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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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LITTLE FIELD MARSHAL: A Life of Sir John French
Product Code: 12236
Only biography of the man who led the BEF in France in the first two years of the Great War. Richard Holmes’ warts and all portrait is revealing on French’s active love life as well as his controversial military career.
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BURGOYNE DIARIES
Product Code: 11039
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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HAIG’S COMMAND
A Reassessment
Product Code: 23583
Denis Winter’s angry and relentless attack on Douglas Haig’s conduct of the Great War is the most controversial book on its subject in print. Praised by some and attacked by others - read it and judge for yourself.
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PATRIOT’S PROGRESS
Product Code: 9962
One of the Great War’s classic novels, Henry Williamson’s stark masterpiece portrays the disillusionment of simple soldier John Bullock in the hell that was the western front.
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WHEN THIS BLOODY WAR IS OVER
Soldier’s Songs of the First World War
Product Code: 11196
The Great War gave birth to almost as many songs as it did to poems; and many of these live on in popular culture and memory. In this nostalgic collection, oral historian Max Arthur has assembled the most evocative of the songs and the result is a feast : by turns funny, bawdy, cynical, sentime...
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DOUGLAS HAIG THE EDUCATED SOLDIER
Product Code: 9855
Field Marshal Douglas Haig remains one of the most controversial figures of the First World War. As Commander-in-Chief of the British Army on the Westrn Front he has been held responsible for the massacre of hundreds of thousands of his own soldiers in the muddy killing fields of Ypres and the S...
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PLUMER: THE SOLDIERS’ GENERAL
Product Code: 10806
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 ’bite...
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