Publisher’s Description: “Five Days in November, 1920: As the body of the Unknown Soldier makes its way home from the fields of Northern France, three women are dealing with loss in their own way…”Centenary News Review: “For a debut novel, Wake is absolutely stunning. Anna Hope has taken the lives of three women, each torn apart by war and grieving for their lost ones, and weaved a delicate tale”.
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Publisher’s Description: “Set during and just after the First World War, The Lie is an enthralling, heart-wrenching novel of love, memory and devastating loss by one of the UK’s most acclaimed storytellers”.Centenary News Review: “Every so often a book comes along that completely knocks you for six. Usually it has everything: compelling plot, authentic characters and lyrical prose. Helen Dunmore’s The Lie is one of those books”.
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Publisher’s Description: “The study of children’s lives provides a unique perspective on British society during the First World War. It lets us get to the very essence of how Britain’s adults perceived the war and allows us to explore the methods society used to communicate with itself”. Centenary News Comment: “The Children’s War is a fascinating investigation into an overlooked generation. Carefully researched and compiled, this is an excellent source of materials for anyone studying World War One”.
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Publisher’s Description: “An original photo book with a unique angle of incidence. The book consists of about 150 photographs of military cemeteries and war sites”Centenary News Comment: “This is a stunning collection of photographs of World War One memorial sites. The photographs taken at dawn are not to be missed”.
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In the latest video upload from the Western Front Association & National Army Museum's 'Great War Underground' conference, Professor Peter Doyle explains the role of geologists in the conflict.
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A conference exploring the impact of the First World War on colonial peoples will be held in Dhaka to mark the Centenary of the First World War.
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Publisher’s Description: “Told through the stories of twenty-three cities – Europe’s capitals at the height of their global reach, the emerging metropolises of America, the imperial cities of Asia and Africa, the boomtowns of Australia and the Americas – Charles Emmerson presents a panoramic view of a world crackling with possibilities, from St Petersburg to Shanghai and from Los Angeles to Jerusalem”.
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Publisher’s Description: “MacMillan uncovers the huge political and technological changes, national decisions and the small moments of human muddle and weakness that led Europe to disaster”.
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Publisher’s Description: “Set mostly in France spanning the years before and during the First World War, it captures the drama and destruction of that era as it tells the story of Stephen, a young Englishman who is impelled through a series of extreme experiences, from a traumatic clandestine love affair which rips apart the bourgeois French family he lives with, through grim insanity of the Great War”.
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Publisher’s Description: “Critically acclaimed author David Reynolds seeks to redress the balance by exploring the true impact of 1914-18 on the 20th century. Some of the Great War’s legacies were negative and pernicious but others proved transformative in a positive sense”.
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