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  • Somme Success

    The Royal Flying Corps and the Battle of The Somme 1916

    by Peter Hart ...
    This history of the Royal Flying Corps during the Battle of Somme offers a comprehensive firsthand look at WWI military aviation.During the summer and fall of 1916, high above the blood-soaked trenches of the Somme, the Royal Flying Corps was engaging in one of the first great aerial battles of history. Even in those pioneering days of aerial warfare, primitive aircraft and the brave men who flew ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War

    A Combat History of the First World War

    by Peter Hart ...
    World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared. "Total war" emerged as a grim, mature reality. In The Great War, Peter Hart provides a masterful combat history of this global conflict. Focusing on the decisive ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • The 16th Durham Light Infantry in Italy, 1943–1945

    by Peter Hart ...
    Series series Voices from the Front
    The Second World War is vanishing into the pages of history. The veterans were once all around us, but their numbers are fast diminishing. While still in their prime many recorded their memories with Peter Hart for the Imperial War Museum. As these old soldiers now fade away their voices from the front are still strong with a rare power to bring the horrors of war back to vivid life. The 16th ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Somme

    by Peter Hart, Nigel Steel ...
    A major new history of the most infamous battle of the First World War, as described by the men who fought it.On 1 July 1916, Douglas Haig's army launched the 'Big Push' that was supposed finally to bring an end to the stalemate on the Western Front. What happened next was a human catastrophe: scrambling over the top into the face of the German machine guns and artillery fire, almost 20,000 ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Aces Falling

    War Above The Trenches, 1918

    by Peter Hart ...
    How the age of the great WWI aces came to an end in the skies over the Western FrontAt the beginning of 1918 the great aces seemed invincible. Flying above the battlefields of the Western Front, they cut a deadly swathe through the ranks of their enemies, as each side struggled to keep control of the air. Some were little more than boys when they started to fly, yet they were respected and feared ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The 2nd Norfolk Regiment

    From Le Paradis to Kohima

    by Peter Hart ...
    Series series Voices from the Front
    The Second World War is vanishing into the pages of history. The veterans were once all around us, but their numbers are fast diminishing. While still in their prime many recorded their memories with Peter Hart for the Imperial War Museum. As these old soldiers now fade away their voices from the front are still strong with a rare power to bring the horrors of war back to vivid life. The 2nd ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The South Notts Hussars The Western Desert, 1940–1942

    by Peter Hart ...
    Series series Voices from the Front
    The Second World War is vanishing into the pages of history. The veterans were once all around us, but their numbers are fast diminishing. While still in their prime many recorded their memories with Peter Hart for the Imperial War Museum. As these old soldiers now fade away their voices from the front are still strong with a rare power to bring the horrors of war back to vivid life. The South ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Laugh or Cry

    The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914–1918

    by Peter Hart, Gary Bain ...
    Awakened by great shouted oaths below. Peeped over the side of the manger and saw a Belgian lass milking and addressing a cow with a comprehensive luridness that left no doubt in my mind that British soldiers had been billeted here before.' - Private Norman Ellison, 1/6th King's Liverpool Regiment Humor helped the British soldier survive the terrible experiences they faced in the trenches of the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jutland, 1916

    Death in the Grey Wastes

    by Peter Hart, Nigel Steel ...
    Dramatic, illustrated account of the biggest naval battle of the First World War.On 31 May, 1916, the great battle fleets of Britain and Germany met off Jutland in the North Sea. It was a climactic encounter, the culmination of a fantastically expensive naval race between the two countries, and expectations on both sides were high. For the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet, there was the chance to win ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Gallipoli

    by Peter Hart ...
    One of the most famous battles in history, the WWI Gallipoli campaign began as a bold move by the British to capture Constantinople, but this definitive new history explains that from the initial landings--which ended with so much blood in the sea it could be seen from airplanes overhead--to the desperate attacks of early summer and the battle of attrition that followed, it was a tragic folly ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Bloody April

    Slaughter in the Skies over Arras, 1917

    by Peter Hart ...
    The story of the decimation of the Royal Flying Corps over Arras in 1917As the Allies embarked upon the Battle of Arras, they desperately needed accurate aerial reconnaissance photographs. But by this point the Royal Flying Club were flying obsolete planes. The new German Albatros scouts massively outclassed them in every respect: speed, armament, ability to withstand punishment and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • At Close Range

    Life and Death in an Artillery Regiment, 1939-45

    by Peter Hart ...
    WINNER OF THE MILITARY HISTORY MATTERS AWARD'Hart is a historian and author at the peak of his powers' Richard van EmdenThe best way to understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to see it through the eyes of the soldiers who fought it. The South Notts Hussars fought at almost every major battle of the Second World War, from the Siege of Tobruk to the Battle of El Alamein and ... Read more

    $12.79 USD