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1	1915, the death of innocence more books like this by Lyn Macdonald add to wishlist The year 1915 was one of the bloodiest in history. The theme of Macdonald's history of that year is the loss of innocence. That innocence was lost in the horror of the trenches in France and Belgium, at Ypres and at Gallipoli, and in the mounting numbers of dead shipped home. War was never pretty, but modern warfare raised brutality to new levels. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.75! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Terror of the Autumn Skies: The Story of Frank Luke, America's Rogue Ace of World War I more books like this by Blaine Pardoe add to wishlist A biography of the "Arizona Balloon Buster," the first pilot to win the Congressional Medal of Honor. Frank Luke, Jr., was an unlikely pilot. In the Great War, when fliers were still "knights of the air," Luke was an ungallant loner, a kid from Arizona who collected tarantulas, shot buzzards, and boxed miners. But during two torrid weeks in ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Great War: Perspectives on the First World War more books like this by Robert Cowley (Editor) add to wishlist Never before collected in one volume, and written by foremost military historians, these essays present a profound and one-of-a-kind history of the First World War. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.35! \| first editions
4	Mons 1914-1918: The Beginning and the End more books like this by Don Farr add to wishlist It was close to the small southern Belgian town of Mons that the shooting war began or the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914. It was close to the same town that it ended for them over fifteen hundred days later. Neither the BEF nor the German Army planned or foresaw that first confrontation at Mons. It came about through blind chance and ... see all copies from $19.83! new only from $30.04! \| signed copies \| SVS
5	Sniping in the Great War more books like this by Martin Pegler add to wishlist Military snipers are highly trained marksmen who target individual enemy soldiers. They are regarded as vital specialists in modern warfare, and their role evolved throughout the Great War. As Martin Pegler shows in this wide-ranging, authoritative study, the technique of sniping adapted rapidly to the conditions of static warfare that prevailed ... see all copies from $9.99! new only from $25.46!
6	The defeat of imperial Germany, 1917-1918 more books like this by Rod Paschall add to wishlist January 1917. On the Western Front the armies of Imperial Germany, Great Britain, and France were locked in grim stalemate. Repeated attempts by both sides to achieve breakthrough in the face of machine-gun fire, barbed wire, long-range artillery, and poison gas had brought only enormous casualties. The Defeat of Imperial Germany focuses on the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.45! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Eye-deep in hell more books like this by John Ellis add to wishlist see all copies from $7.95! first editions
8	Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914 more books like this by Stanley Weintraub add to wishlist On Christmas Eve in the early years of World War I, men on both sides left their trenches, laid down their arms and joined in a spontaneous celebration. For a brief time the war stopped, the enemies met in no-man's land and buried their dead, exchanged gifts and even played football together. The stories of men who were there illuminate the ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $18.11! \| first editions
9	The Western Front Illustrated 1914-1918 more books like this by John Laffin add to wishlist With many illustrations this book provides the clearest and most dramatic impressions of World War I. see all copies from $3.14! new only from $21.21! \| first editions
10	The Death of Glory: The Western Front 1915 more books like this by Robin Neillands add to wishlist The First World War remains a controversy: the bitter reality clouded with damaging and popular myths. Many of these misconceptions relate to the competence of the generals. However, the reality of these battles has been gradually concealed by the allegation that the men were 'lions led by donkeys', and the donkeys -- the generals -- can therefore ... see all copies from $16.00! new only from $16.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11	VCS Handbook: The Western Front 1914-1918 more books like this by Gerald Gliddon (Editor) add to wishlist On the Western Front during the First World War, 490 men won the British Empire's highest award for gallantry, the Victoria Cross. An indispensible companion for any visitor to the First World War battlefields in France and Flanders, this concise reference book lists every VC recipient from 1914 to 1918 in alphabetical order. Each entry gives ... see all copies from $4.56! new only from $30.63! \| first editions
12 view cover	The war in the trenches more books like this by Alan Lloyd add to wishlist The war fought on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 has no precedent in history. It was a war between two stubborn enemies, each dug into the wet earth of Northern France and Belgium and facing each other across a merciless no-man's land. In a single day of trench warfare the British lost more men than their battle casualties of the Crimean ... see all copies from $2.13! first editions
13 view cover	A Good Idea of Hell: Letters from a Chasseur a Pied more books like this by Robert E Pellissier, Elizabeth Berg, Joshua Brown (Editor) add to wishlist Echoing from the mountainous Vosges front of World War I come the rare accounts of an elite French foot soldier - a chasseur a pied. Robert Pellissier, born in France in 1882, had grown up in the US and was teaching at Stanford when the Great War broke out in his homeland. Returning as a volunteer, he saw uninterrupted months of trench warfare in ... see all copies from $16.00! new only from $27.50! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Western Front, 1917-1918: From Vimy Ridge to Amiens and the Armistice more books like this by Andrew A Wiest add to wishlist see all copies from $19.94! new only from $31.03!
15 view cover	Corporal Hitler and the Great War 1914-1918: The List Regiment more books like this by John F Williams add to wishlist Adolf Hitler enlisted in the Bavarian Army in august 1914 as a war volunteer. Fanatically devoted to the German cause, between 1914 and 1918 Hitler served with distinction and sometimes reckless bravery, winning both classes of Iron Cross. Using memoirs, military records, regimental, divisional and official war histories as well as (wherever ... see all copies from $38.78! new only from $38.78!
16 view cover	Command and Control in Military Crisis: Devious Decisions more books like this by Harald Hoiback, Hew Strachan (Foreword by) add to wishlist Breaking with the tradition that literature about the direction and coordination of military forces should only deal with technology and procedures, this work also takes into account the underlying domestic conditions of a conflict, including cultural, personal and political relations. The book focuses on two instances, where fundamental ... see all copies from $45.74! new only from $45.74! \| SVS
17 view cover	Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918 more books like this by Gary Sheffield, Sir Douglas Haig add to wishlist There's a commonly held view that Douglas Haig was a bone-headed, callous butcher, who through his incompetence as commander of the British Army in WWI, killed a generation of young men on the Somme and Passchendaele. On the other hand there are those who view Haig as a man who successfully struggled with appalling difficulties to produce an army ... see all copies from $15.75! new only from $51.08! \| first editions
18 view cover	Major & Mrs. Holts Concise Guide Western Front - North: Mons, Le Cateau, Notre Dame de Lorette, First Ypres, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge, Festubert, Second Ypres, Loos, Fromelles, Vimy Ridge, Third Ypres, Cambrai, Fourth Ypres. more books like this by Valmai Holt, Tonie Holt add to wishlist Following in the Holts' series of five best-selling Battlefield Guides comes this Guide to 15 of the First World War's most significant battles of the Western Front. Whether traveling on the ground or in the mind the reader is carefully guided through the Western Front with a mixture of succinct military history, cameo memories, poetry and ... see all copies from $20.80! new only from $20.80!
19 view cover	The German Offensives of 1918: The Last Desperate Gamble more books like this by Ian Passingham, Major, Christopher Summerville (Editor) add to wishlist Few pivotal years in history are less understood than that of 1918. It was a momentous period, which began with Germany's desperate gamble to win the Great War through a sequence of offensives on the Western Front. Ian Passingham's graphic new study draws on a wide range of original German, British and French sources, and it features previously ... see all copies from $21.69! new only from $21.69!
20 view cover	No Finer Courage: A Village in the Great War more books like this by Michael Senior add to wishlist And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. - Rupert Brooke History tells us that no community in Britain escaped the carnage of the First World War. Up and down the country, war memorials bear silent testimony to the men who went away to fight and never returned. The Lee - a village in Buckinghamshire - was certainly no different. Men from the ... see all copies from $14.98! new only from $24.68!
21 view cover	Forgotten Voices of the Great War: A History of World War I in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There more books like this by Max Arthur, Sir Martin Gilbert (Introduction by) add to wishlist FORGOTTEN VOICES OF THE GREAT WAR is the fruit of a project of the British Imperial War Museum begun in 1972 to tape-record the accounts of soldiers of all the armies involved in The Great War. see all copies from $17.00! new only from $17.00! \| first editions
22 view cover	Italy at war and the allies in the west more books like this by E. Alexander Powell add to wishlist Edward Alexander Powell (1879-1957) was the American author who wrote: Fighting in Flanders (1914), Vive la France (1915), Italy at War and the Allies in the West (1917), The New Frontiers of Freedom: From the Alps to the Aegean (1920), By Camel and Car to the Peacock Throne (1923), The Struggle for Power in Muslim Asia (1923), In Barbary (1926), ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.99! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Steady the Buffs!: A Regiment, a Region, and the Great War more books like this by Mark Connelly add to wishlist This book fully revises standard regimental history by establishing the framework and background to the regiment's role in the Great War. It tests the current theories about the British army in the war and some of the conclusions of modern military historians. In recent years a fascinating reassessment of the combat performance of the British Army ... see all copies from $99.45! new only from $99.45!
24 view cover	Corporal Hitler and the Great War 1914-1918: The Last Regiment more books like this by John Frank Williams add to wishlist Adolf Hitler enlisted in the Bavarian Army in august 1914 as a war volunteer. Fanatically devoted to the German cause, between 1914 and 1918 Hitler served with distinction and sometimes reckless bravery, winning both classes of Iron Cross. Using memoirs, military records, regimental, divisional and official war histories as well as (wherever ... see all copies from $151.69! new only from $161.58! \| SVS
25 view cover	Marshal Ferdinand Foch more books like this by A Hilliard Atteridge add to wishlist Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. see all copies from $23.95! new only from $31.43!

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