W. BeanBinding: HardbackPublished: Allen & Unwin, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket has wear and tears on some corners, light foxing to...

Author: Alice Duer MillerBinding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, Green & Co., Toronto, 1946Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Worn boards. DJ split in half, chipped and with some moisture damaged. Clean...

Author: John W. GrahamBinding: HardbackPublished: Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, 1969Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: No dust jacketConscription And Conscience: A History 1916-1919 chronicles the tumultuous period of...

Author: Sir Irving BensonBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder & Stoughton., 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical biography chronicles the extraordinary life of...

Author: Thomas KeneallyBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins., 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight chips to DJ.Gossip From The Forest chronicles the tense,...

Author: Michael CannonBinding: HardbackPublished: Thomas Nelson., 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight fading to DJ and some minor chips to edge of...

Author: Lyn MacdonaldBinding: HardbackPublished: BCA, 1998Condition:Book: Good, ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owners stamp and sticker. To The Last Man: Spring 1918 chronicles the...

Generally conceded to be doomed from the outset by the most recent historiography, the Gallipoli campaign still arouses heated controversy. In a new compendium of original research by an impressive...

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...

Using the testimonies of the daughter, the villagers, detailed town hall records and most movingly - the soldiers' last letters - Ben MacIntyre reconstructs an extraordinarily story of love, duplicity...

This was "the war to end all wars"; a conflict in which 155,000 Australian servicemen were wounded and over 60,000 died. Through the devastation it left behind, it changed the...

One hundred thousand New Zealanders sailed to war between 1914 and 1918, and at the end of four years of conflict the country had suffered 60,000 casualties, including 18,000 dead....