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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...
To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided Britain
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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...
Rupert Brooke & Wilfred Owen: Heartbreakingly beautiful poems from the
If I should die, think only this of me:That there's some corner of a foreign fieldThat is for ever England.From The Soldier to Anthem for Doomed Youth Rupert Brooke and...
Marcel Caux: A Life Unravelled
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The Oarsmen: The Remarkable Story of the Men Who Rowed from the Great War to Peace
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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 Fawn
LONGLISTED FOR THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION 2023"One of Hungary's most important twentieth-century writers" New York Times"Magda Szabo's fiction shows the travails of modern Hungarian history from oblique...
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...
The Rebel General
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Author: Chris Wallace-CrabbeBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus and Robertson, 1967, FIRST EDITION!Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Rebel General is a captivating exploration of the life and legacy of...
Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew
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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...
Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond
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Dam Buster: Barnes Wallis, the Lost Visionary of British Aviation
'A stunningly good and surely definitive biography of one of the most fascinating British engineers ever to have lived' JAMES HOLLANDBarnes Wallis is remembered for contributions to aviation that spanned...
Dam Buster: Barnes Wallis, the Lost Visionary of British Aviation
'A stunningly good and surely definitive biography of one of the most fascinating British engineers ever to have lived' JAMES HOLLANDBarnes Wallis is remembered for contributions to aviation that spanned...
In Flanders Fields and Other Porms of the First World War
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The Fawn
"One of Hungary's most important twentieth-century writers" New York Times"Magda Szabo's fiction shows the travails of modern Hungarian history from oblique but sharply illuminating angles" EconomistEszter Encsy is an acclaimed...
Letters From A Lost Generation: First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends
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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...
A History of the Royal Navy: World War I
World War I is one of the iconic conflicts of the modern era. For many years the war at sea has been largely overlooked; yet, at the outbreak of that...
The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet: From Mutiny to Scapa Flow
On 21 June 1919 the ships of the German High Seas Fleet - interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice - began to founder, taking their British custodians completely by...
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,...
Sound of Hunger: One German family's chronicle of the chivalry, politics, lies, murder and aftermath of war
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Amiens 1918: From Disaster to Victory
Gregory Blaxland has written a superb account of 1918, the final year of the war when the balance of advantage between the combatants changed so dramatically in a matter of...
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,...
Out in the Dark: Poetry of the First World War in Context and with Basic Notes
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Author: David Roberts, Rachel Fuller, Gavin RobertsBinding: SoftbackPublished: Saxon Books, 1999, Second Impression Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book offers a comprehensive exploration of First World...
The Red Knight of Germany: Baron von Richthofen
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Author: Floyd GibbonsBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1931, Fifth (3/6) EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis biography details the life of Baron von Richthofen,...
The Great War (SIGNED)
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Author: Carlyon, LesBinding: HardbackPublished: Pan MacMillan Australia Pty Ltd, 2006Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionA fantastic reference book on the Great War, offering a comprehensive look at...
Pompey Elliott's Left Hand Man (SIGNED)
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Author: Kristin SchneiderBinding: SoftbackPublished: Self Published, 2015Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis book chronicles the life and experiences of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Denehy during World...
All Quiet on the Western Front
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Author: Erich Maria Remarque; Translated from the German by A. W. Wheen.Binding: HardbackPublished: G. P. Putnam's Sons, May 1929, Reprint (Completing 35,000 Copies)Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or...
The Unknown War
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Author: Winston S. ChurchillBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1941Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThe Unknown War is a historical account of the Eastern Front...
Images of The National Archives: Codebreakers
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VCs of the First World War: Arras and Messines 1917
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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,...
Bloody Red Tabs
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Wilhelm II: Volume 2, Emperor and Exile, 1900-1941
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