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“alexander aitken”

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  • Gallipoli to the Somme

    Recollections of a New Zealand Infantryman

    de Alexander Aitken ...
    Alexander Aitken was an ordinary soldier with an extraordinary mind. The student who enlisted in 1915 was a mathematical genius who could multiply nine-digit numbers in his head. He took a violin with him to Gallipoli (where field telephone wire substituted for an E-string) and practiced Bach on the Western Front. Aitken also loved poetry and knew the Aeneid and Paradise Lost by heart. His powers ... Leer más

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  • La Mort de Francis Bacon

    de Max Porter, Ag. Associate Aitken Alexander ...
    Un grand peintre est allongé sur son lit de mort, se tordant et de sélectant de plaisir et de douleur alors que les souvenirs de toute une vie le submergent et l'enveloppent. Ce sont les derniers jours de Francis Bacon, atteint d'insuffisance respiratoire dérivée de son asthme chronique lors d'un voyage à Madrid, et soigné par soeur Mercedes à la congrégation des servantes de Marie.Dans ce court ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Somme

    The Epic Battle in the Soldiers' own Words and Photographs

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Redcoat

    The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket

    de Richard Holmes ...
    Redcoat is the brilliant story of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900, based on the letters and diaries of the men who served and the women who followed them.Delving into the history of the period – charting events including Wolfe's victory and death at Quebec, Wellington's Peninsular War, Waterloo, the retreat from Kabul and the Sikh wars – celebrated military historian Richard Holmes ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Eyewitness on the Somme 1916

    de Matthew Richardson, Gary Sheffield ...
    What was the soldiers experience of the Battle of the Somme? How did the men who were there record their part in the fighting or remember it afterwards? How can we, 100 years later, gain an insight into one of the most famous and contentious - episodes of the Great War? Matthew Richardsons graphic account, which is based on the vivid personal testimony of those who took part, offers us a direct ... Leer más

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  • Both Sides of the Wire

    The memoir of an Australian officer captured during the Great War

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Wallaby Warrior

    The World War I diaries of Australia's only British Lion

    de Greg Growden ...
    Tom Richards is the only Australian-born Test rugby player to have played for both Australia and the British Lions. When the Australian team won the Gold Medal for rugby at the 1908 Olympic Games, the London Times pronounced: 'If ever the Earth had to select a Rugby Football team to play against Mars, Tom Richards would be the first player chosen.'With an introduction by leading Australian rugby ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • An Anzac on the Western Front

    The Personal Reflections of an Australian Infantryman from 1916 to 1918

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • British Napoleonic Infantry Tactics 1792–1815

    de Philip Haythornthwaite ...
    Series Libro 164 - Elite
    The British Army that faced Napoleon in the Peninsula was small by continental standards, but it consistently out-fought larger French armies, never losing a major open-field action.Its cavalry and artillery were standard; but its infantry achieved unique results, as their tactics were brought to a peak of professional perfection by Wellington. Using contemporary instruction manuals, first-hand ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Under the Devil's Eye

    The British Military Experience in Macedonia, 1915–18

    de Alan Wakefield, Simon Moody ...
    "A fantastic overview of one of Britain's untold stories from the Great War"—the Salonika Campaign that pitted Allied forces against the Bulgarians (Burton Mail).The authors have researched the Salonika Campaign in every detail, from the arrival of the first British troops in 1915 to final victory. During this period large numbers of British and Allied troops were tied up in the strategically ... Leer más

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  • World War One

    Frontline News

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $3.76 USD