Publisher’s Description:’In Alexander Watson’s compelling new history of the Great War, all the major events of the war are seen from the perspective of Berlin and Vienna. It is fundamentally a history of ordinary people.’
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Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves
Publisher’s Description:’In the wake of the First World War, Britain and her Empire faced the enormous question of how to bury the dead. Critically-acclaimed author David Crane describes how the horror of the slaughter motivated an ambulance commander named Fabian Ware to establish the Commonwealth war cemeteries.’
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The Last Crusade: The Palestine Campaign in the First World War
Publisher’s Description:’This is the first full account of World War I in Palestine since the official history published in the 1920s. It was a tough and fast-moving campaign, fought against a formidable enemy in harsh terrain and sometimes stupefying heat. Anthony Bruce has produced a comprehensive military history of the campaign, drawing on the full range of sources including the experiences of those who took part.’
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Empire and Revolution: A Socialist History of the First World War
Publisher’s Description:’Both the British and the German ruling classes were prepared for any number of dead and maimed to advance their imperial interests. As Dave Sherry shows in this accessible history, working class people suffered during WWI, but also began to fight back in the Russian and German revolutions.’
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The Russian Origins of the First World War
Publisher’s Description:’The war of 1914 was launched at a propitious moment for harnessing the might of Britain and France to neutralize the German threat to Russia’s goal: partitioning the Ottoman Empire to ensure control of the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. As we seek to make sense of these conflicts, McMeekin’s powerful expose of Russia’s aims in the First World War will illuminate our understanding of the twentieth century.’
Continue readingBack in Blighty: The British at Home in World War One
Publisher’s Description:’In this highly readable and moving survey of life back at home during the First World War, Gerard DeGroot challenges this assumption, finding pre-war social structures were surprisingly resilient. Despite economic and technological changes, the British peoplemanaged to cling onto their usual ways of life as much as possible in this new world.’
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With the Battle Cruisers: Life Inside the Grand Fleet
Publisher’s Description:’First published in 1921, With the Battle Cruisers is a very personal, focused study of naval life during wartime as it unfolded for Young.’
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Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914
Publisher’s Description:’The first in a four-book series on the Eastern Front in World War I, Prit Buttar’s dynamic retelling examines the tumultuous events of the first year of the war and reveals the chaos and destruction that reigned when three powerful empires collided.’
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Challenge of Battle: The British Army’s Baptism of Fire in the First World War
Publisher’s Description:’In this timely new book, Adrian Gilbert clears away the layers of sentiment that have obscured a true historical understanding of the 1914 campaign to provide a full, unvarnished picture of the British Expeditionary Force at war. Previous assessments of the BEF have held to an unshakeable belief in its exceptional performance during the battles of 1914.’
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The War Behind the Wire: The Life, Death and Glory of British Prisoners of War
Publisher’s Description:’Using contemporary records – from prisoners’ diaries to letters home to poetry – John Lewis-Stempel reveals the death, life and, above all, the glory of Britain’s warriors behind the wire. For it was in the PoW camps, far from the blasted trenches, that the true spirit of the Tommy was exemplified.’
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