Publisher’s Description: “Featuring 47 writers from 20 different nations, No Man’s Land is a truly international anthology of First World War fiction”.Centenary News Review: “An all-encompassing anthology that features well-known & little-known works from the war. Whilst there are unusual omissions, it is a wide-ranging collection of texts that reflect the various experiences of war”.
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Publisher’s Description: “A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war”.Centenary News Review: “Catastrophe is a seminal survey of the events immediately preceding and following the outbreak of the First World War, notable for its presentation of the diplomatic and the military as two acts of the same play.”
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Publisher’s Description: A “forgotten” front of the Great War, the southern shore of the Mediterranean has been the setting for a little known story, mostly told from colonial sources: “gun-running” to “dissident” peoples in French-ruled North Africa by Germany and the Ottoman Empire.
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Publisher’s Description: ‘In the summer of 1913, the world seems full of possibility for four very different young men… The generals tell them that victory will soon be theirs but the men are accompanied by regrets, fears and secrets as they move towards the line”.Centenary News Review: “Elizabeth Speller weaves a haunting and moving tale about the tragedy of war as four lives cross on the Somme battlefield”.
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Publisher’s description: “Secret Warriors provides an invaluable and fresh history of the First World War, profiling a number of key figures who made great leaps in science for the benefit of 20th Century Britain. Told in a lively narrative style, Secret Warriors reveals the unknown side of the war.”Centenary News Review: “Downing provides a fascinating glimspe into the scientific front of the First World War.”
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Publisher’s description: While the First World War devastated Europe, it inspired profound poetry – words in which the atmosphere and landscape of battle are evoked perhaps more vividly than anywhere else. In Some Desperate Glory, historian and biographer Max Egremont gives us a transfiguring look at their life and work.
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Publisher’s description: Jerry White’s magnificent panorama reveals a struggling yet flourishing London during the First World War. Despite daily casualty lists, food shortages and enemy bombing, Londoners are determined to get on with their lives and flock to cinemas and theatres, dance halls and shebeens.
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Publisher’s description:David Owen, a former British Foreign Secretary, argues that the outbreak of war in 1914 was far from inevitable, and instead represented eight years of failed diplomacy. He describes how his predecessor, Edward Grey, agreed within weeks of taking office in December 1905 to open secret talks with the French about sending a British Force in the event of a German attack.
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Publisher’s Description: “One Morning In Sarajevo reconstructs the last days of the imperial powers on the brink of the great war. Here is the story of the poor Bosnian students who set out to strike a blow for Serbia and inadvertently started that war. Smith has returned to the original sources and found the few surviving witnesses to those far-off times”.
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Publisher’s Description: “Martel goes back to the contemporary diplomatic, military, & political records to investigate the twists & turns of the crisis afresh, with the aim of establishing just how the catastrophe really unfurled”.Centenary News Review: “This book is especially good at highlighting the political disarray of the Triple Alliance from the assassinations in Sarajevo to the first few days of August 1914”.
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