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“ian ronayne”

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  • 'Ours'

    The Jersey Pals in the First World War

    by Ian Ronayne ...
    For the first time, the story of Jersey in the First World War is revealed. Whilst the island's role in the Second World War is well documented, a generation earlier another devastating war had struck Jersey, jeopardising the lives and liberties of its people. In 1915, a band of 300 young men known as the Jersey Company volunteered to fight for king and country in a war beyond the comprehension of ... Read more

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  • Amateur Gunners

    The Great War Adventures, Letters and Observations of Alexander Douglas Thorburn

    by Ian Ronayne ...
    After training at St John's Wood in London and in Exeter, Alexander Douglas Thorburn was posted to the BEF in France, joining the 2/22nd London (Howitzer) Battery, Royal Field Artillery as a subaltern officer. After service in the Vimy Ridge sector, with his division, the 60th (2/2nd London) Division, he crossed the Mediterranean to join the British Army in Salonika. Following a further move in ... Read more

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  • A Gunner's Great War

    An Artilleryman's Experience from the Somme to the Subcontinent

    by Ian Ronayne ...
    "A graphic and moving account of an artilleryman's experience on the Western Front. An interesting book for those who like artillery and WWI" ( English Heritage).If the First World War had not happened when it did, Channel Islander Clarence Ahier would almost certainly have led a mostly unremarkable life. But it did, and in October 1915, at just twenty-three-years-old, Clarence left his home and ... Read more

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  • The Battle of The Somme (True Combat)

    by Alexander Macdonald ...
    The Germans could not believe their eyes. The English infantry were advancing at walking pace in four upright ranks, a yard or so apart from each other. They were sitting ducks. As the German machine guns rattled into life, the English died in their hundreds. On the first day of the battle, those parade-ground advances caused the greatest number of casualties of any single day in the history of ... 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

  • Wellington's Rifles

    The British Light Infantry and Rifle Regiments, 1758?1815

    by Ray Cusick ...
    Until now there has not been a serious study of the rifle-armed regiments of the British Army that earned such renown in the Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns. Compiled by a former rifleman, Ray Cusick, who has written extensively on the subject, Wellington’s Rifles examines the new rifle regiments, how they came about, their development, and their actions.The author also investigates the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Cheerful Sacrifice

    The Battle of Arras, 1917

    by Jonathan Nicholls ...
    This WWI history examines the significant yet overlooked British offensive that achieved major advances on the Western Front.Fought between April 9th and May 16th of 1917, the Battle of Arras was the most lethal and costly British offensive battle of the First World War. Lasting a brutal thirty-nine days, its average casualty rate was far higher than at either the Somme or Passchendaele. It also ... Read more

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  • Give Them a Volley and Charge!

    The Battle of Inkermann 1854

    by Patrick Mercer ...
    The day after the Battle of Balaklava, the Russians attempted an armed reconnaissance of the Allied right flank aimed at the exposed Inkermann position, but the remnants of the British 2nd Division bloodily repulsed them.This book describes the Battle of Inkermann - an engagement which lasted for less than twelve hours, but was one of the bloodiest single engagements in Europe between 1815 and ... Read more

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  • A Storm in Flanders

    The Ypres Salient, 1914–1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front

    by Winston Groom ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize–nominated author of Forrest Gump: "A fascinating, evenhanded, page-turning account" of Ypres's pivotal WWI battles ( San Francisco Chronicle).The Ypres Salient in Belgian Flanders was the most notorious and dreaded territory in all of World War I—possibly of any war in history. After Germany's failed attempt to capture Britain's critical ports along the English Channel, a ... Read more

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  • Mud, Blood and Poppycock

    Britain and the Great War

    by Gordon Corrigan ...
    The true story of how Britain won the First World War.The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made it up.Indeed, many established 'facts' about 1914-18 turn out to be myths woven in the 1960s by young ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Voices From The Past, Armistice 1918

    The Last Days of The First World War Told Through Newspaper Reports, Official Documents and the Accounts of Those Who Were There

    by Paul Kendall ...
    At 11.00 hours on 11 November 1918, the guns fell silent across the battlefields of Europe. After the deadliest conflict the world had ever seen, peace had finally arrived. Since the withdrawal from the Somme and the repulse at Verdun, the Germans knew they could not win the war and had sought a negotiated end to the fighting. This was rejected by the Allies and the fighting continued until, ... Read more

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