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  • A Canadian Chaplain in the Great War

    Revisiting B. J. Murdoch’s The Red Vineyard

    by Joseph Murdoch ...
    Benedict Joseph Murdoch's The Red Vineyard was a captivating autobiographical tale of a young man's experience as a chaplain during the First World War.As a young Roman Catholic priest from Chatham, New Brunswick, Murdoch became chaplain to the 132nd Infantry Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), serving in Europe from 1916 to 1918. He was a sensitive and perceptive young man with ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

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  • Undertones of War

    by Edmund Blunden ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele, describing the latter as 'murder, not only to the troops, but to their singing faiths and hopes'. In his compassionate yet ... Read more

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  • Now It Can Be Told

    by Philip Gibbs ...
    Series series World War Classics Presents
    Written by a British war correspondent who was present in and around the front lines of the western front for the entirety of WWI, the title refers to the fact that his writings here are published without the censorship that was in place during the war.An absolutely outstanding account of the realities of war in general, WWI trench warfare in particular, with appropriate commendation of the ... Read more

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  • Both Sides of the Wire

    The memoir of an Australian officer captured during the Great War

    by William Cull, Aaron Pegram ...
    This is Bill Cull's unforgettable story of his experiences in WW1: he fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front where he was captured by the Germans and was a POW until the end of the war.Captain William Cull fought the First World War from both sides of the wire. As a young infantry officer on the Allied side of the Western Front, Cull frequently led patrols out into No Man's Land and raids on ... Read more

    $11.89 CAD

  • Adventures Of A Motorcycle Despatch Rider During The First World War [Illustrated Edition]

    by Major William Henry Lowe Watson D.S.O. D.C.M. ...
    Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos"A young British soldier who went to war on two wheels"When the Great War broke out, the author of this book decided to leave his university studies and join the struggle. What attracted him immediately was the potential to combine his military service with his love of motorcycles and so it was that he ... Read more

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  • Sapper Martin

    The Secret Great War Diary of Jack Martin

    Edited by Richard van Emden ...
    Albert John ('Jack') Martin was a thirty-two-year-old clerk at the Admiralty when he was called up to serve in the army in September 1916. These diaries, written in secret, hidden from his colleagues and only discovered by his family after his return home, present the Great War with heartbreaking clarity, written in a voice as compelling and distinctive as Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon and all ... Read more

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  • The Anatomy of Courage

    The Classic WWI Study of the Psychological Effects of War

    by Lord John Moran ...
    'A remarkably human book . . . arresting, and sometimes even unforgettable'Desmond McCarthy, Sunday Times'A fascinating book . . . It is not easy to do justice to Lord Moran's discursive brilliancy . . . a masterly piece of work'Times Literary Supplement'I set out to find how courage is born and how it is sustained in a modern army of a free people. The soldier is alone in his war with terror and ... Read more

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  • Adventures of a Despatch Rider

    by William Henry Lowe Watson ...
    To MISS ANNE S. My dear Anne, When I was upon a visit at your good mamma's, I promised to make you a present. Now a present for a girl of your age (if I only considered your age) is easy enough to find; but when I think on your good sense, I cannot reconcile myself to buy for you what I Otherwise should. Not to keep you in suspense, I have at last found out a present, which I hope will be ... Read more

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  • Twelve Days on the Somme

    A Memoir of the Trenches, 1916

    by Sidney Rogerson ...
    This "brilliant and heartrending" memoir recounts one of the bloodiest battles of WWI—with a new introduction and a forward by the author's son (John Keegan).A joint operation between Britain and France, the 1916 Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain territory and dent Germany's military strength. By the end of the action, the Allied Forces had made just twelve kilometers. For this slight ... Read more

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  • The Great War as I Saw It

    by Frederick Scott, Mark McGowan ...
    Series Book 230 - Carleton Library Series
    A fifty-three-year-old Anglican priest and poet when the First World War broke out, Frederick George Scott was an improbable volunteer, but also an invaluable war memoirist about life at the front. Enlisting at the very beginning of the conflict and serving on the Western Front until the Armistice, Scott became the most decorated Canadian chaplain. A High Anglican and staunch British imperialist ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • A Passionate Prodigality

    Fragments of Autobiography

    by Guy Chapman ...
    This classic WWI memoir by a decorated infantryman and historian presents a vivid account of life in the trenches on the Western Front.During World War One, Major Guy Chapman, OBE MC, served in the Royal Fusiliers and was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery. Joining soon after war was declared, Chapman was stationed in France and fought in the Battle of Arras.When Chapman's memoir, A ... Read more

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  • Letters from France, by a war correspondent for the Commonwealth of Australia (during WWI)

    by C. E. W. Bean ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous other islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.N4 Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New ... Read more

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