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“michael goode”

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  • The Lengthening War

    The Great War Diary of Mabel Goode

    by Michael Goode ...
    The First World War was an event so important, so catalytic, so transformative that it still hangs in the public memory and still compels the Historians pen. It was a conflict which, by the end of the struggle, had created a world unfamiliar to the one in existence before it and brought levels of destruction and loss all too unimaginable to the generation of minds which created it. Despite this, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Worlds of William Penn

    by Andrew R. Murphy, Elizabeth Milroy, Catharine Dann Roeber, Emily Mann, Marcus Gallo, Audrey Horning, Elizabeth Sauer, Scott Sowerby, Patrick M. Erben0, Michael Goode1, Alexander Mazzaferro2, Sarah A. Morgan Smith3, Catie Gill4, Adrian Chastain Weimer5, Rachel Love Monroy6, Evan Haefeli7, Patrick Cecil8, Shuichi Wanibuchi9 ...
    William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention in both England and America. This volume looks at William Penn with fresh eyes, bringing ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Great Britain's Great War

    by Jeremy Paxman ...
    Jeremy Paxman's magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people.***We may think we know about it, but what was life really like for the British people during the First World War?The well-known images - the pointing finger of Lord Kitchener; a Tommy buried in the mud of the Western Front; the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Meeting the Enemy

    The Human Face of the Great War

    by Richard van Emden ...
    A British soldier walked over to the German front line to deliver newspapers; British women married to Germans became 'enemy aliens' in their own country; a high-ranking British POW discussed his own troops' heroism with the Kaiser on the battlefield. Just three amazing stories of contact between the opposing sides in the Great War that eminent historian Richard van Emden has unearthed – incidents ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • All Quiet on the Home Front

    An Oral History of Life in Britain During the First World War

    by Richard van Emden, Steve Humphries ...
    A "fascinating" look at hardship, heroism, and civilian life in England during the Great War ( World War One Illustrated).The truth about the sacrifice and suffering among British civilians during World War I is rarely discussed. In this book, people who were there speak about experiences and events that have remained buried for decades.Their testimony shows the same candor and courage we have ... Read more

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  • Over 100 Facts WW1

    by Neil Michael O'Mara ...
    The First World War seems to have touched almost every family in Britain. Most people will have had a relative in their family tree that served in the armed forces between 1914 and 1918. Unfortunately this is no longer living memory but has slipped into recorded history. There is now resurgence in interest as the centenary is commemorated and many people realize they know so little about the war ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Myths and Legends of the First World War

    by James Hayward ...
    During the First World War, a rich crop of legends sprouted from the battlefields and grew with such ferocity that many still excite controversy today. This book is the first to examine the roots of those stories and reveal the truth. Some myths remain well-known. Did an entire battalion of the Norfolk Regiment vanish without trace at Gallipoli in 1915? Did thousands of Russian troops actually ... Read more

    $7.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Maple Leaf Empire

    by Jonathan F. Vance ...
    The ineffable character of "Britishness" has been used, often enigmatically, to describe Canada's distinct cultural flavour within North America. This mysterious quality, writes award-winning writer Jonathan F. Vance, goes back to the early days of Canadian history, and consists of far more than the sum of early migration patterns. It emerges from a long-standing respect for British liberal ideals ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front

    by Malcolm Brown ...
    An unrivalled and readable introduction to the years of Trench Warfare' TESThe First World War was won and lost on the Western Front. Covering the whole war, from the guns of August 1914 to the sudden silence of the November 1918 Armistice, the IWM Book of the Western Front reveals what life was really like for the men and women involved. With first-hand accounts of off-duty entertainments, trench ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • River of Fire

    The Clydebank Blitz

    by John Macleod ...
    "An unflinching record of Scotland's greatest human disaster in modern history"—the Luftwaffe air raids on the industrial town of Clydebank during WWII ( The Herald).Vibrating with endeavors for Britain's effort against the might of Nazi Germany, Clydebank was—in hindsight—an obvious target for the attentions of the Luftwaffe. When, on the evening of 13 March 1941, the authorities first detected ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Captain Henry Evelyn Arthur Platt - Diaries and Letters of a First World War Officer in the 19th Hussars and 1st Coldstream Guards

    by William Bridge ...
    Diary and letters of Captain Henry Evelyn Arthur Platt including his time at Eton, Sandhurst and in the First World War where he served as a Captain in the 19th Hussars before transferring to the Coldstream Guards after a dispute with his Major over the safety of his men. He describes life in the Cavalry, how he was gassed in May 1915, and life in the trenches.He was killed in action near Ypres in ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Elegy

    The First Day on the Somme

    by Andrew Roberts ...
    On 1 July 1916, after a five-day bombardment, 11 British and 5 French divisions launched their long-awaited 'Big Push' on German positions on high ground above the Rivers Ancre and Somme on the Western Front. Some ground was gained, but at a terrible cost. In killing-grounds whose names are indelibly imprinted on 20th-century memory, German machine-guns – manned by troops who had sat out the storm ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook