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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Publisher’s Description: “In Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives!, acclaimed political psychologist Richard Ned Lebow examines the chain of events that led to war and what could reasonably have been done differently to avoid it. “.Centenary News Comment: “This is an interesting and well researched counter-factual study which asks us to imagine a world without World War One”.
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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: “Drawing on many fresh new sources, this account reveals a Europe very different from the familiar picture, putting Serbia and the Balkans at the centre of the story”.
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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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Publishers Description: “Jeremy Paxman’s magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people. We may think we know about it, but what was life really like for the British people during the First World War?”
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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: “An international team of leading historians chart how a war made possible by globalisation and imperial expansion unfolded into catastrophe, growing year by year in scale and destructive power far beyond what anyone had anticipated in 1914”.
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