Topic: World War, 1914-1918

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. This volume looks at the causes of World War I.

The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has engaged the most eminent poets of the present to choose the writing from t...

The First World War holds a unique place in the nation's history; the poetry it produced, a unique place in the nation's hearts. To mark the centenary of the First World War in 2014, the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has engaged the most eminent poets of the present to choose the writing from t...

In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass violence. The war that followed had global repercussions and David Stevenson re-examines the causes, course and impact of this 'war to end war' placing it in the context of its era and exposing its underlying dynamics. This is a wide-ran...

The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries and North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other corners of the globe, and events elsewhere significantly affected its course. Covering the twelve months of 1916, eminent his...

Drawing on the personal accounts of men who were there - both commanders and ordinary soldiers - Peter Hart brings to life the sheer suspense of waiting for the German attack, the desperate turmoil of the retreat, and the nail-biting turning of the tide which brought an end to the war.

'1918' examines both the Germans' tactics and the Allies' preferred solution to fighting WWI, the combination of artillery, tanks, infantry and aircraft, and argues that this reached a level of sophistication in command and control never before achieved. The war of attrition was far from over, bu...

Originally published in 1918, this volume comprises a rare and forgotten first-hand account of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, written by a British infantry soldier who went 'over the top' and survived.

10 million military personnel died during the Great War. Many millions of them experienced horrendous enemy attacks on entrenched positions that stretched across France and Belgium, as well as the Eastern Front. This groundbreaking book relives 24 hours of an actual platoon under attack, using th...

The perfect introduction to the First World War, this book highlights the 50 essential facts that everyone should know. Discover what caused the war and why it eventually affected every corner of the globe. The key battles, events and figures are all explored and recounted in succinct and easy-to...

Voluntary nurse Ella is haunted by the soldiers' cries she hears on the battlefields of Dieppe. But that's not the only thing that haunts her. When her dear friend Jim breaks her trust, Ella is left bruised and heartbroken. Over the years, her friendships have been pulled apart at the seams by th...

September, 1919. 20-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War but in 1917, Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector and w...

This lyrical and absorbing play is set in Accrington during the first two years of the Great War. The 'Pals' are the men from the local volunteer battalion who march high-spiritedly off to war. Their experiences are contrasted with those of the women left behind.

Under attack both from the ground and the air, the average survival time of a WWI pilot is 18 hours. George Duckwell of the Royal Flying Corps can only watch in horror as his comrades are shot down, maimed and killed, while he survives.

As the impact of the First World War reaches the depths of the African jungle, Charlie Allnut and Rose Sayer, a disreputable cockney mechanic and a spinster missionary, find themselves thrown together by chance. Fighting heat, malaria and bullets, they make their escape down the Ulanga river on a...

Upon her brother's death missionary Rose Sayer and Charles Allnutt, disreputable skipper of the African Queen, become allies as, marooned in German Central Africa during WWI, they fight their old launch downriver 'to strike a blow for England'.

Walter Tull would have been a remarkable individual no matter when he had been born, but to achieve what he did, during the time that he did, makes him even more remarkable. He was an orphan at just six years of age, and despite not wanting to, his step mother had no choice but to place him and h...

At the outbreak of the World War I there was no formal organisation for the transport of spies across enemy lines by aircraft & no communications network between the air forces and their agents. Here the exploits of British & Commonwealth, American, Free European, Soviet, German, Italian and Japa...

Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, both of them irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the life of an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, & thereafter had to wear a wooden leg. Her mother's great love was a doctor, who drowned in the Chan...

Books in this series provide clear chronological accounts of key events in history. All the essential dates, facts and personalities are attractively presented in this neat format. The text is supported with photographs, diagrams and maps.