Publisher’s Description:’In an unforgettable depiction of war, Hemingway recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteers and the men and women he encounters along the way with conviction and brutal honesty. A love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion.’
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Publisher’s Description:’An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves’s Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War’s haunting legacy.’
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Publisher’s Description:’Along with Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas is by any reckoning a major first world war poet. Described by Ted Hughes as ‘the father of us all’, Thomas’s distinctively modern sensibility is probably the one most in tune with our twenty-first century outlook.’
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Centenary News Review:’After a slow start, The Cartographer of No Man’s Land builds into a truly rich novel. It is detailed and Duffy’s knowledge is clear (shell shock and execution for desertion are just two subjects introduced very early on), but it never feels forced. Occasionally historical fiction of this kind can read like a check list of tropes, but here Duffy works important elements of the war into the tale so that they are inextricably linked. There is no jarring.’
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Publisher’s Description:’On 27th September 1915 John Kipling, the only son of Britain’s best loved poet, disappeared during the Battle of Loos. The body lay undiscovered for 77 years. This is the first biography of John’s short life, analysing the devastating effect it had on his famous father’s work.’
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Publisher’s Description:’The Battle of Loos saw a change in Allied strategy, which up until then had been a series of small-scale assaults that achieved little or no ground gained. In the end the ‘Big Push’ saw little achieved with Allied losses of about 50,000 men.’
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Publisher’s Description:’Martin Middlebrook’s classic account of the blackest day in the history of the British army, first published in 1971, takes in the accounts of hundreds of survivors: normal men, many of them volunteers, who found themselves thrown into a scene of unparalleled tragedy and horror.’
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Publisher’s Description: ‘When Britain’s empire went to war in August 1914, rugby players were the fi rst to volunteer: they led from the front and paid a disproportionate price. When the Armistice came after four long years, their war game was over; even as the last echo of the guns of November faded, it was time to play rugby again. As Allied troops of all nations waited to return home, sport occupied their minds and bodies.’
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Centenary News Review:’Mary Borden is one of the most remarkable writers of the First World War. Being positioned so close to the front lines gave her a unique experience of war that transfers to her poetry and prose. This collection of Borden’s poetry, chosen by Paul O’Prey, sheds new light on her war experience and demonstrates the passionate and ‘erotic’ side of her.’
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Publisher’s description:’The Writers’ War is a collection of excerpts from outstanding accounts of the First World War. It provides an essential insight to anyone interested in modern history or early twentieth-century literature. Extraordinary extracts bring the human experience of war brilliantly to life – from the terror of bombardment, or the camaraderie of military service, to the home front.’
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