Guillemont: Somme (Stedman Michael)(Paperback)

Guillemont: Somme (Stedman Michael)(Paperback)

The battle for Guillemont raged throughout August 1916. Like so many of the battles into which the 'Big Push' degenerated, the struggle centred around a wood, Trones, and a heavily fortified village. It was in this battle that Noel Chavasse won the first of his two

La Boiselle Somme (Stedman Michael)(Paperback)

This addition to the growing series of battlefield guides has been written by Michael Stedman, author of Thiepval. Drawing upon the wealth of material available in both national and local archives, documentary evidence, personal reminiscence and British and German unit histories, La Boiselle will

Somme - Into the Breach (Sebag-Montefiore Hugh)(Paperback / softback)

Walking the Somme (Reed Paul)(Paperback)

This new edition of Paul Reed's classic book Walking the Somme is an essential traveling companion for anyone visiting the Somme battlefields of 1916. His book, first published over ten years ago, is the result of a lifetime's research into the battle and the landscape over which it was fought

Somme Stations (Martin Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

On the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing

Harlow and the Lost Laughter (Stedman Shannan)(Paperback)

The Somme (Ridley Sarah)(Paperback)

For many people the word 'Somme' sums up the carnage and futility of the First World War. The failure of Allied forces to achieve their objectives at such a huge cost in human lives has resonated in military circles for the past 100 years. This book tells the story of the battle and its wider

Through German Eyes: The British and the Somme 1916 (Duffy Christopher)(Paperback)

Missing of the Somme (Dyer Geoff)(Paperback / softback)

Republished to mark the centenary of the battle of the Somme Geoff Dyer's classic book is 'the great Great War book of our time'

Karl Marx - Greatness and Illusion (Stedman Jones Gareth)(Paperback / softback)

Somme: Battlefield Guide: 100th Anniversary (Holt Tonie)(Paperback)

The 100th Anniversary of the most publicly aware battle of WW1 - the battle of the Somme, will be on 1 July 2016 and every media form will be covering it from January onwards. The book has taken 20 years to mature from its first edition to this new 'Definitive' edition, the Seventh, each time being

Jaro na Sommě - Marie Deschamps, Éric Wantiez

21. března 1915 někde na řece Sommě narazí Bretonec Oan kdesi mezi mezi francouzskými a německými zákopy na opuštěnou malou holčičku. Protože sám Oan se ztratil, je rád, že našel aspoň někoho. Společně se vypraví zpátky k francouzským liniím. Komorní příběh

Serre: Somme (Horsfall Jack)(Paperback / softback)

This 'Battleground Europe' book contains detailed information on the 1916 battles at the village of Serre on the Somme, and detailed walking and car tours of the battlefields and monuments as they are

First World War for Dummies (Lang)(Paperback)

From the Somme to Gallipoli to the home front, First WorldWar For Dummies provides an authoritative, accessible, andengaging introduction to the War to End All Wars. It takes a globalperspective of this global conflict, proving insight into theactions and motivations of the participants and how

Warlight (Ondaatje Michael)(Paperback)

Another Man's Shoes (Somme Sven)(Paperback / softback)

An account of a Norwegian scientist's escape from German custody during the Second World War after his arrest for spying. 60 years later, his daughter sets out on foot with her sister to retrace their father's flight from Nazi-occupied Norway, meeting some of the people who helped him along the

Flo of the Somme (Robinson Hilary)(Paperback / softback)

Winner: 2016 Young Quills Award, Historical Association UK Mercy dog, Flo, has more to contend with than racing across the dangerous battlefield of the Somme. Can she get her medical kit to the injured? Can she lead Ray, the stretcher-bearer, and his donkey to them in time? Depicting the key

Newcastle Battalions - In Action on the Somme (Storey Neil)(Paperback / softback)

Based on newspaper accounts, war diaries, letters home and access to both public and private collections of local military photographs and memorabilia this book is a tribute to the lads of Newcastle and Northumberland who answered their country's call and went through the hell that was The Battle

Somme (MacDonald Lyn)(Paperback / softback)

The year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation were crushed in a desperate struggle to survive, and traditional attitudes to authority were destroyed for ever. On paper, few battles have ever been so meticulously planned. This title tells

Very Selected: Michael Schmidt (Schmidt Michael)(Paperback / softback)

The First Day on the Somme (Middlebrook Martin)(Paperback)

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

Sixteen Trees of the Somme (Mytting Lars)(Paperback / softback)

A family story of epic scale, by the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD and THE BELL IN THE

Unreturning Army (Gordon Huntly)(Paperback / softback)

In the centenary year of the Great War, names such as Ypres, the Marne, the Somme, Passchendaele are heavy with meaning as settings for the near-destruction of a generation of

German Infantryman Vs Soviet Rifleman: Somme 1916 (Campbell David)(Paperback)

Featuring full-color artwork, specially drawn maps and archive photographs, this study offers key insights into the tactics, leadership, combat performance and subsequent reputations of six representative German and Soviet infantry battalions pitched into three pivotal actions that determined the