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  • Salute of Guns

    by Donald Boyd ...
    A British World War I veteran details artillery's role in the Great War, life on the Western Front, and soldier morale in this classic memoir.Salute of Guns covers a story that is almost forgotten: Artillery was the decisive weapon of the Great War. The developments in artillery tactics, equipment and shells played a major role in the final Allied victory. British artillery was in the forefront of ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • In Great Spirits

    Archie Barwick's WWI Diary - from Gallipoli to the Western Front and Home Again

    by Archie Barwick ...
    An Aussie soldier's diary of the first World War - by turns compelling, illuminating, funny, touching and sad - and absolutely unputdownable.Archie Albert Barwick was an enthusiastic young 24 year old when he joined the First AIF in late August 1914 - his service number was 914. When he learnt that he'd been accepted into the army, he was so happy he turned two somersaults for pure joy. this is ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Trenches 1914 - 1918

    by Glenn R. Iriam ...
    This book are the memoirs of Frank S. Iriam, Sgt. sniper, scout and, observer attached to the First Canadian Division which was attached to the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force. These writing are of significant Historical Value as well as a very vivid description of most of the major battles of the Great War. There are no holds barred descriptions of the good and bad qualities of the various ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Twelve Days on the Somme

    A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916

    by Sidney Rogerson ...
    This "brilliant and heartrending" memoir recounts one of the bloodiest battles of WWI—with a new introduction and a forward by the author's son (John Keegan).A joint operation between Britain and France, the 1916 Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain territory and dent Germany's military strength. By the end of the action, the Allied Forces had made just twelve kilometers. For this slight ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Storm of Steel

    by Ernst Junger ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Modern Classics.'As though walking through a deep dream, I saw steel helmets approaching through the craters. They seemed to sprout from the fire-harrowed soil like some iron harvest.'A memoir of astonishing power, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Somme

    The Epic Battle in the Soldiers' own Words and Photographs

    by Richard van Emden ...
    The epic and brutal WWI battle is vividly recounted through the words and photos of the soldiers who lived through it.One of the most famous battles of the Great War, the offensive on the Somme took place in 1916, from July and November. It was there that Kitcheners famous Pals Battalions were first sent into action en masse. It was a battlefield where many of the dreams and aspirations of a ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winged Victory

    by V.M. Yeates ...
    Experience the chilling combat of World War I from inside an early biplane in this classic novel, by a pilot who lived through the war himself.France, 1914. The war on the land is taking to the skies . . .Pilot Tom Cundall is ready to take on the enemy in his trusty Camel fighter plane. But as he sees more and more planes shot down in flames, he begins to question the war, and what, or who, he is ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Undertones of War

    by Edmund Blunden ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele, describing the latter as 'murder, not only to the troops, but to their singing faiths and hopes'. In his compassionate yet ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Both Sides of the Wire

    The memoir of an Australian officer captured during the Great War

    by William Cull, Aaron Pegram ...
    This is Bill Cull's unforgettable story of his experiences in WW1: he fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front where he was captured by the Germans and was a POW until the end of the war.Captain William Cull fought the First World War from both sides of the wire. As a young infantry officer on the Allied side of the Western Front, Cull frequently led patrols out into No Man's Land and raids on ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Backs to the Wall

    A larrikin on the Western Front

    by GD Mitchell, Robert Macklin ...
    Originally published in 1937 (and long out of print), this is a gripping, first hand account of a young soldier's experiences in France and Belgium during the First World War.'*In that hour was born in me a fear that lasted throughout the whole winter. It was the dread of dying in the mud, going down in that stinking morass and though dead being conscious throughout the ages. Waves of fear at ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • "Nothing of Importance", Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion

    by Bernard Adams ...
    Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation."Nothing of Importance", Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion is considered one of the finest World War I memoirs. It gives an incredible description of trench wafare. ... Read more

    $2.70 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sapper Martin

    The Secret Great War Diary of Jack Martin

    Edited by Richard van Emden ...
    Albert John ('Jack') Martin was a thirty-two-year-old clerk at the Admiralty when he was called up to serve in the army in September 1916. These diaries, written in secret, hidden from his colleagues and only discovered by his family after his return home, present the Great War with heartbreaking clarity, written in a voice as compelling and distinctive as Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon and all ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD