"The Great War Illustrated 1914 - Archive and Colour Photographs of WW I are well worth seeing to gain a broader view of World War I’s first months."
Over the Front
"The Great War Illustrated 1914 - Archive and Colour Photographs of WW I are well worth seeing to gain a broader view of World War I’s first months."
Over the Front
As featured in
Cher Ami, GWSIG Newsletter – International Plastic Modellers Society (UK) – April 2023
As featured in
Cher Ami, GWSIG Newsletter – International Plastic Modellers Society (UK) – April 2023
Whether you have been to the Western Front, or are about to visit, the series 'Walking the Western Front' continues to serve such a useful purpose of explaining the battlefield. With the continued probing questions of Ed Skelding, and the military expertise of Nigel Cave, this second volume in the series on the First Battle of Ypres, breaks down, sometimes complex military movements, with detailed clear descriptions, alongside views and being on the ground.
Jon Sandison
Whether you have been to the Western Front, or are about to visit, the series 'Walking the Western Front' continues to serve such a useful purpose of explaining the battlefield. With the continued probing questions of Ed Skelding, and the military expertise of Nigel Cave, this second volume in the series on the First Battle of Ypres, breaks down, sometimes complex military movements, with detailed clear descriptions, alongside views and being on the ground.
Jon Sandison
This book attempts to present a new perspective on the Great War by avoiding the ‘Tommy in the Trenches’ stereotype and instead looking at how the conflict was experienced by all those involved in the education of the nation’s children. Not just the pupils themselves, who as is already well known, volunteered in their thousands, but by the teachers, the governors, and the wider community. Teachers left the profession, not only to join up, but in some cases because working in munitions offered a far better rate of pay. By including information about all kinds of schools, and all kinds of communities, the book attempts to avoid concentrating on the famous public schools like Eton and Harrow but none-the-less celebrates the fact that almost a quarter of all V.C.s awarded during the war were given to former pupils of just such schools. The book is well-written, and the extent of the author’s research is demonstrated by the inclusion of some 26 pages of sources notes and a 13-page bibliography... Read more
Cross and Cockade
This book attempts to present a new perspective on the Great War by avoiding the ‘Tommy in the Trenches’ stereotype and instead looking at how the conflict was experienced by all those involved in the education of the nation’s children. Not just the pupils themselves, who as is already well known, volunteered in their thousands, but by the teachers, the governors, and the wider community. Teachers left the profession, not only to join up, but in some cases because working in munitions offered a far better rate of pay. By including information about all kinds of schools, and all kinds of communities, the book attempts to avoid concentrating on the famous public schools like Eton and Harrow but none-the-less celebrates the fact that almost a quarter of all V.C.s awarded during the war were given to former pupils of just such schools. The book is well-written, and the extent of the author’s research is demonstrated by the inclusion of some 26 pages of sources notes and a 13-page bibliography... Read more
Cross and Cockade
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British Battleships of World War One
This superb reference book achieved the status of 'classic' soon after its first publication in 1986; it was soon out of print and is now one of the most sought-after naval reference books on the secondhand market. It presents, in one superb volume, the complete technical history of British capital ship design and construction during the dreadnought… Read more...
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Cardiff and the Valleys in the Great War
Looks at the Cardiff Pals and other local regiments who fought in the Great War and how the experience of war impacted on the area, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German Kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Cardiff were committed to as the war stretched out… Read more...
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Nottingham in the Great War
The years 1914-1918 cost many lives in the trenches of France and Belgium. Those trenches and the battles that were fought from them are well documented. But back home in towns and cities up and down the United Kingdom death and desperation were also apparent. Those left behind to carry on suffered from harsh winters, lack of food and fuel and flu… Read more...
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Chelmsford in the Great War
By the end of the Great War in 1918, 1,791 Chelmsford men were serving in the army or navy. Three hundred and ninety two of them did not return. Chelmsford in the Great War is the touching story of the people these men left behind: the munitions workers, special constables, VADs, shopkeepers, magistrates, councillors, conscientious objectors, teachers… Read more...
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Great War 100 Years
*****DOWNLOAD FREE COPY BY CLICKING ABOVE***** With this year marking the centenary of the First World War, the heroic efforts of those who experienced it are brought to the fore. The lives of so many people were changed forever after Britain officially declared war on Germany at 11pm on 4 August 1914. Before the month was out, the British Expeditionary… Read more...
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Doncaster in the Great War
How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Doncaster were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record of the growing disillusion of the people, their… Read more...
Neil Weir died in 1967, but it was not until 2009 that his grandson, Mike Burns, discovered his diary and letters among some packing trunks he had been left, and learnt that his grandfather had served as an officer in the 10th Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders for much of the First World War. A captain and company commander at the tender… Read more...
Never before have so many resources been available to the family historian tracing Great War ancestors, both online and locally but the past dearth of easily accessible material has now been replaced by a blizzard of information that needs its own skills to navigate. This highly detailed DVD is split into three parts that deal with the various methods… Read more...
