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Schiffer Publishing Ltd On the Western Front
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd To Hell with the Kaiser 1 America Prepares for
Book SynopsisThis two volume series serves as a unique window to view the U.S. Army's entry onto the world stage. Faced with entry into the Great War, the country called upon its military leaders to prepare the Army for combat. What follows is the in-depth story of how the American military and civilian leadership created and trained the Doughboys. In less than eighteen months, America's Army would grow from its humble beginning to fielding over a million soldiers in the Meuse-Argonne campaign. Training and leading this force into battle against the Imperial German Army were some of the great names in American military history, including such stalwarts as John J. Pershing, George Marshall, and Leonard Wood. Here is the story of their perseverance and courage that ultimately defeated the enemy and helped to win the war.
£46.74
Schiffer Publishing Ltd To Hell with the Kaiser America Prepares for War
Book SynopsisThis two-volume series serves as a unique window to view the U.S. Army's entry onto the world stage. Faced with entry into the Great War, the country called upon its military leaders to prepare the Army for combat. What follows is the in-depth story of how the American military and civilian leadership created and trained the Doughboys. In less than eighteen months, America's Army would grow from its humble beginning to fielding over a million soldiers in the Meuse-Argonne campaign. Training and leading this force into battle against the Imperial German Army were some of the great names in American military history, including such stalwarts as John J. Pershing, George Marshall, and Leonard Wood. Here is the story of their perseverance and courage that ultimately defeated the enemy and helped to win the war.
£46.74
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Days of Perfect Hell The US 26th Infantry
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£23.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd With a Weapon and a Grin Postcard Images of
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£28.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Forgotten Soldiers of World War I
Book SynopsisThis book covers the entire spectrum of military service during World War I. It gives examples, including many photographs, from almost every ethnic and national group in the United States during this time. Including draft registration, induction and training, stateside service, overseas service, combat, return home, and discharge, learn the history of America's foreign-born soldiers during World War I and how they adapted to military service to become part of the successful American Expeditionary Forces.
£23.79
Royal British Columbia Museum Once Well Beloved Remembering a British Columbia
Book Synopsis'Our well beloved dead who died that we might live.' In the town of Merritt, in British Columbia's Nicola Valley, stands a granite cenotaph erected in memory of 44 men who died soldiering in the First World War. Those men came from a Nicola Valley that had been suddenly and dramatically settled just a decade before by the will of railway executives and the arrival of British colliers. Twelve of those soldiers are the subject of these pages--and through them, we meet the men, women and children of the Nicola Valley, the dead and their survivors: the people who built and were built by a Canadian community that was also distinctly British Columbian.Trade Review"For many small towns around the world, World War I was a seismic event, and the Canadian town of Merritt in British Columbia's Nicola Valley is a prime example. A town that even today only has a few thousand residents lost forty-four men in the Great War, and Michael Sasges tells a few of their stories in Once Well Beloved . This short volume includes five stories covering a dozen soldiers whose names appear on Merritt's memorial cenotaph: the first three to die; an Indigenous soldier; those who fell in the battle of Vimy Ridge; a soldier who earned a Distinguished Service Order; and the last three to fall. These accounts rely on contemporaneous local newspaper reporting and other archived documents and read like a string of newspaper features; some were previously published in that format. Numerous photographs of Nicola Valley soldiers, from studio portraits and family pictures to group shots of them in uniform and stills of their memorials, are a welcome addition. So are the quotes from soldiers describing their experiences at the front, taken from their correspondence to loved ones back in British Columbia. These help to further humanize and differentiate the soldiers. Sasges provides additional context throughout the book, detailing what Merritt was like at the time, the kinds of careers the young men left behind when they shipped off, and how Canada's obligation to fight as part of the United Kingdom helped to prompt discussions of independence. He also tracks how some of the men's families arrived in the area and, through the story of Tommy Charters, explains the added challenges faced by Indigenous soldiers. Once Well Beloved is a well reported historical document about the great impact of World War I on a small Canadian community." Jeff Fleischer, Foreword Reviews
£13.25
Park Row Books The Ambassadors Daughter
£25.19
Henry Holt & Company Inc The First World War A Complete History
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£36.74
University of Oklahoma Press The Last Cavalryman The Life of General Lucian
Book SynopsisIn this biography of Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., author Harvey Ferguson tells the story of how Truscott - despite his hardscrabble beginnings, patchy education, and questionable luck - made the rank of army lieutenant general, earning a reputation as one of World War II's most effective officers.Trade ReviewIn The Last Cavalryman, the remarkable ride of the Oklahoma schoolteacher, horse soldier, polo player and commanding general is presented the way the general would have wanted it: effective, honest and quietly charming."" - Wall Street Journal
£23.36
The University Press of Kentucky The Schlieffen Plan International Perspectives on
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£69.20
The University Press of Kentucky The Christmas Truce Myth Memory and the First
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£27.00
The University Press of Kentucky With Utmost Spirit
Book SynopsisFirsthand accounts from young officers and men draw a vivid picture of the war at sea and off the beaches.Table of ContentsIntroduction A New Chapter in the Struggle for the Mediterranean Operation Torch Operation Torch The Race to Tunis The Tunisian Campaign Gearing up for Operation Husky Operation Husky The Sicilian Campaign The Race to Messina Operation Avalanche
£32.00
The University Press of Kentucky John J. Pershing and the American Expeditionary
Book SynopsisCorrespondence of American General John J. Pershing.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Collection Introduction to Volume 2 October 1917 November 1917 December 1917
£59.00
Syracuse University Press Ottoman Children and Youth during World War I
Book SynopsisAdding a new dimension to the historiography of World War I, Maksudyan explores the variegated experiences and involvement of Ottoman children and youth in the war. Rather than simply passive victims, children became essential participants as soldiers, wage earners, farmers, and artisans.
£19.76
Crecy Publishing Forgotten Airfields of World War I British
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd The History of the Panzer Troops 19161945
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd âœHermann GÃringâ
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£23.79
Random House USA Inc The White Guard
Book SynopsisBulgakov's brilliant novel, first published in 1925, portrays his beloved city of Kiev as it is torn apart during a few crucial weeks in 1918, seen through the eyes of a family fleeing the Russian revolution.With cinematic vividness, Bulgakov puts us on the streets of a gracious, historic city as it is successively besieged by invading Germans, Ukrainian nationalists, the Red Guard of the Bolsheviks, and the White Guard loyal to the recently executed tsar. The Turbin siblings, once wealthy and secure in Russia, have fled to Kiev to escape the ongoing civil war, but find themselves surrounded by chaos and danger. As Bulgakov depicts their devotion to a doomed cause and the surreal horrors they face, he provides a view of history that is both grandly panoramic and movingly intimate. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpape
£22.40
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group A Farewell to Arms
Book SynopsisA Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Hemingway’s masterpiece—a classic novel of World War I that is also a tender, haunting love storyErnest Hemingway drew from his own war experiences when he crafted this remarkable story of an American ambulance driver serving on the Italian front and his love for a beautiful English nurse. The novel, Hemingway’s first best seller, is marked by vivid depictions of the horrors of the battlefield—but also by the heartrending vicissitudes of a passionate affair of the heart between his protragonists, Frederic and Catherine, leading up to a tragic ending that is all the more powerful for its famously understated expression.Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
£19.65
Pen & Sword Books Ltd With the British Cavalry in 1914
Book SynopsisExplores the experience of the British cavalry from Mons to Ypres.
£32.19
Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Great War Ace The Red Baron and Beyond
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£25.00
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Laugh or Cry
Book SynopsisA fresh approach to researching day to day life in trench warfare.
£31.87
Large Print Press The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers German Submarine Warfare in World War I The Onset
Book SynopsisThis compelling book explores Germanyâs disastrous campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare in WWI, which marked the onset of total war at sea. Sondhaus shows how the undersea campaign, intended as an antidote to Britainâs more conventional blockade of German ports, ultimately brought the United States into the war, leading to Germanyâs defeat.Trade ReviewSondhaus, professor of history at the University of Indianapolis, concisely and perceptively analyzes Germany’s U-boat campaign during WWI. He correctly describes the genesis of total war at sea as a response to a British surface blockade that, from the war’s beginning, was an ever-tightening noose around the Reich’s economic windpipe. The German navy’s relative ineffectiveness against its opponent further encouraged the German high command to seek an alternative—even at the risk of offending the U.S., whose economic interests were linked to the principle of freedom of the seas. Germany’s submarine force was small; its primary objective was intercepting warships, not merchantmen. Doctrine and policy for the projected campaign were embryonic, and, as Sondhaus shows, the resulting false start culminated in the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania and significantly antagonized America without seriously troubling Britain. By 1916, with the war stalemated, the German government saw ‘no alternative’ to unrestricted submarine warfare, whatever the risks of U.S. intervention. The results were immediate, Sondhaus notes: America’s declaration of war and the Royal Navy’s adaptation of ‘convoys, countermeasures, and [mine] barrages.’... [Sondhaus] persuasively demonstrates how Germany’s submarine policy cost them the war. * Publishers Weekly *In this compelling study of the impact of the law on warfare, Lawrence Sondhaus demonstrates how the German decision to adopt unrestricted submarine warfare failed to win the First World War, brought the United States into the conflict, and ultimately sank Imperial Germany. -- Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History, King's College, LondonIn yet another gem from one of naval history's finest practitioners, Sondhaus offers a brilliant thesis, flawless research, and perfect readability.This investigation into Germany’s choice of unrestricted submarine warfare as one of the earliest applications of total-war thinking and its devastating miscalculations should be widely read and discussed. -- Eric Rust, Baylor UniversityLawrence Sondhaus has given us a lucid, engrossing, and well-documented examination of a portentous development in the history of warfare. Those in search of the operational history of German U-boat operations in World War I, accompanied by a pithy analysis of the fateful political and strategic decisions that led to their employment against unarmed merchant vessels, need look no further. -- John Beeler, University of AlabamaThe German military’s WW I decision to develop and mobilize the new submarine weapon against Britain and, eventually, all Allied and neutral shipping, dramatically altered the course of the war and, according to noted historian Sondhaus (Univ. of Indianapolis), led to Germany’s defeat. Beginning with the cumbersome technical and political evolution of the Unterseeboote (U-boat) from gasoline and kerosene engines to electricity and batteries, the wartime use of the German U-boat fleet was accepted as a moral equivalent to Britain’s so-called Hunger Blockade of German ports. As happened so many times during the war, Berlin placed the development of technology ahead of tactics and policy. When Germany unleashed submarine warfare, it began the delicate dance that eventually brought the US into the war while failing to prevent the mass transport of US troops to France. Sondhaus, author of more than a dozen highly regarded books on naval history and strategy, writes elegantly and in great detail about Germany’s misuse of its submarine fleet and how it helped to bring about Germany’s defeat, one of the greatest military blunders of the century. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Origins Chapter 2: False Start Chapter 3: Interlude Chapter 4: Preparation Chapter 5: The Sharpest Weapon Chapter 6: Falling Short Chapter 7: Anxious Months Chapter 8: Defeat Chapter 9: Aftermath Bibliography Index
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Amberley Publishing 1917 The First World War at Sea in Photographs
Book Synopsis1917, the fourth year of the war to end all wars, is documented in archive photographs in this series covering the naval war in detail.
£18.99
Amberley Publishing Great Writers on The Great War Conan Doyles War
Book SynopsisStriking descriptions of the Western Front by the most famous writer of the day
£12.12
Amberley Publishing Ordinary Heroes
Book SynopsisThe major unsung humanitarian role of British civilians and charities in the Great War and the tremendous bravery and suffering of the volunteers.
£20.00
Amberley Publishing 1919 A Land Fit for Heroes
Book SynopsisAfter a brief period of celebration, reality began to sink in. Britain was exhausted and consumed by grief. There was a growing fear of revolution.
£20.00
Formac Publishing,Canada Valour at Vimy Ridge
Book SynopsisAn illustrated short history of the Great Canadian victory at Vimy Ridge in the First World War.
£13.65
Formac Publishing,Canada Mysteries Legends and Myths of the First World
Book SynopsisA short history of Canadian soldiers in the First World War, illustrated with photos and war art from the Group of Seven
£13.51
Formac Publishing,Canada Billy Bishop
Book SynopsisA new illustrated biography of Canada's great flying ace
£13.73
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Missouri in World War I Images of America
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing World War I Minnesota Military
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£18.69
Arcadia Publishing World War I Montana The Treasure State Prepares
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£20.39
Arcadia Publishing Montanans in the Great War Open Warfare Over
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£21.24
History Press Long Islands Gold Coast Elite and the Great War
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£18.69
History Press Florida in World War I Military
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History Press Japanese in Wyoming
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History Press World War I Oklahoma
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Hull Rifles
Book SynopsisA reprint of the one of the best battalion histories written by the men who experienced it.
£25.00
Sourcebooks Landmark Mystery of Mrs Christie
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Sourcebooks, Inc The War Nurse
Book SynopsisTRACEY ENERSON WOOD is a published playwright whose family is steeped in military tradition. This is her second novel, following The Engineer's Wife.
£22.94
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Directing the Tunnellers' War: The Tunnelling
Book SynopsisThe original version of this memoir was entitled The Lighter Side of a Tunneller s Life; he has hoped to get it published in the late thirties, but this was a period when many publishers considered that there was memoir fatigue as regards the Great War and a new war was looming. With a background in mining and tunneling (the internal evidence suggests that some of this was done in South Africa), he served with a Tunnelling Company and was then transferred to GHQ in Montreuil to handle mining plans and records. The British organized their mining at Army and GHQ level, with a close control on operational activity being reserved to GHQ. In due course he was appointed as one of the Assistant Inspectors of Mines, a small group of Royal engineers officers who operated as the eyes and ears of the Inspector of Mines, who exercised overall control on mining operations. His activity in this role is particularly important for the period after the June 1917 Messines Offensive, when the use of mining for blows against the enemy substantially diminished indeed, all but disappeared and the tunneling companies were reallocated to a new range of tasks. His manuscript, produced in 1933, was intended for publication, but remained no more than a draft, rescued some time ago by one of the editors from the Royal Engineers archives at Chatham. Dixon remarks that the carnage and horrors of war have been deliberately omitted, for enough and to spare has been written about these aspects by countless others. His manuscript, alternatively, provides a valuable insight into the overall conduct of mining operations and the tactical and strategic considerations that rarely feature in other accounts. He was at the centre of staff activity that set about countering the effects of the German Kaiserslacht offensives in March, April and May 1918, and the preparations for a possible German breakthrough to the channel ports. Subsequently, with the allied advances of the Last Hundred Days , he became considerably occupied by the hazards of dealing with delayed action mines and booby traps. Aside from these tactical and strategic considerations, he recounts, by means of numerous humorous anecdotes, the personalities and work of the staff at GHQ, ranging from humble clerks and the misdemeanors of his batman to senior officers. He brings to life the exceptional endeavours of the often maligned senior staff and the individual characteristics of many senior staff officers who are otherwise but shadows in accounts of the Great War. The editors have added extensive notes explaining and, on occasions correcting, Dixon s accounts; these are illustrated with explanatory plans and diagrams along with photographs of many of the personalities he describes. The combination provides a very personal perspective of the conduct of the war at GHQ.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Supporting Tunnelling Operations in the Great War
Book SynopsisFew soldiers on the Western Front had heard of the Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company, even after it had been renamed the 'Alphabet Company' by an AIF wag. Yet many knew the work of this tiny unit which numbered fewer than 300 at full strength. Despite its small size, the Alphabet Company's influence was enormous and spanned the entire British sector of the Western Front, from the North Sea to the Somme. This is the story of the 'Alphabeticals' who, led by Major Victor Morse, DSO, operated and maintained pumps, generators, ventilation fans, drilling equipment and other ingenious devices in extreme circumstances. Given the horrendous conditions in which the troops lived and fought, this equipment was desperately needed, as were the men who operated it in the same, often nightmarish setting. This is the first account of the dynamic little unit that was the Alphabet Company, a unit that has been neglected by history for a century. It is the story of the men, their machinery and the extraordinary grit they displayed in performing some of the most difficult tasks in a war noted for the horrific conditions in which it was waged. They do not deserve to be forgotten.
£21.48
Pen & Sword Books Ltd On the Road to Victory: The Rise of Motor
Book SynopsisThe Great War produced many innovations, in particular the spectacular development by the British and French armies of motor transport. The age-old problem of moving soldiers and their supplies was no different in 1914 than it had been some 2,400 years ago, when the great Chinese military thinker Sun Tzu informed his readers that the further an army marched into enemy territory, the more the cost of transport increased, even to the point that more supplies were consumed by the transportation of men and their horses than was delivered to the troops. Using many previously unpublished illustrations, including artists' impressions, this book tells the story of the men and women who made motor transport [MT] work for the victorious British Army on the Western Front, so that in 1918, the humble lorry did indeed help propel the British Army forward On the Road to Victory'.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Somme 1916: Martinpuich and the Butte de
Book SynopsisMuch of the popular attention on the Battle of the Somme 1916 is focussed on the first day of the infantry assault, 1st July, when such high hopes were dashed and British casualties ran into the tens of thousands. However, the Somme was a battle that lasted over twenty weeks, running well into the autumn. This book is concerned with fighting south of the famous Albert-Bapaume road from mid September to the official end of the battle. The coverage includes Martinpuich, the hamlet of Eaucourt l'Abbaye, Le Sars and that strange topographical feature the Butte de Warlencourt. The action starts with the major British attack of 15 September 1916, which enjoyed some success and which included the first use of tanks. The book takes up the story from the fall of Martinpuich and follows the British as they inched their way north eastwards to Le Sars and Eaucourt l'Abbaye. This was gruelling warfare, fought in fast deteriorating weather conditions and in the face of ever increasing volumes of artillery fire: the mud was almost as much the enemy of both sides as the weight of lead and iron fired at them. The Butte de Warlencourt has come to have an almost iconic status. This rather insignificant hillock, almost certainly a burial mound of the Romano-Gallic period, marks the point at which the battle officially ceased along the Albert-Bapaume road. For days before the battle ended both sides tussled to secure its possession, numerous limited attacks taking place over devastated, utterly water logged and featureless ground. Indeed it was the 'emptiness' of the area that made the Butte of such significance, a fearsome, solitary landmark standing out against a backdrop of desolation. It was the focus of the fighting in the area for almost six weeks. As well as the customary walks, essential to an understanding of the confused fighting in the area, there is a long car tour, covering many less visited parts of the battlefield to the east and north of the Butte and which places it firmly in the context of the battle. Charles Carrington, who wrote one of the classic memoirs of the war, was not alone amongst those who fought here when he commented that, 'the Butte de Warlencourt terrified us'.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Battles on the Tigris: The Mesopotamian Campaign
Book SynopsisIn 1914 the British expedition to Mesopotamia set out with the modest ambition of protecting the oil concession in Southern Persia but, after numerous misfortunes, ended up capturing Baghdad and Northern Towns in Iraq. Initially the mission was successful in seizing Basra but the British under Generals Nixon and Townshend, found themselves drawn North, becoming besieged by the Turks at Kut. After various failed relief attempts the British surrendered and the prisoners suffered appalling indignities and hardship, culminating in a death march to Turkey. In 1917 General Maude was appointed CinC but, as usual in Iraq, policy kept changing. Hopes that the Russians would come into the war were dashed by the Revolution. Operations were further frustrated by the hottest of summers. Fighting against the Turks continued right up to the Armistice. The conduct of the Campaign was subject to a Commission of Inquiry which was highly critical of numerous individuals and the administrative arrangements.
£20.97
