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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Great Britain’s Great War
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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The Cambridge History of the First World War (Volume I)
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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The Great War: 1914-1918
Publisher’s Description: “In this magnum opus, critically-acclaimed historian Peter Hart examines the conflict in every arena around the world, in a history that combines cutting edge scholarship with vivid and unfamiliar eyewitness accounts, from kings and generals, and ordinary soldiers”.
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The War at Sea: 1914-1918
Publisher’s Description: “For the first time the British navy went into battle with untried weapon systems, dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft and airships. Julian Thompson blends insightful narrative with never-before-published stories to show what these men faced and overcame”.
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The Moon Field
Publisher’s Description: “A poignant story of love and redemption, The Moon Field explores the loss of innocence through a war that destroys everything except the bonds of human hearts. No man’s land is a place in the heart: pitted, cratered and empty as the moon…”
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Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One
Publisher’s Description: “This is history at its best – a vivid, compelling account of the pioneering women who helped win the war as well as a revealing assessment of their legacy for women’s lives today”.Centenary News Comment: “Through first-hand research Adie unearths some truly enlightening materials”.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Publisher’s Description: “In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the ‘glorious war’. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young ‘unknown soldier’ experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches”.
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Journey’s End
Publisher’s Description: “Set in the First World War, Journey’s End concerns a group of British officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in France. Raleigh, a new eighteen-year-old officer fresh out of English public school, joins the besieged company of his friend and cricketing hero Stanhope, and finds him dramatically changed…”
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The First World War
Publisher’s Description: “Exploring such theatres as the Balkans, Africa and the Ottoman Empire, Strachan assesses Britain’s participation in the light of what became a struggle for the defence of liberalism, and show how the war shaped the ‘short’ twentieth century that followed it.Accessible, compelling and utterly convincing, this is modern history writing at its finest”.
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