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  • Tyneside Irish

    24th, 25th, 26th and 27th (Service) Battalions of Northumberland Fusiliers

    by John Sheen ...
    The Pals battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since. Under Lord Derbys scheme, and in response to Kitcheners famous call for a million volunteers, local communities raised (and initially often paid for) entire battalions for service on the Western Front. Their experience was all too frequently tragic, as men who had known each other all their lives, had worked, volunteered ... Read more

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  • Tyneside Scottish

    A History of the Tyneside Scottish Brigade Raised in the North East in World War One

    by John Sheen, Graham Stewart ...
    The exploits of the twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second, and twenty-third (Service) Battalions of the Northumberland Fusiliers during the Great War—"Harder Than Hammers."Although called the Tyneside Scottish, very few of the men who made up this Brigade were of Scottish descent. Many came from local villages or were from the Northumberland pits. They saw action at the Battle of the Somme and ... Read more

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  • Durham Pals

    18th, 19th, 20th and 22nd Battalions of the Durham Light Infantry in the Great War

    by John Sheen ...
    A history of four battalions of the Durham Light Infantry raised in the Country during the First World War. The 18th (Pals) were the first troops of Kitcheners new army to come under fire, when the Germans bombarded Hartlepool in December 1914. The 19th were raised as Bantams and the 20th (Wearside) were raised by the Sunderland Recruiting Committee. The 22nd, the last raised became a pioneer ... Read more

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  • 1918

    The German Offensives

    by John Sheen ...
    Series series Images of War
    "Serves to illustrate the carnage of battle throughout the three critical months of 1918: March, April and May . . . An amazing archive."— The Great War MagazineIn March 1918 the German Army launched a series of offensives that brought them very close to winning the war. Military photographers followed their advance and took many photographs of the operations as they progressed. This is the war ... Read more

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  • Wearside Battalion

    The 20th (Service) Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry

    by John Sheen ...
    This is the story of the 20th (Service) Battalion, from Wensleydale and Barnard Castle to the overseas service in Somme, Ypres Messines and more. ... Read more

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  • The Green Howards in the Great War

    8th and 9th Battalions A.P.W.O Yorkshire Regiment

    by John Sheen ...
    In answer to Lord Kitchener's appeal, in late August and September 1914 many men joined Alexandra's Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment, better known as The Green Howards. Recruits came from around the Middlesbrough area and the ironstone mines on the North Yorkshire moors, while others came from the East Durham coalfield and the Durham City area. The 8th and 9th Battalions left the ... Read more

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  • Steel of the DLI

    Second Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry at War 1914–1918

    by John Sheen ...
    The 2nd Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry was one of only two battalions of the regiment that did not have its history published in some form after the Great War, the other was the 1/7th (Territorial) Battalion. As the regular Home Service battalion of the regiment it was brought up to strength with Regular Reservists and men from the Special Reserve and went out to France in September 1914, ... Read more

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  • With Bayonets Fixed

    The 12th & 13th Battalions of the Durham Light Infantry in the Great War

    by John Sheen ...
    In August and September 1914 the Regimental Depot of the Durham Light Infantry at Fenham Barracks in Newcastle was overwhelmed by the number of men enlisting. Accommodation was tight so the men were formed into batches and sent off to training grounds in the south of England. Over 2,000 men were sent to Bulllswater near Woking in Surrey where they became the 12th and 13th Battalions of the DLI ... Read more

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  • Well Worth Waiting For

    An Adoptees Story.

    by John Sheen ...
    John Sheen, the author of this book, was told, aged nine, that his parents were dead. It was then, having found them alive and well, that he was told that he had been adopted. This is his story, and how he came to find his birth family after sixty four years. It gives an insight of the adoption process in the 1940s through the documents and letters discovered. Highly emotional at times, but laced ... Read more

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    by Robert Holman ...
    On Paths of Ash is an extraordinary Australian World War II story. Robert and Jack Holman were working-class brothers who found themselves in three of the most horrific experiences of the war. They were interned in Changi prisoner-of-war camp, from where they became prison labourers on the infamous Burma Railway. From there they went as slaves to the coalmines of Japan, close enough to Nagasaki to ... Read more

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  • H.M.S. Rodney

    Warships of the Royal Navy

    by Iain Ballantyne ...
    The biography of a British battleship, from an author with " a facility for rendering nonfiction into a narrative as brisk and readable as a novel" ( HistoryNet).The Second World War battleship HMS Rodney achieved lasting fame for her role in destroying the pride of Hitler's navy, the mighty Bismarck, in a thrilling duel. The Rodney, carrying the largest guns ever mounted in a British warship, ... Read more

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  • The Journeys End Battalion

    The 9th East Surrey in the Great War

    by Michael Lucas ...
    R.C. Sherriff, author of Journeys End, the most famous play of the Great War, saw all his front line service with the 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. This intense experience profoundly affected his writing and, through his play, it continues to have a powerful influence on our understanding of the conflict. Yet the story of his battalion has never been told in full until now. In The Journeys ... Read more

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