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  • What Tommy Took to War

    1914–1918

    by Professor Peter Doyle, Chris Foster ...
    On the centenary of the Great War comes this poignant look at fifty objects never far from Tommy's side – official uniform, good-luck charms, phrasebooks, a sweetheart's letter, some unexpected and others more familiar. With sumptuous original photography and thoughtful text, this is life as the ordinary First World War soldier knew it. Inside front: What Tommy Took To War tells sobering, ... Read more

    $6.09 USD

  • British Postcards of the First World War

    by Professor Peter Doyle ...
    Series Book 582 - Shire Library
    Illustrated with a wide range of postcards, this is a fascinating look into the response of the British people to the horrors of the war.Postcards sent by men on the front, and to them by their families, are among the most numerous, and most telling, surviving artefacts of the Great War. They tell us much about attitudes towards the war, and provide a great insight into men's lives, and into the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Redcoats to Tommies

    The Experience of the British Soldier from the Eighteenth Century

    by Kevin Linch, Dr Michael Reeve, Dr Edward Gosling, Timothy Bowman, Adam Prime, Dr Eleanor O'Keeffe, Professor Ian Beckett, Dr Christina Welsch, Matthew Lord0, Dr Jacqueline Reiter1, Dr George Hay2, Professor Peter Doyle3, Robert Tildesley4, Dr Gavin Daly5 ...
    This book surveys and examines the history of Britain's soldiers from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It focuses on the lifecycle of a soldier, including enlistment and experience, and on identity, representations and place in society. It covers the diverse military forces of the British crown - the regular army, home defence forces, part-time soldiers, auxiliaries, officers, non ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

    The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat

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    Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machineIn the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage.The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had ... Read more

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  • Armed Struggle

    The History of the IRA

    by Richard English ...
    A timely work of major historical importance, examining the whole spectrum of events from the 1916 Easter Rising to the current and ongoing peace process, fully updated with a new afterword for the paperback edition.‘An essential book … closely-reasoned, formidably intelligent and utterly compelling … required reading across the political spectrum … important and riveting’ Roy Foster, The Times‘An ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

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  • Walking with the ANZACS

    The authoritative guide to the Australian battlefields of the Western Front

    by Mat McLachlan ...
    '[Mat McLachlan's] knowledge of the front is comprehensive' - Sydney Morning HeraldA complete guide to the Australian battlefields of the Western Front 1916-18.Walking with the ANZACs aims to become the new essential companion for Australians visiting the Western Front. Each of the 14 most important Australian battlefields is covered with descriptions of the battles and Australia’s involvement in ... Read more

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  • Broken Nation

    Australians in the Great War

    by Joan Beaumont ...
    The Australian experience of war in all its complexity - from the homefront as well as the battlefront - as the men and women who experienced it chose to understand and remember it.Winner of the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History.The Great War is, for many Australians, the event that defined our nation. The larrikin diggers, trench warfare, and the landing at Gallipoli ... Read more

    $14.09 USD

  • A Guide to the Beaches and Battlefields of Normandy

    by David Evans ...
    A Guide to the Beaches and Battlefields of Normandy provides an accessible background to the momentous events of 6 June 1944 as well as a complete guide to each and every town, village, beach, battery and cemetery that figured in the battle. This comprehensive book contains a wealth of detail that charts the heroism, poignancy and tragedy of events that were to alter the course of history. With ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • New Zealand's Great War

    New Zealand, the Allies and the First World War

    Edited by John Crawford (ed), Ian McGibbon (ed) ...
    This book is a collection of essays arising out of the Zealandias Great War conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003. In 32 essays by distinguished military historians from New Zealand and around the world, various aspects of New Zealands involvement in World War One are discussed. Subjects include the Pioneer Maori Battalion, women who opposed the war, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • First World War Britain

    1914–1919

    by Professor Peter Doyle ...
    Series Book 14 - Shire Living Histories
    The First World War profoundly changed British society. The armed forces' need for mass recruitment saw the workforce severely depleted, with women stepping up to shoulder the burden; but nobody could ignore the social upheaval or the strains put upon daily life. With poverty a major issue at the outbreak of war, the extra wages put more food on the table for many families, in spite of rationing ... Read more

    $11.29 USD

  • The Highland Clearances

    by Eric Richards ...
    The Highland Clearances stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland.This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. In considering both the terrible suffering of the Highland people as well as the stark choices that faced landowners during a period of rapid economic change, it ... Read more

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  • Operation Market Garden

    Leopoldsburg-Eindhoven-Nijmegen-Arnhem-Oosterbeek

    by Tonie Holt, Valmai Holt ...
    Series series Major & Mrs Holt's Definitive Battlefield Guide
    A guide to the history of World War II Allied military operation, plus battlefield sites and other points of interest you can visit.Like the other books in the Holts' acclaimed Battlefield Guide Series (see inside for details) this is much more than just a guidebook. It charts in fascinating detail what happened at each recommended stop and brings alive, with cameos and personal recollections, the ... Read more

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