Publisher’s Description:’Focusing on this aspect of the war at sea, Newbolt relates many of the extraordinary incidents that defined this arduous campaign, from the Baltic to the North Sea via the Sea of Marmora.’
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Verdun 1916: The Deadliest Battle of the First World War
Publisher’s Description:’Fought on the heights above the garrison town of the same name on the River Meuse, 140 miles east of Paris, the Battle of Verdun lasted for ten months, between February and December 1916, double the length of the Battle of the Somme and over three times the length of the Battle of Passchendaele.’
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Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War
Publisher’s Description:’Hidden History uniquely exposes those responsible for the First World War. It reveals how accounts of the war’s origins have been deliberately falsified to conceal the guilt of the secret cabal of very rich and powerful men in London responsible for the most heinous crime perpetrated on humanity.’
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The Jutland Scandal: The Truth About the First World War’s Greatest Sea Battle
Publisher’s Description:’The Royal Navy had ruled the sea unchallenged for 100 years since Nelson triumphed at Trafalgar. Yet when the Grand Fleet faced the German High Seas Fleet across the grey waters of the North Sea near Jutland the British battleships and cruisers were battered into a draw, losing far more men and ships than the enemy. Produced as one volume for the first time, this book tells the truth about the scandal that developed following the largest battle ever fought at sea.’
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Attrition: Fighting the First World War
Publisher’s Description:’Drawing on the experience of front line soldiers, munitions workers, politicians and those managing the vast economy of industrialised warfare, Attrition explains for the first time why and how this new type of conflict born out of industrial society was fought as it was.’
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Dorothea’s War: A First World War Nurse Tells Her Story
Publisher’s Description:’The evocative diaries of a young nurse stationed in northern France during the First World War, published for the first time. A rare insight into the great war.’
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Bloody Paralyser: The Giant Handley Page Bombers of the First World War
Publisher’s Description:’Bloody Paralyser: The Giant Handley Page Bombers of the First World War tells the story of the largest British bombers of the First World War and the men who flew them. In 1915, the biggest plane ever seen in Britain took flight for the first time a twin-engine monster with a 100- foot wingspan, designed to be a Bloody Paralyser to the Germans.’
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To Fight Alongside Friends: The First World War Diary of Charlie May
Publisher’s Description:’The First World War Diaries of Manchester Pals Captain Charlie May – written and kept in secret and published now for the first time. A born storyteller, Charlie May’s vivid eye for detail and warm good humour brings his experience in the trenches (and the experience of millions of ordinary men like him) to life for a 21st-century readership.’
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Before Enigma: The Room 40 Codebreakers of the First World War
Publisher’s Description:’The book outlines the capture of the Magdeburg and the Hobart, discusses the use of cracked codes to bring German fleets to battle at Dogger Bank and Jutland, and focuses on individuals such as Winston Churchill and Admiral Sir Reginald ‘Blinker’ Hall and their importance in the development of a British naval code tradition.’
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‘Remnants’ – Review of South African artist’s Somme exhibition in Boston
Susan Werbe reviews 'Remnants', artist Paul Emmanuel's installation remembering the missing soldiers of the Somme, at Boston University's 808 Gallery in the United States.
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