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  • Fromelles – Naming the Dead

    The Scientists' Story

    This is the extraordinary story of the engagement between 250 young Australians, who enlisted in 1915 and died in the Battle of Fromelles of 1916, their families, and three British scientists.In 2009, the bodies of these 250 soldiers were excavated by Oxford Archaeology. Among them were the Wilson brothers who, with their comrades were subsequently reburied in individual marked graves in the new ... Leer más

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    A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

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  • Beaulieu

    The Finishing School for Secret Agents

    A history of what life was like at Britain's World War II spy school, from how it was staffed to what lessons were taught, and more.Considering the number of books that have been written about Special Operations Executive, very little has been revealed about the most frequently mentioned of its training establishments, the Finishing School on Lord Montagu's estate at Beaulieu in Hampshire. So ... Leer más

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  • The Barbed-Wire University

    The Real Lives of Prisoners of War in the Second World War

    de Midge Gillies ...
    "A moving and eye-opening account of the lives of second world war PoWs by the daughter of a man who was captured . . . a riveting collection of stories." — The GuardianFeature films like The Bridge on the River Kwai and The Great Escape have created the stereotype of the Second World War prisoner of war. But, as Midge Gillies shows in this groundbreaking work of social history, the true ... Leer más

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  • Digging the Trenches

    The Archaeology of the Western Front

    This comprehensive, illustrated survey of the latest in battlefield archaeology reveals " intimate insight into the realities of life " during WWI ( Current Archaeology).Modern methods of archaeological, historical, and forensic research have transformed our understanding of the Great War. In Digging the Trenches, battlefield archaeologists Andrew Robertshaw and David Kenyon introduce the reader ... Leer más

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  • Fromelles: The Final Chapters

    The Final Chapters

    For Honour. For Courage. For Remembrance.The Battle of Fromelles in France during the First World War was Australia's worst 24 hours. Thousands of men were shot down amid the horror of that blundered attack.The whereabouts of hundreds of dead soldiers was unknown for almost a century until the discovery in 2008 of unmarked mass graves at Pheasant Wood. The remains of these 250 men sparked a ... Leer más

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  • Women in War

    From Home Front to Front Line

    Edición de Celia Lee, Paul Edward Strong ...
    The changing role of women in warfare, a neglected aspect of military history, is the subject of this collection of perceptive, thought-provoking essays. By looking at the wide range of ways in which women have become involved in all the aspects of war, the authors open up this fascinating topic to wider understanding and debate. The discuss how, particularly in the two world wars, women have been ... Leer más

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  • Ettie Rout: New Zealand's safer sex pioneer

    New Zealand's safer sex pioneer

    de Jane Tolerton ...
    Ettie Rout fought a battle for safer sex in the First World War — and won. She gave New Zealand the best sexual health system when its army adopted her prophylactic kit and made every soldier going on leave take one — while she was banned from the pages of the newspapers so New Zealanders wouldn't find out. In Paris, having transformed Madame Yvonne's into a safer sex brothel, she met soldiers at ... Leer más

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  • A Major soldier

    The military career of Frank Bailey DCM

    de Ted Bailey ...
    This is the story of Frank Bailey, a man whose ordinary demeanour in civilian life hid a record of active service and heroism in the Great War.He embarked on a 36-year long career with the Essex Regiment when he left his tiny rural community and enlisted a few weeks after the death of Queen Victoria. This remarkable journey took him far away from England to the colonies, the beaches of Gallipoli ... Leer más

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  • This Small Army of Women

    Canadian Volunteer Nurses and the First World War

    With her soft linen head scarf and white apron emblazoned with a red cross, the Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, or VAD, has become a romantic emblem of the First World War. This Small Army of Women draws on diaries, letters, and interviews to tell the forgotten story of the nearly two thousand women from Canada and Newfoundland who volunteered to “do their bit” at home and overseas.Middle-class ... Leer más

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  • Slow Burn City

    London in the Twenty-First Century

    de Rowan Moore ...
    With a new introduction for the paperback.London is a supreme achievement of civilization. It offers fulfilments of body and soul, encourages discovery and invention. It is a place of freedom, multiplicity and co-existence. It is a Liberal city, which means it stands for values now in peril.London has also become its own worst enemy, testing to destruction the idea that the free market alone can ... Leer más

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  • Pillboxes and Tank Traps

    de Bernard Lowry ...
    Series Libro 787 - Shire Library
    A concise, illustrated guide to these Second World War defences scattered across the British landscape.With invasion a very real threat, in 1940 Great Britain began a huge military construction programme designed to stop an invading army in its tracks. Around vulnerable coastlines, and inland, thousands of pillboxes, anti-tank barriers and other obstacles were erected to defend against attacks ... Leer más

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