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  • The Canadian Dream of an English Country Boy
    James Robertshaw
    Canadians Pioneers building up the Country, World War 1 involvement and about the history of Ernest Phillips a Canadian World War 1 Hero, who was decorated twice with the Military Medal. The book describes life in 1912 in Canada, how the First Nations People were recruited into the Canadian Expeditionary Force. The training, the actions in World War 1 , the citations won. Life ...
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    29,11 €

  • Serving the Doughboy
    Mary Frances Willard
    Mary Frances Willard, a public-school principal from Chicago, was one of thousands of American women who served as welfare workers for U.S. troops in France during World War I. During the war’s final months, she operated a canteen and post exchange in Troyes, attended to convalescing servicemen, arranged their burials and wrote letters to their families. After the Armistice, ...
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    71,84 €

  • Battles of the Ages
    Marcus Caldwell
    Uncover the harrowing and pivotal battles that marked the commencement of the Great War, a conflict that would reshape the world. In this detailed chronicle, the reader is transported to the tumultuous year of 1914, where empires clashed and the modern age of warfare was born. From the fervent patriotism of August to the brutal onset of trench warfare, this book meticulously na...
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    14,99 €

  • The Double Traitor
    Phillips Oppenheim E.
    'The Double Traitor' is a riveting espionage thriller penned by means of the prolific author E. Phillips Oppenheim. Set in opposition to the backdrop of early twentieth-century Europe, this gripping narrative offers a tale of intrigue, espionage, and political machinations. The story unfolds with the introduction of a mysterious lady protagonist, who’s each appealing and enigma...
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    14,40 €

  • Time Stood Still
    Paul Cohen-Portheim
    A masterpiece of humanism,Time Stood Still recounts Paul Cohen-Portheim’s years of internment in England as an enemy alien during World War One. An artist and theatre designer, he at first viewed internment as a sort of holiday: 'Should I bring my bathing things and evening dress?' he asked the policeman taking him prisoner. Though confined in a 'gentleman’s camp' near Wakefiel...
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    28,43 €

  • Captain William George Gabain M.C.
    Stephen Knight
    The Great War broke out on August 4th, 1914, impacting the lives of millions around the world. Many people thought - or hoped - that the War would be short. One of the young men who entered the fighting that month, and who served until his death in March 1918, was twenty-five year old William George Gabain M.C.Known to family to this day, as 'Uncle Willie,' he lost his life ea...
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    20,46 €

  • Rising from the Flanders Mud
    Steve Buster Johnson
    A champion motorcyclist in British and overseas Endurance Trials at the outbreak of WW1, it was only natural that Graham Price would volunteer as a despatch rider in the British Army. Arriving in France with the British Expeditionary Force in October 1914, against all odds he survived all manner of dangers on the Western Front during the battles of Mons and Marne and later on ...
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    14,00 €

  • Lost Endeavour
    Charles Watkins
    Charles Watkins sailed for the Dardanelles with the 1/6th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers in 1915. War, he said, was a welcome escape from hard labour in a Lancashire cotton mill. Fifty years later, he wrote his memoir, a ’hotch-potch of Gallipoli memories.’'In perpetrating this literary outrage, some apology is due. I could give many plausible excuses for recording moments of t...
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    27,41 €

  • Belarusian Nation-Building in Times of War and Revolution
    Lizaveta Kasmach
    The proclamation of Belarusian independence on March 25, 1918, and the rival establishment of the Soviet Belarusian state on January 1, 1919, created two distinct and mutually exclusive national myths, which continue to define contemporary Belarusian society. This book examines the processes that resulted in this dual resolution in the context of World War I and the subsequent ...
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    100,55 €

  • Austria-Hungary’s Last War, 1914-1918 Vol 1 (1914)
    Stan Hanna
    The Final War of a Great Empire'The official history of the Habsburg empire in the First World War ought to enjoy a better reputation than it does.'- Sir Hew StrachanIn August 1914, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in response to the assassination of their heir to the throne, declared war against Serbia. Their army was multi-national and multi-lingual. Backed by Germany and opposed...
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    59,22 €

  • Austria-Hungary’s Last War, 1914-1918 Vol 1 (1914)
    Stan Hanna
    The Final War of a Great Empire'The official history of the Habsburg empire in the First World War ought to enjoy a better reputation than it does.'- Sir Hew StrachanIn August 1914, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in response to the assassination of their heir to the throne, declared war against Serbia. Their army was multi-national and multi-lingual. Backed by Germany and opposed...
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    23,48 €

  • Burning Beethoven
    Erik Kirschbaum
    Before World War I, the United States were home to a flourishing German culture. German-Americans were the biggest and most successful ethnic group all over the Midwest. But this culture was wiped out forever by a fury of an anti-German hysteria after America had entered the war. Overzealous American patriots renamed Sauerkraut 'Liberty Cabbage', slaughtered dachshunds, and era...
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    17,76 €

  • Humanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914-24
    This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of humanitarianism and its impact on domestic and international politics in the era of the Great War. ...
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    169,37 €

  • Air Warriors - World War One - International Aces - Volume 2
    Chris Geary
    Take to the skies over Europe during World War I as ace fighter plane pilots engage in battle with primitive machines that are held together with canvas, wire, wood, and metal. These adventurers, who were drawn to the conflict, came from as far afield as India, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, would fight to defend their homeland, fight for nationalistic pride, and fight f...
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    15,85 €

  • EAST AFRICA VOLUME 1 August 1914-September 1916
    Lt-Colonel Charles Hordern
    The first (and only) published volume on the frustrating early Allied campaign in East Africa, that saw the emergence of Germany’s Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck - one of the most successful and legendary guerilla leaders of all time.This volume in the Official History of The Great War covers the first half of the campaign in East Africa (the planned second volume was never published)...
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    67,02 €

  • TOGOLAND AND THE CAMEROONS
    Brig-General F. J. Moberly
    This volume of the Official History of The Great War covers the little-known Togoland and Cameroon campaigns, in which British and French-led African troops took over the two German colonies. The Togoland campaign was wrapped up in August 1914, while the Cameroons - where natural obstacles and hazards were severe - ended successfully in February 1916.This volume of the Official...
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    66,55 €

  • TOGOLAND AND THE CAMEROONS
    Brig-General F. J. Moberly
    This volume of the Official History of The Great War covers the little-known Togoland and Cameroon campaigns, in which British and French-led African troops took over the two German colonies. The Togoland campaign was wrapped up in August 1914, while the Cameroons - where natural obstacles and hazards were severe - ended successfully in February 1916.This volume of the Official...
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    83,64 €

  • Nyasaland Operations during the World War, 1914-1918
    T. Cullen Young
    Young’s Nyasaland Operations manuscript was entrusted to the Society of Malawi in 1955, likely in the hope the Society would benefit by its publication. Now edited with commentary and annotations by Melvin E. Page, his accounts and personal recollections are at last available to a wider readership, offering a further perspective on the Great War as experienced primarily by Nyas...
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    35,41 €

  • Kriegsbriefe eines elsässischen Bauernburschen
    Hans Karl Abel
    Diese Briefe enthalten alles, was an Furchtbarem über einen Furchtlosen und Untadeligen in vierjährigem Wettersturm dahinbrauste. Sie sind ein Charakterbild und ein Zeitspiegel; vielleicht macht die Zukunft mehr aus ihnen.An der Westfront geschrieben, legen sie Zeugnis davon ab, daß das allgemeine Vorurteil gegen den Elsässer nicht hindern konnte, einen Soldaten wie Klaus Hofer...
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    24,50 €

  • Cujte Srbi!
    Rudolf Arcibald Rajs
    Rukopis Cujte Srbi! napisan je 1928, godinu dana pred Rajsovu smrt. U svom posmrtnom zavestanju, Rajs nabraja vrline i mane srpskog naroda. Knjiga predstavlja ogledalo srpskog naroda iz kojeg i danas mozemo mnogo da naucimo. Izdanje na cirilici. ...
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    8,80 €

  • A PERSISTANT FIRE
    National Defense University Press
    The profession of arms in the 21st century is at significant risk of losing its status as a profession due to several salient factors. Because of the rapid development of technology in relation to warfare, for instance, there are growing questions as to how much control human beings will retain of future combat, particularly given the speed of decision-making required for victo...
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    19,00 €

  • MILITARY OPERATIONS EGYPT & PALESTINE
    Captain Cyril Falls / Lt.-Gen. Sir George MacMunn
    This volume in the Official History of The Great War covers the early stages of the Middle East theatre - from the outbreak of war to June 1917. After a brief background to the situation in Egypt in August 1914, and the opening of hostilities with Turkey at the end of October, this volume concerns itself with the defence of Egypt against invasion by the Turks from the east and ...
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    83,44 €

  • MILITARY OPERATIONS EGYPT & PALESTINE
    Captain Cyril Falls
    Part II of the Official History of The Great War in the Middle East takes the story from May 1918 to the armistice. It begins with a summary of the Arab revolt against the Turks, which involved the exploits of Col. T. E. Lawrence ’of Arabia’, and consisted of harassing attacks and sabotage of railways which drew off great numbers of the Turks to the benefit of the EEF. This was...
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    65,98 €

  • MILITARY OPERATIONS EGYPT & PALESTINE 1914-18 ATLAS
    Captain Cyril Falls
    A full assembly of all the valuable colour and black-and-white maps that were bound into the celebrated three-volume set of Military Operations Egypt & Palestine - History of the Great War - Other Theatres and are now extracted to form this Atlas.Although attention has understandably focused on the Western Front in the Great War, the conflict was a World War fought across many ...
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    33,60 €

  • MILITARY OPERATIONS EGYPT & PALESTINE 1914-18 ATLAS
    Captain Cyril Falls
    A full assembly of all the valuable colour and black-and-white maps that were bound into the celebrated three-volume set of Military Operations Egypt & Palestine - History of the Great War - Other Theatres and are now extracted to form this Atlas.Although attention has understandably focused on the Western Front in the Great War, the conflict was a World War fought across many ...
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    24,61 €

  • MILITARY OPERATIONS EGYPT & PALESTINE
    Captain Cyril Falls
    Part II of the Official History of The Great War in the Middle East takes the story from May 1918 to the armistice. It begins with a summary of the Arab revolt against the Turks, which involved the exploits of Col. T. E. Lawrence ’of Arabia’, and consisted of harassing attacks and sabotage of railways which drew off great numbers of the Turks to the benefit of the EEF. This was...
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    83,06 €

  • Erwin Rommel First War
    Erwin Rommel / Zita Steele
    More than just a new German-to-English translation of Rommel’s memoir, 'Erwin Rommel: First War-A New Look At Infantry Attacks' by military historian/author Zita Steele (pen name for Zita Ballinger Fletcher) provides analysis of Rommel’s transformation from a naïve young soldier into a formidable World War II general. This book is an authoritative work on Rommel’s life, his tac...
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    50,41 €

  • This Ghastly War
    Mary M Crawford
    During World War I, Dr. Mary M. Crawford spent nearly a year volunteering at the American Ambulance Hospital in France. Among the first American physicians to join the Allied war effort in 1914, she was the only woman doctor on the hospital staff. Her diary and letters, presented here with historical context, narrate day-to-day life in a hospital on the Western Front, with cli...
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    72,57 €

  • Picturing the Western Front
    Beatriz Pichel
    Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Classified in archives, collected in personal albums and circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs were supposed to tell the story of the war. This book argues that photographic practices also shaped combatants and civilians’ war experiences. ...
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    35,59 €

  • THE LANCASHIRE FIGHTING TERRITORIALS
    George Bigwood
    In enthusiastically patriotic wartime style for the 'Home Front' reader , this is an account of the Lancashire Territorial battalions, fighting initially in the desert in Egypt, however the the major part of the book is concerned with the Gallipoli campaign. With the narrative peppered with individual soldiers names this is a useful work for the medal collector/genealogist. ...
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    24,40 €


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