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Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace'. But in 1914 the town, and the Salient, the 35-mile bulge in the Western Front, of which it is part, saw a 1500 day military campaign of mud and blood at the heart of the First World War that turned it into the devil's nursery.

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Published in readiness for the centenaries of the battles detailed in this book, Prit Buttar expertly describes the collapse of the three great empires that fought on the Eastern Front, Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary, in the face of defeat on the battlefield and revolution at home. This concludes his best-selling series on the Eastern Front in World War I.

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Retracing Princip's journey from his highland birthplace, through the mythical valleys of Bosnia to the fortress city of Belgrade and ultimately Sarajevo, this book illuminates our understanding both of Princip and the places that shaped him while uncovering details about Princip which have eluded historians for a century.

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A moving account of how and why the tomb of the Unknown Warrior came about, by best-selling author and ex-serviceman John Nichol.

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The compelling and moving account of the First World War campaign that gave birth to fascism.

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Volumes 1-3 originally published in 1950 by Odhams Press. Volume 4 originally published in 1929 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Volume 5 originally published in 1931 by Charles Scribner's Sons.

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The story of the First World War in Africa, an almost forgotten war, marking the most brutal and shameful war in colonial history.

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One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions and debate about the First World War is why did winning take so long and exact so appalling a human cost The author argues that from day one of the war Britain was wrong-footed by absurdly faulty French military doctrine and paid, as a result, an unnecessarily high price in casualties.

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The First World War in the words of the men who fought it, from the author of Gallipoli and The Great War.

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"A richly illustrated commemoration of African Americans' roles in World War I highlighting how the wartime experience reshaped their lives and their communities after they returned home"--

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A compelling work of political and military history, this is a highly original account of the conquest of Mesopotamia in 1914 - Britain's first invasion of Iraq.

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Drawn from the Guardian's coverage of the first world war, When the Lamps Went Out portrays a society in cataclysm and proves the adage that journalism is the 'first draft of history'.

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The natural history of the Western Front during the First World War by the award-winning author of Meadowland.

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At the end of 1917 Britain and France faced a strategic nightmare. Their great offensives against Germany had been calamitous, leaving hundreds of thousands of young men dead and wounded for negligible territorial gains. This book retells the story of 1918. It goes to the very roots of this instrumental turning point in modern history.

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A Short History of the First World War tells the story of this cataclysmic event describing the background to war, the international rivalries and conflicts of the previous decades that led to the nations of Europe forming virtual armed camps, the relentless build-up of military and naval hardware that characterized the early...

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With his mates Signaller Ellis Silas of the 16th Battalion, Australian Imperial force, went ashore at Anzac Cove in April 1915, and witnessed the terrible carnage at Gallipoli whilst performing his duties as signaller in the thick of the fighting. This title offers an eyewitness picture of what it was really like at Gallipoli in 1915.

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Australia and World Crisis, 1914-1923 is the second volume in a pioneering two-volume history of Australian defence and foreign policy. It is based on wide-ranging research in collections of personal and official papers in Australia, Britain, the United States and Canada.

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Australia and World Crisis, 1914-1923. A History of Australian Defence and Foreign Policy 1901-23: Volume 2.

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A selection of papers originally presented at a conference held in Canakkal, Turkey in 2015.

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This collection argues that the First World Warand its consequenceswas perhaps the defining moment of 20th century world-politics.