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  • Diary of an Old Contemptible

    From Mons to Baghdad 1914–1919 Private Edward Roe, East Lancashire Regiment

    by Peter Downham ...
    "First class . . . a book that helps the reader to understand just what the ordinary soldier thought about his lot in the Great War." —The Western Front AssociationThis is a most unusual chronicle of the events of one man during the Great War. A professional soldier at the outbreak, Edward Roe was one of the first to cross over to France in 1914 and as such fought in the early battles of the war ... Read more

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  • Fighting Through from Dunkirk to Hamburg

    A Green Howard's Wartime Memoir

    by Bill Cheall ...
    A British infantryman shares his harrowing story of life on the frontlines of WWII, from the North African Campaign to the invasion of Germany.In April 1939, when Bill Cheall joined the famous Yorkshire infantry regiment known as the Green Howards, he could not have imagined the drama, trauma, rewards and anguish that awaited him. But he recounts it all here, in this vivid memoir of service and ... Read more

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  • A Drop Too Many

    by John Frost ...
    One of the British Army's first paratroopers recounts in vivid detail his service in the 2nd Parachute Battalion during the Battle of Arnhem and beyond . . .No one who has read of Arnhem can fail to be inspired by gallantry of the 2nd Parachute Regiment, which held the north end of the key road bridge over the Rhine—the "Bridge Too Far"—not for twenty-four hours for which it was equipped, but for ... Read more

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  • The Desert War

    The classic trilogy on the North Africa campaign 1940-43

    The seminal account of the battle between Montgomery’s Eighth Army and Rommel’s Afrika Corps, amidst the endless harsh wastes of the Western Desert.In 1940, Alan Moorehead was sent to cover the North Africa campaign by the Daily Express, and he followed its dramatic course all the way to 1943. The three books he subsequently wrote about the Desert War – later collected as his ‘African Trilogy’ – ... Read more

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  • Over the Top

    A digger's story of the Western Front

    Australia's diggers didn't go 'over the top' for King and Country, they did it for their mates and their battalion - extraordinary deeds performed by ordinary men.Henry George Hartnett, known as 'Harry', joined the Australian Imperial Force on 13 September 1915 at the age of 23. He saw action on the Western Front at Fromelles and on the Somme, receiving his first 'Blighty', a wound so serious he ... 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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  • Desert Boys

    Australians at war from Beersheba to Tobruk and El Alamein

    by Peter Rees ...
    'As gritty as it is real. An amazing book about ordinary Australians made extraordinary by the times they lived through . . .' - Peter FitzSimonsAbout 1300 Australians died in the desert campaigns of World War I, while another 3500 died in North Africa and the Middle East during World War II. Thousands more carried the wounds of war for the rest of their lives. Countless families were left behind ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • An Anzac on the Western Front

    The Personal Reflections of an Australian Infantryman from 1916 to 1918

    by H.R. Williams ...
    "A remarkably candid and graphic account" of the World War I service of a member of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ( Britain at War Magazine).Having enlisted in 1915 and serving in the 56th Battalion Australian Imperial Force, Harold Roy Williams arrived in France, from Egypt, on June 30, 1916. He describes the horrors of the Fromelles battlefield in shocking clarity and the conditions ... Read more

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  • Gallipoli

    A Short History

    Jack Fothergill worked on Melbourne's trams before he went to war and was killed on Pine Ridge on 25 April 1915. In Gallipoli, Michael McKernan tells Jack's story and that of his family, who never recovered from their grief. He also tells the stories of journalist Charles Bean, Chaplain Bill McKenzie, John Treloar and General Ian Hamilton, capturing the essence of what it was really like for the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Under the Devil's Eye

    The British Military Experience in Macedonia, 1915–18

    "A fantastic overview of one of Britain's untold stories from the Great War"—the Salonika Campaign that pitted Allied forces against the Bulgarians (Burton Mail).The authors have researched the Salonika Campaign in every detail, from the arrival of the first British troops in 1915 to final victory. During this period large numbers of British and Allied troops were tied up in the strategically ... Read more

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  • Gallipoli

    The battlefield guide

    by Mat McLachlan ...
    The essential travel companion for anyone visiting Gallipoli.Each year, thousands of Australians visit Gallipoli to pay homage and see where their forebears fought, suffered and died. Anzac Cove, Quinn's Post, Lone Pine - the iconic places where our national legend was forged.In this essential and authoritative guide, practical information is combined with historical detail, alongside revealing ... Read more

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  • Battle for Crete

    This WW2 military history "combin[es] a look at the background to the battle . . . and the ground level memories of the participants with great skill." ( History of War.org)After two years' extensive research, John Hall Spencer has written a thorough account of the political and military background to the German invasion of Crete and the bitter fighting that followed the first airborne assault on ... Read more

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