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Light And Shade In War [Illustrated Edition]

by Captain Malcolm Ross
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Two Kiwis recount their experiences of the Front at Gallipoli and France during the First World War. Included are a number of their own photographs. “THE authors of this book, father and son, have seen much of the Light and Shade of War during the past two years, the one as a War Correspondent in...

Wartime

The First World War in a Canadian Town

by Edward Butts
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017

The First World War was the cause of dramatic changes in every Canadian community. What it meant to daily life becomes clear in this book about the war years in Guelph, Ontario. The first months were the easiest, as young men rushed to enlist. Once news of casualties and deaths started arriving, the...

Sunken Gold

A Story of World War I Espionage and the Greatest Treasure Salvage in History

by Joseph A. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

On January 25, 1917, HMS Laurentic struck two German mines off the coast of Ireland and sank. The ship was carrying 44 tons of gold bullion to the still-neutral United States via Canada in order to finance the war effort for Britain and its allies. Britain desperately needed that sunken treasure,...

A Reluctant Hero

The Life of Captain Robert Ryder VC

by Richard Hopton
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012

A biography of one of the greatest naval heroes of World War II. This is the first biography of Cpt. Robert Ryder VC, Royal Navy, one of the greatest naval heroes of the Second World War. Ryder led the audacious raid on St Nazaire in March 1942, which completely destroyed the port’s dry dock—depriving...

A Poet Of The Air; Letters Of Jack Morris Wright

First Lieutenant Of The American Aviation In France, April, 1917-January, 1918

by Jack Morris Wright
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014

“THESE letters from my son, I gathered for publication just as they came, with the full joy and pride I had in receiving them, hoping to give to other boys something of his fine courage and spirit --- to other mothers comfort and hope, and to all readers the vivid, beautiful sketches of France,...

Experiences of a Dug-Out, 1914-1918 [Illustrated Edition]

by Major-General Sir C. E. Callwell
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos Major-General Sir Charles Edward Callwell KCB was an Anglo-Irish officer of the British Army, who served in the artillery, as an intelligence officer, and as a staff officer and commander during...

The German Chancellor and the Outbreak of War

by J.W. Headlam
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

The German Chancellor and the Outbreak of War is an overview of the events in Germany just preceding the start of World War I.

War and the State (RLE The First World War)

The Transformation of British Government, 1914-1919

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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014

This volume gives students and researchers an insight into British central government in 1914, how and why it altered during the war years and what permanent changes remained when the war was over. The war saw the scope of governmental intervention widened in an unprecedented manner. The contributors...

Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story [Illustrated Edition]

by Henry Morgenthau
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Illustrated with 54 photographs and portraits. The memoirs of the American Ambassador to Turkey during the First World War, covering the political dealing at the top of the Ottoman Empire and the events of the Armenian disaster. The Memoirs of Henry Morgenthau Sr. cover the period that he was in office...

Canada's Great War, 1914-1918

How Canada Helped Save the British Empire and Became a North American Nation

by Brian Douglas Tennyson
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014

Canada’s Great War, 1914-1918: How Canada Helped Save the British Empire and Became a North American Nation describes the major role that Canada played in helping the British Empire win the greatest war in history—and, somewhat surprisingly, resulted in Canada’s closer integration not with the...

Discourses Surrounding British Widows of the First World War

by Dr. Angela Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014

Using extensive data - mostly gleaned from the National Archives - this book examines the way in which British widows of servicemen who died in the First World War were represented in society and by themselves, exploring the intertwining discourses of social welfare, national identity, and morality...

Unhappy Far-Off Things

With linked Table of Contents

by Lord Dunsany
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015

Lord Dunsany was one of the most influential fantasy authors of the twentieth century. Like J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis he served during the great war. Collected here are thirteen stories of that terrible war. Dunsany saw the horrors of war and he was uniquely qualified to capture the experience...

Forgotten Front

The East African Campaign 1914-1918

by Ross Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014

The campaign combined heroic human endeavor and terrible suffering set in some of the most difficult terrain in the world. The troops had to cope with extremes that ranged from arid deserts to tropical jungles to formidable mountains and almost always on inadequate rations. Yet the East African Front...

Cambridge in the Great War

by Glynis Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016

Cambridge is one of the most famous universities in the world and its library is one of only five copyright libraries in the UK. At the start of the twentieth century it was a privileged life for some, but many in Cambridge knew that war was becoming truly inevitable. What the proverbial ‘gown’...

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