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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 ...
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
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...
An Artist's War
An Artist's War : The Art and Letters of Morris and Alice Meredith Williams
When the First World War broke out, Morris Meredith Williams was living in Edinburgh with his wife Alice, a sculptor, and earning his living fr...
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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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...
Gardener To Fusillier
Gardener To Fusilier : The Story of James Sadler M.M., 9th Royal Fusiliers (Service) Battalion, 1914-18
4 August 1914 saw the British declaration of War on Germany and, in his 'digs' in Hampton, Middlesex, nurseryman Ja...
General Sir Thomas Morland
General Sir Thomas Morland : War Diaries & Letters 1914 - 1918
The British officer class in 1914 benefited from the discipline instilled by public schools. Thomas Morland was one such officer. Born in Canada, he was orp...
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...
In Their Own Words
In Their Own Words : Untold Stories from the First World War
The First World War was the defining event of the last century. It claimed the lives of over 16 million people across the globe and had an enormous impact on ...
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...
My Dearest
My Dearest : A War Story, a Love Story, a True Story of WWI By Those Who Lived It
This book is a compilation from nearly 600 original letters, photographs and documents during WWI from two connected families living in L...
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Poilu
Poilu : The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches of the First World War Along with m...
Prisoners and Escape
Prisoners and Escape WWI : Those Who Were There
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...
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...
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