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 ...
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...
'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...
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...
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...
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...
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 : 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
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 tells the story of Marjorie Secretan and her two wartime romances. Using the Fair family archive of diaries, over 800 letters and 400 photograph...
Miles Barne's Diary : A Suffolk Countryman at War 1915-1917
Miles Barne, then aged forty one, who lived at Sotterley, Suffolk, rejoined the Scots Guards in June 1915. He began his Diary on 23 July as he left for the Wes...
A wide range of personal experiences are covered in the eleven chapters of this book. Nearly all the stories are written by the participants who describe exactly what happ...
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...
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...
Stretcher Bearer : Fighting for Life in the Trenches
Among the thousands of men who suffered in the trenches during World War I, some did not even have the protection of a weapon. Members of the Royal Army Medical Corps...