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  • The Fight for the Argonne: Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man

    by William Benjamin West ...
    "The Fight for the Argonne: Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man" by William Benjamin West offers a vivid account of the author's experiences during World War I. As a member of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), West served in the Argonne Forest, providing support and comfort to soldiers in the trenches. His narrative captures the harrowing realities of war, the camaraderie among troops, ... Read more

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  • The Fight for the Argonne: Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man

    Enriched edition. Personal Experiences in the Argonne: A Soldier's Journey

    by William Benjamin West, Levi Calloway ...
    In "The Fight for the Argonne: Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man," William Benjamin West offers a poignant and immersive narrative of his experiences during World War I, particularly focusing on the crucial Argonne Offensive. West's literary style is characterized by vivid imagery and heartfelt reflections, presenting the harrowing realities of war alongside moments of human resilience and ... Read more

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    More than 70 years after it was first published, this book is still one of the all-time clazzics on the art of military marksmanship, and is required reading at the U.S. Marine Corps Sniper School. The author grew up learning to shoot in the backwoods of Indiana, and went on to compete nationally as a sharpshooter. When World War I broke out in Europe, he was so eager to fight that he enlisted in ... Read more

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  • In the Trenches 1914 - 1918

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    This book are the memoirs of Frank S. Iriam, Sgt. sniper, scout and, observer attached to the First Canadian Division which was attached to the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force. These writing are of significant Historical Value as well as a very vivid description of most of the major battles of the Great War. There are no holds barred descriptions of the good and bad qualities of the various ... Read more

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  • A Rifleman Went to War

    by Herbert Wes McBride ...
    This vintage book contains the fascinating treatise on being a rifleman, with information on the use of a rifle in war, what makes a rifleman, what a rifleman needs to know... and more. This text offers its readers a unique insight into what it means to be a rifleman, based upon the author's extensive experience from his childhood spent near the hunting grounds of Indiana to the time he spent on ... Read more

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  • A Rifleman Goes To War [Illustrated Edition]

    by Captain Herbert W. McBride ...
    Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosThe classic account of sniping on the Western Front."Herbert Wesley McBride was a Captain in the Twenty-first Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, during the First World War. He was a sniper and commander of a machine gun unit known as the "Emma Gees." He was also the author of two books on the war: "A ... Read more

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  • On the Front Line

    True World War I Stories

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    In 1930, the editor of Everyman Magazine requested entries for a new anthology of Great War accounts. The result was a revolutionary book unlike any other of the period; for as Malcolm Brown notes in his introduction 'I believe it might fairly be described as a rediscovered classic'.It was the very first collection to reveal the many dimensions of the war through the eyes of the ordinary soldier ... Read more

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  • Tommies: No Man's Land

    by Steve Stone ...
    The First World War brought a new kind of horror for man to endure. Not only the constant threat of bullets, bombs and gas, but also living conditions that were so bad, if we had been animals today, the British Army would have been in trouble for animal cruelty. I was one of the lucky ones to survive the trenches when millions did not make it back home, from all sides. The visions of my time in ... Read more

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  • Into Battle

    A Seventeen-Year-Old Joins Kitchener's Army

    by E.W. Parker ...
    Written well over ninety years ago while the experiences of youth were still fresh in the authors mind, this is the story of a seventeen-year-old boy from the time he joined Kitcheners Army, as one of the first hundred thousand in 1914, until he found himself in hospital—an officer with the Military Cross—recovering from his last wound, on the day of the Armistice, 11 November, 1918.In no way a ... Read more

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  • The Fighting Padre

    Pat Leonard's Letters From the Trenches, 1915–1918

    by John Leonard, Philip Leonard-Johnson ...
    Pat Leonard served throughout the Great War as a Chaplain to the Forces in France, Belgium and, after the Armistice, in Germany. Along with the many hundreds of letters he wrote to the relatives of those parishioners who died or were wounded, he found time to describe for his parents back at home the awful reality of life in the Trenches, and on the makeshift aerodromes from which the pilots of ... Read more

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  • Storm of Steel

    by Ernst Junger ...
    First published in German in 1920 and English in 1929, “Storm of Steel” is Ernst Jünger’s memoir as a German officer serving at the Western Front of World War I from December 1914 to August 1918. What is remarkable about this memoir is the absence of moralizing or political arguments for or against the military conflict. Instead, it focuses on the brutal realism of trench warfare. Separately, ... Read more

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  • Napoleon's Specialist Troops

    by Philip Haythornthwaite ...
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    Though less celebrated than the infantry and cavalry, Napoleon's 'specialist' troops – artillery, engineers and supporting services – were indispensable elements.Without them, no army could have operated, and they frequently assumed greater significance than the line regiments. Indeed, having suffered least from the emigration of Royalist officers, the artillery was the best element of the early ... Read more

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