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  • For Valour

    Canadians and the Victoria Cross in the Great War

    par Gerald Gliddon ...
    The collected stories of the Canadian recipients of the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration.As Canada came into its own as a nation during the First World War, proving itself capable of standing alongside Britain on the world stage, scores of Canadians were awarded the Commonwealth’s highest award for pre-eminent acts of valour, self-sacrifice, or extreme devotion to duty, the Victoria ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • VCs Handbook

    The Western Front 1914-1918

    Modifié par Gerald Gliddon ...
    On the Western Front during the First World War, 490 men won the British Empire's highest award for gallantry, the Victoria Cross. A companion for any visitor to the First World War battlefields in France and Flanders, this reference book lists every VC recipient from 1914 to 1918 in alphabetical order. ... En savoir plus

    $10.29 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • VCs of the First World War: The Sideshows

    par Gerald Gliddon ...
    Collections series VCs of the First World War
    The thirteenth and final volume of the VCs of the First World War series features the lives and careers of forty-six servicemen who won the coveted Victoria Cross in theatres of war – or ' Sideshows', as they became known – beyond the Western Front and Gallipoli. Opening with the stories of four VC winners who took part in the prolonged struggle to drive the German Army out of East Africa, VCs of ... En savoir plus

    $11.98 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • VCs of the First World War: Arras and Messines 1917

    par Gerald Gliddon ...
    Collections series VCs of the First World War
    For much of the First World War, the opposing armies on the Western Front were at a stalemate, with an unbroken line of fortified trenches stretching from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border. The Allied objective after the bloody Battle of the Somme drew to a close in November 1916 was to decisively break through the German 'Hindenburg Line' and engage the numerically inferior German forces in a ... En savoir plus

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  • VCs of the First World War: The Sideshows

    par Gerald Gliddon ...
    Collections series VCs of the First World War
    The thirteenth and final volume of the VCs of the First World War series features the lives and careers of forty-six servicemen who won the coveted Victoria Cross in theatres of war – or ' Sideshows', as they became known – beyond the Western Front and Gallipoli. Opening with the stories of four VC winners who took part in the prolonged struggle to drive the German Army out of East Africa, VCs of ... En savoir plus

    $9.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • VCs of the First World War: Cambrai 1917

    par Gerald Gliddon ...
    Collections series VCs of the First World War
    Featuring the careers of forty-three men, this volume tells the story of the Battle of Cambrai, famous for being the first occasion when tanks were used en masse in battle. Its first day was so successful that church bells in Britain were rung in anticipation of a great victory. A tank crewman numbers among the recipients of the VC. Containing biographies of a broad cross-section of men from ... En savoir plus

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  • VCs of the First World War: The Final Days 1918

    par Gerald Gliddon ...
    Collections series VCs of the First World War
    Towards the end of September 1918 the Allied armies were poised to seize the Hindenburg Line – the end of the war on the Western Front was at last in sight. These final days became a series of battles to capture a number of river lines: as each one was captured by the Allies, the German Army fell back to the next. Despite stiff resistance from the enemy, the Allies slowly advanced. The Germans ... En savoir plus

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  • VCs of the First World War: Road to Victory 1918

    par Gerald Gliddon ...
    Collections series VCs of the First World War
    By August 1918 fortune was on the side of the Allies: America was increasing its contribution of troops and equipment substantially; the morale of the German Army was sinking as it failed to deliver the desired 'knock out blow'; and Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig found a new confidence, firmly believing that the Allies could at last push the Germans out of France and Belgium. This volume of the ... En savoir plus

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  • VCs of the First World War: 1914

    par Gerald Gliddon ...
    Collections series VCs of the First World War
    During the opening four months of the First World War no fewer than forty-six soldiers from the British and Commonwealth armies were awarded the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest award for gallantry. In a series of biographies, Gerald Gliddon examines the men and the dramatic events that led to the award of this most coveted of medals and explores the post-war experiences of those who survived. ... En savoir plus

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  • VCs of the First World War: Spring Offensive 1918

    par Gerald Gliddon ...
    Collections series VCs of the First World War
    At the end of 1917, after three years of trench warfare on the Western Front, the Allied armies of Britain and France, and those of their main opponent, Germany, had reached a point of exhaustion and hibernation. On March 21 1918, the German Army launched a massive assault on the Western Front, hurling fifty-nine divisions into battle against the British Fifth Army, smashing through British lines ... En savoir plus

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  • VCs of the First World War: Somme 1916

    par Gerald Gliddon ...
    Collections series VCs of the First World War
    The Battle of the Somme, which lasted from 1 July to 18 November 1916, is remembered as one of the most horrific and tragic battles of the First World War. On the first day alone nearly 19,000 British troops were killed – the greatest one-day loss in the history of the British Army. By November the death toll from the armies of Britain, France and Germany had risen to over a million. This book ... En savoir plus

    $9.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Somme 1916

    A Battlefield Companion

    par Gerald Gliddon ...
    Gerald Gliddon's classic survey of the Somme battlefield in 1916, first published in 1987 to great acclaim, has been greatly expanded and updated to include the latest research and analysis. Supported by a wide selection of archive photographs and drawing on the testimony of those who took part, this new edition covers the famous battle sites, such as High Wood and Mametz Wood, as well as the ... En savoir plus

    $21.59 CAD