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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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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Publisher’s Description:’Almost a century after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Kaiser Wilhelm II is still viewed as either a warmonger or a madman, as the hundred-year-old propaganda posters remain fixed in the general consciousness. Was he, though, truly responsible for the catastrophe of the First World War, or was he in fact a convenient scapegoat, blamed for a conflict which he desperately tried to avoid?’
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Publisher’s Description:’Between the beginning of the First World War in the summer of 1914 and the armistice in 1918, 51 men were executed in Britain. The great majority, over 80%, were hanged for murder, but in addition to this, 11 men were shot by firing squad at the Tower of London. Traitors, Spies and Killers tells the story of the most interesting and noteworthy of these executions and the crimes which led up to them.’
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Publisher’s Description:’In a sweeping narrative, David Olusoga describes how Europe’s Great War became the World’s War – a multi-racial, multi-national struggle, fought in Africa and Asia as well as in Europe, which pulled in men and resources from across the globe.’
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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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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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Publisher’s Description:’This is a comprehensive new history of the French army’s critical contribution to the Great War. Ranging across all fronts, Elizabeth Greenhalgh examines the French army’s achievements and failures and sets these in the context of the difficulties of coalition warfare and the relative strengths and weaknesses of the enemy forces it faced.’
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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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Publisher’s Description:’Drawing upon the often harrowing personal accounts of the soldiers of the A.E.F., this book establishes the pivotal role played by the Americans in the defeat of the central powers in November 1918.’
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