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A joint operation between Britain and France in 1916, the Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain territory and dent Germany's military strength. By the end of the action, very little ground had been won: the Allied Forces had made just 12 km. For this slight gain, more than a million lives were lost.
There were more than 400,000 British, 200,000 French, and 500,000 German casualties during the fighting. Twelve Days on the Somme is a memoir of...
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"I have tried as an American in writing this book to give the public a complete view of the trenches and life on the Western Front as it appeared to me, and also my impression of conditions and men as I found them. It has been a pleasure to write it, and now that I have finished I am genuinely sorry that I cannot go further. On the lecture tour I find that people ask me questions, and I have tried in this book to give in detail many things about the...
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Diana Bishop recounts growing up in the shadow of her famous grandfather, Canadian First World War flying ace Billy Bishop. As a child, Diana Bishop showed up one day at school with a brown paper bag. Inside was a large breastplate of some of the most precious war medals on the planet, including the Victoria Cross. They belonged to Canada's most celebrated First World War pilot, Billy Bishop, and until her family donated them to the Canadian War Museum,...
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A proud Newfoundland soldier's memoir gives unprecedented details of life as a German POW during the First World War. I'm going to tell my story. With those words, eighty-three-year-old Arthur Manuel set his remarkable First World War memoir in motion. Like many Great War veterans, Manuel had never discussed his wartime life with anyone. Hidden in the Manuel family records until its 2011 discovery by his grandson David Manuel, Arthur's story is now...
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“In this record of my experiences as a private in the great war I have tried to put the emphasis on the things that seemed to me important. It is true I set out to write a book of smiles, but the seriousness of it all came back to me and crept into my pages. Yet I hope, along with the grimness and the humor, I have been able to say some words of cheer and comfort to those in the United States who are sending their husbands, their sons and brothers...
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The dramatic experiences of an ambulance driver in the Great War, told through personal correspondence and photographs.
Though the United States was late to enter the Great War, a number of idealistic young Americans wished to take part from the beginning. One of these was Avery Royce Wolf, a highly educated scion of a family in America's burgeoning industrial heartland.
Volunteering as an ambulance driver with the French Army in the Verdun sector,...
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"Over There" is a 1915 account of life on the 'Western Front' during the First World War by English writer Arnold Bennett. The Western Front was the central area of battle during the war. It was defined by a line of trenches created by both sides that stretched from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier with France and which changed little during the war. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in the First World War and especially the horrors...
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Born in Scotland, Sampson J. Goodfellow emigrated to Toronto as a child. Like many young Canadian men, he returned to Europe to serve his new country in the First World War, first as a truck driver, then as a navigator on Handley Page bombers.
Over a span of just six years, Sam witnessed Canada's deadliest-ever tornado, sparred with world-champion lightweight boxers, survived seasickness and submarines, came under artillery fire at Vimy Ridge, was...
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It was the inscription that made the antique scalpels so tantalizing, 'Isabella Stenhouse'. A woman doctor? A woman doctor, who was rumored to have, served in the First World War? Could Isabella have treated wounded men with these very implements? And, had a grateful German prisoner of war really given her the strange string of beads that tangled round her stethoscope?
Coaxing clues from archives across Europe, Katrina Kirkwood traces Isabella's...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
Army Life in a Black Regiment is a riveting and empathetic account of the lessons learned from an encounter between a New England intellectual and nearly a thousand newly freed slaves. In the fall of 1862, Thomas Wentworth Higginson was asked to take command of the 1st Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers, and he immediately understood the significance of the experiment...
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In writing this short account of the 2nd Battalion in Mesopotamia, my aim has not been to write a military history of all that was achieved; that will be the task of some one more competent to judge of merits and demerits than myself. My object has been to give an account in simple language of the two years spent by the Battalion in the Iraq, so that the children of the men of the regiment may know of the brave deeds and the hardships cheerfully borne...
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Excerpt: ""Les Prussiens, les Prussiens!" These words are uttered in hoarse whispers under my window while I dress. They send a nervous tremor down my spine. At breakfast I am informed that the Germans are only a day's march distant. They have already crossed the frontier and are advancing on us. Bombarded Liège is safer than Manhay, situated on one of the high roads from the frontier. The blindest Teuton could not miss this short, straight line...
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My Reminiscences of East Africa is an autobiographical work by General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, a German military officer best known for his leadership during World War I in the German East Africa campaign. This campaign involved the defense of German territories in East Africa against British, Belgian, and Portuguese forces. In "My Reminiscences of East Africa," General von Lettow-Vorbeck shares his personal recollections and experiences from this...
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Six Months on the Italian Front is a memoir written by Julius M. Price, an American surgeon who served during World War I. The book chronicles Price's experiences as a medical officer and surgeon on the Italian Front during the war. The narrative provides a firsthand account of Price's service and the challenges he faced while working in a war zone. "Six Months on the Italian Front" is a valuable historical document that offers readers a unique perspective...
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Meine Erinnerungen aus Ostafrika ist die autobiografische Darstellung von General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, einem deutschen Offizier, der während des Ersten Weltkriegs in Ostafrika diente. Das Buch wurde erstmals 1919 veröffentlicht und bietet Einblicke in seine Erfahrungen und Operationen in dieser wenig erforschten Front des Krieges. Die Erinnerungen von General von Lettow-Vorbeck sind besonders bemerkenswert, da er als deutscher Kommandeur in...
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