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The Western Front, 1914 Trilogy
Edmund Dane
A Concise History of the Opening Campaigns of the First World War, 1914—Hacking Through Belgium, The Battle of the Rivers & The Battles in Flanders
A unique 1914 trilogy in one special edition This Leonaur special edition, published to coincide with the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, collects three of Edmund Dane’s well rega..
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Scottish Nurses in the First World War
Yvonne Fitzroy & Eva Shaw McLaren
With the Scottish Nurses in Roumania by Yvonne Fitzroy & A History of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals (Extract concerning service in the Balkans) by Eva Shaw McLaren
Nursing on the Balkan front lines At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the founder of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, Dr. Elsie Inglis, approached the British War Office with the suggest..
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Guns at Le Cateau
A. F. Becke & C. de Sausmarez
Two Accounts of the B. E. F. in the First World War—The Royal Regiment of Artillery at Le Cateau, 26 August, 1914 by A. F. Becke & The Stand at Le Cateau, 26th August, 1914 by C. de Sausmarez
The stand of the Field Artillery, 1914 Although Europe was at peace for the first half of 1914, plans for the invasion of France by tens of thousands of German soldiers, supported by a huge resourc..
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Opening Shots: 1914
A. St. John Adcock & Arthur Mills
First Hand Accounts by Allied Soldiers & Sailors From the First Battles of the Great War—In the Firing Line by A. St. John Adcock & With My Regiment by “Platoon Commander” (Arthur Mills)
Words of those who fought in the first battles of the First World War In the early summer of 1914, apparently unconcerned by the gathering storm and the colossal building of military might in Germa..
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Motoring to War
Horace Wyatt & E. Alexander Powell
Accounts of Motor Vehicles from the Boer War & the First World War—Motor Transports in War by Horace Wyatt, “Get There!” (Extract) and “Treat ‘Em Rough!” (Extract) by E. Alexander Powell & The Dennis 30 cwt. Chassis by Dennis Bros., Ltd.
The motorised wheels of war begin to turn In 1914 as the B. E. F was quickly hurried to the battle lines—by whatever means possible—British troops were amused to see familiar commercial vehicles tr..
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Eagles Rampant Rising
Charles J. Biddle & Quentin Roosevelt
Two Lives of American Fighter Pilots During the First World War—The Way of the Eagle by Charles J. Biddle & Quentin Roosevelt a Sketch With Letters edited by Kermit Roosevelt
Life and death in the skies above the battlefields of France There are few books written by the dauntless young pilots who fought the first real war of the air when powered aircraft bombed, strafed..
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John Buchan’s 1914: the War in the West
John Buchan
The First Months of the First World War on the Western Front—June to December 1914
A unique Leonaur edition—never before available in this form John Buchan was a popular author of historical and adventure fiction whose works remain in print to the present day. He also wrote impor..
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With the Guns of the B. E. F., 1914
Arthur Corbett-Smith
A Personal History & Recollections by an Officer of the Royal Horse Artillery—The Retreat From Mons & The Marne—and After
An outstanding first hand account and history of the first battles of the Great War The Great War had long been planned by Imperial Germany and its army stood ready to advance through Belgium and F..
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The Great Retreat, 1914
George Stuart Gordon & Roger Ingpen
Two Accounts of the Battle & Retreat From Mons by the B. E. F. During the First World War—The Retreat from Mons by Gordon George Stuart & The Fighting Retreat to Paris by Roger Ingpen
Two views of the Great Retreat Imperial Germany had long planned the conflict that was to become the First World War, but when the onslaught came there was little sign that the nations which would ..
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‘Side-Show’ Theatres of the Great War
Edmund Dane & Jefferson Jones
British Campaigns in Africa & the Far East During the First World War
British Campaigns in Africa and the Pacific: 1914—1918 by Edmund Dane The Fall of Tsingtau (extract) by Jefferson JonesThe African and Chinese battles of the First World War Historian Edmund D..
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Wings of War
C. Mellor & Gerald Featherstone Knight
Two First Hand Accounts of Pilots During the First World War—The Airman by C. Mellor and “Brother Bosch” by Gerald Featherstone Knight
Two first accounts by early aviators This special Leonaur ‘good value’ edition contains two accounts of the early days of powered flight. The first book, written just before the outbreak of the Fir..
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Unquiet Fronts
Anonymous & Feldwebel C——
Two Personal Accounts of German Soldiers During the First World War
A German Deserter’s War Experience by Anonymous The Diary of a German Soldier By Feldwebel C——The Great War by two soldiers who wore field grey English translations of first hand accounts by o..
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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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My Dear Wife,
Aimée Bond & R. E. Vernède
the Letters of a British Airman and Soldier Written During the First World War—My Airman Over There by Aimée Bond & Letters to His Wife by R. E. Vernède
The war letters of a British pilot and of an officer of the Rifle Brigade The letters of servicemen writing from fields of conflict to their families are always poignant, irrespective of the cause ..
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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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