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Claude Choules
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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Before his death at the age of 110 in May 2011, Claude Choules was the last man alive who had served in both world wars. Claude learned life's lessons during a rural childhood in England and later in the Royal Navy as a boy sailor, before graduating to become an... more
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John Keegan
[Paperback 2000]
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First paperback edition of this title that has sold over 35,000 copies in hardback to date. A definitive history of the Great War, acclaimed war historian, John Keegan covers all aspects of the conflict. Previous titles by the author include }The Second World War, Battle At Sea{ and }The Mask... more
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Barbara Wertheim Tuchman ,
Robert K Massie
[Paperback 1994]
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"More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to Worl War I. With... more
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Norman Stone
[Paperback 2010]
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In 1914, a new kind of war came about, bringing with it a new kind of world. World War One began on horseback, with generals employing bayonet charges to gain ground, and ended with attacks resembling the Nazi "blitzkriegs." The scale of devastation was unlike anything the world had seen... more
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Charles W Domville Fife
[Paperback 2010]
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A fine overview of subs and sub-killers This comprehensive book concerns the operations of the Royal Navy to deal with the enemy submarine threat in the conflict for the dominance of the seas and oceans during the Great War. The global nature of this first massive war of the twentieth... more
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Wilfred Nunn ,
Jeremy Greenstock
[Hardcover 2007]
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Jay Winter ,
Jean Louis Robert
[Paperback 1999]
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This ambitious volume marks a huge step in our understanding of the social history of the Great War. The authors have compiled a vast array of data and have drawn an original and coherent portrait of European cities at war. Contributors from several fields bring an interdisciplinary approach to the... more
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Alan G V Simmonds
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2011]
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Description: The First World War appears as a fault line in Britain's twentieth-century history. Between August 1914 and November 1918 the titanic struggle against Imperial Germany and her allies consumed more people, more money and more resources than any other conflict that Britain had hitherto experienced. For the first time,... more
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Robert F Grattan
[Hardcover 2009]
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Air power has come to be seen as a country's first line of defense; in the First World War views were vastly different. Aircraft were a novelty not always welcomed by the traditionalist military, and there were no tactics, doctrine or strategies available for the deployment of air power. Yet,... more
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William Van Der Kloot
[Hardcover 2009]
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William Van der Kloot examines the experiences of seven future national leaders during the World War I. Adolf Hitler served on the Western Front for four years; Charles de Gaulle was bayoneted and captured at Verdun; Benito Mussolini was so badly wounded that he was discharged as a hero; Gustav... more
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Jane Addams
[Paperback 2010]
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First published in 1922 during the "Red Scare, " by which time Jane Addams's pacifist efforts had adversely affected her popularity as an author and social reformer, Peace and Bread in Time of War is Addams's eighth book and the third to deal with her thoughts on pacifism. Addams's unyielding... more
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Holger H Herwig ,
Neil M Heyman
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Fred Van Hartesveldt ,
Fred Von Hartesveldt
[Hardcover 1997]
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George Robb
[Paperback 2002]
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A brief but comprehensive survey of British society and culture during the First World War. George Robb concentrates not on military campaigns and battle strategies, but on the lives of ordinary Britons - how they responded to and were affected by the war, how they attempted to understand the conflict... more
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Paul Reed
[Paperback 2002]
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Combles lies on the eastern edge of the Somme battlefield. It was elaborately fortified by the Germans, utilizing the extensive catacombs and cellars of the town's church and chateau. The position was anchored on either side by Faffemont Farm and Leuze Woods, site of the grave of Cedric Dickens, grandson... more
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Stephen L Harris ,
Rod Paschall
[Paperback 2005]
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When the United States entered World War I in 1917, thousands of African-American men volunteered to fight for a country that granted them only limited civil rights. Many from New York City joined the 15th N.Y. Infantry, a National Guard regiment later designated the 369th U.S. Infantry. Led by mostly... more
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Gerard Oram
[Hardcover 2003]
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Three hundred and fifty-one men were executed by British Army firing-squads between September 1914 and November 1920. By far the greatest number were shot for desertion in the face of the enemy. Controversial even at the time, these executions of soldiers amid the horrors of the Western Front continue to... more
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Douglas V Johnson ,
Jr Rolfe L Hillman
[Hardcover 1999]
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"IT IS THE LAST FIVE PERCENT of possible exertion that often wins the battle". Brigadier Gen. Hanson Ely's statement best exemplifies the efforts of his troops as part of the allied contingent at the Battle of Soissons, July 18-22, 1918. At a cost of more than twelve thousand soldiers and... more
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Alan Moorehead
[Paperback 2002]
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When Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill, as Sea Lord for the British, conceived a plan: smash through the Dardanelles, reopen the Straits to Russia, and immobilize the Turks. On the night of March 18, 1915, this plan nearly succeeded -- the Turks were virtually... more
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H P Willmott
[Paperback 2012]
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This title presents a dramatic account of 'The Great War' that combines emotive photography with personal accounts which evoke both the futility and the spirit of the Great War. Considering every aspect of the conflict - sea, land and on the home front - this momentous book is a vivid... more
