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  • Last Stand at Zandvoorde, 1914

    Lord Hugh Grosvenor's Noble Sacrifice

    by Mike McBride, Dan Snow ...
    Being the son of the Duke of Westminster, whose family traces its lineage back to 1066, Lord Hugh Grosvenor was destined to become a cavalry officer in the prestigious 1st Regiment of Life Guards. Using unpublished letters home and contemporary accounts Noble Sacrifice describes Lord Hughs embarkation for France and the early mounted encounters which halted the enemy onslaught against the ... Read more

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  • The Complete Book of North American Railroading

    by Kevin EuDaly, Mike Schafer, Steve Jessup, Jim Boyd, Steve Glischinski, Andrew McBride ...
    The year 1827 marked the completion of the United States’ first railroad--and the beginning of a transformation of American life. This book, spanning nearly two centuries, offers an exhilarating tour of the railways’ inroads into the economy, society, and culture of North America.Illustrated with more than 400 historical and modern photographs and period advertisements, The Complete Book of North ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Battle of The Somme (True Combat)

    by Alexander Macdonald ...
    The Germans could not believe their eyes. The English infantry were advancing at walking pace in four upright ranks, a yard or so apart from each other. They were sitting ducks. As the German machine guns rattled into life, the English died in their hundreds. On the first day of the battle, those parade-ground advances caused the greatest number of casualties of any single day in the history of ... Read more

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  • Deborah and the War of the Tanks

    by John Taylor ...
    Deborah is a British First World War tank that rose from the grave after taking part in one of the most momentous battles in history. In November 1917 she played a leading role in the first successful massed tank attack at Cambrai. Eighty years later, in a remarkable feat of archaeology, the tanks buried remains were rediscovered and excavated, and are now preserved as a memorial to the battle and ... Read more

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  • The Passchendaele Campaign, 1917

    by Andrew Rawson ...
    Series series British Expeditionary Force
    This is an account of the British Expeditionary Forces battles in the summer and autumn of 1917. It begins with the Allied plan to free up the Flanders coast, to limit German naval and submarine attacks on British shipping.The opening offensive began with the detonation of nineteen mines on 7 June and ended with the capture of the Messines Ridge. The main offensive started with success on 31 July ... Read more

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  • The Journeys End Battalion

    The 9th East Surrey in the Great War

    by Michael Lucas ...
    R.C. Sherriff, author of Journeys End, the most famous play of the Great War, saw all his front line service with the 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. This intense experience profoundly affected his writing and, through his play, it continues to have a powerful influence on our understanding of the conflict. Yet the story of his battalion has never been told in full until now. In The Journeys ... Read more

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  • By Tank into Normandy

    by Stuart Hills ...
    'One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign' - Richard HolmesStuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 a.m., Sunday 4 June 1944. He was 20 years old, unblooded, fresh from a public-school background and Officer Cadet training. He was going to war. Two days later, his tank sunk, he and his crew landed from a rubber dinghy with just the clothes they ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Cheerful Sacrifice

    The Battle of Arras, 1917

    by Jonathan Nicholls ...
    This WWI history examines the significant yet overlooked British offensive that achieved major advances on the Western Front.Fought between April 9th and May 16th of 1917, the Battle of Arras was the most lethal and costly British offensive battle of the First World War. Lasting a brutal thirty-nine days, its average casualty rate was far higher than at either the Somme or Passchendaele. It also ... Read more

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  • Retreat & Rearguard: Dunkirk 1940

    The Evacuation of the BEF to the Channel Ports

    by Jerry Murland ...
    The dramatic story of how a quarter million men were evacuated from the coast of France—and how the British Expeditionary Force fought on.This book, part of the Retreat and Rearguard series, covers the actions of the BEF during the retreat from the Dyle Line to the evacuation points of Dunkirk, Boulogne, Calais, Saint-Valery-en-Caux, and finally the Cherbourg Peninsula.Some of the engagements are ... Read more

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  • The First Day on the Somme

    1 July 1916

    by Martin Middlebrook ...
    The soldiers receive the best service a historian can provide: their story is told in their own words - Guardian'For some reason nothing seemed to happen to us at first; we strolled along as though walking in a park. Then, suddenly, we were in the midst of a storm of machine-gun bullets and I saw men beginning to twirl round and fall in all kinds of curious ways'On 1 July 1916, a continous line of ... Read more

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  • The First Day on the Somme

    Revised Edition

    by Martin Middlebrook ...
    A history of the British Army's experience at the Battle of the Somme in France during World War I.After an immense but useless bombardment, at 7:30 AM on July 1, 1916, the British Army went over the top and attacked the German trenches. It was the first day of the battle of the Somme, and on that day, the British suffered nearly 60,000 casualties, two for every yard of their front. With more than ... Read more

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  • Last Stand at Le Paradis

    The Events Leading to the SS Massacre of the Norfolks 1940

    by Richard Lane ...
    A chronicle of the WWII British Expeditionary Force unit that faced a German firing squad after surrendering at the Battle of Dunkirk.In 1939, the BEF was deployed to counter the German aggression in Europe. The men of 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment, were some of the first to land in France. Less than a year later, they would be massacred by the Waffen-SS in one of the most egregious war ... Read more

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