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  • Laugh or Cry

    The British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914–1918

    by Peter Hart, Gary Bain ...
    Awakened by great shouted oaths below. Peeped over the side of the manger and saw a Belgian lass milking and addressing a cow with a comprehensive luridness that left no doubt in my mind that British soldiers had been billeted here before.' - Private Norman Ellison, 1/6th King's Liverpool Regiment Humor helped the British soldier survive the terrible experiences they faced in the trenches of the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gallipoli

    by Peter Hart ...
    One of the most famous battles in history, the WWI Gallipoli campaign began as a bold move by the British to capture Constantinople, but this definitive new history explains that from the initial landings--which ended with so much blood in the sea it could be seen from airplanes overhead--to the desperate attacks of early summer and the battle of attrition that followed, it was a tragic folly ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The South Notts Hussars The Western Desert, 1940–1942

    by Peter Hart ...
    Series series Voices from the Front
    The Second World War is vanishing into the pages of history. The veterans were once all around us, but their numbers are fast diminishing. While still in their prime many recorded their memories with Peter Hart for the Imperial War Museum. As these old soldiers now fade away their voices from the front are still strong with a rare power to bring the horrors of war back to vivid life. The South ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 16th Durham Light Infantry in Italy, 1943–1945

    by Peter Hart ...
    Series series Voices from the Front
    The Second World War is vanishing into the pages of history. The veterans were once all around us, but their numbers are fast diminishing. While still in their prime many recorded their memories with Peter Hart for the Imperial War Museum. As these old soldiers now fade away their voices from the front are still strong with a rare power to bring the horrors of war back to vivid life. The 16th ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War

    A Combat History of the First World War

    by Peter Hart ...
    World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared. "Total war" emerged as a grim, mature reality. In The Great War, Peter Hart provides a masterful combat history of this global conflict. Focusing on the decisive ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Chain of Fire

    The Siege of Khartoum and the Campaign of Egypt and the Sudan

    by Peter Hart ...
    The dramatic story of the siege of Khartoum and Britain’s extraordinarily violent 1882 campaign in Egypt and Sudan.In the 1880s, British control over northeastern Africa was a political minefield that Prime Minister William Gladstone wished to avoid—until his emissary Charles Gordon was besieged in Khartoum, and the city became the focal point for war.It was the height of European colonialism. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Last Battle

    Victory, Defeat, and the End of World War I

    by Peter Hart ...
    Author of The Great War, as well as celebrated accounts of the battles of the Somme, Passchendaele, Jutland, and Gallipoli, historian Peter Hart now turns to World War One's final months. Much has been made of-and written about-August 1914. There has been comparatively little focus on August 1918 and the lead-up to November. Because of the fixation on the Great War's opening moves, and the great ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Laugh or Fly

    The Air War on the Western Front 1914 – 1918

    by Peter Hart, Gary Bain ...
    "In reading Laugh or Fly you will fly with aircrew in various types of airplanes over every major and minor battle fought by the British on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918. You will read of their intimate fears, skills, and triumphs, and of the realities of loss after grueling air battles." - Roads to the Great War A rip-roaring gallop through the lives of the Royal Flying Corps air crew in ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Somme Success

    The Royal Flying Corps and the Battle of The Somme 1916

    by Peter Hart ...
    This history of the Royal Flying Corps during the Battle of Somme offers a comprehensive firsthand look at WWI military aviation.During the summer and fall of 1916, high above the blood-soaked trenches of the Somme, the Royal Flying Corps was engaging in one of the first great aerial battles of history. Even in those pioneering days of aerial warfare, primitive aircraft and the brave men who flew ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fire and Movement

    The British Expeditionary Force and the Campaign of 1914

    by Peter Hart ...
    The dramatic opening weeks of the Great War passed into legend long before the conflict ended. The British Expeditionary Force fought a mesmerizing campaign, outnumbered and outflanked but courageous and skillful, holding the line against impossible odds, sacrificing themselves to stop the last great German offensive of 1914. A remarkable story of high hopes and crushing disappointment, the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Somme

    by Peter Hart, Nigel Steel ...
    A major new history of the most infamous battle of the First World War, as described by the men who fought it.On 1 July 1916, Douglas Haig's army launched the 'Big Push' that was supposed finally to bring an end to the stalemate on the Western Front. What happened next was a human catastrophe: scrambling over the top into the face of the German machine guns and artillery fire, almost 20,000 ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Jutland, 1916

    Death in the Grey Wastes

    by Peter Hart, Nigel Steel ...
    Dramatic, illustrated account of the biggest naval battle of the First World War.On 31 May, 1916, the great battle fleets of Britain and Germany met off Jutland in the North Sea. It was a climactic encounter, the culmination of a fantastically expensive naval race between the two countries, and expectations on both sides were high. For the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet, there was the chance to win ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD