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37 produkter
Boy Soldiers of the Great War
Inbunden, 2021
280 kr
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After the outbreak of the Great War, boys as young as twelve were caught up in a national wave of patriotism and, in huge numbers, volunteered to serve their country. The press, recruiting offices and the Government all contributed to the enlistment of hundreds of thousands of under-age soldiers in …
Boy Soldiers of the Great War
E-bok, 2021
149 kr
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After the outbreak of the Great War, boys as young as twelve were caught up in a national wave of patriotism and, in huge numbers, volunteered to serve their country. The press, recruiting offices and the Government all contributed to the enlistment of hundreds of thousands of under-age soldiers in …
Soldier's War
The Great War Through Veterans' Eyes
E-bok, 2010
122 kr
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November 2008 sees the 90th anniversary of the end of the Great War, ''the war to end all wars'' that still haunts and fascinates in equal measure. Richard van Emden''s new book tells that story as never before through the words and pictures of the men who were there. The Soldier''s War includes …
Sapper Martin
The Secret Great War Diary of Jack Martin
Häftad, 2010
190 kr
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Jack Martin was a thirty-two-year-old clerk at the Admiralty when he was called up to serve in the army in September 1916. These diaries, written in secret, hidden from his colleagues and only discovered by his family after his return home, present the Great War with heartbreaking clarity, written …
Sapper Martin
The Secret Great War Diary of Jack Martin
E-bok, 2009
195 kr
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Albert John (''Jack'') Martin was a thirty-two-year-old clerk at the Admiralty when he was called up to serve in the army in September 1916. These diaries, written in secret, hidden from his colleagues and only discovered by his family after his return home, present the Great War with heartbreaking …
Tommy's Ark
Soldiers and their Animals in the Great War
Häftad, 2011
137 kr
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For soldiers in the Great War, going over the top was a comparatively rare event; much more frequently, they were bored and lonely and missing their families at home. Needing an outlet for their affection, many found it in the animal kingdom. Tommy's Ark looks at the war through the eyes of the …
Tommy's Ark
Soldiers and Their Animals in the Great War
E-bok, 2010
139 kr
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For soldiers in the Great War, going over the top was a comparatively rare event; much more frequently, they were bored and lonely and missing their families at home. Needing an outlet for their affection, many found it in the animal kingdom. Tommy''s Ark looks at the war through the eyes of the …
Quick and the Dead
Fallen Soldiers and Their Families in the Great War
E-bok, 2011
130 kr
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At the end of the First World War more than 192,000 wives had lost their husbands, and nearly 400,000 children had lost their fathers. A further half a million children had lost one or more siblings. Appallingly, one in eight wives died within a year of receiving news of their husband''s death. Few …
Meeting the Enemy
The Human Face of the Great War
E-bok, 2013
110 kr
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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 …
Tommy's War
The Western Front in Soldiers' Words and Photographs
E-bok, 2014
276 kr
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Conventional histories of the Great War have tended to focus on the terrible attritional battles of Ypres, of Arras and of the Somme. What they do not tell us is what life was like for the ordinary soldier, what mattered to him, and how he survived, both physically and mentally. Now for the first …
Gallipoli
The Dardanelles Disaster in Soldiers' Words and Photographs
Av Richard van Emden, Stephen Chambers
E-bok, 2015
276 kr
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Presenting more than 150 never-before-published photographs of the campaign, many taken by the soldiers themselves, together with unpublished written material from British, Anzac, French and Turkish, including eyewitness accounts of the landings, this is an unrivalled account of what really …
Last Fighting Tommy
The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009
Av Richard van Emden, Harry Patch
Häftad, 2018
176 kr
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‘An extraordinary biography by the very last witness of a devastating four years in British history’ Daily MailOn 17 June 2009, Harry Patch celebrated his 111th birthday. At the time, he was the last living British Tommy who had fought in the trenches during the First World War. Now that direct …
Last Fighting Tommy
The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009
Av Richard van Emden, Harry Patch
E-bok, 2018
169 kr
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''An extraordinary biography by the very last witness of a devastating four years in British history'' Daily Mail On 17 June 2009, Harry Patch celebrated his 111th birthday. At the time, he was the last living British Tommy who had fought in the trenches during the First World War. Now that direct …
Teenage Tommy
Memoirs of a Cavalryman in the First World War
E-bok, 2021
131 kr
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Benjamin Clouting was just sixteen years old when he embarked with the British Expeditionary Force for France in August 1914. The youngest man in the 4th Dragoon Guards, he took part in the BEF's celebrated first action at Casteau on August 22nd, and, two days later, had his horse shot from under …
Temporary Heroes
Lieutenant Norman Cecil Down
E-bok, 2021
131 kr
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This is a short book based on the letters written between 1915 and 1916 by an officer serving with the 1/4th Gordon Highlanders. Second Lieutenant Down wrote regularly to his girlfriend/fiancée throughout his time in France, letters which were published in 1917 after he was wounded and discharged …
The Somme
The Epic Battle in the Soldiers'' own Words and Photographs
E-bok, 2021
127 kr
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The offensive on the Somme took place between July and November 1916 and is perhaps the most iconic battle of the Great War. It was there that Kitchener’s famous ‘Pals’ Battalions were first sent into action en masse and it was a battlefield where many of the dreams and aspirations of a nation, …
This Bloody Place
With the Incomparable 29th
E-bok, 2021
131 kr
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Captain Albert Mure, a company commander in the 5th Battalion The Royal Scots, spent forty-three days in Gallipoli - far longer than many men who fought there would survive. In those few weeks, this brave, stoical officer was reduced from a fit, determined leader of men to a physical and mental …
Somme
The Epic Battle in the Soldiers' Own Words and Photographs
Häftad, 2016
167 kr
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The offensive on the Somme took place between July and November 1916 and is perhaps the most iconic battle of the Great War. It was there that Kitchener s famous Pals Battalions were first sent into action en masse and it was a battlefield where many of the dreams and aspirations of a nation, …
Volunteers
The Incredible Story of Kitchener's Army Through Soldiers' and Civilians' Own Words and Photographs
Inbunden, 2023
274 kr
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What greater pride might a young man feel than to serve shoulder to shoulder with his friends in time of war? To enlist into the army with his pals, chums, mates, filling the ranks of battalions that drew their strength from the local community, from amongst factory workers, miners, shop-workers …
Volunteers
The Incredible Story of Kitchener''s Army Through Soldiers'' and Civilians'' Own Words and Photographs
E-bok, 2023
30 kr
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What greater pride might a young man feel than to serve shoulder to shoulder with his friends in time of war? To enlist into the army with his pals, chums, mates, filling the ranks of battalions that drew their strength from the local community, from amongst factory workers, miners, shop-workers …
Somme: Great War 100 Years
Av Nigel Cave, Richard Van Emden m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
79 kr
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This publication, SOMME – THE BATTLE 100 YEARS ON, has been published by Pen & Sword Books Ltd, with the purpose of creating an awareness and an interest in the Somme battles of 1916. For nearly thirty years, Pen & Sword Books Ltd has published numerous titles covering various Pals battalions …
1918
The Decisive Year in Soldiers’ own Words and Photographs
Häftad, 2018
315 kr
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1918 proved to be the Allies’ year of victory, but what a monumental effort it was! From the moment Germany launched its all-out Spring offensive to win the war, British and Empire troops fought a tenacious and often last-ditch rearguard action. The Germans gambled with their best, battle-hardened …
Missing
The Need for Closure After the Great War
E-bok, 2019
154 kr
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The story of one British mother''s desperate search for her son''s remains after he was killed in action during World War I. In May, 1918, Angela and Leopold Mond received a knock on the front door. It was the postman delivering the letter every family in the United Kingdom dreaded: the …
Missing
The Need for Closure After the Great War
E-bok, 2019
154 kr
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The story of one British mother''s desperate search for her son''s remains after he was killed in action during World War I. In May, 1918, Angela and Leopold Mond received a knock on the front door. It was the postman delivering the letter every family in the United Kingdom dreaded: the …
Missing: The Need for Closure after the Great War
Häftad, 2020
167 kr
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In May 1918, Angela and Leopold Mond received a knock on the front door. It was the postman and he was delivering the letter every family in the United Kingdom dreaded: the notification of a loved one's battlefield death, in their case the death in action of their eldest child, their son, …
Last Man Standing
The Memiors of a Seaforth Highlander During the Great War
Av Richard Van Emden, Norman Collins
E-bok, 2021
114 kr
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While researching his excellent earlier book: Veterans of World War I, author Richard Van Emden encountered a fascinating personality of that long-ago conflict. After witnessing German naval attacks on British civilians, Norman Collins enlisted in the Seaforth Highlanders of the 51st Highland …
Prisoners of the Kaiser
The Last POWs of the Great War
E-bok, 2009
16 kr
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Based on interviews with survivors of German WWI prison camps, this account documents the heroism and perseverance of British troops in captivity.Drawing on the memories of the last surviving prisoners of the Great war, Prisoners of the Kaiser tells the dramatic story of life as a POW in Germany. …
Last Man Standing
The Memiors of a Seaforth Highlander During the Great War
Av Norman Collins, Richard van Emden
E-bok, 2007
89 kr
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A first-hand account of World War I by a nineteen-year-old Englishman who led a platoon into the carnage of the Battle of the Somme.While researching his excellent earlier book: Veterans of World War I, author Richard Van Emden encountered a fascinating personality of that long-ago conflict. After …
Britain's Last Tommies
Final Memories from Soldiers of the 1914–18 War—In Their Own Words
E-bok, 2006
162 kr
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This oral history presents the firsthand stories and memories of Britain''s last living WWI veterans—complete with then and now photographs.Historian Richard van Emden has spent decades interviewing and carefully recording the memories of over 270 veterans who served in the First World War. He now …
Famous
Av Victor Piuk, Richard Van Emden
E-bok, 2021
131 kr
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'Famous' tells the Great War stories of twenty of Britain's most respected, best known and even notorious celebrities. They include politicians, actors, writers, an explorer, a sculptor and even a murderer. The generation that grew up in the late 19th Century enlisted enthusiastically in the …
