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Esmond The Lost Idol
Esmond The Lost Idol : The Life and Death of a Young Officer: Esmond Elliot 1895 - 1917
Esmond Elliot, younger son of the Earl of Minto, Viceroy of India, was killed while serving with the Scots Guards, aged 22, at the ...
Executed At Dawn
Executed At Dawn : British Firing Squads On The Western Front 1914-1918
Much has been written about the 302 British and Commonwealth soldiers who were executed for military offences during the First World War, but there...
Eyes All Over The Sky
Eyes All Over The Sky : Aerial Reconnaissance in the First World War
After the first successful flight by the Wright brothers in 1903, the age of aviation was born, and by 1910 army commanders in the United States and E...
Faces From The Front
Faces from the Front : Harold Gillies, the Queen's Hospital , Sidcup and the Origins of Modern Plastic Surgery
Faces from the Front examines the British response to the huge number of soldiers who incurred facial injuri...
Faith In Conflict
Faith in Conflict : The Impact of the Great War on the Faith of the People of Britain
It may seem obvious that the Great War, with its immense cost in terms of lives lost and injuries of body and mind incurred, must hav...
Fatal Fortress
Fatal Fortress : The Guns & Fortifications of Singapore 1819-1956
The Fall of Singapore in February 1942 was arguably the greatest disaster suffered by the British Empire. Between 1923 and 1938, the Singapore naval base...
Feeding Tommy : Battlefield Recipes from the First World War
Feeding Tommy : Battlefield Recipes from the First World War
According to Napoleon, an army marches on its stomach and it fights on its stomach too - yet have you ever wondered how hundreds of men on the frontline are f...
Fields Of Battle, Lands Of Peace
Fields Of Battle Lands of Peace
In this book the poetic photographs of Mike St Maur Sheil show how nature turns the scars of war magically into flowering landscapes.
Fighting France
Fighting France : Great Writers on the Great War
Edith Wharton, the author of classic novels including The Age of Innocence, was an American living in Paris when war broke out in 1914. In the months that followed, she w...
Fighting Proud
Fighting Proud : The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars
In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in th...
Fighting The Great War At Sea
Fighting The Great War At Sea : Strategy, Tactics & Technology
The overriding image of the First World War is the bloody stalemate of the Western Front, but although much of the action did occur on land, the overall sha...
Final Season
Final Season : The Footballers who Fought and Died in the Great War
A moving narrative history of the professional footballers who fought and died in World War I, with a foreword by Gary Lineker. In 1914, as today, succ...
Finding Uncle Bill : Tracing Great War Ancestors
Finding Uncle Bill : Tracing Great War Ancestors
Never before have so many resources been available to the family historian tracing Great War ancestors, both online and locally but the past dearth of easily accessible m...
First Day of the Somme
First Day Of The Somme
The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words -Guardian
'For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as tho...
First Day of the Somme
First Day of the Somme
After an immense but useless bombardment, at 7.30 am. On 1 July 1916 the British Army went over the top and attacked the German trenches. It was the first day of the battle of the Somme, and on th...
First World War Britain
First World War Britain : 1914-1919
The First World War profoundly changed British society. The armed forces' need for mass recruitment saw the workforce severely depleted, with women stepping up to shoulder the burden;...
First World War Posters
First World War Posters
2014 marks 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War. First World War Posters is a striking and insightful foray into what this conflict meant to people all over the world and how their...
First World War Tanks
First World War Tanks
Although tanks have become a symbol of military power, the first tanks were created as a temporary solution to the deadlock created by trench warfare. The early designs were unsophisticated and had...
First World War Trials And Executions
First World War Trials and Executions : Britain's Traitors, Spies and Killers 1914 - 1918
Between the beginning of the First World War in the summer of 1914 and the armistice in 1918, 51 men were executed in Britain. Th...
Five Days From Defeat
Five Days From Defeat : How Britain Nearly Lost the First World War
On 21 March 1918 Germany initiated one of the most ferocious and offensives of the First World War. During the so-called Kaiserschlacht, German troops ...
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