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A New History
On 1 July 1916, after a stupendous seven-day artillery preparation, the British Army finally launched its attack on the German line around the River S...
Legendary German general Erwin Rommel analyzes the tactics that led to his success. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence no...
Douglas Haig and the British Army
‘Well written and persuasive …objective and well-rounded….this scholarly rehabilitation should be the standard biography’ **** Andrew Roberts,...
The First World War was a watershed in world history. Tragic but far from futile, its origins, events and legacy have roused impassioned debate, creat...
The First World War : Myths and Realities
Gary Sheffield contends that the popular view that the First World War was, in the words of historian John Keegan, 'tragic and unnecessary', is wrong....
The British Army on the Western Front 1914–1918
Gary Sheffield is one of the most versatile and stimulating of military historians at work today, and this selection of his outstanding essays on the ...
From the Somme to Victory
'Well written and persuasive ...objective and well-rounded....this scholarly rehabilitation should be the standard biography' - Andrew Roberts, Mail o...
In the Trenches of World War I
World War I stands as a watershed in the evolution of modern warfare, with the development of sophisticated trench systems forming a battlefield over ...
Wellington is a giant because he was one of the greatest military commanders in British history, an important figure in the emergence of Britain as a ...
A Memoir
Becoming a Major League ballplayer for Dwight and me, that was the dream. Dwight is Dwight Gooden. Most people know him for winning the Cy Young Award...
The British Army on the Western Front 1914-18
Gary Sheffield is one of the most versatile and stimulating of military historians at work today. For 25 years, in a series of perceptive books and ar...
The Letters of Brigadier-General Hugo De Pree and Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
This collection of correspondence and newly discovered family papers is “a good read for anyone interested in WWI, or the British Army” (The NYMAS...
Courage and Failure in Iraq
The siege of Kut is a story of blunders, sacrifice, imprisonment and escape. The allied campaign in Mesopotamia began in 1914 as a relatively simple o...
Diaries and Letters 1914-1918
There's a commonly held view that Douglas Haig was a bone-headed, callous butcher, who through his incompetence as commander of the British Army in WW...
The Story of the Great War Told Through the Objects That Shaped It
Trace the history of the first truly global conflict through this collection of 100 iconic items, from posters, hats, and a soldier's bible to a battl...
A look back at one of the seminal, and deadliest, events of the twentieth century: World War I. The savagery of the fighting, the appalling conditions...
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Ninety-four years after its end, the First World War still fascinates. From the ordinary soldiers to the commanding generals, from obscure actions to ...
Though World War I was fought more than a century ago, its legacy lives on in the form of artifacts both big and small, from tanks and rifles to barbe...
The Events, People and Battles that Shaped the Great War
The Western Front Experience 1914 - 1918
Includes over 30 rare and painstakingly researched facsimile items of First World War memorabilia integrated into the pages of the book. Endorsed by t...