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  • Verdun 1916

    Urschlacht des Jahrhunderts

    by Olaf Jessen ...
    "So furchtbar kann nicht einmal die Hölle sein", entsetzte sich ein Augenzeuge. Nie wieder starben mehr Soldaten auf so engem Raum wie in Verdun 1916. Olaf Jessen zeichnet auf der Grundlage vergessener Dokumente ein neues Bild der Schlüsselschlacht des Ersten Weltkrieges. Glänzend erzählt und unter die Haut gehend: für alle, die den Großen Krieg aus Sicht der Frontsoldaten und Heerführer beider ... Read more

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  • The Killing Season

    The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany a War

    by Robert Cowley ...
    An in-depth, authoritative account of the First Battle of Ypres, an early turning point in World War I that irrevocably changed the course of modern warfare—by the founding editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military HistoryThe Marne may have saved Paris and prevented a humiliating setback for the Allies, but it did not spell eventual defeat for Germany. Ypres did.The final months of 1914 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • A Sextet on the Great War

    A group portrait of six of the finest historians of the First World WarIn A Sextet on the Great War, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration.Fritz Fischer, famous historian of German war-guiltPierre Renouvin, a disabled serviceman and preeminent authority on the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Stealing Horses to Great Applause

    The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered

    Stand-out theoretical and empirical explanation of the origins of the First World War by one of the great historians of international diplomacyStealing Horses to Great Applause presents arguably the finest considerations yet of the origins of the First World War. Breaking with accounts which focus on the actions of a single state or the final countdown to hostilities, Paul W. Schroeder describes ... Read more

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  • The Times Churchill

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  • De heks van Gottem

    Het waargebeurde verhaal van Tanneke Sconyncx, opgetekend door haar afstammeling van de elfde generatie

    Tussen de zestiende en de achttiende eeuw werden duizenden vrouwen en mannen onterecht beschuldigd van hekserij.Tanneke Sconyncx was één van hen. Dit is haar verhaal.De Spaanse Nederlanden, eind zestiende eeuw. Het zijn barre tijden voor de bevolking uit Gottem. De doortrekkende calvinistische legers en troepen van Filips van Spanje vreten de kleine steden en dorpen kaal, religieuze twisten ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

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  • The House of War

    The Struggle between Christendom and Islam

    A powerful new history detailing the most significant military clashes between Islam and Christendom over the 1300 years of the Muslim caliphate.From the taking of Jerusalem in the 7th century AD 638 by Caliph Umar, to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following the end of World War I, Christian popes, emperors and kings, and Muslim caliphs and sultans were locked in a 1300-year battle for ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Vertigo

    The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany

    The dramatic and consequential history of Germany’s short-lived experiment with democracy between the world wars, when vibrant cultural experimentation collided with political and economic turmoilOut of the ashes of the First World War, Germany launched an unprecedented political project: its first democratic government. The Weimar Republic, named for the city where it was established, endured for ... Read more

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  • The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918

    by Nick Lloyd ...
    The first major history in fifty years of the often overlooked Eastern Front of the First World War, where a more fluid conflict resulted in the destruction of great empires and the rise of the Soviet Union.Writing in the 1920s, Winston Churchill argued that the First World War on the Eastern Front was “incomparably the greatest war in history. In its scale, in its slaughter, in the exertions of ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • German Soldier vs British Soldier

    Spring Offensive and Hundred Days 1918

    Series Book 78 - Combat
    This illustrated study pits the Kaiser's troops against their British opponents during the climactic year of 1918 on the Western Front.Launched on 21 March 1918, the Spring Offensive saw Germany use veteran, highly trained assault troops and innovative assault tactics to encircle and outflank the British and Empire forces manning the front line, hoping to force the French to seek terms and hand ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Krithia

    The Forgotten Anzac Battle of Gallipoli

    by Mat McLachlan ...
    Gallipoli is the defining battlefield in Australian history and identity, yet the tale of the Second Battle of Krithia has existed largely in the shadows of the bigger Gallipoli story. It is, however, one of the most poignant and tragic tales of World War I, now brought to light by bestselling military historian Mat McLachlan.In May 1915, British units were trying to capture the village of Krithia ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Missing of the Somme

    by Geoff Dyer ...
    A deeply personal meditation on remembrance, art, and World War I by the legendary Geoff Dyer, reissued with a new introduction by Drew Gilpin FaustThe Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance—and completely, unabashedly unlike any other book about the First World War. Through visits to battlefields and memorials, Geoff Dyer examines the way that photographs and film ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Diary of a Dead Officer

    Born in September 1891, Arthur Graeme West was a quiet and self-effacing youth with a passion for literature, who went on to become a keen Oxford scholar. When war broke out in 1914, for some time it left him untouched. However, in January 1915, in a rush of enthusiasm, he enlisted as a private in the Public Schools Battalion. From that time, until his death in April 1917, his life was a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • All the World at War

    People and Places, 1914–1918

    While battles and wars and ‘the clash of civilizations’ are as old as time itself, there is little doubt that the conflagration of 1914–1918 was something unique and terrifyingly new. There was not a corner of the globe that did not feel its effects, some more than others, but the scope of its impact on economies, populations, food supplies, the character of governments in general and the day-to ... Read more

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  • Narrow Gauge in the Ypres Sector

    Before, During and After the First World War

    Series series Allied Railways of the Western Front
    The Ypres sector of the Western Front was held predominantly by the British and Dominions Armies from 1914 to 1918. The Ypres Salient, at the centre of this sector, was one of the most intensively fought over single locations of the First World War. By the end of 1917 the sector was full of railways, dumps, camps, and other facilities. Much was lost in the German advance in April 1918, but from ... Read more

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  • In A Flanders Field

    A Territorial Battalion at Ypres, October 1917

    by John Waite ...
    Written neither as a conventional biography or battalion history, this work centres on the remarkable life of Joe Waite, a boy soldier of the Great War. Though, in telling his story, the names and lives of 64 of his fallen comrades are also revealed. All were lost in just one month of fighting, during the hell that was the Third Battle of Ypres – also known as Passchendaele.Born in a tough, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Bachmoet

    Wanneer de oorlog je leven opslokt en er geen kans op vluchten meer mogelijk is...

    Mei 2014. Ingeklemd tussen Oost en West worstelt Oekraïne met groeiende spanningen. Wanneer de bevolking haar pro-Russische president omverwerpt, reageert Rusland door de Krim te annexeren en roepen Donetsk en Loegansk zich uit tot zelfverklaarde volksrepublieken. Vreedzaam protest mondt uit in een veldslag tussen oproerpolitie en milities in de straten van Kiev. De Oekraïnse Lev Fedorov en zijn ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • Rivals in the Storm

    How Lloyd George seized power, won the war and lost his government

    A vivid biography in cinematic snapshots of David Lloyd George, one of the world's greatest statesmen.Brought up in rural North Wales, David Lloyd George attended neither a grand school nor ancient university. He was very much an outsider. And yet he rose through the ranks with charisma, fierce intelligence and fighting spirit to become, as Churchill put it in his tribute, a man who 'stood, when ... Read more

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  • The War Underground 1914–18: Tactics and Equipment

    by Simon Jones ...
    Series Book 256 - Elite
    This absorbing illustrated study reveals the evolving tactics and techniques used by all sides in the underground war during 1914–18.Covering the Western Front but also the Gallipoli and Italian theatres, this study explores three aspects of World War I below ground: military mining, attack tunnels and dugouts. In 1914–17, the underground war was a product of static trench warfare, essential to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • World War I

    The Definitive Visual History, New Edition

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Definitive Visual Histories
    Discover the misery of life in the trenches -- and how the Great War devastated Europe. Here is an original and exciting guide to the grim challenge of life or death on the Western Front. Devastating first-hand reports and contemporary photographs of the battles that slaughtered millions, together with a clear account of how nation upon nation sent their men to join the carnage, combine to present ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Finding Alfie: A D-Day Story (eBook)

    On the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Michael Morpurgo tells a new story about this milestone moment in British history.Aunty Iris always treasured her small painting of a boat, painted by her close friend Alfie many years before. Her nephew, Michael, is inspired to try and find out what actually happened to Alfie in World War II. He embarks on a journey that takes him across the Channel ... Read more

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  • Victoria Crosses on the Western Front – Battles of the Hindenburg Line - St Quentin, Beaurevoir, Cambrai 1918 and the Pursuit to the Selle

    October – November 1918

    by Paul Oldfield ...
    In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army career, research for this book commenced and over the years numerous sources have been consulted.Victoria Crosses on the Western Front: Battles of the Hindenburg Line - St Quentin, Beaurevoir, Cambrai ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • With the British Cavalry in 1914

    The opening months of the First World War were the golden sunset for the horsed regiments of the British army. Whether they were Lancers, Hussars or Dragoons, their names were redolent of glory and grandeur. Trained for shock tactics as well as scouting and reconnaissance, several times in 1914 they clashed dramatically with their German counterparts on the battlefields of France.Yet at the same ... Read more

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  • Le front caucasien. Enjeux d'empires et nations, 1914-1922

    Series series Histoire
    Une première grande synthèse sur un front encore peu connu.Mieux comprendre les conflits dans le Caucase, de la Turquie à l'Azerbaïdjan, de la Russie à l'Ukraine.Des chapitres, sources, cartes pour aborder des enjeux complexes.Le front caucasien, entre Anatolie orientale, Caucase russe et Perse, est l'un des théâtres d'opérations majeurs de la Première Guerre mondiale. Avec les Balkans, les ... Read more

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