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Mons, Anzac and Kut

By an MP (Lieutenant Colonel The Hon Aubrey Herbert MP)

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Aubrey Herbert was one of the most interesting figures of his age. He was twice offered the Albanian throne! Born almost blind, his sight even after surgery precluded him from official military service and he became a diplomat and politician. However in 1914 he attached himself unofficially to the Irish Guards on the outbreak of war on their way to France and was made an honorary Lieutenant. ... Read more

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Aubrey Herbert was one of the most interesting figures of his age. He was twice offered the Albanian throne! Born almost blind, his sight even after surgery precluded him from official military service and he became a diplomat and politician. However in 1914 he attached himself unofficially to the Irish Guards on the outbreak of war on their way to France and was made an honorary Lieutenant.
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Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography

by Robert Graves ...

**Good-Bye to All That** is the powerful autobiography of poet, novelist, and classicist Robert Graves, offering an unfiltered account of his life—from his early years in England to the harrowing realities of World War I. This memoir is renowned for its stark honesty and vivid depiction of the trauma and disillusionment wrought by war. Graves brings the horrors of trench warfare to life, ... Read more

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**Good-Bye to All That** is the powerful autobiography of poet, novelist, and classicist Robert Graves, offering an unfiltered account of his life—from his early years in England to the harrowing realities of World War I. This memoir is renowned for its stark honesty and vivid depiction of the trauma and disillusionment wrought by war. Graves brings the horrors of trench warfare to life,
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Gallipoli

from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty

by Peter FitzSimons ...

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER'Fascinatingly imaginative popular history.' Sydney Morning HeraldOn 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail.Turkey regards the victory to this day as a defining moment in its history, a ... Read more

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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER'Fascinatingly imaginative popular history.' Sydney Morning HeraldOn 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between Britain and France in the west and Russia in the east. After eight months of terrible fighting, they would fail.Turkey regards the victory to this day as a defining moment in its history, a
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Khartoum

The Ultimate Imperial Adventure

by Michael Asher ...

The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the massacre of the 11,000 strong Hicks Pasha column in 1883. Sent to evacuate the country, British hero General Gordon was surrounded and murdered in Khartoum by an army of dervishes led by the Mahdi. The relief mission arrived 2 days too late. The result ... Read more

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The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the massacre of the 11,000 strong Hicks Pasha column in 1883. Sent to evacuate the country, British hero General Gordon was surrounded and murdered in Khartoum by an army of dervishes led by the Mahdi. The relief mission arrived 2 days too late. The result
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Battle Tales from Burma

by John Randle ...

A collection of autobiographical stories from an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II.John Randle served with the greatly respected Baluch Regiment of the former Indian Army right through the fiercely fought Burma Campaign, winning a Military Cross, yet on VJ Day he was only some sixty miles from where had started out nearly four years before.Unlike other conventional war memoirs ... Read more

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A collection of autobiographical stories from an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II.John Randle served with the greatly respected Baluch Regiment of the former Indian Army right through the fiercely fought Burma Campaign, winning a Military Cross, yet on VJ Day he was only some sixty miles from where had started out nearly four years before.Unlike other conventional war memoirs
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Good-bye to All That

An Autobiography

by Robert Graves ...

Series series Penguin Modern Classics
"There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. As Blighty, Great Britain was a quiet, easy place to get back to out of the present foreign misery, but as a nation it was nothing."This is the original version of Robert Graves's intense memoir of the First World War ... Read more

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"There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. As Blighty, Great Britain was a quiet, easy place to get back to out of the present foreign misery, but as a nation it was nothing."This is the original version of Robert Graves's intense memoir of the First World War
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Sahib

The British Soldier in India 1750–1914

by Richard Holmes ...

Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain’s Imperial Crown.This is a stunning account of Indian soldiering in peace and war, from the barrack rooms to the cavalry swirling across open plains. Bestselling military historian Richard Holmes not only ... Read more

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Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain’s Imperial Crown.This is a stunning account of Indian soldiering in peace and war, from the barrack rooms to the cavalry swirling across open plains. Bestselling military historian Richard Holmes not only
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The Mammoth Book of How it Happened: World War I

by Jon E. Lewis ...

Series Book 378 - Mammoth Books
The spectre of the Great War still haunts us. No other conflict so dramatically illustrates the waste of life, and the slaughter of innocents, as that of 1914-18. And none has so dramatically shaped the modern world: the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the break-up of Empire, the supremacy of America and World War II all stem from the four years of the 'war to end all wars'.Here is the eye ... Read more

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The spectre of the Great War still haunts us. No other conflict so dramatically illustrates the waste of life, and the slaughter of innocents, as that of 1914-18. And none has so dramatically shaped the modern world: the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the break-up of Empire, the supremacy of America and World War II all stem from the four years of the 'war to end all wars'.Here is the eye
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Into the Jaws of Death

British Military Blunders, 1879–1900

by Mike Snook ...

A study of British military defeats and disasters in the late nineteenth century: "An enthralling look at the Victorian army in adversity." — BBC History MagazineBetween the Crimean War and the dawn of the twentieth century, the British Army was almost continuously engaged in one corner of the globe or another, in military operations famously characterized by Kipling as the "savage wars of peace." ... Read more

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A study of British military defeats and disasters in the late nineteenth century: "An enthralling look at the Victorian army in adversity." — BBC History MagazineBetween the Crimean War and the dawn of the twentieth century, the British Army was almost continuously engaged in one corner of the globe or another, in military operations famously characterized by Kipling as the "savage wars of peace."
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Captured at Kut, Prisoner of the Turks

The Great War Diaries of Colonel W C Spackman

Edited by Tony Spackman ...

This edited diary is Colonel Bill Spackmans extraordinary personal record of his experiences as the Medical Officer of an Indian Infantry battalion during the Mesopotamian Campaign 1914 1916. In particular he describes the harrowing events of the five month siege of Kut and, after the surrender of the 10,000 strong garrison in April 1916, the hardships of the 1,000 mile forced march to Anatolia in ... Read more

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This edited diary is Colonel Bill Spackmans extraordinary personal record of his experiences as the Medical Officer of an Indian Infantry battalion during the Mesopotamian Campaign 1914 1916. In particular he describes the harrowing events of the five month siege of Kut and, after the surrender of the 10,000 strong garrison in April 1916, the hardships of the 1,000 mile forced march to Anatolia in
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Battle Story: Omdurman 1898

by William Wright ...

Series series Battle Story
The battle took place at Kerreri, 11km north of Omdurman in the Sudan. Kitchener commanded a force of 8,000 British regulars and a mixed force of 17,000 Sudanese and Egyptian soldiers. He arrayed his force in an arc around the village of Egeiga close to the bank of the Nile, where a gunboat flotilla waited in support, facing a wide, flat plain with hills rising to the left and right. The British ... Read more

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The battle took place at Kerreri, 11km north of Omdurman in the Sudan. Kitchener commanded a force of 8,000 British regulars and a mixed force of 17,000 Sudanese and Egyptian soldiers. He arrayed his force in an arc around the village of Egeiga close to the bank of the Nile, where a gunboat flotilla waited in support, facing a wide, flat plain with hills rising to the left and right. The British
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Suvla

August Offensive

by Stephen Chambers ...

Series series Battleground Gallipoli
**"Another in the fantastic Battleground series of Great War histories combined with battlefield guides . . . with a good narrative and personal accounts." —**The Great War MagazineThe landing at Suvla Bay, part of the August Offensive, commenced on the night of 6 August 1915. It was intended to support a breakout from Anzac Beach. Despite early hopes from a largely unopposed landing, Suvla was a ... Read more

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**"Another in the fantastic Battleground series of Great War histories combined with battlefield guides . . . with a good narrative and personal accounts." —**The Great War MagazineThe landing at Suvla Bay, part of the August Offensive, commenced on the night of 6 August 1915. It was intended to support a breakout from Anzac Beach. Despite early hopes from a largely unopposed landing, Suvla was a
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