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  • As Good as Any Man

    Scotland's Black Tommy

    by Morag Miller, Roy Laycock, John Sadler, Rosie Serdiville ...
    When the harrowing Great War diaries of one of Britain's first black soldiers were unearthed in a dusty Scottish attic nearly 100 years after they were written, they posed a bit of a mystery. The diary entries – ranging from May 1917 to March 1918 – were written by one Arthur Roberts while he served initially with the King's Own Scottish Borderers before being transferred to Royal Scots Fusiliers ... Read more

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  • Good-Bye to All That

    by Robert Graves ...
    First published in 1929 and therefore now public domain in the US, ''Good-Bye to All That'' is an autobiography by Robert Graves when the author was 34 years old. "It was my bitter leave-taking of England," he wrote in a prologue, "where I had recently broken a good many conventions." The title may also point to the passing of an old order following the cataclysm of the First World War; the ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Last Man Standing

    The Memiors of a Seaforth Highlander During the Great War

    by Norman Collins ...
    A first-hand account of World War I by a nineteen-year-old Englishman who led a platoon into the carnage of the Battle of the Somme.While researching his excellent earlier book: Veterans of World War I, author Richard Van Emden encountered a fascinating personality of that long-ago conflict. After witnessing German naval attacks on British civilians, Norman Collins enlisted in the Seaforth ... Read more

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  • The Somme

    The Epic Battle in the Soldiers' own Words and Photographs

    by Richard van Emden ...
    The epic and brutal WWI battle is vividly recounted through the words and photos of the soldiers who lived through it.One of the most famous battles of the Great War, the offensive on the Somme took place in 1916, from July and November. It was there that Kitcheners famous Pals Battalions were first sent into action en masse. It was a battlefield where many of the dreams and aspirations of a ... Read more

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  • 1915

    The Death of Innocence

    by Lyn Macdonald ...
    Lyn Macdonald's 1915: The Death of Innocence is a uniquely compelling blend of military history and poignant memories of the fighters who survived the ordeal.By Christmas 1915, the wild wave of enthusiasm that had sent men flocking to join up a few months earlier had begun to tail off, and though the Regulars of the original Expeditionary Force had suffered 90 percent casualties, most, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Mud, Blood and Bullets

    Memoirs of a Machine Gunner on the Western Front

    by Edward Rowbotham ...
    It is 1915 and the Great War has been raging for a year, when Edward Rowbotham, a coal miner from the Midlands, volunteers for Kitchener's Army. Drafted into the newly-formed Machine Gun Corps, he is sent to fight in places whose names will forever be associated with mud and blood and sacrifice: Ypres, the Somme, and Passchendaele. He is one of the 'lucky' ones, winning the Military Medal for ... Read more

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  • Wallaby Warrior

    The World War I diaries of Australia's only British Lion

    by Greg Growden ...
    Tom Richards is the only Australian-born Test rugby player to have played for both Australia and the British Lions. When the Australian team won the Gold Medal for rugby at the 1908 Olympic Games, the London Times pronounced: 'If ever the Earth had to select a Rugby Football team to play against Mars, Tom Richards would be the first player chosen.'With an introduction by leading Australian rugby ... Read more

    $11.79 USD

  • Both Sides of the Wire

    The memoir of an Australian officer captured during the Great War

    by William Cull, Aaron Pegram ...
    This is Bill Cull's unforgettable story of his experiences in WW1: he fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front where he was captured by the Germans and was a POW until the end of the war.Captain William Cull fought the First World War from both sides of the wire. As a young infantry officer on the Allied side of the Western Front, Cull frequently led patrols out into No Man's Land and raids on ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Over the Top

    A digger's story of the Western Front

    by HG Hartnett, Chris Bryett ...
    Australia's diggers didn't go 'over the top' for King and Country, they did it for their mates and their battalion - extraordinary deeds performed by ordinary men.Henry George Hartnett, known as 'Harry', joined the Australian Imperial Force on 13 September 1915 at the age of 23. He saw action on the Western Front at Fromelles and on the Somme, receiving his first 'Blighty', a wound so serious he ... Read more

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  • The Forgotten Soldier

    He wasn’t a soldier, he was just a boy

    by Charlie Connelly ...
    Bestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First World War memoir of his great uncle, Edward Connelly, who was an ordinary boy sent to fight in a war the likes of which the world had never seen.But this is not just his story; it is the story of all the young forgotten soldiers who fought and bravely died for their countryThe Forgotten Soldier tells the story of Private Edward Connelly, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Easter Rebellion

    The outstanding narrative history of the 1916 Rising in Ireland

    by Max Caulfield ...
    This is a scrupulously researched and superbly written account of the events of that fateful week. The narrative proceeds almost on an hour-by-hour basis building up a picture which, while immensely detailed, is none the less presented with the greatest clarity. First published in 1964, The Easter Rebellion quickly established itself as the outstanding narrative history of the 1916 Rising in ... Read more

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  • On the Front Line

    True World War I Stories

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    In 1930, the editor of Everyman Magazine requested entries for a new anthology of Great War accounts. The result was a revolutionary book unlike any other of the period; for as Malcolm Brown notes in his introduction 'I believe it might fairly be described as a rediscovered classic'.It was the very first collection to reveal the many dimensions of the war through the eyes of the ordinary soldier ... Read more

    $13.99 USD