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  • On the Western Front

    Soldier's Stories from France and Flanders

    by John Laffin ...
    A serious attempt to illustrate the humanity of the soldier on the Western Front, this title reflects World War I as they saw it: from first shot to last. These tales, told to fellow men in the trenches, behind the lines, at base hospitals and at the estaminets and billets during rest periods, have been recorded here. ... Read more

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  • High Noon of Empire

    The Diary of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Tyndall, 1895–1915

    Edited by B A 'Jimmy' James ...
    "Henry Tyndall was a typical product of the Victorian age—an intensely patriotic army officer who served in India, on the North-West Frontier, on the Western Front and in East Africa at the height of the British empire. For 20 years, from 1895 to 1915, he kept a detailed diary that gives a vivid insight into his daily life and concerns, his fellow officers and men, and the British army of his day. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tommy Atkins

    The Story of the English Soldier

    by John Laffin ...
    Tommy Atkins is the English soldier, who joking broke the cavalry of France at Minden, who singing marched with the Great Duke to the Danube, who grumbling shattered Napoleon's dreams at Waterloo, who sweating in his red coat tramped back and forth across Indis, who kept his six-rounds-to-the-minute at Mons, and who died in the mud at Passchendaele, the sands of the Western Desert, and the jungles ... Read more

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  • The Anatomy of a Raid

    Ypres Sector, 1914–1915

    by Tony Spagnoly, Ted Smith ...
    Series Book 6 - Cameos of the Western Front
    A seemingly unnecessary raid made by men of the 10th Battalion A.I.F. on Celtic Wood, Broodseinde on the 9th October 1917 resulted in the unrecorded deaths of 37 of the raiding party. The mystery of how they died has never been solved. The conclusion reached in this book prompts thoughts as to why the military authorities never conducted an investigation at the time, and why the raid was planned ... Read more

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  • The Israeli Army in the Middle East Wars 1948–73

    by John Laffin ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    Israel assumes in advance that defeat in war means an end to its state, and it wages war accordingly.This fact influences the Israeli approach to its army and to the strategy, tactics, training and conduct of war. Surrounded by hostile nations, Israel has fought six victorious wars between 1948 and 1973, despite having begun as an irregular, impoverished and improvised group.Backed by plenty of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • An Eyewitness Account of Gallipoli

    Edited by Ellis Silas, John Laffin ...
    Signaller Ellis Silas of the 16th Battalion, Australian Imperial force, was the only artist to paint and sketch actual battle scenes showing Australian soldiers in action at Gallipoli. With his mates he went ashore at Anzac Cove in April 1915 and for the next month he witnessed the terrible carnage at Gallipoli whilst performing his du¬ties as signaller in the thick of the fighting, until he was ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Salient Points One

    Ypres Sector, 1914–18

    by Ted Smith, Tony Spagnoly ...
    Series Book 1 - Cameos of the Western Front
    Tony Spagnoly and Ted Smith's Salient Points One collects obscure stories of soldiers, their units, and the actions they engaged in during World War I.Introduction by Jonathan NichollsCompiled together with stories of other points of interest along the old Western Front, each account in this unique history book about life in the Ypres Sector between 1914–1918 is supported with photographs and ... Read more

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  • Salient Points Two

    Ypres Sector, 1914–18

    by Ted Smith, Tony Spagnoly ...
    Series Book 2 - Cameos of the Western Front
    Another group of stories in the Salient Points series. A collection of stories of men, their units and the actions they took part in during the conflict of 1914–1918, together with stories other points of interest along the old Western Front. Each story is supported with photographs and maps showing the area of the action as it was then, and is today. The content feature-titles are: The Black ... Read more

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  • Salient Points Three

    Ypres & Picardy 1914–18

    by Ted Smith, Tony Spagnoly ...
    Series Book 3 - Cameos of the Western Front
    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); - Into Battle - Julian of the Ard Ead Julian Grenfell); - Adolf Hitler at Ypres; - Michael OLeary ... Read more

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  • Battle Tales from Burma

    by John Randle ...
    A collection of autobiographical stories from an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II.John Randle served with the greatly respected Baluch Regiment of the former Indian Army right through the fiercely fought Burma Campaign, winning a Military Cross, yet on VJ Day he was only some sixty miles from where had started out nearly four years before.Unlike other conventional war memoirs ... Read more

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  • The Mammoth Book of How it Happened: World War I

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 378 - Mammoth Books
    The spectre of the Great War still haunts us. No other conflict so dramatically illustrates the waste of life, and the slaughter of innocents, as that of 1914-18. And none has so dramatically shaped the modern world: the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the break-up of Empire, the supremacy of America and World War II all stem from the four years of the 'war to end all wars'.Here is the eye ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Mons, Anzac and Kut

    By an MP (Lieutenant Colonel The Hon Aubrey Herbert MP)

    by Edward Melotte ...
    Aubrey Herbert was one of the most interesting figures of his age. He was twice offered the Albanian throne! Born almost blind, his sight even after surgery precluded him from official military service and he became a diplomat and politician. However in 1914 he attached himself unofficially to the Irish Guards on the outbreak of war on their way to France and was made an honorary Lieutenant. ... Read more

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