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“thomas hope floyd”

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  • At Ypres With Best-Dunkley

    by Thomas Hope Floyd ...
    At Ypres With Best-Dunkley by Thomas Hope Floyd is a war memoir that recounts the experiences of the author during World War I, specifically focusing on the Battle of Ypres, one of the most significant and grueling battles fought on the Western Front. The book is named after the fictional character Best-Dunkley, a soldier who represents the bravery and sacrifice of the soldiers involved in the ... Read more

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  • Deborah and the War of the Tanks

    by John Taylor ...
    Deborah is a British First World War tank that rose from the grave after taking part in one of the most momentous battles in history. In November 1917 she played a leading role in the first successful massed tank attack at Cambrai. Eighty years later, in a remarkable feat of archaeology, the tanks buried remains were rediscovered and excavated, and are now preserved as a memorial to the battle and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Meeting the Enemy

    The Human Face of the Great War

    by Richard van Emden ...
    A British soldier walked over to the German front line to deliver newspapers; British women married to Germans became 'enemy aliens' in their own country; a high-ranking British POW discussed his own troops' heroism with the Kaiser on the battlefield. Just three amazing stories of contact between the opposing sides in the Great War that eminent historian Richard van Emden has unearthed – incidents ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • By Tank into Normandy

    by Stuart Hills ...
    'One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign' - Richard HolmesStuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 a.m., Sunday 4 June 1944. He was 20 years old, unblooded, fresh from a public-school background and Officer Cadet training. He was going to war. Two days later, his tank sunk, he and his crew landed from a rubber dinghy with just the clothes they ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • Tommy

    The British Soldier on the Western Front

    by Richard Holmes ...
    Groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed, Tommy is the first history of World War I to place the British soldier who fought in the trenches centre-stage.Tommy tells the story of an epic and terrible war through the letters, diaries and memories of those who fought it. Epitomised by the character of Sgt Tommy Atkins, Richard Holmes portrays the strength and fallibility of the human spirit, the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • 1918

    A Very British Victory

    by Peter Hart ...
    The story of the huge mobile battles of 1918, which finally ended the Great War.1918 was the critical year of battle as the Great War reached its brutal climax. Warfare of an epic scale was fought on the Western Front, where ordinary British soldiers faced the final test of their training, tactics and determination. That they withstood the storm and began an astonishing counterattack, is proof ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • An Anzac on the Western Front

    The Personal Reflections of an Australian Infantryman from 1916 to 1918

    by H.R. Williams ...
    "A remarkably candid and graphic account" of the World War I service of a member of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ( Britain at War Magazine).Having enlisted in 1915 and serving in the 56th Battalion Australian Imperial Force, Harold Roy Williams arrived in France, from Egypt, on June 30, 1916. He describes the horrors of the Fromelles battlefield in shocking clarity and the conditions ... Read more

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  • The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front

    by Malcolm Brown ...
    An unrivalled and readable introduction to the years of Trench Warfare' TESThe First World War was won and lost on the Western Front. Covering the whole war, from the guns of August 1914 to the sudden silence of the November 1918 Armistice, the IWM Book of the Western Front reveals what life was really like for the men and women involved. With first-hand accounts of off-duty entertainments, trench ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Elegy

    The First Day on the Somme

    by Andrew Roberts ...
    On 1 July 1916, after a five-day bombardment, 11 British and 5 French divisions launched their long-awaited 'Big Push' on German positions on high ground above the Rivers Ancre and Somme on the Western Front. Some ground was gained, but at a terrible cost. In killing-grounds whose names are indelibly imprinted on 20th-century memory, German machine-guns – manned by troops who had sat out the storm ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Monocled Mutineer

    The First World War's Best Kept Secret: The Etaples Mutiny

    by John Fairley, William Allison ...
    In 1917, British, New Zealander and Australian troops stationed at the Étaples Training Camp in northern France protested against the inhuman conditions. The mutineers commandeered the camp's weapons and marched into Étaples, holding the town for three days, attacking military police and the commander of the training camp, General Thompson.Several of the mutineers were executed, but Toplis ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • World War One

    Frontline News

    by Nicholas Pringle ...
    Throughout World War One, journalists risked their lives to bring news from the frontlines. Although America did not enter the war until April 1917, their newspapers had been full of news about the war since the summer of 1914. This is the story of the war using articles and interviews that were featured in regional newspapers from throughout the United States.In chronological order, the book ... Read more

    $3.87 CAD

  • 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