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  • Some Desperate Glory

    The Diary of a Young Officer, 1917

    by Edwin Campion Vaughan ...
    "An officer's diary hidden away for 40 years reveals the horrors of World War One in harrowing detail." —The SunSome Desperate Glory charts the progress of an enthusiastic and patriotic young officer who marched into battle with Palgrave's Golden Treasury—a collection of English poems—in his pack. Intensely honest and revealing, his diary evokes the day-to-day minutiae of trench warfare: its ... Read more

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  • Business in Great Waters

    The U-Boat Wars, 1916–1945

    by John Terraine ...
    Twice within 25 years Britain was threatened with starvation by the menace of the U-Boat. In this study of submarine warfare, the author explains why Winston Churchill wrote "the only thing that ever frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril". Until it had been overcome, the Anglo-American entry into Europe in 1944 would have been impossible. John Terraine concentrates on the combatants ... Read more

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  • The Right of the Line

    The Role of the RAF in World War Two

    by John Terraine ...
    Award–winning historian and scriptwriter John Terraine's The Right of the Line reveals how the British Royal Air Force rose to prominence in World War II.Traditionally, the right of the line is the vanguard, the place of honor and greatest danger in battle. In this history of the Royal Air Force during the European War of 1939-45, John Terraine shows how the RAF, which in 1939 was small and ... Read more

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  • Soldier at Bomber Command

    by Charles Carrington ...
    It was certainly not through the foresight of his senior officers that Charles Carrington, a veteran of the First World War, was enabled to put his experience in that earlier conflict to good use in the Second, as readers of this remarkable book will soon learn. However, by great good fortune, he found himself in a position where his experience of things past could be adapted to the needs of a ... Read more

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  • The Bickersteth Diaries

    1914-1918

    by John Bickersteth, Donald Coggan ...
    "Deserves to become a classic in the literature of war." — The Daily TelegraphThe Bickersteth Diaries: 1914-1918 is a studiously edited version of the eleven volumes and more than three thousand pages of the diarist's original work. Ella Bickersteth began to put it together for her six sons on active service throughout the British Empire at the outbreak of World War I.Reflecting upon church and ... Read more

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  • The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten

    by John Terraine ...
    Relive the 20th century through the eyes and words of Lord Mountbatten – a member of the Royal family and one of Britain's most highly decorated naval officers. This extraordinary volume spans 70 years of triumph, conflict and glory in the life of this remarkable man who rose to worldwide recognition as both statesman and military hero, yet was tragically assassinated in 1979. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Great War

    1914 - 1918

    by John Terraine ...
    It did not need a Fort Sumter cannonade to set the world in flames in 1914, only the pistol shots of an assassin.The Great War 1914-1918, written by one of the leading military historians of his time, John Terrain, thoroughly examines the political, economical and social triggers which led to the eruption of WWI, as well as the progression of the war itself through various campaigns and battles ... Read more

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  • To Win a War

    1918 The Year of Victory

    by John Terraine ...
    This book is a classic narrative history of the last year of the First World War. Author John Terraine was associate producer and chief screenwriter of the 1963‒64 BBC TV documentary The Great War. He was the founder and President of the Western Front Association, a member of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. For the weary Allies, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Soldiers

    A Global History of the Fighting Man, 1800–1945

    by John A Haymond ...
    A global study of how soldiers lived, worked, and fought, and how many died, spanning from the Napoleonic War to World War II.No matter the war, no matter the army, no matter the nationality, common threads run through the experiences of men at war. Soldiers highlights these shared experiences across 150 years of warfare, from the Napoleonic Wars through World War II and everything in between, ... Read more

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  • The Irish Brigade

    A Pictorial History of the Famed Civil War Fighters

    by Russ A. Pritchard Jr. ...
    A Full-Color History for Civil War Enthusiasts, History Buffs, and Anyone Interested in the Saga of the Irish in America!The Union’s Irish Brigade, the Civil War’s most famous fighting outfit, built an unusual reputation for dash and gallantry having fought throughout the war, from First Bull Run in 1861 to the Confederate surrender and Appomattox Court House in 1865. Here is the gripping true ... Read more

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  • Nurses of Passchendaele

    Caring for the Wounded of the Ypres Campaigns 1914–1918

    by Christine E. Hallett ...
    The Ypres Salient saw some of the bitterest fighting of the First World War. The once-fertile fields of Flanders were turned into a quagmire through which men fought for four years. In casualty clearing stations, on ambulance trains and barges, and at base hospitals near the French and Belgian coasts, nurses of many nations cared for these traumatized and damaged men.Drawing on letters, diaries ... Read more

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  • The Search for Life on Mars

    The Greatest Scientific Detective Story of All Time

    by Elizabeth Howell, Nicholas Booth ...
    With a focus of the Perseverance rover mission, here is the "Quintessential account of one of humanity’s most intriguing quests" (Pail Halpern, Medium), "A remarkable, timely, and up-to-date account of Mars exploration" (Leonard David, "Space Insider," Space.com).From The War of the Worlds to The Martian and to the amazing photographs sent back by the robotic rovers Curiosity and Opportunity, Mars ... Read more

    $18.99 USD