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British Army First Hand Accounts

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Observation Posts
Coningsby Dawson
The Letters of an Artillery Officer on the Western Front During the Great War—Carry On and Living Bayonets
Letters from under the Guns Observation Posts, a special Leonaur book, brings together two books by Dawson concerning warfare as experienced by the men in the trenches during the First World War on..
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Ladies From Hell
R. Douglas Pinkerton
With the London-Scottish Regiment During the First World War
The ‘Cockney Jocks’ at war in Flanders and France The wide distribution of Scots throughout Britain and the Empire led to the formation new ‘Scottish’ regiments and the London Scottish, formed in 1..
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Gallipoli to Captivity
John Still
The First World War Experiences of an Officer of the 6th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
In the hands of the Turks during the Great War The author of this book, John Still, was an officer in the 6th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment and was part of the imaginative, but ultimatel..
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When the Somme Ran Red
Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore
The Experiences of an Officer of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry During the First World War
The 'Tykes' of the light infantry during the Great War This book was written during wartime by a gassed British infantry officer incapacitated and no longer fit for service in the trenches. Dugmore..
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The Fighting at Jutland
Edited by H. W. Fawcett & G. W. W. Hooper
The Personal Experiences of 45 Sailors of the Royal Navy at the Great Battle at Sea, 1916, During the First World War
Experiences of the momentous fleet battle of the Great War at sea The narratives of the fighting at Jutland which are collected in this book were all written by officers or men who were present at ..
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Over the West Front
"Spin" & "Contact"
Two Accounts of British Pilots During the First World War in Europe

Short Flights With the Cloud Cavalry
by “Spin”

Cavalry of the Clouds
by “Contact”
Air Combat over the trenches by those who fought The first hand accounts of the experiences of men in time of war always make fascinating reading. Their stories are, of course, always as varied as ..
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With the Flying Squadron
Harold Rosher
Letters of a Pilot of the Royal Naval Air Service During the First World War
A war in the skies above the waves As early as 1908 the Royal Navy understood the potential for the use of aircraft in naval warfare. By 1914 the Royal Naval Air Service consisted of 93 aircraft, 6..
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With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia
H. John Blampied
The 2nd Battalion, The Black Watch in Iraq During the First World War, 1916-1917
A highland regiment at war in the East When this book was originally published both the regiment and author remained anonymous. Today we know it concerns the wartime experiences of the 2nd Battalio..
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The London Rifle Brigade in the Great War
Gilbert Nobbs
Two Accounts of a Famous Territorial Regiment on the Western Front

Short History of the London Rifle Brigade &
On the Right of the British Line by Gilbert Nobbs
The London Rifles in the Trenches The London Rifle Brigade was one of the famous territorial regiments that saw service during the Great War. This book—for the sake of good value—brings together tw..
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Mons, Anzac & Kut
Aubrey Herbert
a British Intelligence Officer in Three Theatres of the First World War, 1914-18
A remarkable man’s view of three military disasters This book is comprised of the journals of an intelligence officer of the British Army written in often difficult circumstances as the events he e..
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With the Tanks
Richard Haigh & J. C. MacIntosh
Two First-Hand Accounts of British Tanks & Tank-Men at War in Europe During the First World War

Life in a Tank by Richard Haigh

Men and Tanks by J. C. MacIntosh

Two essential accounts of the tankers at war—in one special edition These two books have more in common than their subject—the lives and battles of British soldiers and their mighty metal war machi..
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Towards Gommecourt
Edward G. D. Liveing & John Ernest Hodder-Williams
Two accounts of British Soldiers on the Western Front During the First World War
Attack by Edward G. D. Liveing One Young Man by John Ernest Hodder-Williams Two immediate accounts of the Battle of the Somme The attack on the fortified village of Gommecourt took place on Jul..
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Plane Tales of the Skies
Wilfred Theodore Blake
The Experiences of Pilots Over the Western Front During the Great War
Those incredible young men in their flying machines at war This excellent book contains nearly thirty accounts of the extraordinary exploits of allied airman at war in the skies high above the mud,..
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A Company of Tanks
W. H. L. Watson
A British Company Commander’s View of Tank Warfare During the First World War
Steel, mud, blood and courage on the Western Front This is a fine book because it is a superb first hand eye-witness account of British Tanks in action throughout the First World War. Without much ..
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The Tank in Action During the First World War
D. G. Browne
Possibly THE book of the tank during the Great War
This is a very substantial and important book. Quite simply, anyone interested in the history of tank warfare should read and own it for it is essential. It was written by a British tank commander ..
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