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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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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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 Beauty And The Sorrow: An intimate history of the First World War
Publisher’s Description:’There are many books on the First World War, but award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring and stunning new approach. Describing the experiences of twenty ordinary people from around the world, all now unknown, he explores the everyday aspects of war: not only the tragedy and horror, but also the absurdity, monotony and even beauty.’
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To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided Britain
Publisher’s Description:’In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities and shows how the war exposed the divisions between them.’
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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
Publisher’s Description:‘In his discussion of the kinds of feelings evoked by the horrific conduct of trench warfare, the widespread psychic depression following the Armistice and his insights into the aftermath of the war.’
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Storm of Steel
Publisher’s Description:’A memoir of astonishing power, savagery and ashen lyricism, Storm of Steel depicts Ernst Jünger’s experience of combat on the front line – leading raiding parties, defending trenches against murderous British incursions, and simply enduring as shells tore his comrades apart.’
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The Marne, 1914
Publisher’s Description:’With exclusive information based on newly unearthed documents, Holger H. Herwig re-creates the dramatic battle and reinterprets Germany’s aggressive “”Schlieffen Plan”” as a carefully crafted design to avoid a protracted war against superior coalitions.’
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Undertones of War
Publisher’s Description:’In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders.’
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