World War 1

Impeccably detailed and beautifully written, The Lost Olympian of the Somme is the story of an Olympic gold medallist and forgotten war hero. Frederick Kelly's first-hand account offers a startling...

Author: A. H. Farrar-HockleyBinding: HardbackPublished: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1964Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA. H. Farrar-Hockley's The Somme chronicles one of the most devastating battles in human...

Author: Dunn, Steve Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 During World War One the Scandinavian countries played a dangerous and sometimes questionable game; they proclaimed their neutrality but at the...

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...

Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry. From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard...

1916. The Somme. With over a million casualties, it was the most brutal battle fo the First World War. It is a clash that even now, over 90 years later,...

Return to Wonderland in this extraordinary reimagining of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by one of our most brilliant storytellers WINNER OF THE BLACKWELL'S CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR...

Morgan reveals how the Allies recruited agents in Europe and ran their operations in enemy-controlled territory. But as well as the espionage story, she also tells the personal stories of...

Author: D. H. LawrenceBinding: HardbackPublished: Edito-Service S.A., Geneva by arrangement with William Heinemann Ltd., 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsShort Novels: Volume 1...

Author: Edited by BAYRAM BILGE TOKEL / EREN SAFI.Binding: HardbackPublished: KÜLTÜR VE TURİZM BAKANLIĞI Güzel Sanatlar Genel Müdürlüğü, 2005Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: English and Turkish...

Author: Geoffrey SerleBinding: HardbackPublished: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis definitive biography chronicles the extraordinary life of Sir John Monash, a pivotal figure in Australian...

Author: John TolandBinding: HardbackPublished: EYRE METHUEN - LONDON, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsJohn Toland's No Man's Land: The Story Of 1918 chronicles the pivotal final year of...

This special 10th Anniversary Edition brings us a detailed visual narrative of Shackleton's journey to Antarctica, with new bonus material. Following the bestselling and award winning Shackleton's Journey, this special...

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...

No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of...

Author: Vera BrittainBinding: PaperbackPublished: Wideview Books., 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA poignant memoir, Testament Of Youth chronicles Vera Brittain's...

Author: John BuchanBinding: HardbackPublished: Thomas Nelson., 1916Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Some chipping and rubs to DJ, top-edge discoloured from...

Author: A.J.P. TaylorBinding: HardbackPublished: Octopus Books, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis seminal work of historical analysis, History Of World War I, chronicles the complex political machinations, military...

Author: David W. Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The August Offensive or 'Anzac Breakout' at Gallipoli was an attempt to break the stalemate of the campaign. It saw...

Approximately a third of all Allied merchant vessels sunk during the First World War were by German boats and submarines based at Bruge-Zeebrugge on the coast of Belgium. By 1918...

Ireland, World War One. Dashing Harry Heegan leads his football team to victory, arriving home in swaggering celebration before he grabs his kit and heads for the trenches. A nightmare...

This anthology looks at a broad, international cross-section of literary talent cut short by the 1914-18 War and is published to coincide with the Armistice Festival on the 70th anniversary...

On May 7, 1915, toward the end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R.M.S. Lusitania --pride of the Cunard Line and one of the greatest...

Approximately a third of all Allied merchant vessels sunk during the First World War were by German boats and submarines based at Bruge-Zeebrugge on the coast of Belgium. By 1918...

'An evocatively thoughtful wider history of the race, the war and the peace' GUARDIAN 'Occasionally funny and regularly poignant, brilliantly focused in its research . . . His drive, wit...

This book explores the impact, both immediate and in its longer historical perspective, of the First World War upon Ireland across the broadest range of experience - nationalist, unionist, Catholic,...

In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass violence. The war that followed had global repercussions, destroying four empires and costing millions of lives. Even the...

An abandoned five-year-old English boy, Leon, is rescued by a compassionate neighbouring family who adopt Leon and move with him to Australia for a better life in 1903. Rocky, a...

Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Titles of the Year for 2017 "A uniquely colorful chronicle of this dramatic and convulsive chapter in American--and world--history. It's an epic tale, and here it...

Here are the great battlefields of the First World War as you have never seen them before, from the first cavalry skirmishes, through the horrors of the Somme and Passchendaele,...

Seven months before the troops landed at Gallipoli, a sailor from Melbourne became the nation?s ?rst casualty of World War 1. Able seaman William ?Billy? Williams was shot in the...

Amongst the place names that have become legendary as the sites of horrific battles, the Battle of Verdun during the First World War stands as one of history's greatest clashes....

Author: Martin GilbertBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann, London, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Small nick/tear on half-title page of the primary volume. This substantial work of...

Author: Ray Stannard BakerBinding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1935Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerRay Stannard Baker's monumental Woodrow Wilson: Life And Letters presents an...

Author: Peter CochraneBinding: HardbackPublished: ABC Books, 2008Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsPeter Cochrane's The Western Front 1916-1918 chronicles the brutal realities of trench warfare during the pivotal years...

Author: Alan MooreheadBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan , 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA seminal work of military history, Gallipoli chronicles the ill-fated 1915 campaign through meticulous research and vivid...

Author: Les CarlyonBinding: HardbackPublished: Pan Macmillan, 2010Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe acclaimed historical account The Great War by Les Carlyon chronicles the devastating conflict that reshaped the 20th...

Author: Patsy Adam-SmithBinding: HardbackPublished: Nelson, 1984Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsPatsy Adam-Smith's Australian Women At War chronicles the often-overlooked contributions of Australian women during various...

Author: Brian CarrollBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell Australia, 1980Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account, Between The Wars: An Illustrated History Of Australia 1919-1939,...

Author: David ChandlerBinding: HardbackPublished: Henry Holt and Company, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis monumental reference work, The Dictionary Of Battles: The World's Key Battles From 405 Bc...

Author: Richard NatkielBinding: HardbackPublished: Bison Books, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative work, Atlas Of 20Th Century Warfare, presents a comprehensive cartographic and textual account of the...

Enormously gripping popular history of the 13-day crisis that led to world war. At the end of WWI, Germany was demonised. The Treaty of Versailles contained a 'war guilt' clause...

Surprisingly, as we near the 100th anniversary of the legendary Gallipoli campaign, this is the first book solely dedicated to one of its key battles - that at Lone Pine,...

Author: A.J.P. Taylor; S.L. MayerBinding: HardbackPublished: Octopus Books, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA.J.P. Taylor's History Of World War I presents a comprehensive and incisive account of the...

Author: T. W. WhiteBinding: HardbackPublished: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1935Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: significant moulding of spine, on some inside pages; cloth cover worn...

Author: W. D. Joynt, V.C.Binding: PaperbackPublished: Wren Publishing, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSaving The Channel Ports: 1918 chronicles the pivotal events...

Author: Barbara W. TuchmanBinding: HardbackPublished: MACMILLAN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1966Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis monumental work of historical non-fiction, The Proud Tower: A Portrait...

Author: Australian War MemorialBinding: HardbackPublished: Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1948Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: wear, tear and fraying of cloth cover; binding falling apart; pages still intactAs You...