First World War

Alan Clark / The Donkeys (Large Paperback)

A study of the Western Front in 1915, this book is a stinging indictment of incompetent generalship. The author explores the truth of the observation that British troops were "lions led by donkeys"...

Alan Drumm - Kerry and the Royal Munster Fusiliers - PB -2010

Ballymullen Barracks in Tralee was the regimental depot of the Royal Munster Fusiliers prior to the establishment of the Irish Free State. It was through the barracks gates that Kerrymen enlisted for...

Captain J. C. Dunn / The War The Infantry Knew : 1914-1919

 Sometimes, through word of mouth and shared enthusiasm, a secret book becomes famous. The War the Infantry Knew is one of them. Published privately in a limited edition of five hundred copies in...

Christina Holstein / Walking Verdun (Large Paperback)

On 21 February 1916 the German Fifth Army launched a devastating offensive against French forces at Verdun and set in motion one of the most harrowing and prolonged battles of the Great War. By the...

David Almond, John Boyne / The Great War: An Anthology Inspired by Objects from the First World War (Hardback)

 An anthology of stories inspired by objects from the First World War. It is a collection of stories by bestselling authors, each inspired by a different object from the First World War. Each object...

E.P.F. Lynch / Somme Mud: The Experiences of an Infantryman in France, 1916-1919

 'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it and many of us die in it. We see it,...

Edmund Blunden / Undertones of War

In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. Blunden...

Gerald Gliddon / When the Barrage Lifts (Large Paperback)

When the Barrage Lifts is a highly acclaimed topographical history and battlefield guide to the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Written by military historian Gerald Gliddon, the book serves as an...

Gerry White & Brendan O'Shea - A Great Sacrifice : Cork Servicemen who Died in the Great War - HB - 2010

In excellent condition, apart from some x's and underlining a of a few names in the text by a previous owner.  Maps of Europe before WW1 and after WW1 to front and rear endpages respectively.  I...

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore / Somme

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'The best new narrative of the battle thus far, reflecting his gifts for fluent prose and moving quotations.' Max Hastings, Sunday Times No conflict better...

Ian Beckett / Ypres: The First Battle 1914

The battle for Ypres in October and November 1914 represented the last opportunity for open, mobile warfare on the Western Front. In the first study of First Ypres for almost 40 years, Ian Beckett...

Ian Westwell / World War I Day by Day (Coffee Table Book)

Organized by year, this easy-to-use reference collection gives students side-by-side comparable facts on battles, war plans, and important key leaders in military history. This book is second hand,...

Ian Wilson - HMS Drake : Rathlin Island Shipwreck - PB - 2011

Paperback, published by Rathlin Island Press, 2011, in as new condition, 86 pages with photographs  The Royal Navy warship HMS Drake was torpedoed by the German U79 on October 2 1917 - this is the...

Jeremy Paxman / Great Britain's Great War

 Jeremy Paxman's magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people.'If there is one new history of...

John Elliott - Fall of Eagles : The End of the Great European Dynasties - PB - 1974

Paperback, published by BBC Books, 1974, moderate to heavy age tanning to pages, tied in to a BBC TV series of the same name. The book examines the fall of three lareg European Empires as a direct...

John Horne (Editor)- Our War : Ireland and the Great War (Hardback) WW1

This is an illustrated collection of essays by leading historians on how the Great War affected Ireland. It finally provides an Irish perspective on the Great War of 1914-18 which, as has often been...

Joshua Levine / Forgotten Voices of the Somme

 1916. The Somme. With over a million casualties, it was the most brutal battle of World War I.It is a clash that even now, over 90 years later, remains seared into the national consciousness,...

Malcolm Brown / The Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme

First published to coincide with the 80th

Malcolm Brown / The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front

It was on the Western Front that the First World War was lost and won - in France and Belgium, where the horrific nature of trench warfare scarred not only the landscape and those who fought there,...

Malcome Brown / The Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme

   The shadow of the Somme has lain across the twentieth century. For many it is the ultimate symbol of the folly and futility of war. Others see it as a hallmark of heroic endeavour and achievement...

Mark Helprin / Soldier of the Great War (Hardback)

An old man's magnificent tale of love and war-a recapitulation of a life and a reckoning with mortality told by one of America's most acclaimed novelists     This book is second hand, and while you...

Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France : The Last Years of Edward Thomas - HB - 2011

Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with...

Max Arthur / Last Post : The Final Word From Our First World War Soldiers

 The 'Forgotten Voices' of the First World War speak for the final timeFORGOTTEN VOICES OF THE GREAT WAR was the surprise best-seller at Christmas 2002, selling over 60,000 copies in hardback alone...

Michael Palin / Great-Uncle Harry (Hardback)

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him.The quest that...

Patrick MacGill - The Red Horizon - PB 1984 (Originally 1916)

MacGill was a soldier of the London Irish Rifles. Injured in the battle of Loos in 1915, he married in the same year and on recovery returned to his regiment. Along with The Great Push, the Red...

Patrick O'Sullivan / The Lusitania : Unraveling the Mysteries (Coffee Table Book)

The book portrays the great liner against its war-time background, explaining how evidence was rigged and the cover-up at the tribunal with new evidence regarding the cargo.   This book is second...

Richard Holmes / The Western Front

For most British people, the First World War was the Western Front, the trench line stretching from the Swiss Frontier to the North Sea. It was there that the majority of nearly nine million British...

Richard Van Emden / Boy Soldiers of the Great War

When war broke out in 1914, no one was more caught up in the popular tide of patriotism than the young boys who wanted to fight for King and country. This is their untold story - the heroics of boys...

Richard Van Emden / The Soldier's War : The Great War Through Veterans' Eyes

  The Great War ended more than ninety years ago yet still haunts and fascinates us today. In The Soldier's War, Richard van Emden traces a history of the fighting month by month and year by year,...

Robin Neillands / The Great War Generals On The Western Front, 1914-1918 (Hardback)

On the basis of the evidence … it is surely not possible for any reasonable, fair- minded person to sustain the accusation that the British generals, as a group, were entirely to blame for the tragic...

Rudyard Kipling - The Irish Guards in the Great War (The First Battalion) - HB

A regimental history and official account of the Irish Guards in the First World War, written by Rudyard Kipling in honour of his son, John, who served in the Irish Guards and was killed in his first...

Ruth Cowen / A Nurse at the Front: The Great War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton

 The second of four unique war diaries produced in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum, this book tells the story of the experiences of a nurse working close to the Western Front in the First...

S.L.A. Marshall / World War I (Large Paperback)

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T.E Lawrence - Seven Pillars of Wisdom : A Triumph - Vintage HB - 1935 - Arabia WW1

This is the 1935 first general trade edition, lacking the original dustjacket, but solid in dark brown cloth, titles in gilt to spine, and crossed swords motif embossed to front covers.  Rubbing and...

Tonie / Holt's Pocket Battlefield Guide to Ypres and Passchendaele

Covering the important WW1 Battles of Ypres, including the notorious Passchendaele, this guidebook takes readers on a historic trip through some of the well-known and most important sites of the area...

Vera Brittain / Testament of Youth ( WW1 )

To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our...

Virginia Nicholson / Singled Out : How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War

 Virginia Nicholson's Singled Out is the touching and beautifully told story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable generation of women who were changed by war; and in...