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  • Castle Point in the Great War

    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    Prior to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, the Castle Point District was madeup of four very quaint, peaceful little parishes: Canvey Island, South Benfleet,Hadleigh and Thundersley. The initial enthusiasm shown by the young men of thisarea, who were enthusiastic to be part of an adventure that was to be over byChristmas, was mirrored by thousands of other courageous young men aroundBritain. ... Leer más

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  • Grays (Thurrock) in the Great War

    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    Grays (Thurrock) in the Great War tells the story of Grays and the wider Thurrock area from the outbreak of the Great War until the peace of 1918. The Docks at nearby Tilbury were the source of much employment in the area for both fathers and sons alike. They also played their part in the war, but not as a hub of military deployments.In May 1915 the German spy Augusto Alfredo Roggen, a Uruguayan ... Leer más

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  • Laindon in the Great War

    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    A brief history of how the people of Laindon and district coped with the problems of the First World War Throughout the book are individual family memories, over 100 photographs and appropriate oems mostly written at the time. Indication of why Britain went to war Insight into the role of the local Explosive factories. Individual stories of those who applied for exemption and the hysteria of ... Leer más

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  • Clacton-on-Sea and the Surrounding Coastline in the Great War

    de Ken Porter ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    Clacton-on-Sea and the surrounding coastline is part of the Sunshine Coast, an area of sandy beaches and low-level cliffs facing the North Sea. This book gives a brief history of the major nearby villages Brightlingsea, St Oysths, Clacton on Sea, Holland on Sea, Frinton and Walton on the Naze as they developed from agricultural areas, to seaside resorts in the mid to late 1800s, and then into ... Leer más

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  • Billericay in the Great War

    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    In 1914 Billericay was a peaceful compact village of about 2000 inhabitants. There was the High Street, Back Street, which today is called Chapel Street, and Back Lane which is now Western Road. Within half a mile of the High Street there were groups of cottages; Sun Street had some, which are still there today. There were others in Laindon Road at the beginning before you come to the Roman ... Leer más

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  • The Final Whistle

    The Great War in Fifteen Players

    WINNER OF THE BRITISH SPORT BOOK AWARDS - RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEARThis is the story of 15 men killed in the Great War. All played rugby for one London club; none lived to hear the final whistle. Rugby brought them together; rugby led the rush to war. They came from Britain and the Empire to fight in every theatre and service, among them a poet, playwright and perfumer. Some were decorated and died ... Leer más

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  • VCs of the First World War: Somme 1916

    Series series VCs of the First World War
    The Battle of the Somme, which lasted from 1 July to 18 November 1916, is remembered as one of the most horrific and tragic battles of the First World War. On the first day alone nearly 19,000 British troops were killed – the greatest one-day loss in the history of the British Army. By November the death toll from the armies of Britain, France and Germany had risen to over a million. This book ... Leer más

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  • VCs of the First World War: Arras and Messines 1917

    Series series VCs of the First World War
    For much of the First World War, the opposing armies on the Western Front were at a stalemate, with an unbroken line of fortified trenches stretching from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border. The Allied objective after the bloody Battle of the Somme drew to a close in November 1916 was to decisively break through the German 'Hindenburg Line' and engage the numerically inferior German forces in a ... Leer más

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  • VCs of the First World War: Western Front 1915

    Series series VCs of the First World War
    The predictions of the war 'being over by Christmas' turned out to be far from the truth. By January 1915 the British Expeditionary Force found themselves trapped in the murderous stalemate of trench warfare. British troops had suffered badly in the early campaigns and by January 1915 were holding some 30 miles of trench. The year 1915 was to witness some of the bloodiest and bitter battles of the ... Leer más

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  • 6th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment in the Great War

    de John Hartley ...
    The 6th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment, was a prewar Territorial unit. Many of its members held white collar positions employed by the Citys legal, financial and stockbroking practices or worked for the major commercial organizations trading and manufacturing cotton goods. It went overseas in September 1914, taking with it many new recruits who would undertake their basic training whilst the ... Leer más

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  • David Stirling

    The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS

    Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special Air Service in the summer of 1941 led to a new form of warfare and Stirling is remembered as the father of special forces soldiering. But was he really a military genius or in fact a shameless self-publicist who manipulated people, and the truth, for this own ... Leer más

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  • The Letters of Major General Price Davies VC, CB, CMG, DSO

    From Captain to Major General, 1914-18

    The new series of Spellmount Military Memoirs provides rare and sought-after texts for the collector of classic historical works, together with rigorously selected personal narratives never before in print – destined to become classics in their own right. Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies was awarded the Victoria Cross when serving with the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the Second Boer War. ... Leer más

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