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The year 1919 has often been ignored in historians’ dizzy haste to enter the world of the Roaring Twenties but it was a year of enormous challenges and change. After a brief period of celebration af……続きを見る

Following World War I, horse cavalry entered a period during which it fought for its very existence against mechanized vehicles. On the Western Front, the stalemate of trench warfare became the defi……続きを見る

For Home and Empire is the first book to compare voluntary wartime mobilization across the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand home fronts. As communities organized to raise recruits or donate fun……続きを見る

General Harbord brought to his service in France a long and honorable record as fighting man. Nor did he depart from this tradition as his brilliant and all-too-brief command of the famous Second Di……続きを見る

The Great War Display Team was founded in 1988 and has since gone on to become one of Britain’s premier display teams, with a wealth of talented pilots passing through its ranks and amazing crowds w……続きを見る

After the German surrender in November 1918, the German High Seas Fleet was interned at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, the anchorage for the Royal Navy’s Grand Fleet throughout the First World Wa……続きを見る

The historic city of Chester in Cheshire, in the north-west of England, experienced tragedies and hardships during the two World Wars. In the First World War many young men called up to fight in the……続きを見る

This book tells the story of the Jewish community, of its individuals and its groups, who contributed to the First World War. It describes the experiences of some of those who served and the impact ……続きを見る

A fundamental truth about British power in the nineteenth century and beyond was that Britain was a global power. Her international position rested on her global economic, naval and political presen……続きを見る

Berthold Reichel hat nicht nur eine Vielzahl an Scherenschnitten, Zeichnungen sowie Liedern und Märchen geschaffen. In seiner Zeit als Soldat im Ersten Weltkrieg führte er Tagebuch und schuf so ein ……続きを見る

Danskere på Vestfronten er historien om Første Verdenskrig fortalt gennem nogle af de ca. 26.000 danskere, der deltog i krigen på tysk side. Det er historien om livet i skyttegravene. Om mulighedern……続きを見る

Thomas Sølbeck var sønderjyde og blev indkaldt i 1916, men kom først afsted i 1917, da hans far kom hjem fra Østfronten. Thomas Sølbeck belv uddannet til kanoner i Itzehos og kom til Flandern og Els……続きを見る

Mens Første Verdenskrigs vestfront for mange er blevet lig med billedet af Første Verdenskrig, er krigens østfront gledet ud den fælles erindring. Fra verdenskrig til borgerkrig er den første bog på……続きを見る

Mange danskere meldte sig under Første Verdenskrig som frivillige i enten den canadiske, amerikanske, britiske, russiske og franske hær – eller i Fremmedlegionen. BREVE HJEM skildrer krigen gennem d……続きを見る

Thomas Dinesen (bror til Karen Blixen) tjente i Canada under Første Verdenskrig. Dette er hans krigsmemoirer. Thomas Dinesen var en af kun to danskere, som modtog Victoriakorset under Første Verdens……続きを見る

2019 Winner, Military Fiction, Independent Press Awards 2019 Gold Medal Winner, Historical Fiction, Military Writers Society of America 2019 Finalist, Military Fiction, American Fiction Awards This ……続きを見る

Excerpt: "On the morning of September 11, 1879, I lay shivering with fever and ague at Alikhel in Afghanistan. So sick did I seem that it was decided I should be carried a day's march back to G.H.Q.……続きを見る

Excerpt: "The interest of the War of 1812, to Americans, has commonly been felt to lie in the brilliant evidence of high professional tone and efficiency reached by their navy, as shown by the singl……続きを見る

Excerpt: "11th July, 1915. Worked in my office from early morning till 12.45. The whole scheme for to-morrow's attack is cut and dried, according to our cloth: time tables fixed and every round coun……続きを見る

Preface Two influences have urged me to make a study of the subject of the prisoners of war in Britain. First: the hope that I might be able to vindicate our country against the charge so insistentl……続きを見る

I BRITANNICI NELLA BATTAGLIA DEL 15 GIUGNO 1918 SULL’ALTOPIANO DI ASIAGO Durante la Grande Guerra sul fronte italiano, i due avversari, Italia ed Austria-Ungheria, si avvalsero spesso del supporto d……続きを見る

A voi, miei commilitoni del fortissimo undicesimo bersaglieri, dedico queste cronache di guerra. Sono mie e vostre. C’è in queste pagine che ho scritto spesso alla vostra presenza, la mia e la vostr……続きを見る

Am Vorabend des Ersten Weltkrieges verbreitet ein mysteriöses Untier Angst und Schrecken. Eine gefährliche Jagd beginnt. Die wahre Geschichte einer Zeitungssensation. Vor etwas mehr als 100 Jahren, ……続きを見る

Ion Idriess was a spotter for the famous Australian sniper, Billy Sing, and this book draws on his own experiences in the Gallipoli trenches during World War One. Sing had a reputation as an excelle……続きを見る

During the First World War, Henri Bourassa – fierce Canadian nationalist, politician, and journalist from Quebec – took centre stage in the national debates on Canada’s participation in the war, its……続きを見る

A moving and tragic cross-cultural love story for readers of Dilly Court and Kitty Neale. Oxfordshire, 1917 Ellen is growing up in the Oxfordshire countryside. The granddaughter of a Methodist preac……続きを見る

“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 def……続きを見る

“1920 - Dips Into The Near Future” is a 1917 work by English economist John Atkinson Hobson. It contains a number of satirical writings that predict what life and the world will be life in 1920, jus……続きを見る

Uncover the hidden stories of wartime New Zealand. In 1918, a miner's letter to his sweetheart was intercepted, leading to his imprisonment. This is just one of the many remarkable stories revealed ……続きを見る

Thomas Dinesen (Tommy) indgår som 14-årig en pagt med sin syv år ældre søster: De skal finde ’Faders Gud, det store i livet’. Faderen er Wilhelm Dinesen, død ved selvmord i 1895, søsteren er Karen B……続きを見る