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  • The Somme 1916—The Butte de Warlencourt

    Martinpuich & Le Sars

    by Bob Paterson ...
    Series series Battleground Somme
    A history of the latter portion of WWI's deadly Battle of the Somme, featuring a guide for walking and driving around the historic sites.Much of the popular attention on the Battle of the Somme 1916 is focussed on the first day of the infantry assault, 1st July, when such high hopes were dashed and British casualties ran into the tens of thousands. However, the Somme was a battle that lasted over ... Read more

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  • Over The Top

    Great battles of the First World War

    by Martin Marix Evans ...
    The early battles of the First World War during the autumn and winter of 1914 were open, mobile affairs of the kind long familiar to professional soldiers. By early 1915, however, a new type of war had emerged - trench warfare.Modern artillery and machine-guns had been employed in the Boer War only a decade or so previously, but the perfection of their use led to the creation of a static front: ... Read more

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  • Brave Battalion

    The Remarkable Saga of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) in the First World War

    by Mark Zuehlke ...
    Brave Battalion presents the story of four Canadian Highland regiments that were banded together as the 16th Battalion. Ninety years after the end of WWI, this work honours those soldiers and makes their stories a vivid reality. Focusing on the Canadian Scottish (Princess Mary’s) Battalion, Mark Zuehlke presents the harrowing experiences that bonded the men and which came to represent the uniting ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Battle for Vimy Ridge, 1917

    by Nigel Cave, Jack Sheldon ...
    In a new departure in the Battleground Europe series, this book is a guide to both sides of a major battle in this case to the Canadian Corps operations against 1st Bavarian Reserve Corps at Vimy from 9 12 April 1917, which formed part of the opening of the British offensive, known as the Battle of Arras. Historically, the capture of Vimy Ridge was an event far more significant than its undoubted ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Walking with the ANZACS

    The authoritative guide to the Australian battlefields of the Western Front

    by Mat McLachlan ...
    '[Mat McLachlan's] knowledge of the front is comprehensive' - Sydney Morning HeraldA complete guide to the Australian battlefields of the Western Front 1916-18.Walking with the ANZACs aims to become the new essential companion for Australians visiting the Western Front. Each of the 14 most important Australian battlefields is covered with descriptions of the battles and Australia’s involvement in ... Read more

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  • A Guide to the Beaches and Battlefields of Normandy

    by David Evans ...
    A Guide to the Beaches and Battlefields of Normandy provides an accessible background to the momentous events of 6 June 1944 as well as a complete guide to each and every town, village, beach, battery and cemetery that figured in the battle. This comprehensive book contains a wealth of detail that charts the heroism, poignancy and tragedy of events that were to alter the course of history. With ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Walking the Somme

    by Paul Reed ...
    Series series Battleground Somme
    This new edition of the classic WWI battlefield guide is updated with current information and a new walking tour through Mametz Wood.Paul Reed's Walking the Somme is an essential traveling companion for anyone visiting the site of the 1916 Battle of the Somme. It distills a lifetime of research into the battle and the landscape over which it was fought. Combining expert insight, historical context ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Victory on the Western Front

    The Decisive Battles of World War One

    by Martin Marix Evans ...
    Presenting the Allied and German experience of war - both military and on a personal level - Victory on the Western Front is an immensely readable, visually striking account of the pivotal final stages of World War I, when two very different concepts went head-to-head on the battlefield.The Germans gambled on winning on the Western Front through the sophisticated use of artillery and new infantry ... Read more

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  • Tanks on the Somme

    From Morval to Beaumont Hamel

    by Trevor Pidgeon ...
    On 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, tanks - one of the decisive weapons of twentieth-century warfare - were sent into action for the first time. In his previous books Trevor Pidgeon, one of the leading authorities on the early tanks, has told the story of that memorable day, but only now has his account of later tank operations during the Somme battle become available. In this, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Atlantic Wall: Channel Islands

    Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark

    by George Forty ...
    Series series Battleground Europe
    While the Germans did not succeed in invading Britain during World War II, they occupied a number of islands in the English Channel. The English population continued to lead fairly normal lives, while the German occupiers built some of the most extensive fortifications of the Second World War. As the war progressed, British commandos made occasional attacks, resulting in harsher conditions on the ... Read more

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  • 1914: Fight the Good Fight

    Britain, the Army and the Coming of the First World War

    by Allan Mallinson ...
    ‘No part of the Great War compares in interest with its opening’, wrote Churchill. ‘The measured, silent drawing together of gigantic forces, the uncertainty of their movements and positions, the number of unknown and unknowable facts made the first collision a drama never surpassed…in fact the War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards consisted in ... Read more

    $23.19 USD

  • Major & Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide to the Somme

    by Tonie Holt, Valmai Holt ...
    Major and Mrs. Holt's Battlefield Guide to the Somme is, without doubt, one of the best-selling guide books to the battlefields of the Somme. This latest updated edition, includes four recommended, timed itineraries representing one day's traveling. Every stop on route has an accompanying description and often a tale of heroic or tragic action.Memorials, private and official, sites of memorable ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus