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First World War by Hew
Strachan.
Hew Strachan presents a stunning new account of the
hostilities which offers many new interpretations of and insights into one
of the defining events of the twentieth century. This one-volume history
is not just a riveting digest for the general reader of his other writing,
it also provides the narrative structure and direction of the accompanying
ten-part Channel 4 series. And, for the first time, it offers a truly
global vision of a conflict which is often misconceived as a prolonged
skirmish on the Western Front.
Illustrated hardback with 350 pages.
Order code NMP9138. Book price
£25.00.
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Dictionary of the First
World War by Stephen Pope and Elizabeth-Anne Wheal.
This comprehensive dictionary of one of the worlds
greatest conflicts contains over 1,200 entries, combining facts, narrative
and analysis, and covers all aspects of history’s first global conflict.
Paperback with 561 pages.
Order code NMP9333. Book price £11.99.
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The British Army in World
War I (2) by Mike Chappell.
In 1916 Britain was finally
forced to introduce universal conscription to replace the terrible
casualties suffered by the pre-war Regulars, the Territorials and the
eager but unprepared volunteers of the New Armies. In 1917 and 1918
the vastly expanded British Expeditionary Force became the most effective
of all the combatant armies in France, its improved weapons and tactics
forged in the furnaces of the Somme and the Ypres Salient. Shaken
but resilient under Germanys last desperate offensive in spring 1918, it
swept forward to final victory. This second of three titles charts
the British Armys changing appearance in colourful detail.
Part of the Osprey Men at Arms Series.
Illustrated paperback with approximately 50 pages.
Order code MA402. Book price £8.99.
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The British Army in World
War I (1) The Western Front 1914 - 16 by Mike Chappell.
At the outbreak of World War I in
August 1914 the British Army was unique: unlike the massed conscripts of
the continental powers, it was a small force raised entirely by voluntary
recruitment. While the first campaigns brought admiring praise from
the enemy for its incomparable soldiers, the British Expeditionary Force
had been virtually eliminated by the end of 1914. Kitcheners call
for volunteers to build the New Armies drew such an astonishing patriotic
response that by the Big Push on the Somme in mid 1916 the BEF had grown
from five to 55 divisions. However, that summers hideous casualties
forced Britain to adopt conscription at last.
Part of the Osprey Men at Arms Series.
Illustrated paperback with approximately 50 pages.
Order code MA391. Book price £8.99.
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World War I Day by Day
by Ian Westwell
The outbreak of World War I in August 1914 was seen by many European
leaders as an opportunity to curb the power of their economic and military
rivals. Both governments believed they were fighting a
justifiable war, and most believed the conflict would be brief.
By Christmas 1914 hopes of a short war had evaporated, particularly
on the Western Front, where trenches faced each other
from the North Sea to Switzerland. Casualties had been enormous and would
continue to grow for the next four years. By the end of the war
estimates suggest there were 8 million men wounded.
The armistice in 1918 also signaled the end of the old Europe; the
war had brought about the downfall of three empires: the Austro-Hungarian,
German, and Russian - and saw the emergence of the United States as a
leading international power. However, the peace settlements laid the
foundations for the outbreak of World War II.
Book serial number BG1. Price £19.99. Fully illustrated hard back with 192 pages.
Post: UK- £5.00 (max post for multiple books
£6.00).
For Europe £8.00 (each plus one charge of £3.00 recorded fee per
total shipment)
Rest of World £12.00 (each plus one charge of £3.00 recorded fee
per total shipment)
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World War I in Post
Cards by John Laffin
The Great War has been recorded in many ways, but in this book John
Laffin illustrates a very specific one - the extraordinary phenomenon of
the war postcard - reflecting as it does the full range of response to
this most murderous and ghastly war. Sent from the battle front in much
the same way as holiday postcards, thousands of these cards made their way
back and forth between the soldiers and their families.
In this book
almost 300 of these postcards are reproduced, together with some of the
poignant messages which their authors wrote from the front.
Grouped into
sections - story postcards, military subjects, heroism and agony,
religious themes, humour, verse, postcards of children, 'silks' or
embroidered cards, animals, and field postcards - the cards highlight the
contrasts in individual outlook and between nationalistic tendencies to
understatement, exaggeration or sentimentality.
Book serial number BW1. Price £16.99. Fully illustrated hard back with 201 pages.
Post UK- £4.00 (max post for multiple books £4.00).
For Europe £6.00 (each plus one charge of £3.00 recorded fee per
total shipment)
Rest of World £8.00 (each plus one charge of £3.00 recorded fee
per total shipment)
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News from the Front -
War Correspondents on the Western Front 1914-18 by Martin J. Farrar
The reality of what actually happened on the First World War killing
fields at Ypres, the Somme and Passchendaele was not widely known in Britain until long after the war had ended. But when at last the public
learned the full story of how, over four bloody years, swathes of British
soldiers had been mown down and blasted to oblivion to gain just a few
yards of ground on the Western Front, there was a popular outcry. How
could this have happened? Why had the people not been told the truth by
the press? The sanitized image of war soon turned from one of noble
sacrifice to a vision of mindless slaughter as the British public reacted
to the lies created by the wartime propaganda process. Eighty years on, it
is still difficult to believe that people on the Home Front had little
notion of what was actually happening.
At first branded as outlaws by Lord Kitchener and liable to arrest
if found anywhere near the frontline, by 1918 the war correspondents had
become fully integrated into the military system as mouthpieces for the
'official' version of events. Using a wide range of contemporary newspaper
extracts to complement his narrative, Martin Farrar relates their troubled
story and focuses in particular on the work of five men who became
accredited to the British General Headquarters: William Beach Thomas,
Philip Gibbs, Percival Phillips, Perry Robinson and Herbert Russell. Their
actions not only affected the mass media's credibility at the time, but
also raised the possibility that, had the truth been told in the first
place, the war could have been over long before 1918.
Book serial number BSPL1. Price £10.99. Fully illustrated paperback
with 238 pages.
Post UK- £5.00 (max post for multiple books £6.00).
For Europe £7.00 (each plus one charge of £3.00 recorded fee per
total shipment)
Rest of World £9.00 (each plus one charge of £3.00 recorded fee
per total shipment)
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The Great War by
John Terraine.
From the fatal shots which killed the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in
Sarajevo on June 28th 1914 to the Armistice at 11 am on the eleventh day of
the eleventh month of 1918, this masterly account traces the progress of
the First World War in fifteen chapters from the pen of the greatest
historian of the conflict.
In this highly readable and wide-ranging history of the Great War,
John Terraine examines it in its entirety, from the Battle of Tannenburg
to Gallipoli, from East Africa to the Western Front. Naval battles and air
power receive their fare share of attention, making this perhaps the best
single-volume history of the first mechanised war of the industrial age
that left at least 12 million dead and twice as many maimed.
Illustrated paperback with 400 pages.
Book serial number W33. Price £9.99.
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The French Army 1914-1918 by Ian
Sumner & G Embleton
Book is packed with black and white photographs and colour illustrations.
Book price £8.99. Book serial number
Osprey MA286.
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The
German Army 1914-1918 by D Fosten, R Marrion & G Embleton
Book is packed with black and white photographs and colour illustrations.
Book price £8.99.
Book serial number Osprey MA80.
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The British Army
1914-18 by D Fosten, R Marrion & G Embleton
Book is packed with black and white photographs and colour illustrations.
Book price £8.99. Book serial number
Osprey MA81.
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The Thin Yellow
Line by William Moore
The summary execution by firing squad of confused and shell-shocked
British soldiers in the First World War still arouses heated passions over
eighty years later. Calls for posthumous pardons are still made in
Parliament on behalf of these men who were tried by flawed court martial's
and shot within hours of the verdict.
William Moore's compassionate account of the dreadful proceedings
that caused 346 men to be executed by their comrades was the first book to
raise this uncomfortable subject. Brilliantly researched against the
wishes of the War Office, it traces the origins of military capital
punishment, placing in context the regulations which led brave men - both
regular soldiers and conscripts - to their lonely deaths at dawn.
Book serial number W46. Price £4.99. Paperback with 270 pages.
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