Warner, Philip,

WORLD WAR ONE - A Narrative.

Cassell, London, 1999, 3rd imp., paperback, 256pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, photo pictorial upper wrapper by Hulton Getty, in the Cassell Military Classics series, a narrative account of the war 1914-18, from the causes through the years of conflict to the Peace Treaty at Versailles in 1919, with the heavy reparations setting the scene for the next confrontaion, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus,

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Book number: 30596

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Watson, William et al,

SONGS AND SONNETS FOR ENGLAND IN WAR TIME - Being a Collection of Lyrics by Various Authors Inspired by The Great War.

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, ND, 4th edn., paperback, xvi, 96pp, pictorial wrappers decorated by Vernon Hill with folding flaps, sewn binding, an anthology of 'Songs and Sonnets for England in War time' from 45 contributors including G. K. Chesterton, Tjhomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling, each previously published individually in the daily, evening and weekly press in August or September 1914, each poem has the original source acknowledged with the date of publication, all profits going to the 'Prince of Wales's National Relief Fund', this volume bearing a printed presentation label on the front free endpaper from the Dean of York, dated Christmas Day 1915, commending certain of the contents, wrappers a little soiled, edges tanned with some foxing, very good,

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Book number: 44114

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Westlake, Ray,

KITCHENER'S ARMY.

Spellmount, Staplehurst, 2003, paperback, 176pp, half tone photo ills. and facsimiles throughout, large format (10.5 x 8 inches approx.), coloured pictorial wrappers, a pictorial record of the New Armies raised by Lord Kitchener during World War One, with an account of the early progress of the war, the training of the New Armies and their first experiences if the front, with details of the service of 30 New Army Divisions from 9th (Scottish) to 41st Division (excluding 27th-29th Regular Army Divisions), and appendices include the differences in establishment between a 1914 and a 1918 division, very lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,

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Book number: 38992

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Wilkinson, Roni,

PALS ON THE SOMME 1916.

Pen and Sword Military, Barnsley, 2006, 1st edn., 221pp, half tone ills., maps and facsimiles thoughout, [ii] index, 9.5 x 6.5 inches approx.), black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, an account of events leading to WW1, of the outbreak of the war and the need to raise a New Army, of the call for volunteers and Lord Derby's suggestion that local workforces join 'en bloc' creating the 'Pals' or 'City' battalions (units raised by local authority or private body which undertook to organise, clothe, billet and feed the recruits), their training and eventually meeting the enemy on the Somme battfield where the menfolk of whole communities were wiped out, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38993

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Winter, J. M.,

THE EXPERIENCE OF WORLD WAR I.

Guild Publishing, London, 1989, club edn., 256pp, half tone pictorial double title, coloured and half tone ills, maps and diagrams throughout, large format (11 x 8.5 inches approx.), grey cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, an account of World War One following politicians, generals, soldiers and civilians through four phases of the war: the illusions of 1914; the stalemant and stagnation of 1915; the slaughter of 1916-17; and the re-emergence of social conflict and revolution 1917-18, with sections examining the cost of the war and the indelible imprint on subsequent Western culture, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: unpriced, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 38994

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Winter, Denis,

HAIG'S COMMAND - A Reassessment.

Ppenguin, London, 2001 2nd imp., paperback, [xvi], 362pp,24pp half tone ills., 9 in text mmaps, [viii] ads., large format (8.5 x 5.5 inches approx.), half tone photo upper wrapper, a well reasearched re-assessment of the leadership of Field Marshal Haig on the Western Front during WW1, based on fresh evidence from Australian and Candian archives which had not been sanitized as had the British Official History, rubbed at extrems., slight roll and creasing to spine, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 44133

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Wood, Herbert Fairlie,

VIMY!.

Corgi, London, 1972, 1st in imprint, paperback,173pp,16pp half tone photo ills., 2 in text maps, [iii] ads., wraparound pictorial wrappers, a re-appraisal of the battle for Vimy Ridge of the summer of 1915, re-constructed from hundreds of eye-witness accounts and supported by contemporary photographs of the men who planned the operation, of the four Divisions of Canadians who carried it out, the conditions under which they fought and their opponents as they saw them after the battle was over, vertical crease to lightly sunned spine, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 44252

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Keywords: war ww1 vimy ridge french canadian army