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  • War Classics

    The Remarkable Memoir of Scottish Scholar Christina Keith on the Western Front

    Edited by Flora Johnston ...
    Christina Keith came from the small town of Thurso on the far north coast of Scotland. Highly intelligent and ambitious, she became a lecturer in Classics at a time when that was still a brave and unusual choice for a woman. Towards the end of the First World War she left behind the sheltered world of academia to live and work among soldiers of all social backgrounds as a lecturer with the Army's ... Read more

    $10.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay

    The compelling historical novel inspired by the pioneering Scottish aviator

    'A captivating blend of fact and fiction. This fascinating story transports the reader back in time' People's FriendTransatlantic flight fever grips the globe.The Honourable Miss Elsie Mackay, glamorous ex-film star turned bold aviator, sets her sights on becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. Her friend Stella Campbell once felt at the heart of world events, but post-war hopes are ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Paris Peacemakers

    The powerful tale of love and loss in the aftermath of World War One

    BOOKMARK BOOK OF THE YEAR 20251919, Paris. As the guns fall silent, The Paris Peacemakers follows those attempting to start afresh while the fabric of Europe is stitched together for good or ill.Stella Rutherford, desperate to staunch her grief, has thrown herself into her work at the International Peace Conference, while the crucial negotiations play out. Her sister Corran is also headed to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay

    Narrated by Sarah Barron ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 57 min

    Flight fever is running rampant and daring flyers are all anyone can talk about. And now the Honourable Miss Elsie Mackay, glamorous former film star and regular name in gossip columns, has a new ambition - to be the first woman to fly the Atlantic. Stella Campbell was once at the heart of world events. Working at the Paris Peace Conference, she helped forge peace across Europe. Now a decade on, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Paris Peacemakers

    Narrated by Karen Bartke ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 2 min

    As the fragile negotiations of the international Peace Conference get underway, typist Stella Rutherford throws herself into her work and the mixture of glamour and devastation the City of Light reveals. Anything to escape the grief coming in waves for her beloved brother Jack. Her sister Corran is about to put her academic career to use among the troops in France, a chance to see what the ... Read more

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  • Australian Heroines of World War One

    Gallipoli, Lemnos and the Western Front

    Australian Heroines of World War One tells the story of eight courageous women through diaries, letters, original photos, paintings and specially drawn maps. These women had the courage and strength for which the Anzacs are renowned and the compassion and tenderness that only a woman can bring.Sister Hilda Samsing from Melbourne became a whistleblower when nursing aboard the hospital ship Gascon, ... Read more

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  • A Bloody Picnic

    Tommy's Humour, 1914-18

    by Alan Weeks ...
    One of the crucial factors which kept Tommy going on the Western Front was his facility to see what was comic in the horror, deprivation and discomfort of trench warfare, an attitude which blossomed further in the rest areas behind the lines. The nature of the comedy ranged from gentle irony to a rougher hilarity that produced on belly laughs. Such laughter could arise from extreme physical pain ... Read more

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  • Good-Bye To All That: An Autobiography

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Robert Graves ...
    A landmark autobiography from 20th-century English author Robert Graves, "Good-Bye To All That: An Autobiography" offers a deeply personal and transformative firsthand account of the First World War from a British perspective. The title itself signals a profound farewell not just to his youth, but to an entire world shattered by conflict, chronicling a journey through the trenches that led to a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Jam and Roses

    by Mary Gibson ...
    Series Book 2 - The Factory Girls
    The poignant and powerful second novel from the bestselling author of Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts.London, 1923.Bermondsey is the larder of London with its bustling docks, spice mill, tannery and factories.Milly Colman knows she's lucky. Working at Southwell's jam factory all week means she can have a pay packet and a laugh with her mates come Saturday. It's a welc... ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • A Close Run Thing

    (Matthew Hervey Book 1)

    Series Book 1 - Matthew Hervey
    Waterloo**, 1815**As the war against Bonaparte rages to its bloody end upon the field of Waterloo, a young officer goes about his duty in the ranks of Wellington's army. He is Cornet Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons - a soldier, gentleman and man or honour, who suddenly finds himself allotted a hero's role ...Momentous times call for momentous acts: as the Napoleonic Wars escalate, Cornet ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows: An Outlander Novella

    Series series Outlander
    In this original Outlander novella, Diana Gabaldon reveals what really happened to Roger MacKenzie Wakefield’s parents. Orphaned during World War II, Roger believed that his mother died during the London Blitz, and that his father, an RAF pilot, was killed in combat. But in An Echo in the Bone, Roger discovers that this may not be the whole story. Now, in “A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows,” ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Canary Girls

    A Novel

    Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini’s lively and illuminating novel of the British home front about the “munitionettes” who built bombs in Britain’s arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war effort and discovering camaraderie and courage on the football pitch.Early in the Great War, men left Britain’s factories ... Read more

    $15.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus