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Memoirs, Biographies and Diaries
Not for nothing has the First World War gone down in history as the most literate, and literary, ever fought. The products of mass education went into action en masse for the first time, and in the case of junior officers, the products of classical education went too. The result was an unprecedented mass of written material from the trenches. Letters home, diaries, and after the war, another flood of memoirs, novels and the famous poetry followed. If the horrors of the war were unprecedented, it is party because they were recorded for us by the talented pens of writers such as Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, and Edmund Blunden. The humbler scribes such as Frank Richards as well. On the other side of the lines Erich Maria Remarque and Ernst Junger. Modern historians have added their interpretations to these eye-witness accounts and the result is an unrivaled library of words about the war to end war of which the Naval and Military Press stock an unrivaled range.
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BURGOYNE DIARIES
Classic picture of trench warfare in 1914-15, written as letters to his wife by Gerald Burgoyne, an officer of the Royal Irish Rifles near Ypres, and illustrated by the author’s own line drawings. A superb account of the early war.
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LIONEL SOTHEBY’S GREAT WAR: DIARIES AND LETTERS FROM THE WESTERN FRONT
An exceptional memoir of the battles of 1915 on the Western Front, as seen through the eyes of Lionel Sotheby, a young Old Etonian who spared his family none of the horrors of war in these letters home. Still under 21, Sotheby was killed after going over the top in the Battle of Loos.
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POETS OF THE GREAT WAR
Potted biographies of some 25 British poets of the Great War - familiar and less famous - together with a representative poem by each. Written by Tonie and Valmai Holt, doyens of the battlefield tours industry, this is a book for all Great War buffs.
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VALOUR BEYOND ALL PRAISE: Harry Greenwood VC
A meticulously researched biography of one of the Great War’s bravest men: Lt. Col. Harry Greenwood VC DSO OBE MC, who won his VC by attacking enemy machine guns over a two-day period in 1918 - a superb demonstration of sustained courage.
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LITTLE FIELD MARSHAL: A Life of Sir John French
This is the first, and only, comprehensive biography of the Field Marshal.While writing the book, Richard Holmes was granted unrestricted access to Sir John French’s private papers, many of which had lain undisturbed since his death.The result is a rich portrait of a man who was at the heart of s...
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Field Marshal von Hindenburg :The GREAT WAR
A fascinating insight into German millitary thinking during WWI.Paul von Hindenburg, the son of Prussian aristocrats, was educated at the Wahlstatt and Berlin cadet schools, before joining the army in 1865.He fought in the Battle of Koniggratz and in the Franco-Prussian War and was promoted to th...
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PLUMER: THE SOLDIERS’ GENERAL
Sir Herbert Plumer looked like an archetypal Colonel Blimp - smart to a fault, white hair, walrus moustache, pot-belly. But despite his appearance he was one of the best-performing commanders. Plumer’s crowning glories were the attack on Messines Ridge in 1917 which he masterminded and the ’bit...
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