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  • The British Army and the First World War

    Series series Armies of the Great War
    This is a major new history of the British army during the Great War written by three leading military historians. Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman and Mark Connelly survey operations on the Western Front and throughout the rest of the world as well as the army's social history, pre-war and wartime planning and strategy, the maintenance of discipline and morale and the lasting legacy of the First World ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Irish regiments in the Great War

    Discipline and Morale

    The British army was almost unique among the European armies of the Great War in that it did not suffer from a serious breakdown of discipline or collapse of morale. It did, however, inevitably suffer from disciplinary problems. While attention has hitherto focused on the 312 notorious ‘shot at dawn’ cases, many thousands of British soldiers were tried by court martial during the Great War.This ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Farming across Borders

    A Transnational History of the North American West

    Series series Connecting the Greater West Series
    Farming across Borders uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim, now writ large into a broad history of the North American West. Case studies of commodity production and distribution, trans-border agricultural labor, and environmental change unite to reveal new perspectives on ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Blood Oranges

    Colonialism and Agriculture in the South Texas Borderlands

    Series series Connecting the Greater West Series
    Blood Oranges traces the origins and legacy of racial differences between Anglo Americans and ethnic Mexicans (Mexican nationals and Mexican Americans) in the South Texas borderlands in the twentieth century. Author Tim Bowman uncovers a complex web of historical circumstances that caused ethnic Mexicans in the region to rank among the poorest, least educated, and unhealthiest demographic in the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • You Will Never Be One of Us

    A Teacher, a Texas Town, and the Rural Roots of Radical Conservatism

    During the spring semester of 1975, Wayne Woodward, a popular young English teacher at La Plata Junior High School in Hereford, Texas, was unceremoniously fired. His offense? Founding a local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Believing he had been unjustly targeted, Woodward sued the school district. You Will Never Be One of Us chronicles the circumstances surrounding Woodward ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Redcoats to Tommies

    The Experience of the British Soldier from the Eighteenth Century

    This book surveys and examines the history of Britain's soldiers from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It focuses on the lifecycle of a soldier, including enlistment and experience, and on identity, representations and place in society. It covers the diverse military forces of the British crown - the regular army, home defence forces, part-time soldiers, auxiliaries, officers, non ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Bliss Beary Bear's Fairy Tales of the Heart

    Collection One for Children of All Ages

    Illustrated by Clare Maria Bowman ...
    If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want them to be very brilliant, tell them even more fairy tales. Albert EinsteinFairy Tales of the Heart is carefully crafted to develop the brilliance in your childs character, mind, heart and body.These contemporary fairy tales skillfully weave myth and mystery, fantasy and reality, poetry and proven principles of child ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Kitchener's Army

    The Raising of the New Armies, 1914–1916

    by Peter Simkins ...
    Numbering over five million men, Britain's army in the First World War was the biggest in the country's history. Remarkably, nearly half those men who served in it were volunteers. 2,466,719 men enlisted between August 1914 and December 1915, many in response to the appeals of the Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener. How did Britain succeed in creating a mass army, almost from scratch, in the middle of a ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Journeys End Battalion

    The 9th East Surrey in the Great War

    by Michael Lucas ...
    The history of the Great British regiment's World War I service that inspired an award-winning play.R.C. Sherriff, author of Journey's End, the most famous play of the Great War, saw all his frontline service with the 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. This intense experience profoundly affected his writing and, through his play, it continues to have a powerful influence on our understanding of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The First Day on the Somme

    1 July 1916

    The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - Guardian'For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as though walking in a park. Then, suddenly, we were in the midst of a storm of machine-gun bullets and I saw men beginning to twirl round and fall in all kinds of curious ways'On 1 July 1916, a continous line of ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

  • The First Day on the Somme

    Revised Edition

    A history of the British Army's experience at the Battle of the Somme in France during World War I.After an immense but useless bombardment, at 7:30 AM on July 1, 1916, the British Army went over the top and attacked the German trenches. It was the first day of the battle of the Somme, and on that day, the British suffered nearly 60,000 casualties, two for every yard of their front. With more than ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Flowers of the Forest

    Scotland and the First World War

    by Trevor Royle ...
    The author of Culloden details the effects of World War I on Scotland.On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as "the workshop of the Empire." Not only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland produced half of Britain's total production of railway equipment, and the cotton and jute industries flourished in Paisley and Dundee. In addition ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus