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Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War
Paperback,
03/08/2017,
£12.99
£11.69
The First World War in the words of the men who fought it, from the author of Gallipoli and The Great War.
100 Days to Victory: How the Great War Was Fought and Won 1914-1918
Hardback,
12/09/2013,
£20.00
£12.00
Empires of the Dead
Hardback,
26/09/2013,
£16.99
£10.19
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; the extraordinary and forgotten story behind the building of the First World War cemeteries, due to the efforts of one remarkable and visionary man, Fabian Ware.
World War I and Urban Order: The Local Class Politics of National Mobilization
Paperback,
31/05/2017,
£29.99
£26.99
This book uses Portland, Oregon to bring to life the transformation of U.S. cities during the first truly national war mobilization effort. World War I had an enormous impact on urban life and the relationship between cities and the federal government that has been almost entirely unexplored until now.
1914: Fight the Good Fight: Britain, the Army and the Coming of the First World War
Hardback,
29/08/2013,
£25.00
£22.50
Explores and explains the grand strategic shift that occurred in the century before the war, the British Army's regeneration after its drubbings in its fight against the Boer in South Africa, its almost calamitous experience of the first twenty days' fighting in Flanders.
Missing of the Somme
Paperback,
08/11/2012,
£8.99
£8.09
'The great Great War book of our time.' Observer
Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
Hardback,
18/01/2018,
£18.99
£17.09
2018 marks the centenary not only of the Armistice but also of women gaining the vote. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by exploring how the War gave female scientists, doctors, and engineers unprecedented opportunities to undertake endeavours normally reserved for men.
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
Paperback,
07/06/2018,
£10.99
£9.00
Pale Rider is not just an excavation but a reimagining of the past' GuardianWith a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history.
Supernatural War: Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War
Hardback,
08/11/2018,
£20.00
£18.00
How widespread belief in fortune-telling, prophecies, spirits, magic, and protective talismans gripped the battlefields and home fronts of Europe during the First World War.
Great War and Medieval Memory: War, Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940
Paperback,
12/11/2009,
£34.99
£31.49
A comparative study of the cultural impact of the Great War on British and German societies. Taking medievalism as a mode of public commemorations as its focus, this book unravels the British and German search for historical continuity and meaning in the shadow of an unprecedented human catastrophe.
Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster
Hardback,
15/11/2018,
£42.99
£38.69
Forgetful Remembrance offers a new approach to the study of memory by focusing on vernacular historiographies and the notion of forgetting. Using the 1798 Irish Rebellion, Beiner explores how communities try to obscure inconvenient and uncomfortable events from the past.
Allied Medicine in the Great War: The Medical Front and the People Who Fought
Paperback,
20/09/2018,
£24.99
£22.49
Public Schools and the Great War: The Generation Lost
Paperback,
08/08/2018,
£14.99
£12.00
The book examines the impact which the Great War had on the Public Schools and the sacrificial contribution made to the victory which came in 1918.
World War One: The most catastrophic event in 20th century European history
Paperback,
25/10/2018,
£9.99
£8.99
Animals in the First World War
Paperback,
10/03/2014,
£7.99
£7.19
Looks at all the practical ways in which animals were essential to the war effort, but is equally interested in their roles as companions, mascots and morale boosters - on land, in the air and at sea.
Great War and the Middle East
Paperback,
26/08/2021,
£16.99
£15.29
The story of the First World War in the Middle East - and how it swept away five hundred years of Ottoman rule to lay the foundations for the troubled Middle East that we know today.
Global War, Global Catastrophe: Neutrals, Belligerents and the Transformations of the First World War
Paperback,
07/10/2021,
£19.99
£17.99
The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
Hardback,
07/06/2022,
£20.00
£18.00
Olympic Titanic Britannic: The anatomy and evolution of the Olympic Class
Hardback,
13/10/2022,
£25.00
£22.50
Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club
Hardback,
13/10/2022,
£20.00
£18.00
The first book to tell the remarkable story of Oxford University's hedonistic Hypocrites Club and its (in)famous members
Black Poppies: The Story of Britain's Black Community in the First World War
Paperback,
22/09/2022,
£8.99
£8.09
A short, compelling history of Black Britons during the First World War, for readers aged 8 to 12
Fifty Mysterious Postcards: Pitman Shorthand Messages from the Golden Age of the Postcard
Paperback,
15/09/2022,
£15.99
£14.39
Mysterious messages from over a hundred years ago, written in the dying art of Pitman Shorthand
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance
Hardback,
27/10/2022,
£25.00
£22.50
The extraordinary story of how the world's most famous shipwreck was found, told by the man leading the search.
First World War: A New History
Paperback,
13/02/2014,
£9.99
£8.99
A brilliant and penetrating history of the First World War by one of the world's foremost experts on the conflict. Reissued for the 100th Anniversary.
Pity of War
Paperback,
30/09/1999,
£14.99
£13.49
The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. Was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm and were the Germans a genuine threat? Was the war, as is often asserted, greeted with popular enthusiasm? Why did men keep on fighting when conditions were so wretched? This title deals with questions.
Routledge Atlas of the First World War 3ed
Paperback,
08/09/2008,
£28.99
£26.09
An atlas that sets out the course of the Great War, from its origins to its terrible legacy. It illustrates its military, social, political and economic aspects.
Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916
Paperback,
10/03/2016,
£12.99
£11.69
A Downing Street diary with a difference; offering a unique record and a fascinating insight into the British government during WWI, written by Margot Asquith, the wife of the prime minister, H. H. Asquith.
Great War Britain: The First World war at home
Hardback,
02/06/2014,
£25.00
£15.00
The declaration of war in August 1914 was to change Britain and British society irrevocably as conflict came to dominate almost every aspect of civilian life for the next four years.
Breakdown: Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme 1916
Hardback,
07/04/2016,
£25.00
£22.50
One hundred years on from the Battle of the Somme, Breakdown tells the unusual and little-known story of shell shock in one of the bloodiest battles ever fought by the British army.
Britain's Forgotten Fighter Ace Captain Ball VC
Paperback,
12/06/2014,
£18.99
£17.09
A wonderful combination of wartime anecdotes, personal letters and contemporary images
Love of an Unknown Soldier
Hardback,
01/02/2015,
£9.99
£8.99
Love of an Unknown Soldier is the publication of a series of intimate documents that were found in a dug-out of an abandoned gun position, resulting in an extremely moving love story.
Darkest Days: The Truth Behind Britain's Rush to War, 1914
Paperback,
16/02/2015,
£9.99
£8.99
A radical interpretation of the divisions leading up to the declaration of war, August, 1914.
Missing of the Somme
Paperback,
30/06/2016,
£10.99
£9.89
Republished to mark the centenary of the battle of the Somme Geoff Dyer's classic book is 'the great Great War book of our time' (Observer)
Month That Changed the World: July 1914 and WWI
Paperback,
13/04/2017,
£14.99
£13.49
The dramatic step-by-step account of how the assassination of an Austrian archduke in the Balkans led to the cataclysm of the First World War over five fateful weeks in the summer of 1914.
Lawrence of Arabia's War: The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI
Hardback,
04/04/2017,
£17.99
£16.19
Too Important for the Generals: Losing and Winning the First World War
Paperback,
01/06/2017,
£11.99
£10.79
One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions and debate about the First World War is why did winning take so long and exact so appalling a human cost? The author argues that from day one of the war Britain was wrong-footed by absurdly faulty French military doctrine and paid, as a result, an unnecessarily high price in casualties.
Fighting Proud: The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars
Hardback,
30/06/2017,
£30.00
£27.00
In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in the armed forces and at home, and brings to light the great unheralded contribution they made to the war effort.
Fire in the Sky
Paperback,
01/12/2012,
£9.99
£8.99
The first book in 90 years dedicated to the daring and courage of the airmen and mechanics of the Australian Flying Corps - a tale of a war fought thousands of feet above the trenches from which only one in two emerged unscathed.
Only Remembered
Paperback,
06/10/2016,
£7.99
£7.19
2014 will mark one hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War. To mark the date, this anthology collects images and poems from some of the UK's cultural, political and literary figures. It includes short stories, personal letters, newspaper articles, scripts and paintings.
Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement
Hardback,
03/11/2016,
£25.00
£22.50
At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes' lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the political instability and violence in the Middle East attributed to it.
Spies in Palestine: Love, Betrayal and the Heroic Life of Sarah Aaronsohn
Hardback,
27/10/2016,
£21.99
£19.79
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