The Life of Billy Sing
Author: John Hamilton
The Anzac battlefield on Gallipoli was made for snipers. Scrub, cliffs, spurs and hills meant that both Anzac and Turkish positions often overlooked one another. The unwary or unlucky were prey to snipers on both sides, ... |
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A Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War
Author: Adam Hochschild
In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities and shows how the war exposed the divisions between them. They include ... |
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The British Soldier 1914-18
Author: Richard Holmes
A handsomely illustrated photographic account, by the bestselling author of 'Tommy', of the human experience of war as directly witnessed by British soldiers in the First World War. Richard Holmes, one of Britain's best ... |
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Harry Patch and the Legacy of War
Author: Peter Parker
This moving and timely book explores the way the First World War has been thought about and commemorated, and how it has affected its own, and later, generations. On 11 November 1920, huge crowds lined the streets of Lon ... |
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the Autobiography of the First British Private Soldier to Rise to the Highest Rank
Author: William Robertson
Scarlet coat to red-tabs It is a common aspect of uncommon men that their lives are so exceptional that they cannot be adequately described in a few words. So much the better then that the author of this autobiography le ... |
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Author: Wayne Stack & Barry O'Sullivan
In 1939 more than 140,000 New Zealanders enlisted to fight overseas during World War II. Of these, 104,000 served in the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Initially thrown into the doomed campaign to halt the Germa ... |
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The Memoir of the Cowboy Who Became a World War I Ace
Author: Frederick J. Libby
"Godsent" is a wild religious thriller, a page-turner that keeps you guessing until the very last page. Burton, in his fiction debut, crafts a tightly-wound narrative with a heart-pounding plot and emotional resonance th ... |
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Author: James F. Miller
In 1916 German aerial domination had been lost to the French and British fighters. German fighter pilots requested an aircraft that was more powerful and more heavily armed, and the Albatros design bureau set to work on ... |
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a British Intelligence Officer in Three Theatres of the First World War, 1914-18
Author: Aubrey Herbert
A remarkable man's view of three military disasters This book is comprised of the journals of an intelligence officer of the British Army written in often difficult circumstances as the events he experienced unfolded ... |
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the East Africa Campaign of the First World War by the Most Notable German Commander
Author: Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck
The legendary German general of the bush war in Africa For many the Great War means the Western Front, that gruelling, slogging stalemate of attrition that was the mud and blood of trench warfare. Yet this was truly a 'w ... |
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Two Accounts of a Notable British Nurse of the First World War---The Martyrdom of Nurse Cavell by William Thomson Hill & With Edith Cavell in Belgium by Jacqueline Van Til
Author: William Thomson Hill & Jacqueline Van Til
I cannot stop while there are lives to be saved Edith Cavell Nurse Edith Cavell was a British Nurse and humanitarian who became famous during the First World War for not only nursing and saving the lives of battle casual ... |
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Based on the Diary of Flight Sergeant George Hynes
Author: James Patrick Hynes
X Flight was designated the task of giving close air support to the desert army formed and commanded by Lawrence of Arabia. It flew from advanced desert landing grounds on reconnaissance, liaison, bombing and ground atta ... |
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Two Views of British Women Engaged in Supplying the Allied Effort During the Great War
Author: L. K. Yates
The Women of the Great War It has been a salient feature of twentieth century warfare that the industrial nature of conflict, combined with the huge number of men required and the numerous machines and armaments involved ... |
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Two Views of British Women Engaged in Supplying the Allied Effort During the Great War
Author: L. K. Yates
The Women of the Great War It has been a salient feature of twentieth century warfare that the industrial nature of conflict, combined with the huge number of men required and the numerous machines and armaments involved ... |
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a Concise History of the Palestine Campaign During the First World War
Author: Henry Osmond Lock
The Great War in the Middle East Those with any interest in the First World War know that its principal field of conflict was in Europe, where from the English Channel coastline to the Balkans it became a grinding stalem ... |
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a Famous Fighter Squadron in the First World War by Its Commander
Author: Georges Thenault
Aces over the Western Front The Lafayette Escadrille is now a legend of early aeronautics and warfare in the air. Originally titled the Escadrille Americaine, this squadron of the French Air Force of the Great War wa ... |
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the Experiences of an American Volunteer With the French Army During the First World War
Author: Julien H. Bryan
Experiences of a motor ambulance driver The author of this book was a Princeton student who became a member and driver of the American Ambulance Field Service-a group of young volunteers who travelled to Europe to as ... |
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On the Western Front During the First World War
Author: A. J. L. Scott
Britain's 'Knights of the Air' over the Trenches This is the story of a famous squadron of the Royal Flying Corps-later the RAF-during the Great War on the Western Front. At the outbreak of war there were just four B ... |
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the Development of Aircraft and Submarines for Aerial and Undersea Warfare to the End of the First World War
Author: Willis J. Abbot
War from the air-war from beneath the waves For thousands of years warfare had been the business of armies of foot and horse soldiers whilst the seas and oceans were contested by the collision of navies propelled by ... |
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A Study in Corps Command
Author: Michael Senior
Sir Richard Haking commanded the British XI Corps from 1915 to 1918 mainly in France, but also in Italy (December 1917-March 1918). This first study of Haking takes the form of a review and analysis of his career as a Co ... |
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