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  • Mons, Anzac and Kut

    By an MP (Lieutenant Colonel The Hon Aubrey Herbert MP)

    par Edward Melotte ...
    Aubrey Herbert was one of the most interesting figures of his age. He was twice offered the Albanian throne! Born almost blind, his sight even after surgery precluded him from official military service and he became a diplomat and politician. However in 1914 he attached himself unofficially to the Irish Guards on the outbreak of war on their way to France and was made an honorary Lieutenant. ... En savoir plus

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  • Goodbye to All That

    par Robert Graves ...
    "Goodbye to All That" is a powerful memoir written by Robert Graves, reflecting on his experiences during World War I. The book offers a candid and deeply personal account of the horrors of war and the impact it had on his life. Graves, a British soldier, provides readers with a vivid portrayal of the brutality and chaos of the battlefield. He shares his journey from a young man eager to serve his ... En savoir plus

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  • Gallipoli

    from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty

    THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER'Fascinatingly imaginative popular history.' Sydney Morning HeraldOn 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail.Turkey regards the victory to this day as a defining moment in its history, a ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Khartoum

    The Ultimate Imperial Adventure

    par Michael Asher ...
    The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the massacre of the 11,000 strong Hicks Pasha column in 1883. Sent to evacuate the country, British hero General Gordon was surrounded and murdered in Khartoum by an army of dervishes led by the Mahdi. The relief mission arrived 2 days too late. The result ... En savoir plus

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  • Battle Tales from Burma

    par John Randle ...
    A collection of autobiographical stories from an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II.John Randle served with the greatly respected Baluch Regiment of the former Indian Army right through the fiercely fought Burma Campaign, winning a Military Cross, yet on VJ Day he was only some sixty miles from where had started out nearly four years before.Unlike other conventional war memoirs ... En savoir plus

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  • Good-bye to All That

    An Autobiography

    par Robert Graves ...
    Collections series Penguin Modern Classics
    "There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. As Blighty, Great Britain was a quiet, easy place to get back to out of the present foreign misery, but as a nation it was nothing."This is the original version of Robert Graves's intense memoir of the First World War ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Sahib

    The British Soldier in India 1750–1914

    par Richard Holmes ...
    Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain’s Imperial Crown.This is a stunning account of Indian soldiering in peace and war, from the barrack rooms to the cavalry swirling across open plains. Bestselling military historian Richard Holmes not only ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Mammoth Book of How it Happened: World War I

    par Jon E. Lewis ...
    Collections Livre 378 - Mammoth Books
    The spectre of the Great War still haunts us. No other conflict so dramatically illustrates the waste of life, and the slaughter of innocents, as that of 1914-18. And none has so dramatically shaped the modern world: the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the break-up of Empire, the supremacy of America and World War II all stem from the four years of the 'war to end all wars'.Here is the eye ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

  • Into the Jaws of Death

    British Military Blunders, 1879–1900

    par Mike Snook ...
    A study of British military defeats and disasters in the late nineteenth century: "An enthralling look at the Victorian army in adversity." — BBC History MagazineBetween the Crimean War and the dawn of the twentieth century, the British Army was almost continuously engaged in one corner of the globe or another, in military operations famously characterized by Kipling as the "savage wars of peace." ... En savoir plus

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  • Captured at Kut, Prisoner of the Turks

    The Great War Diaries of Colonel W C Spackman

    Modifié par Tony Spackman ...
    This edited diary is Colonel Bill Spackmans extraordinary personal record of his experiences as the Medical Officer of an Indian Infantry battalion during the Mesopotamian Campaign 1914 1916. In particular he describes the harrowing events of the five month siege of Kut and, after the surrender of the 10,000 strong garrison in April 1916, the hardships of the 1,000 mile forced march to Anatolia in ... En savoir plus

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  • Battle Story: Omdurman 1898

    par William Wright ...
    Collections series Battle Story
    The battle took place at Kerreri, 11km north of Omdurman in the Sudan. Kitchener commanded a force of 8,000 British regulars and a mixed force of 17,000 Sudanese and Egyptian soldiers. He arrayed his force in an arc around the village of Egeiga close to the bank of the Nile, where a gunboat flotilla waited in support, facing a wide, flat plain with hills rising to the left and right. The British ... En savoir plus

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  • Suvla

    August Offensive

    Collections series Battleground Gallipoli
    **"Another in the fantastic Battleground series of Great War histories combined with battlefield guides . . . with a good narrative and personal accounts." —**The Great War MagazineThe landing at Suvla Bay, part of the August Offensive, commenced on the night of 6 August 1915. It was intended to support a breakout from Anzac Beach. Despite early hopes from a largely unopposed landing, Suvla was a ... En savoir plus

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