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£14.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780750970396 | ISBN 10: 0750970391
The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today.
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Great War Britain: Liverpool offers a detailed insight into this great city and its people facing the challenges of wartime. This highly acc ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780750991247 | ISBN 10: 0750991240
Based on extensive research, Cinderella Soldiers uncovers the experiences of the Liverpool Irish Battalion during the Great War. The ethnic core of the battalion represented more than mere shamrock sentimentality: they had been raised within the Cath ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781408897225 | ISBN 10: 1408897229
On 17 June 2009, Harry Patch celebrated his 111th birthday. At the time, he was the last living British Tommy that had fought in the trenches of the First World War. Now that direct link with the past has gone. From his vivid memories of an Edwardian ... more
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£17.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784538743 | ISBN 10: 1784538744
In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in the armed forces and at home, and brings to light the great unheralded contribution they made to the war effort ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408834329 | ISBN 10: 1408834324
The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries and North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other corners of the globe, and events elsewhere significantly affected its course.
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141981604 | ISBN 10: 0141981601
Martin Middlebrook's The First Day on the Somme is a compelling and intensely moving account of the blackest day in the history of the British army.
On 1 July, 1916, a continuous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571320233 | ISBN 10: 0571320236
One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself c ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241956762 | ISBN 10: 0241956765
The Great Explosion by Brian Dillon: a masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable place.
In April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the Kentish ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780300205381 | ISBN 10: 0300205384
This book was inspired by the author’s discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unm ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780552779999 | ISBN 10: 0552779997
It’s the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be.
Stanton knows that a great a ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745335759 | ISBN 10: 0745335756
Friends of Alice Wheeldon is a remarkable play by Sheila Rowbotham that re-enacts the 1917 trial and subsequent imprisonment of Wheeldon for her alleged role in plotting to assassinate the Prime Minister Lloyd George. It is prefaced by an extended es ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780007361472 | ISBN 10: 0007361475
The Heroes’ Welcome is the incandescent sequel to the bestselling R&J pick My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You. Its evocation of a time deeply wounded by the pain of WW1 will capture and beguile readers fresh to Louisa Young’s wonderful writing, and those ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781688168 | ISBN 10: 1781688168
A radical re-examination of the events surrounding Britain’s entry into the Great War.
The centenary of the outbreak of the First World War may be commemorated by some as a great moment of national history. But the standard history of Britai ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781445637600 | ISBN 10: 144563760x
As one of Britain’s largest cities, Liverpool was heavily targeted during the two world wars. Many residents of Merseyside lost their lives in the conflict, both in active combat and as a result of hardships on the Home Front. In this book, author An ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780851248424 | ISBN 10: 085124842x
"Jo Vellacott’s excellent book is a model of careful scholarship, clear and lively writing, and the choice of a subject that matters deeply. One hundred years on, it’s high time we honored those who had the courage to speak out against the madness of ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781846689260 | ISBN 10: 1846689260
The Great War gave birth to some of the twentieth century's most celebrated writing; from Brooke to Sassoon, the poetry generated by the war is etched into collective memory. But it is in prose fiction that we find some of the most profound insights ... more
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£12.95 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780850366143 | ISBN 10: 0850366143
An anthology of First World War voices
Some of the voices here came to oppose the war after reflecting on experience, others opposed it on principle before a shot was fired - they may have been few in number, but gradually their influence rose.
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£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781910500019 | ISBN 10: 1910500011
After four months of intense fighting, the war in Flanders between German and British soldiers fell silent on Christmas Eve 1914. The soldiers started singing instead of shooting. On Christmas Day they came out of their trenches and met in No Man's L ... more
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£19.99 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781844681198 | ISBN 10: 184468119x
The story of conscientious objection in Britain begins in 1916, when conscription was introduced for the first time. Some 16,000 men — the first conscientious objectors — refused conscription because they believed on grounds of conscience that it was ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141393438 | ISBN 10: 0141393432
'Men are made to be husbands, fathers - men, in short! Not animals that hunt one another down'
Under Fire follows the fortune of a French battalion during the First World War. For this group of ordinary men, thrown together from all over France a ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781471135194 | ISBN 10: 1471135195
On Christmas Eve in the early years of World War I, men on both sides left their trenches, laid down their arms and joined in a spontaneous celebration. For a brief time the war stopped, the enemies met in no-man's land and buried their dead, exchan ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780198703204 | ISBN 10: 0198703201
'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?'
The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, from poets whose words commemorate the conflict as enduringly as monuments in stone. Their poems have come to express ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781721728 | ISBN 10: 1781721726
Poet Deryn Rees-Jones and artist Charlote Hodes have created a unique approach to the life of Helen Thomas, and through her to the women, and children, left behind by the fatalities of war. Helen Thomas was widowed when her husband the war poet Edwar ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241968215 | ISBN 10: 0241968216
War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use . . .
Barbara Tuchman's universally acclaimed, Pulitzer prize-winning account of how the first thirty days of battle deter ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408330357 | ISBN 10: 1408330350
A must-have anthology featuring stories by award-winning, bestselling authors, to commemorate the centenary of World War One.
Tales to remember yesterday's fallen - from today's bestselling authors.
Compiled by Tony Bradman, this collection of ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241952405 | ISBN 10: 0241952409
'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War . . . '
Yet the ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241952412 | ISBN 10: 0241952417
The third battle of Ypres, culminating in a desperate struggle for the ridge and little village of Passchendaele, was one of the most appalling campaigns in the First World War. A million Tommies, Canadians and Anzacs assembled at the Ypres Salient i ... more
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£5.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781447227717 | ISBN 10: 1447227719
Everything you need to know about World War I!
Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about World War I. It's history, b ... more
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£10.99 hardback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857532930 | ISBN 10: 0857532936
The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a spec ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780199971954 | ISBN 10: 0199971951
Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was universally acclaimed on p ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780099532811 | ISBN 10: 0099532816
All Quiet on the Western Front is the most famous anti-war novel ever written.
One by one the boys begin to fall...
In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'gl ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241952382 | ISBN 10: 0241952387
'There was hardly a household in the land', writes Lyn Macdonald, 'there was no trade, occupation, profession or community, which was not represented in the thousands of innocent enthusiasts who made up the ranks of Kitchener's Army before the Battle ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781444759426 | ISBN 10: 1444759426
A novel about the First World War that is as mesmerising as it is unusual, a triumphant new work by one of the most acclaimed writers of the 90s.
It's market day in an English city two years into the Great War. The farmers are coming in f ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780143106876 | ISBN 10: 0143106872
One of the great World War I antiwar novels — honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical.
Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, Death of a Hero, finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classic ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781845952044 | ISBN 10: 1845952049
A revised and updated edition of Jon Stallworthy's prize-winning and classic biography of the great World War One poet, Wilfred Owen.
Of all the poets of the First World War, Wilfred Owen most fires the imagination today. This biography is mor ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780192735706 | ISBN 10: 0192735705
Jack, standing among the war graves, sees a face he recognizes. Suddenly, it's 1914 again and he's a young lad back in the trenches. Visions of killing and misery come to him with horrible clarity. But then Jack remembers too the incredible moment wh ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780224097710 | ISBN 10: 0224097717
From ‘the heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman’ (The Economist) comes a monumental, wordless panorama capturing the horror of World War I.
THE GREAT WAR: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme
AN ILLUSTRATED PANORAMA - WITH ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781908262721 | ISBN 10: 1908262729
The story is set in the aftermath of World War One. Paul Harris, still frail after shellshock, returns to his father’s home and to the arms of his secret lover, Adam. He discovers that Margot, the fiancée of his dead brother, is pregnant and marries ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780552775403 | ISBN 10: 0552775401
September 1919: Twenty-years-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a clutch of letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War. They trained together. They fought together. ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846273827 | ISBN 10: 184627382x
Set against the rolling backdrop of a century of British history from WWI to the 'War on Terror', this is an intimate family portrait captured in snapshots.
First there is William, the factory lad who loses his life in Gallipoli, then his s ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780007361441 | ISBN 10: 0007361440
While Riley Purefoy and Peter Locke fight for their country, their survival and their sanity in the trenches of Flanders, Nadine Waveney, Julia Locke and Rose Locke do what they can at home. Beautiful, obsessive Julia and gentle, eccentric Peter are ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571226542 | ISBN 10: 057122654x
'As they used to say in Ireland, the devil only comes into good things'.
Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Dubl ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780241951415 | ISBN 10: 0241951410
'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run inconsequently in and out of the big thirty-foot high stacks of bricks; it is most confusing. The parapet of a trench which we don't occupy ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141182070 | ISBN 10: 0141182075
This new selection brings together the poetry of three of the most distinctive and moving voices to emerge from the First World War.
Here are the controlled passion and rich metaphors of Wilfred Owen's celebrated verses such as 'Anthem for ... more
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£6.99 hardback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781447206408 | ISBN 10: 1447206401
A new tale celebrating the magic of Christmas from the Poet Laureate, illustrated by David Roberts.
Down at the front, on a cold winter’s night in 1914, amidst the worst war the world had ever seen, an inexplicable silence spread from man to ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781851687947 | ISBN 10: 1851687947
Agnes White has only ever wanted of one thing: to follow in her father’s great footsteps and become a doctor. But her remarkable intelligence is regarded as disruptive, and her awkward manner and careless appearance nothing but the mark of a spinster ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007486441 | ISBN 10: 0007486448
Heroism or cowardice? Private Peaceful is a stunning story of the First World War from a master storyteller. Told in the voice of a young soldier, the story follows 24 hours in his life at the front during WW1, and captures his memories as he looks ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848567412 | ISBN 10: 1848567413
Renowned UK comics writer Pat Mills (Marshal Law) and legendary artist Joe Colquhoun (Johnny Red) continue the thrilling, humorous and horrifying story of World War One soldier Charley Bourne.
In September 1917, Charley is caught up in the m ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780747807520 | ISBN 10: 0747807523
As millions of young men marched off to war, they left behind mothers, wives, sisters, and sweethearts who were determined to contribute to the British cause. Women enrolled as nurses to treat wounded soldiers, and over 700,000 became workers in fact ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780752458571 | ISBN 10: 0752458574
During the First and Second World Wars thousands of men and women refused the call to arms. Reviled, starved and beaten, theirs was a battle of conscience.
In the First World War, seventy-three conscientious objectors died as a result o ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099521129 | ISBN 10: 0099521121
A clever, colourful, comparative history showing us that, when it comes to being green, resourceful and eco-friendly, our grannies can show us the way...
Recycling, composting, buying locally-sourced food and vintage clothing, checking air m ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844084142 | ISBN 10: 1844084140
Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,And I shall see that still the skies are blue,And feel once more I do not live in vain,Although bereft of You... So wrote twenty-two-year-old Vera Brittain, mouring the loss of her fiance Roland Leighton on t ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141030937 | ISBN 10: 0141030933
Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, where army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by me ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141030944 | ISBN 10: 0141030941
London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men – pacifists, objectors, homosexuals – conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of hims ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141030951 | ISBN 10: 014103095x
1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care – particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141019475 | ISBN 10: 0141019476
In the Spring of 1914 a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but when Kit Neville — himself not long out of the Slade bu ... more
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£24.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199543779 | ISBN 10: 0199543771
On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops. The international community reacted in horror - 'Holocaust at Louvain' proclaimed the Daily Mail - and the behaviour of th ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141020624 | ISBN 10: 0141020628
Before the First World War a single woman had one aim in life: to get married. But three-quarters of a million British soldiers were killed in that war, leaving not enough men to go around and a generation of so-called 'Surplus Women'. What became of ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844672301 | ISBN 10: 1844672301
Casualty Figures is not about the millions who died in the First World War; it is about the countless thousands of men who lived as long-term casualties - not of shrapnel and gas, but of the bleak trauma of the slaughter they escaped. In this p ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780719568909 | ISBN 10: 0719568900
The definitive story of the First World War's bloodiest conflict.
The Battle of the Somme, fought between July and November 1916, was among the bloodiest conflicts of all time. The aim was to end the stalemate on the Western Front - the resu ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781843410409 | ISBN 10: 1843410400
On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as ‘the workshop of the Empire’. Not only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland produced half of Britain’s total production of railway equipment, ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780571240159 | ISBN 10: 0571240151
At the outbreak of the First World War, Joey, young Albert's beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. Caught up in enemy fire, fate takes Joey on an extraordinary odyssey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no m ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780199205592 | ISBN 10: 0199205590
By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This very short introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the 'Great War', focusin ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781405215879 | ISBN 10: 1405215879
From master storyteller, Michael Morpurgo comes an incredibly moving story about one horse's experience in the deadly chaos of the first world war. In 1914, Joey, a young farm horse, is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of the war on t ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780141181905 | ISBN 10: 0141181907
This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains: the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect the different experiences of war not just for the soldiers but for those left behind. This is what makes this volume more accessib ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571218011 | ISBN 10: 0571218016
One of the most vivid and realised charcaters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself c ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780140449914 | ISBN 10: 0140449914
Hasek's most important work was centered around the deeply funny story of a hapless Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army -- dismissed for incompetence only to be pressed into service by the Russians in World War I (where he is captured by his o ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780571207251 | ISBN 10: 0571207251
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an ... more
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£5.99 hardback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781405215183 | ISBN 10: 1405215186
Echoes of Christmas 1914 in the trenches call to the present day when a letter found by chance in an antique desk brings one soldier's experience hauntingly to life. Writing home from the front, the soldier has an extraordinary story to tell... &nbs ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780860680352 | ISBN 10: 0860680355
In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. Testament o ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780091888879 | ISBN 10: 0091888875
In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans and interviewing them at length in order to record the experiences of ordinary individuals in war. Th ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780749923549 | ISBN 10: 0749923547
A heart-rending compilation of the greatest soldiers' songs from the First World War.
The haunting songs of the First World War still have a powerful emotional impact. These are the funny, bitter, sad and romantic words the soldiers actually sang o ... more
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£8.99 paperback (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780099273974 | ISBN 10: 0099273977
Ernest's Hemingway's powerful autobiographical war classic - considered by many to be the greatest war novel ever written.
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was woun ... more
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£15.99 paperback (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780719045981 | ISBN 10: 0719045983
"A wide ranging, challenging and constantly surprising collection ... focusing on the divisions the war created between men and women."(Pat Barker)
This is an anthology of short stories of World War I from 25 classic writers.
Gertrude Stein, ... more
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£9.99 paperback (1967) - ISBN 13: 9780413302106 | ISBN 10: 0413302105
Oh What a Lovely War is a theatrical chronicle of the First World War, told through the songs and documents of the period. Devised and first performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London in 1963, it rece ... more
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