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by Dr Peter Pedersen
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2004

Villers-Bretonneux was the key to the strategically important communications centre of Amiens, a principal objective of the German offensive that began in March 1918. Until the Germans took the town, Amiens would remain beyond their grasp. The successful defence of Villers-Bretonneux has come to be regarded as an Australian battle but British formations were heavily involved as wel
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Kitchener's Men

The King's Own Royal Lancasters on the Western Front 1915-1918

by John Hutton
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008

In Kitchener's Men John Hutton provides a absorbing account of the raising, training and fighting experiences of the Service and Territorial battalions of the King’s Own Royal Lancasters in France during the Great War. His book gives a graphic insight into the daily routine and grim reality of warfare...
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The Holy Boys

A History of the Royal Norfolk Regiment and the Royal East Anglian Regiment 1685-2010

by Jonathan Sutherland, Diane Canwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011

The Royal Norfolk Regiment is one of the oldest and most distinguished fighting forces in the British army. Its line of descent can be traced back for over three centuries, all the way from modern Afghanistan to Monmouth’s rebellion in 1685. Throughout these years, and many campaigns, the...
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by Jill Knight
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2005

Made up entirely of volunteer civil servants and their friends and despite the Government's reluctance to release them, the Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles fought with distinction at Loos, the Somme, Messines, Cambrai, Salonika and Palestine. As casualties mounted, the Rifles' spirit and...
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by Tim Travers
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009

This books explains why the British Army fought the way it did in the First World War. It integrates social and military history and the impact of ideas to tell the story of how the army, especially the senior officers, adapted to the new technological warfare and asks: Was the style of warfare on...
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Auchinleck

The Lonely Soldier

by Philip Warner
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006

Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck was born in India and raised in conditions of near poverty. Yet his talent ensured his career flourished despite his Indian Army background and he was the first Commander of 8th Army in North Africa. Despite great political interference, he stopped Rommel's Afrika...
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Victory on the Western Front

The Development of the British Army 1914-1918

by Michael Senior
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016

Marshal Foch, the Generalissimo of the Allied Armies during the last stages of the First World War, commenting on the victories won during the Hundred Days when the Germans were driven back on the Western Front, said ‘Never at any time in history has the British army achieved greater results in...
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by Ted Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005

Concentrating on the Ploegsteert and Neuve Eglise sectors in Belgium, this book features stories on such well known figures as sculptor Charles Sargent Jagger, ARA ; R Poulton Palmer and 'Tanky' Turner, great friends and rugby football captains of England and Scotland respectively; as well the discovery...
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Salient Points Three

Ypres & Picardy 1914-18

by Tony Spagnoly, Ted Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990

The third in the series of a collection of stories about the men the actions and the places of interest for the battlefield visitor to the old Western Front. This book features:- A Soldier for a Year (Private David Ross); - A Very British Grenadier (Captain Pixley); - An Artist at War (Ernest Carlos);...
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The Great War Illustrated 1914

Archive and Colour Photographs of WW!

by William Langford
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013

First of a series of five titles which will cover each year of the war graphically. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to become...
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The Life and Campaigns of General Hughie Stockwell

From Norway Through Burma to Suez

by Jonathon Riley
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006

The career of General Hugh Stockwell culminated in the ill-fated Suez Operation of 1956 but no stigma can attach to him for this. It was a military success but a political nightmare which resulted in the fall of Prime Minister Eden, the lowest point in relations between the Western allies, the departure...
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Britain Goes to War

How the First World War Began to Reshape the Nation

by Dr Peter Liddle
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015

The First World War had a profound impact on British society and on British relations with continental Europe, the Dominions, the United States and the emerging Soviet Union. The pre-war world was transformed, and the world that we recognize today began to take shape. That is why, 100 years after...
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by Michael Stedman
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001

The Battleground series is designed for both the battlefield visitor and the reader at home. For the former, this book is an invaluable guide and each site is described in detail. For everyone there are graphic descriptions of action, often through first-hand accounts, supported by illustrations, diagrams and maps.
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by Christopher Owen
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015

How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German Kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Wellington were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A...
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