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  • Riding into War

    The Memoir of a Horse Transport Driver, 1916-1919

    by James Robert Johnston ...
    Series Book 4 - New Brunswick Military Heritage Series
    On the ghastly battlefields of the First World War, Jimmie Johnston drove teams or pack horses carrying ammunition and hauling guns to the front lines. One night, Johnston was hauling guns back from the front line. Suddenly, in the darkness and pouring rain, he, his team, the wagon, and the guns pitched into an old trench. After disentangling the horses from their harness, Johnston found a ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • From Geordie Land to No Mans Land

    by George Russell Elder ...
    In writing his `one and only' book, George Elder, a proud Geordie, detailed many of his experiences endured whilst serving in the British Army during World War 1. Many of his tales would not have been appreciated by his peers, but they actually happened and would have been recognised by the common soldier. From Geordie Land to No Mans land was written to inform his family, friends and anyone ... Read more

    $8.99 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

  • German Soldiers in the Great War

    Letters and Eyewitness Accounts

    Edited by Bernd Ulrich, Benjamin Ziemann ...
    The first English translation of writings that capture the lives and thoughts of German soldiers fighting in the trenches and on the battlefields of WWI.German Soldiers in the Great War is a vivid selection of firsthand accounts and other wartime documents that shed new light on the experiences of German frontline soldiers during the First World War. It reveals in authentic detail the perceptions ... Read more

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  • A Rifleman Goes To War [Illustrated Edition]

    by Captain Herbert W. McBride ...
    Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosThe classic account of sniping on the Western Front."Herbert Wesley McBride was a Captain in the Twenty-first Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, during the First World War. He was a sniper and commander of a machine gun unit known as the "Emma Gees." He was also the author of two books on the war: "A ... Read more

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  • In the Ypres Salient, The Story of a Fortnight's Canadian Fighting, June 2-16 1916 [Illustrated Edition]

    by Beckles Willson ...
    Every evening since 1928, the Last Post is sounded in the town of Ypres in West Flanders, and the local fire brigade turn toward the Menin Gate as the local traffic stops. This Mark of respect to the Allied soldiers who fell defending the Ypres salient has been a tradition in the town for almost one hundred years. Tens of thousands of British, French, Canadian, Australian, Indian, New Zealand, ... Read more

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  • Wipers: A Soldier's Tale From the Great War

    by Jeff Simmons ...
    Thousands of Allied casualties per day from 1914 until 1918 -- that was reality in the stretch of muddy trenches that bulged into German territory around the Medieval city of Ypres, Belgium, during World War One. Unfamiliar with the proper pronunciation of "Ypres" (EE-pruh), the troops dubbed the killing grounds "Wipers."The Germans held the high ground, and the Allies suffered their wrath below; ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Underground Warfare, 1914–1918

    by Simon Jones ...
    Simon Joness graphic history of underground warfare during the Great War uses personal reminiscences to convey the danger and suspense of this unconventional form of conflict. He describes how the underground soldiers of the opposing armies engaged in a ruthless fight for supremacy, covers the tunneling methods they employed, and shows the increasingly lethal tactics they developed during the war ... Read more

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  • In the Trenches 1914 - 1918

    by Glenn R. Iriam ...
    This book are the memoirs of Frank S. Iriam, Sgt. sniper, scout and, observer attached to the First Canadian Division which was attached to the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force. These writing are of significant Historical Value as well as a very vivid description of most of the major battles of the Great War. There are no holds barred descriptions of the good and bad qualities of the various ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Hell in Flanders Fields

    Canadians at the Second Battle of Ypres

    by George H. Cassar ...
    On 22 April 1915, the men of the 1st Canadian Division faced chlorine gas, a new lethal weapon against which they had no defence. In defiance of a particularly horrible death, or, at the very least, severe lung injury, these untested Canadians fought almost continuously for four days, often hand-to-hand, as they clung stubbornly against overwhelming odds to a vital part of the Allied line after ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Rifleman Went to War

    by Herbert W. McBride ...
    More than 70 years after it was first published, this book is still one of the all-time clazzics on the art of military marksmanship, and is required reading at the U.S. Marine Corps Sniper School. The author grew up learning to shoot in the backwoods of Indiana, and went on to compete nationally as a sharpshooter. When World War I broke out in Europe, he was so eager to fight that he enlisted in ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • How Canada Won the Great War

    by Robert Child ...
    For nearly 100 years Canada's role in ending WWI sooner than anyone thought possible has gone largely unrecognized. The Canadian Corp led by citizen soldier, Arthur Currie, became the premiere fighting force on the Western Front. The fact that Canada was not yet a formalized nation but a Dominion at the close of the war may be the reason for the absence of recognition yet the record of the ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus