The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 (Lloyd Nick)(Pevná vazba)

Great War: 1914-1918 (Hart Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world history. In this magnum opus, the author examines the conflict in every arena around the world, in a history that combines scholarship with vivid and unfamiliar eyewitness accounts, from kings and generals, and

The Birth of the Royal Air Force: An Encyclopedia of British Air Power Before and During the Great War - 1914 to 1918 (Philpott Ian)(Pevná vazba)

Last Battle - Endgame on the Western Front, 1918 (Hart Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The only history of the last months of World War One: out in paperback for the

British, French and American Relations on the Western Front, 1914-1918 (Kempshall Chris)(Pevná vazba)

1. Introduction: 'Liberty and Union...'.- Part One: Confusion.- 2.Building the Entente Cordiale.- 3. Initial Interactions: The B.E.F. in France 1914-1915.- Part Two: Co-Operation.- 4. 'My heart softened to the French ... all at once I loved them': The Entente Cordiale at the Somme.- 5. 'That

Poems of the Great War - 1914-1918(Paperback / softback)

Offers an introduction to the First World War Poetry. This title features the sequence of poems that is drawn from a number of sources, mixing both well-known and less familiar

Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War (Xu)(Pevná vazba)

During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but from China. Xu Guoqi tells the remarkable story of the 140,000 Chinese men recruited for the Allied

Southampton at War 1939-45 (Eddleston John J.)(Paperback)

In the Great War of 1914-1918, Southampton played a vital role in the war effort. Designated as Port Number One it saw hundreds of thousands of men and many tons of equipment sail for the fields of Belgium and France. The Second World War was a completely different type of war. Hitler's blitzkrieg

Hundred Days - The End of the Great War (Lloyd Nick)(Paperback / softback)

Explores the brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World War. In this study, the author examines the last days of the war and asks the question: how did it end? Beginning at the heralded turning-point on the Marne in July 1918, it traces the story of the next four months, which

Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald F Scott)(Pevná vazba)

Set in the post-Great War Long Island/New York world of the rich. The narrator, Nick Carraway, sympathetically records the pathos of Gatsby's romantic dream which founders on the reality of corruption, the insulated selfishness of Tom and Daisy, and the cutting edge of

The Chemists' War: 1914-1918 (Freemantle Michael)(Paperback)

The 1914-18 war has been referred to as the 'chemists' war' and to commemorate the centenary, this collection of essays will examine various facets of the role of chemistry in the First World War. The industrial-scale slaughter of the war was underpinned by the industrial-scale production of a vast

World Aflame - The Long War, 1914-1945 (Jones Dan)(Pevná vazba)

A visually stunning history of global conflict from 1914 to 1945, from Dan Jones and Marina Amaral - the team who created The Colour of

Trench: A History of Trench Warfare on the Western Front (Bull Stephen)(Paperback)

The First World War was one of the costliest conflicts in history, much of it fought over a narrow and bloody swathe of France and Flanders. At the outbreak of war, it was anticipated that conventional battle would bring a quick resolution, but four years later, strategy, tactics and the material

Belgium in the Great War (Veranneman Jean-Michel)(Pevná vazba)

In August 1914, the German Empire invaded neutral Belgium in order to outflank the defenses of the French army. Unexpectedly, the Belgian army resisted and fought on, holding a small part of unoccupied Belgian territory north of Ypres, alongside the British and French armies, until the Armistice of

British History Timeline Wallbook (Lloyd Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

Unfold the history of Great Britain with this giant wallbook - includes 2-metre fold-out

Short History of The Vietnam War (DK)(Pevná vazba)

Tornado Gr1: An Operational History (Napier Michael John W.)(Pevná vazba)

Replacing the Vulcan, Buccaneer and Jaguar in the front line of the Cold War, the remarkable 'swing-winged' Tornado GR1 provided Britain's strike capability in the last years of the Cold War in the 1980s, equipping some 10 RAF squadrons. During the Gulf War, Tornado GR1 crews led Britain's

All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque Erich Maria)(Pevná vazba)

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this World War I novel is a German author's attempt to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the

Short History of The American Civil War (DK)(Pevná vazba)

A New History of Western Philosophy (Kenny Anthony)(Pevná vazba)

The individual volumes of Sir Anthony Kenny's acclaimed History of Western Philosophy have been hailed as 'wonderfulauthoritativehugely rewarding' (Times Higher Education Supplement) and 'genial and highly accessible' (London Review of Books). Now these four splendid books have been combined into

All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque Erich Maria)(Paperback)

Considered by many the greatest war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece of the German experience during World War I. I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an

Malcolm MacPhail's Great War (Duthie Darrell)(Paperback)

Fall 1917. The Western Front is in stalemate.Captain Malcolm MacPhail of the Canadian Corps has been in the trenches for longer than he cares to remember. He's just landed a new job on the intelligence staff, but if he thinks staying alive is going to become any easier, he's sorely mistaken.The

Montreal at War, 1914-1918 (Copp Terry)(Paperback)

Montreal at War tells the story of how citizens in Canada's largest city responded to the challenges of the First World War. Drawing from newspapers, journals, government reports, and archival records, Terry Copp - one of Canada's leading military historians - raises important questions about how

All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque Erich Maria)(Mass Market Paperbound)

Considered by many the greatest war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece of the German experience during World War I. I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an

Executed at Dawn: British Firing Squads on the Western Front 1914-1918 (Johnson David)(Paperback)

Much has been written about the 302 British and Commonwealth soldiers who were executed for military offences during the First World War, but there is usually only a passing reference to those who took part--the members of the firing squad, the officer in charge, the medical officer, and the padre