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  • Sunderland in the Great War

    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    Looks at how the Great War affected Wearsiders 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 Sunderland were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years including local Zeppelin attacks and experiences of those fighting for the DLI and other regiments. The ... Read more

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  • The Fighting Pioneers

    The Story of the 7th Battalion DLI

    by Clive Dunn ...
    Story of the 7th Battalion Durham Light Infantry. With the creation of the Territorial Force in 1908 the battalion was re-designated as the 7th Battalion. It went to France in April 1915 with the rest of the Northumbrian Division seeing action almost immediately at the Second battle of Ypres. In November 1915 the battalion was picked to become the divisional pioneers. The 1/7 Battalion suffered ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Dad’s Army

    The Complete Radio Series One

    Unabridged

    10 hours 9 min

    Twenty episodes from the first BBC Radio series plus an hour-long Christmas special, starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn.In 1973 the BBC adapted its hit TV series for radio, featuring the original TV cast and characters. Three series were broadcast between 1974 and 1976, with episodes adapted from their TV counterparts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.Now you can enjoy once ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Black Watch

    Liberating Europe and catching Himmler - my extraordinary WW2 with the Highland Division

    by Tom Renouf ...
    As a 19-year old Black Watch conscript Tom Renouf's war began with some of the most vicious fighting of the conflict - against Himmler's fanatical 'Hitler Youth' SS Division. It ended with the capture of Himmler himself and Tom taking a trophy he still treasures - the Gestapo commander's watch.Seriously wounded and later decorated with a Military Medal for gallantry, Tom Renouf witnessed the death ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Brave Battalion

    The Remarkable Saga of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) in the First World War

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    Brave Battalion presents the story of four Canadian Highland regiments that were banded together as the 16th Battalion. Ninety years after the end of WWI, this work honours those soldiers and makes their stories a vivid reality. Focusing on the Canadian Scottish (Princess Mary’s) Battalion, Mark Zuehlke presents the harrowing experiences that bonded the men and which came to represent the uniting ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Passchendaele Campaign, 1917

    by Andrew Rawson ...
    Series series British Expeditionary Force
    This is an account of the British Expeditionary Forces battles in the summer and autumn of 1917. It begins with the Allied plan to free up the Flanders coast, to limit German naval and submarine attacks on British shipping.The opening offensive began with the detonation of nineteen mines on 7 June and ended with the capture of the Messines Ridge. The main offensive started with success on 31 July ... Read more

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  • Cheerful Sacrifice

    The Battle of Arras, 1917

    This WWI history examines the significant yet overlooked British offensive that achieved major advances on the Western Front.Fought between April 9th and May 16th of 1917, the Battle of Arras was the most lethal and costly British offensive battle of the First World War. Lasting a brutal thirty-nine days, its average casualty rate was far higher than at either the Somme or Passchendaele. It also ... Read more

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  • The First Day on the Somme

    1 July 1916

    The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - Guardian'For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as though walking in a park. Then, suddenly, we were in the midst of a storm of machine-gun bullets and I saw men beginning to twirl round and fall in all kinds of curious ways'On 1 July 1916, a continous line of ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The First Day on the Somme

    Revised Edition

    A history of the British Army's experience at the Battle of the Somme in France during World War I.After an immense but useless bombardment, at 7:30 AM on July 1, 1916, the British Army went over the top and attacked the German trenches. It was the first day of the battle of the Somme, and on that day, the British suffered nearly 60,000 casualties, two for every yard of their front. With more than ... Read more

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  • Forgotten Voices of the Somme

    The Most Devastating Battle of the Great War in the Words of Those Who Survived

    by Joshua Levine ...
    The Somme. With over a million casualties, it was the most brutal battle of World War I.It is a clash that even now, over 90 years later, remains seared into the national consciousness, conjuring up images of muddy trenches and young lives tragically wasted. Its first day, July 1st 1916 - on which the British suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 dead - is the bloodiest day in the history ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • Last Stand at Le Paradis

    The Events Leading to the SS Massacre of the Norfolks 1940

    by Richard Lane ...
    A chronicle of the WWII British Expeditionary Force unit that faced a German firing squad after surrendering at the Battle of Dunkirk.In 1939, the BEF was deployed to counter the German aggression in Europe. The men of 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment, were some of the first to land in France. Less than a year later, they would be massacred by the Waffen-SS in one of the most egregious war ... 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

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