Publisher’s Description: Kate Luard was one of a select number of fully trained military nurses who worked in hospital trains and casualty clearing stations during the First World War, coming as close to the front as a woman could. Through her letters home she conveyed a vivid and honest portrait of war. In publishing some of these letters in Unknown Warriors her intention was to bear witness to the suffering of the ordinary soldier.
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Publisher’s Description:’In the third book of this popular time-travel series, Mira navigates her way through World War I-era London, meeting famous suffragists and writers like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.’
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Publisher’s Description: The Battle of the Aisne in September 1914 saw the dawn of trench warfare and a stalemate that would last for the next four years. Wide-ranging archival research by author Paul Kendall makes this the first in-depth study of the battle in print.
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Publisher’s Description:A ontroversial and groundbreaking account of the infamous East African campaign during the First World War.
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Publisher’s Description:This Thing of Memory is a new volume of poems by David Hynes, examining the impact of the First World War; its imprint on our memory and conscience, both personal and collective, and the experience of the centenary commemorations: a unique event for each generation.
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Publisher’s Description:The Scapegoat reveals the full truth for the first time of the Battle of Coronel in November 1914, Britain’s worst defeat at sea in more than 100 years. It claimed 1,660 lives including that of the British commander, Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock.
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Publisher’s Description:’This is the story of the ‘German Tommy’, Walter Schwarz told in full for the first time after years of research in Australia and Britain. It reveals why and how others helped the young man from Queensland – an Australian Army deserter – survive in an atmosphere that was poisonous at home and in battle for those of German blood who were, nevertheless, like Schwarz, loyal to king and country. Ken Anderson has gone behind the accepted facts to claim how official documents were altered and members of a secret society lied and swore false testimony to help Schwarz, acting on their oath to help a fellow member in distress.’
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Publisher’s Description:’The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the story of England in 1914. War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, finally broke out when people were least prepared for it.’
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Publisher’s Description:’The Great War is a powerful collection of stories by bestselling authors, each inspired by a different object from the First World War.’
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Publisher’s Description:’In The Red Baron, graphic artist and author Wayne Vansant illustrates the incredible story of Manfred von Richthofen, whose unparalleled piloting prowess as a member of the Imperial German Army Air Service made him a World War I celebrity, both in the air and on the ground.’
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