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Accrington's Pals: The Full Story
The 11th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment and the 158th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Andrew Jackson's new history tells the story of the Great War as it was experienced by the men of the 11th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment (Accrington Pals), the 158th (Accrington and Burnley) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (Howitzers) and their families. Using information gathered from years...
by David Raw
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
In the early days of the First World War two volunteer Pals Battalions were raised in Bradford and this is their remarkable story. David Raw's account is based on memoirs, letters, diaries, contemporary newspaper reports, official records and archives, and it is illustrated with many maps and previously...
by Steven John
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
The Carmarthenshire Battalion was one of the early units raised in 1914 as a result of Lord Kitchener’s expansion of the regular army by 500,000 men for the duration of the Great War. Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, had a vision of a Welsh Army Group and massive efforts were made...
Scattered Under the Rising Sun
The Gordon Highlanders in the Far East 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders was posted to Singapore in 1937 with their families. When the Japanese invaded Malaya in December 1941, the Battalion fought bravely until the surrender of Singapore on 14 February 1942. Those who were not killed became POWs. Of the 1000 men involved initially, over...
Missing But Not Forgotten
Men of the Thiepval Memorial-Somme
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The Thiepval Memorial commemorates over 72,000 men who have no known grave; all went missing in the Somme sector during the three years of conflict that finally ended on 20 March 1918.
The book is not a military history of the Battle of the Somme, it is about personal remembrance, and features...
Accrington Pals
The 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment A History of the Battalion Raised from Accrington, Blackburn, Burnley and Chorley in World War One
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2008
Accrington Pals is being re-released due to popular demand after being out of stock for sometime. The first book to be published in the now highly acclaimed Pals series. The Accrington Pals were the most famous of all the battalions, based upon research in local and national archives, and interviews...
Scott of the Antarctic
We Shall Die Like Gentlemen
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. During the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald...
The Sinking of RMS Tayleur
The Lost Story of the Victorian Titanic
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
'The moment they fell into the water the waves caught them and dashed them violently against the rocks, and the survivors on shore could perceive the unfortunate creatures...struggling amidst the waves, and one by one sinking under them.' (Hereford Times, 28 January 1854)
The wrecking of the...
River Ouse Bargeman
A Lifetime on the Yorkshire Ouse
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
The Ouse reaches into the heart of Yorkshire from the Humber Estuary. Until the 1980s, loaded barges made the challenging journey from Hull to Selby, bearing bulk cargoes for the mills of the town. The bargees had to be tough and resourceful; physically strong enough to handle their craft, wise enough...
Major and Mrs Holts Pocket Battlefield Guide to Ypres and Passchendaele
1st Ypres; 2nd Ypres (Gas Attack); 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele) 4th Ypres (The Lys)
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Covering the important WW1 Battles of Ypres, including the notorious Passchendaele, this guidebook takes readers on a historic trip through some of the well-known and most important sites of the area.This book, part of a new series of guides, is designed conveniently in a small size, for those who...
Kitchener’s Army
The Raising of the New Armies 1914 – 1916
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Numbering over five million men, Britain's army in the First World War was the biggest in the country's history. Remarkably, nearly half those men who served in it were volunteers. 2,466,719 men enlisted between August 1914 and December 1915, many in response to the appeals of the Field-Marshal Lord...
Gilbert Szlumper and Leo Amery of the Southern Railway
The Diaries of a General Manager and a Director
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Very few diaries of directors and senior managers of the Big Four railways have survived to enter the public domain. There are, however, two notable Southern Railway diarists whose records have been available in archives for some years, but have been largely ignored by historians; Southern Railway...
The Home Front
Derbyshire in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
The First World War saw many changes to Derbyshire that helped shape what the county is today. This book details the human experiences, thoughts, concerns, fears and hopes of the county during one the most important periods of its history. All aspects of civilian life are featured, including the run...
Menin Gate South
In Memory and In Mourning
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
This is a comprehensive and highly emotive volume, borne of years of intensive research and many trips to the battlefields of the Great War. It seeks to humanise the Menin Gate Memorial (South), to offer the reader a chance to engage with the personal stories of the soldiers whose names have been...