First World War

The Decisive Year in Soldiers’ Own Words and Photographs

Author: Richard van Emden.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 373pp. 16x24x3.2cm.

ISBN: 9781526735553

Weight: 1.1kg.

Original Price: £25.00

July to September 1918

This is the story of the British Expeditionary Force’s part in the opening days of the Advance to Victory. It starts with the contribution to the Battle of Fère-en-Tardenois in July; the counter-offensive which pushed the Germans back to the River Marne.

Author: Andrew Rawson.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 213pp. 16x24x2cm.

ISBN: 9781526723406

Weight: 650g.

Original Price: £19.99

Thirty years in the writing, Amiens is the first book to study the battle in minute detail. Using eyewitness accounts from numerous survivors, the authors take us into the trenches, the tanks and the cockpits.

Author: James McWilliams & R. James Steel

Publisher: History Press

Paperback. 320pp. 13x20x2.5cm.

ISBN: 9780752444260

Weight: 387g

Original Price: £11.99

The BEF and the Birth of the Western Front.

Author: Jerry Murland

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 256gpp. 16cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399074544

Weight: 453g

Original Price: £14.99

From the Belgian coast, across the fields of Flanders, over the valley of the Somme and down the line to the Argonne: all the major battlefields of the First World War, Ypres, Arras, Cambrai, Amiens, St Quentin, Mons, Le Cateau, Reims, Verdun and St Mihiel, are criss-crossed in this book over more than thirty different routes, each clearly shown on a Michelin map.

Author: Rose E B Coombs MBE.

Publisher: After the Battle.

Paperback. 248pp. 21cm by 29.7cm.

ISBN: 9781870067621

Weight: 1052g.

Original Price: £25.00

After the outbreak of the Great War, boys as young as twelve were caught up in a national wave of patriotism and, in huge numbers, volunteered to serve their country. The press, recruiting offices and the Government all contributed to the enlistment of hundreds of thousands of under-age soldiers in both Britain and the Empire. On joining up, these lads falsified their ages, often aided by parents who believed their sons’ obvious youth would make overseas service unlikely.

Author: Richard Van Emden

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 467pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781399011631

Weight. 0.963Kg

Original Price: £25.00

This is the first detailed account of the rearguard action that took place between 25 and 29 May 1940 at Cassel and Hazebrouck on the western perimeter of the Dunkirk Corridor.

Author: Jerry Murland

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 168pp. 13.3cm by 21cm.

ISBN: 9781473852655

Weight: 311g

Original Price: £12.99

Unlike the famous Christmas truce of 1914, the Christmas experiences in other years of the war and on other fronts have received scant attention. Alan Wakefield has trawled the archives to provide a fascinating selection of first-hand accounts of the six wartime Christmases of the First World War.

Author: Alan Wakefield

Publisher: History Press

Paperback. 211pp. 13x20x2cm.

ISBN: 9780750954648

Weight: 274g

Original Price: £12.99

During the First World War, British soldiers were renowned for their chirpy songs and plucky sayings. Indeed, nothing would lift the spirits of the often exhausted and weary troops more than a hearty singalong.

Author: John Brophy & Eric Partridge

Publisher: Frontline Books

Hardback. 238pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9781526760661

Weight. 0.415 kg

Original Price: £14.99

The history of the Royal Bucks Hussars 1914-18.

Author: E.J. Hounslow.

Publisher: Spelmont.

Paperback. 192pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9780752498997

Original Price: £14.99

This is the story of two Sheffield from very different social backgrounds who both volunteered in early September 1914.

Author: John Cornwell.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 224pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781526762245

Original Price: £25.00

This is the story of two Sheffield from very different social backgrounds who both volunteered in early September 1914.

Author: John Cornwell.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 224pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781526767363

Weight: 560

Original Price: £14.99