MOSIER, JOHN

Verdun the Lost History of the Most Important Battle of World War I, 1914

New York: NAL Caliber, 2013. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0451414624. As new; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped, B&W photographs.; 9.1 X 6.2 X 1.4 inches; 400 pages; "Conventional wisdom holds that the battle began in February 1916 and lasted until December, when the victorious French wrested all the territory they had lost back from the Germans. In fact, says historian John Mosier, from the very beginning of the war until the armistice in 1918, no fewer than eight distinct battles were waged for the possession of Verdun. These conflicts are largely unknown, even in France, owing to the obsessive secrecy of the French high command and its energetic propaganda campaign to fool the world into thinking that the war on the Western Front was a steady series of German checks and defeats. Although British historians have always seen Verdun as a one-year battle designed by the German chief of staff to bleed France white, Mosier’s careful analysis of the German plans reveals a much more abstract and theoretical approach.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 20519

Catalogue: Militaria::WWI

Keywords: 0451414624 WWI verdun Militaria

MURPHY, JIM

Truce the Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting

New York: Scholastic Inc, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0545226287. Light shelfwear.; A bright, solid book. Glossy pictorial paper covered boards. ; B&W Photographs; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 116 pages; An account of the Christmas Truce, which happened between English and German soldiers on the battlefield on December 25, 1914.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 17076

Catalogue: Militaria::WWI::Juvenile Interest

Keywords: 0545226287 WWI Christmas truce JUVENILE Militaria

NASMITH, COL. GEORGE G.

Canada's Sons in the World War a Complete and Authentic History of the Commanding Part Played By Canada and the British Empire in the World's Greatest War

Toronto: The John C. Winston Co, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards show some shelf wear, light soiling. previous owner's name on FFEP. ; A tight solid book. Insignia giltstamped on front board with titles in gilt on spine. Introduction by General Currie ; Volume 2; B&W Photographs and maps; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 344 pages; Volume 2 only. This volume starts with Passchendale, the US entry in the war and the Russian Revolution.. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 18598

Catalogue: Militaria::WWI::Canada

Keywords: Russian revolution WWI passchendaele Militaria

OCCLESHAW, MICHAEL

Armour Against Fate: British Military Intelligence in the First World War and the Secret Rescue from Russia of Th Grand Duchess Tatiana

London UK: Columbus Books, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0862874076. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 423 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21527

Catalogue: Militaria::WWI::Great Britain

Keywords: 0862874076 Militaria

PAICE, EDWARD

Tip and Run the Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0297847090. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. B&W photographs, coloured map endpapers. ; 9.2 X 6.7 X 2.0 inches; 488 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 20153

Catalogue: Militaria::WWI::Africa

Keywords: 0297847090 Lake tanganyika South Africa Militaria

PUREWAL, STEVEN & CHRISTOPHER RAWLINS

Duty, Honour & Izzat from Golden Fields to Crimson

Canmore, AB: Renegade Arts Canmore Ltd, 2019. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1988903475. As new; A near-fine volume. Brightly coloured illustrations throughout. ; 214 X 19 X 261 millimeters; 152 pages; "This is the story of how the Indian soldiers of the Punjab chose to ignore the insults to their honour and dignity and help stop Great Britain losing World War One in 1914. Presented as a historical scrapbook with beautifully realised, photo-realistic artwork. Framing the history is a graphic novel story about a teenage boy, in Surrey, British Columbia, caught up in drug gangs. He rethinks his choices after his great grandfather comes to visit the family in Canada. His stories of their past, and seeing him reunited with a Canadian soldier his great grandfather saved during WW2, open up the possibility of a different path in life. Why are certain histories covered, discussed and inquired about, while others remain hidden? Going beyond the old tropes of colonised histories this book presents the Indo-Canadian community's pioneer experience within the events leading to the ejection of the Komagata Maru from Canadian waters in July 1914 and the subsequent outbreak of the Great War in August 1914. However, the story of a longstanding Punjabi community that fought for Western civilisation & the British Empire, side by side with British and Canadians and under the same flag, has gone untold. Punjabi soldiers played a pivotal role in the opening months of the war in France and Belgium. A great book to introduce youth to a more inclusive look at WW1 history.". Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 20889

Catalogue: Militaria::Canada::WWI

Keywords: 1988903475 WWI Sikh punjab Militaria

RABY-DUNNE, SUSAN

Bonfire the Chestnut Gentleman

9780987785633: Monday Morning Writers Group, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 098778563X. Signed by Author; DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Inscribed by the author on title page. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 150 pages; ""Bonfire," is the powerful true story behind the beloved WWI poem, In Flanders Fields written by Lt.Col. John McCrae, and the reason we wear the red poppy to this day as an international symbol of Remembrance. Although fictionalized and told by McCrae's war horse, Bonfire, the story is closely based on the real history and events of the time. Bonfire was with John McCrae from the beginning of WWI at Camp Valcartier, Quebec, September 1914, to the end of McCrae's life in France in January of 1918. All of McCrae's letters and diaries from the war had mention of Bonfire, his antics and how much that horse meant to his master. Bonfire was McCrae's lifeline to decency, beauty and sanity during those traumatic days.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 21618

Catalogue: Militaria::WWI::Fiction

Keywords: 098778563X Signed Bonfire in flanders field McCrae Fiction::Canadian FICTION Militaria

O'SHEA, STEPHEN

Back to the Front

Vancouver BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1550544721. Only slight wear ; A bright, solid book dustjacket in Mylar.; Maps; 9.1 X 6.1 X 0.9 inches; 205 pages; "World War I has left as deep a scar on the imaginative landscape of our century as it has on the land where it was fought. Nowhere is that more evident than on the Western Front, a narrow swath of land in which millions of lives were lost. Believing that "history is too important to be left to the professionals," journalist Stephen O'Shea set out to walk the 450 miles through no-man's-land to discover for his generation the meaning of the war. As his walk progresses, O'Shea recreates the shocking battles of the Western Front, and offers an impassioned perspective on the war, the state of the land, and the cultivation of memory.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 19184

Catalogue: Militaria::WWI

Keywords: 1550544721 WWI trenches Militaria

SKIRTH, RONALD

The Reluctant Tommy an Extraordinary Memoir of the First World War

London: MacMillan, 2010. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 023074673X. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, with small corner bump on top front board, 1" closed tear bottom edge back of DJ. ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. B&W illustrations; 8.5 X 5.6 X 1.5 inches; 354 pages; "In the First World War, Ronald Skirth was an ordinary tommy. His experiences were like those of many others, save in one thing. When Skirth went out into No Man's Land after Passchendaele and saw the dead body of a teenaged German soldier, he resolved that he would never again help to take a human life. Making use of Ronald Skirth's letters and postcards to his sweetheart, Ella, his contemporary journals and the memoir he wrote in his retirement fifty years later, The Reluctant Tommy is the fascinating story of a man who stuck by his principles in impossible circumstances. With a foreword from Jon Snow, it is an new classic of the war memoir genre; the tale of an ordinary soldier with a truly remarkable story. ". Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 20420

Catalogue: Militaria::Great Britain::WWI

Keywords: 023074673X WWI Tommy Great Britain Militaria

SOROKA, MARINA

Britain, Russia and the Road to the First World War the Fateful Embassy of Count Aleksandr Benckendorff 1903–16

Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1409422461. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; (Routledge Studies in First World War History); 9.7 X 6.2 X 1.2 inches; 312 pages; "For much of the later nineteenth-century Britain regarded Russia as its main international rival, particularly as regarded the security of its colonial possessions in India. Yet, by 1907 Russia's political revolution, financial collapse and military defeat by Japan, transformed the situation, resulting in an Anglo-Russian rapprochement. As this book makes clear, whilst international affairs lay at the root of this new relationship, personal factors also played an important role in reversing many years of mutual animosity and suspicion. In particular the study explores the influence of the liberal anglophile Count Aleksandr Benckendorff, the Russian ambassador in London between 1903 and 1916. By 1905, Russia's multiple weaknesses required a prolonged period of external peace by eliminating frictions with the principal rival powers, Britain and Germany, while France and Britain realised that a British rapprochement with Russia would be necessary to counter Germany's power. Benckendorff, as one of the most important figures in the Russian diplomatic service, persuaded Nicholas II and his Foreign Minister, V.N. Lamsdorff, to drop their objections to various long-standing British demands in order to pave the way for a Triple Entente.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 20117

Catalogue: Militaria::WWI

Keywords: 1409422461 Benckendorff WWI nicholas II Militaria

SPENCER, WILLIAM

First World War Army Service Records a Guide for Family Historians

Surrey, UK: The National Archives, 2008. Fourth Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 1905615264. Only slight wear ; A near-fine volume.; 9.5 X 7.4 X 0.6 inches; 160 pages; "The National Archives’ celebrated First World War holdings include personal files of officers and other ranks, campaign medals, gallantry and meritorious service awards, courts martial and casualty lists. Its remarkable collection has records of Dominion forces and the Indian Army, the WAAC, the Royal Flying Corps and RAF, as well as auxiliary and nursing services. Over 10,000 individual unit war diaries cover all operational theatres of the British Army, while original trench maps illustrates areas from the Western Front to Salonica, Gallipoli to Mesopotamia, Palestine to Italy.". Very Good+ .

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Book number: 20184

Catalogue: Militaria::WWI::Great Britain

Keywords: 1905615264 WWI Great Britain

TOMPKINS, STUART RAMSAY

The Secret War, 1914

Victoria, BC: Morriss Publishing Ltd, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0919203027. Boards show light shelf wear, small scuff on lower front board. ; A tight solid book. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 71 pages; Tompkins was a soldier at Vimy Ridge in WWI, a historian and educator. This book deals with the attempts by Great Britain and her allies to destabilize the alliances that Germany formed during the First World War.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 20443

Catalogue: Militaria::Canada::WWI

Keywords: 0919203027 WWI

TUCHMAN, BARBARA W.

The Proud Tower

London: Folio Society, 1995. Hardcover. Light wear to gold paper covered slipcase, book as new ; Black cloth covered boards, elaborate gilt stamped design on front boards, gilt stamped titles on spine ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 505 pages; "During the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a privileged few enjoyed Olympian luxury as the underclass was “heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate.” In The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to vivid life: the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy; the Anarchists of Europe and America; Germany and its self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss; Diaghilev’s Russian ballet and Stravinsky’s music; the Dreyfus Affair; the Peace Conferences in The Hague; and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close.". Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 19738

Catalogue: Militaria::WWI

Keywords: WWI Edwardian Era Militaria

WADE, AUBREY

Gunner on the Western Front

London: B. T. Batsford, 1959. Second Edition. Hardcover. DJ and boards show some shelf wear and scuffing, DJ has small tears and chipping, with 1" piece missing from DJ top back corner at spine. Sun-faded. ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages; This was originally published in 1936 under the title 'The War of the Guns' . This is a highly regarded personal account of a gunner 1914-1918 who participated the major battle of WWI. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 17970

Catalogue: Militaria::WWI

Keywords: Gunner passchendaele somme Ypres WWI Militaria

WINTER, MICHAEL

Into the Blizzard Walking the Fields of the Newfoundland Dead

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2014. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0385677855. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 5.84 X 1.17 X 8.53 inches; 339 pages; Winter, a writer who was born and brought up in Newfoundland writes of his experiences while visiting the WWI battlefields where the soldiers of the Newfoundland Regiment fought and died in great numbers and the various European memorials to their service. He speaks of the feelings and memories they invoke in him. This is a very touching memorial.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21047

Catalogue: Militaria::Canada::WWI

Keywords: 0385677855 Newfoundland Regiment beaumont hamel History::Canada Militaria