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Christmas Truce: The Western Front December 1914
by Malcolm Brown and Shirley Seaton  Synopsis Malcolm Brown and Shirley Seaton have combed war diaries, talked to participants and consulted a wide range of contemporary letters, diaries and newspapers to produce this unique account of the Christmas truce....
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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
by Michele Barrett Publisher Comments Unique investigation of the impact of the Great War on the lives of the soldiers who survived. Casualty Figures is not about the millions who died in the First World War; it is aboutthe countless thousands of men who lived as long-term casualties—...
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The Guns of August
by Barbara W Tuchman 
Publisher Comments "More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Historian and Pulitzer Prize-...
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The Devil Dogs at Belleau Wood: U.S. Marines in World War I
by Dick Camp Publisher Comments “Retreat, hell. We just got here!” So said Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, to a French officer urging retreat from the Germans as they pushed toward Paris during their massive Spring Offensive of 1918...
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The Great War and Modern Memory
by Paul Fussell Publisher Comments The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100...
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Storm of Steel (03 Edition)
by Ernst Junger Synopsis A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, "Storm of Steel" illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war, seen through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. Young, tough, patriotic, but also disturbingly self-...
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Pride of America: The Letters of Grace Anderson U.S. Army Nurse Corps, World War I
by Shari Lynn Wigle Publisher Comments All of our strength we'll gladly give you ... In their unit song, Grace Anderson and the Base Hospital No. 115 nurses promised the soldiers: Pride of America, we're with you, all of our strength we'll gladly give you . More than ten thousand World War I...
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Allied Bombers 1939-45 (Essential Aircraft Identification Guide)
by Chris Chant Publisher Comments Illustrated with detailed artworks of Allied bomber aircraft and their markings with exhaustive captions and specifications, The Essential Identification Guide: Allied Bombers 1939--45 is the definitive study of the equipment and organization of the...
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Setting the Desert on Fire: T. E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918
by James Barr Publisher Comments Greed and intrigue combine explosively in this gripping tale of how the mercurial Lawrence of Arabia changed the Middle East forever. It was T. E. Lawrence's classic Seven Pillars of Wisdom that made the Arab Revolt a legend and helped turn the British...
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Chasseur of 1914 - Experiences of the Twilight of the French Light Cavalry by a Young Officer During the Early Battles of the Great War in Europe
by Marcel Dupont Synopsis Chasseur of 1914 - The first months of war through the eyes of a French regular cavalry officer. This is a fascinating and unusual book. Written in the early years of the Great War in Europe by a young professional officer of Chasseurs a Cheval, this is...
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Somme: Then and Nowa Visual History
by Duncan And David Edgell Youel Book News Annotation The Battle of the Somme, fought by the British Army on the Western Front during World War I, is the focus of this pictorial history presented for its 90th anniversary, which recounts the battle within the context of the conflict in Europe. Through...
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Thirteen Days: Diplomacy and Disaster -the Countdown To the Great War (UK Edition)
by Clive Ponting Publisher Comments A riveting examination of the thirteen day crisis that lead to the outbreak of the First World War - from Thursday 23th July 1914 to Tuesday 4th August - the day that Britain entered hostilities....
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Aces Falling: The Last of the First World War Fighter Aces, 1918
by Peter Hart Publisher Comments Strap into an open cockpit and relive the final days of the great aces of World War I! By 1918, the war was nearing its end and the legendary knights of the sky—names like Richthofen, Edward Mannock, Herman Goering, Billy Bishop, among others—...
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Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918: World War I and Its Violent Climax
by Joseph E. Persico Publisher Comments November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M., yet in the...
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To Conquer Hell: The Meuse-Argonne, 1918
by Edward Lengel Publisher Comments The authoritative, dramatic, and previously untold story of the bloodiest battle in American history: the epic fight for the Meuse-Argonne in World War I On September 26, 1918, more than one million American soldiers prepared to assault the German-...
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Brushes and Bayonets: Cartoons, Sketches and Paintings of World War I (General Military)
by Luci Gosling Synopsis It is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but, during World War I, newspaper illustrations were worth even more, not only conveying the news to anxious families at home and soldiers in battle, but also entertaining and lifting the...
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Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World (01 Edition)
by Margaret Macmillan
Publisher Comments National Bestseller New York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book...
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Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the Great War
by Gordon Corrigan Synopsis The popular view of the First World War remains that of 'Blackadder': incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made it up...
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Campaign #193: London 1914-17: The Zeppelin Menace
by Ian Castle Synopsis Ian Castle tells the story of Germany's air offensive against Britain, in which, from May 1915 until October 1917, zeppelins dropped thousands of tons of bombs on London. Initially the city was woefully unprotected but an integrated air defense system...
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The Guns of August
by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman Review “EXCELLENT . . . [The Guns of August] has a vitality that transcends its narrative virtues.” The Wall Street Journal...
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