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A Volunteer Nurse on the Western Front
A Volunteer Nurse on the Western Front
Plucky V.A.D. Olive Dent served two years of the Great War in a tented hospital in France, and kept this extraordinarily vivid diary of day-to-day life - ever cheerful through the ...
Backwash Of War
Backwash Of War : The Classic Account of a First World War Field Hospital
The ‘backwash’ of Ellen La Motte’s controversial book are the dirty, smelly, lice
and disease ridden bodies of wounded French soldiers brou...
A Nurse At The Front
A Nurse At The Front : The First World War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton
This book, the second in a series of four unique War Diaries produced in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum, tells a story that is rarely...
A Prayer for Gallipoli : The Great War Diaries of Chaplain Kenneth Best
Prayer for Gallipoli : The Great War Diaries of Chaplain Kenneth Best
Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in the First World War - others insisted on doing so, like Kenneth Best in the Gallipoli Campa...
A Tommy At Ypres
A Tommy At Ypres
'There was a blinding flash and an ear-splitting report and the "prisoner" fell across me. The bullet had caught him full in the chin and passed out at the base of his skull.' In A Tommy at Ypres we see...
A Tommy's Sketchbook
A Tommy's Sketchbook : Writings and Drawings from the Trenches
'Shall have to be about all night, for have charge of this particular bit of trench. Have now made close acquaintance with the brilliant lights we have seen...
Billie
Billie: The Neville Letters 1914-1916
Of all the stories arising from that disastrous day, July 1 1916, on the Somme, none is more poignant than that of Lt Wilfred ‘Billie' Nevill, an officer of the 8th East Surrey Re...
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Boy Soldiers of the Great War
Boy Soldiers of the Great War
The youngest soldier who fought in the Great War is believed to have been just twelve years old. Many thousands of other boys are known to have faked eye tests, inflated their small chests...
Confusion of Command
The Confusion of Command : The War Memoirs of Lieutenant General Sir Thomas D'Oyly Snow 1914-15
'The enemy has got to be fought everywhere and hard...Everything is going very well indeed and no one minds the losses as l...
David Jones In The Great War
David Jones In The Great War
David Jones. A London boy who went to art school, then to war; a soldier who endured years of artillery fire and was wounded at the Somme; an artist and writer who went on to redefine modern...
Dispatch Rider onthe Western Front
Dispatch Rider On The Western Front
Sergeant Albert Simpkin MM's Great War diary is of unusual scope and exceptional interest. Albert was a First World War motorcycle despatch rider attached to the Headquarters 37th Div...
Goodbye To All That
Goodbye To All That
In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and...
Half-Shilling Curate
Half-Shilling Curate : A Personal Account of War and Faith 1914-1918
Half-Shilling Curate, as he was affectionately known by his family, tells the very personal story of an army chaplain - The Reverend Herbert Butler Co...
I Survived The Somme : The Secret Diary of a Tommy
I Survived The Somme : The Secret Diary of a Tommy
Charles Meeres served on the Western Front between 1915 and 1918. He kept a secret diary and painted many watercolours of life at the front, so that his diary gives a u...
Marjorie's War : Four Families in the Great War 1914-1918
Marjorie's War : Four Families in the Great War 1914-1918
Marjorie’s War tells the story of Marjorie Secretan and her two wartime romances. Using the Fair family archive of diaries, over 800 letters and 400 photograph...
Memoirs of The British Expeditionary Force 1914-15
Memoirs of the British Expeditionary Forces 1914-15
Edward Gleichen commanded the 15th Infantry Brigade during the tumultous opening battles of the Great War. The division was mobilised by 10 August 1914, and fought in ...
Private Lord Crawford's Great War Diaries
Private Lord Crawford's Great War Diaries: From Medical Orderly to Cabinet Minister
This extraordinary diary is written by the 27th Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, who was an eminent MP for 18 years until the death of h...
Recollections Of The Great War In The Air
Recollections of the Great War In The Air
In 1915 James Roger McConnell enlisted as a US volunteer in the French Flying Corps. He was part of a remarkable band of American volunteers which were formed into the famous A...
Scrimgeour's Small Scribbling Diary 1914-1916
Scrimgeour's Small Scribbling Diary 1914-1916
When young Alexander Scrimgeour lost his life at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, he had already left a legacy - complete diaries spanning the previous six years, chronicling ...
Soldier From The Wars Returning
Soldier From The Wars Returning
Soldier from the Wars Returning is one of the truest, most profound and readable personal accounts of the Great War. The author waited nearly fifty years before writing it, and the perspe...
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