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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 ...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
Miles Barne's Diary
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...
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...
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...
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...
Somewhere In Blood-Soaked France : The Diary of Corporal Angus Mackay Royal Scots Machine Gun Corps 1914-17
Somewher In Blood-Soaked France : The Diary of Corporal Angus Mackay Royal Scots Machine Gun Corps 1914-17
The series of Spellmount Military Memoirs provides rare and sought-after texts for the collector of classic hist...
Stretcher Bearer
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...
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