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1914 - the opening campaigns of the First World War

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Narratives of the Great War in Africa
H. F. B. Walker & Arnold Wienholt
Personal Experiences of Two Soldiers in the East African & South West African Campaigns of the First World War
A Doctor’s Diary in Damaraland by H. F. B. Walker The Story of a Lion Hunt With Some of the Hunter’s Military Adventures During the War by Arnold WienholtTwo brilliant first hand accounts from th..
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At the Western Front
Granville Fortescue
Two Classic Accounts of the First World War by an American Correspondent—At the Front With Three Armies & France Bears the Burden
An American journalist’s view of the Great War For the first thirty-three months of the Great War the United States of America was a neutral nation. This enabled her newspaper correspondents and ot..
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Ypres, 1914
Otto Schwink
The German Perspective of the Early Battles of the First World War
The opening campaign of the Great War as seen by the German Army History, it is said, is written by the victors and that is generally true. It is therefore often difficult for the military historia..
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The First Seven Divisions
Ernest W. Hamilton
A Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres During the Great War, 1914-1918
First to the battle line in the First World War As the nineteenth century turned to the twentieth Britain could boast a well trained regular European army and one which was—regiment for regiment—co..
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Fighting in Flanders
E. Alexander Powell
The Experiences of an American Journalist During the Opening Campaigns of the First World War in Europe
The opening shots of a great conflict The German plan of attack in 1914 involved a giant ‘hooking’ movement commencing within Germany itself and then advancing through Luxembourg and neutral Belgiu..
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Contemptible
Casualty
A Personal Recollection of the ‘Retreat From Mons’ by a British Infantry Officer
An ‘Old Contemptible’ recounts the campaign of 1914 At the outbreak of the First World War, units of the British regular army—the B. E. F—were despatched to the continent to assist the French in an..
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The Harwich Naval Forces
E. F. Knight
Their Part in the Great War, 1914-1918
The Royal Navy at war from the home front This is an account of the Royal Navy forces of the First World War which operated out of Harwich, a Haven Port on the North Sea coast of Britain in the cou..
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The Daredevil of the Army
Austin Patrick Corcoran
A Motorcycle Despatch Rider and ‘Buzzer’ in the British Army During the First World War
A bikers war—compellingly recounted The highly dangerous task of the aide-de-camp was often to carry urgent despatches with essential calls to action across the field of battle. The young men chose..
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Dixmude
Charles Le Goffic
French Marines in the Great War, 1914-1918
The epic battle of the Marine Fusiliers in the Great War The men of the French Fusiliers Marins were always bound to draw public attention because irrespective of their proud military tradition, wh..
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Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915
A Nursing Sister
The first year of war on the Western Front The quality of medical and nursing care available to British soldiers on campaign had improved immeasurably since the days of the Crimean War in the middl..
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A Woman’s Experiences in the Great War
Louise Mack
An Australian Author’s Clandestine Journey Through War-Torn Belgium
Through the battle lines for the Great War in Belgium There are many accounts of female adventurers, explorers, travellers and those who braved the perils of wartime, but this is one of the very fi..
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The Naval War of 1914
L. Cecil Jane
Two Actions at Sea During the Early Phase of the First World War

The Action off Heligoland August 1914 by L. Cecil Jane
Coronel and the Falkland Islands by A. Neville Hilditch
The worlds great navies grappling for dominance of the high seas The Battle of Heligoland Bight was the first naval battle of the Great War, fought in the late summer of 1914 when the Royal Navy de..
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The Battle of the Falkland Islands 1914
H. Spencer-Cooper
The Royal Navy at War in the South Atlantic in the Early Days of the First World War
The Royal Navy strikes back In the final months of the first year of the First World War a squadron of the Imperial German Navy under von Spee decisively destroyed a weaker British force under Crad..
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1914: the Marne and the Aisne
H. W. Carless-Davis
Two Accounts of the Early Battles of the First Year of the First World War

The Battles of the Marne and the Aisne by H. W. Carless-Davis
Troyon—an Engagement in the Battle of the Aisne by A. Neville Hilditch
The counter attacks that saved the Allied cause This concise book contains two accounts, by H. W. Carless-Davis and A. Neville Hilditch, of the conflicts of the first year of the Great War, brought..
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1914: Early Battles
H. W. Carless-Davis
Two Accounts of the Battles of the First Year of the First World War

The Retreat From Mons
The Battle of Ypres-Armentieres
Two battles of the first year of conflict This concise book contains two accounts, by H. W. Carless-Davis, of the conflicts of the first year of the Great War, brought together in one value for mon..
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