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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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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Forgotten Voices of the Great War
Publisher’s Description:’This unique landmark oral history uses first-hand accounts from ordinary men and women who were there. Gripping, poignant, surprising and even humorous, the personal experiences of these soldiers, civilians, marines and medics from both sides tell us what it was really like to live through what was supposed to be the war to end all wars.’
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The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914
Publisher’s Description:’The budding young Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován was on holiday when the First World War broke out in July 1914. Called up by the army, he soon found himself hundreds of miles away, advancing on Russian linesor perhaps on his own linesand facing relentless rifle and artillery fire.’
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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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