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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

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Somme

    The Epic Battle in the Soldiers' own Words and Photographs

    by Richard van Emden ...
    The epic and brutal WWI battle is vividly recounted through the words and photos of the soldiers who lived through it.One of the most famous battles of the Great War, the offensive on the Somme took place in 1916, from July and November. It was there that Kitcheners famous Pals Battalions were first sent into action en masse. It was a battlefield where many of the dreams and aspirations of a ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Rifleman Goes To War [Illustrated Edition]

    by Captain Herbert W. McBride ...
    Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosThe classic account of sniping on the Western Front."Herbert Wesley McBride was a Captain in the Twenty-first Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, during the First World War. He was a sniper and commander of a machine gun unit known as the "Emma Gees." He was also the author of two books on the war: "A ... Read more

    $4.18 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $11.99 CAD

  • 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

    $3.99 CAD

  • On the Front Line

    True World War I Stories

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    In 1930, the editor of Everyman Magazine requested entries for a new anthology of Great War accounts. The result was a revolutionary book unlike any other of the period; for as Malcolm Brown notes in his introduction 'I believe it might fairly be described as a rediscovered classic'.It was the very first collection to reveal the many dimensions of the war through the eyes of the ordinary soldier ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • War Is War

    by A. M. Burrage ...
    Alfred Burrages War is War is his sincere and successful attempt to record his experiences as a private soldier in France during the First World War, his reactions to abnormal conditions and his observations.Written in the 1920s he wanted the curious to know what war was really like. Burrage realized that nearly all such memoirs were written by ex-officers who inevitably saw the war from a ... Read more

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  • Wind in the Wires and an Escaper's Log

    A British Pilot's Classic Memoir of Aerial Combat, Captivity and Escapeduring the Great War

    by Duncan Grinnell-Milne ...
    Duncan Grinnell-Milne was one of that select band of young men who made history in the air between 1915 and 1918 when they learned to fly in machines that resembled box-kites and laid the foundations of aerial combat which future generations would follow. He became a flying ace, with six confirmed aerial victories, and he spent two years as a prisoner of war before escaping from German captivity ... Read more

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  • The Irish Guards In The Great War, Vol. 1

    by Rudyard Kipling ...
    The greatest of all wars.As told by England's greatest poet.'The Irish Guards In The Great War' is a classic of military history - Rudyard Kipling's memorable account of how one regiment fought from 1914-1918.This e-book edition features an introduction by the leading military writer Patrick Bishop.In 1915, on the third day of the Battle of Loos, Kipling’s beloved son John was shot in the head and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Warfare Collection - Complete Historiographical Military Works of Rudyard Kipling (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Sea Warfare, Irish Guards: Frontline Chronicles of the Great War

    by Rudyard Kipling, Garrett Valeford ...
    The Warfare Collection gathers Rudyard Kipling's major military and historiographical writings into a single field of vision, revealing his sustained attempt to interpret modern war through narrative, witness, and memorial record. Combining reportage, regimental history, patriotic meditation, and elegiac prose, these works move between the battlefield and the archive, especially in their attention ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Soldier from the Wars Returning

    by Charles Carrington ...
    Series series Pen & Sword Military Classics
    Soldier from the Wars Returning is one of the truest, most profound and readable personal accounts of the Great War. The author waited nearly fifty years before writing it, and the perspective of history enhances its value. He writes only of the battles in which he participated (including the Somme and Passchendaele), though his comments on affairs beyond his knowledge at the time, through later ... Read more

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