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The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes - by Brian Dillon

£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241956762 | ISBN 10: 0241956765

The Great Explosion by Brian Dillon: a masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable place. In April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the Kentish ... more
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Friends of Alice Wheeldon: The Anti-War Activist Accused of Plotting to Kill Lloyd George - by Sheila Rowbotham

£16.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745335759 | ISBN 10: 0745335756

Friends of Alice Wheeldon is a remarkable play by Sheila Rowbotham that re-enacts the 1917 trial and subsequent imprisonment of Wheeldon for her alleged role in plotting to assassinate the Prime Minister Lloyd George. It is prefaced by an extended es ... more
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Friends of Alice Wheeldon: The Anti-War Activist Accused of Plotting to Kill Lloyd George - by Sheila Rowbotham

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The Heroes' Welcome - by Louisa Young

£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780007361472 | ISBN 10: 0007361475

The Heroes� Welcome is the incandescent sequel to the bestselling R&J pick My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You. Its evocation of a time deeply wounded by the pain of WW1 will capture and beguile readers fresh to Louisa Young�s wonderful writing, and those ... more
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Merseyside at War - by Anthony Hogan

£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781445637600 | ISBN 10: 144563760x

As one of Britain�s largest cities, Liverpool was heavily targeted during the two world wars. Many residents of Merseyside lost their lives in the conflict, both in active combat and as a result of hardships on the Home Front. In this book, author An ... more
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Conscientious Objection: Bertrand Russell and the Pacifists in the First World War - by Jo Vellacott

£14.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780851248424 | ISBN 10: 085124842x

"Jo Vellacott�s excellent book is a model of careful scholarship, clear and lively writing, and the choice of a subject that matters deeply. One hundred years on, it�s high time we honored those who had the courage to speak out against the madness of ... more
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The Christmas Match: Football in No Man's Land 1914 - by Pehr Thermaenius

£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781910500019 | ISBN 10: 1910500011

After four months of intense fighting, the war in Flanders between German and British soldiers fell silent on Christmas Eve 1914. The soldiers started singing instead of shooting. On Christmas Day they came out of their trenches and met in No Man's L ... more
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Conscientious Objectors of the First World War: A Determined Resistance - by Ann Kramer

£19.99 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781844681198 | ISBN 10: 184468119x

The story of conscientious objection in Britain begins in 1916, when conscription was introduced for the first time. Some 16,000 men � the first conscientious objectors � refused conscription because they believed on grounds of conscience that it was ... more
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Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders - World War I - by Tony Robinson

£5.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781447227717 | ISBN 10: 1447227719

Everything you need to know about World War I! Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about World War I. It's history, b ... more
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Death of a Hero - by Richard Aldington

£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780143106876 | ISBN 10: 0143106872

One of the great World War I antiwar novels � honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical. Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, Death of a Hero, finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classic ... more
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Somme - by Lyn MacDonald

£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241952382 | ISBN 10: 0241952387

'There was hardly a household in the land', writes Lyn Macdonald, 'there was no trade, occupation, profession or community, which was not represented in the thousands of innocent enthusiasts who made up the ranks of Kitchener's Army before the Battle ... more
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The Great War (Fold-Out Panorama) - by Joe Sacco

£20.00 hardback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780224097710 | ISBN 10: 0224097717

From �the heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman� (The Economist) comes a monumental, wordless panorama capturing the horror of World War I. THE GREAT WAR: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme AN ILLUSTRATED PANORAMA - WITH ... more
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The Absolutist - by John Boyne

£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780552775403 | ISBN 10: 0552775401

September 1919: Twenty-years-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a clutch of letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War. They trained together. They fought together. ... more
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The Christmas Truce - by Carol Ann Duffy, illustrated by David Roberts

£6.99 hardback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781447206408 | ISBN 10: 1447206401

A new tale celebrating the magic of Christmas from the Poet Laureate, illustrated by David Roberts. � Down at the front, on a cold winter�s night in 1914, amidst the worst war the world had ever seen, an inexplicable silence spread from man to ... more
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Heart Specialist - by Claire Holden Rothman

£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781851687947 | ISBN 10: 1851687947

Agnes White has only ever wanted of one thing: to follow in her father�s great footsteps and become a doctor. But her remarkable intelligence is regarded as disruptive, and her awkward manner and careless appearance nothing but the mark of a spinster ... more
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Private Peaceful - by Michael Morpurgo

£6.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007486441 | ISBN 10: 0007486448

Heroism or cowardice? Private Peaceful is a stunning story of the First World War from a master storyteller. Told in the voice of a young soldier, the story follows 24 hours in his life at the front during WW1, and captures his memories as he looks ... more
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Charley's War: The Great Mutiny - by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun

£14.99 hardback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848567412 | ISBN 10: 1848567413

Renowned UK comics writer Pat Mills (Marshal Law) and legendary artist Joe Colquhoun (Johnny Red) continue the thrilling, humorous and horrifying story of World War One soldier Charley Bourne. In September 1917, Charley is caught up in the m ... more
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Women in the First World War - by Neil R. Storey and Molly Housego

£6.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780747807520 | ISBN 10: 0747807523

As millions of young men marched off to war, they left behind mothers, wives, sisters, and sweethearts who were determined to contribute to the British cause. Women enrolled as nurses to treat wounded soldiers, and over 700,000 became workers in fact ... more
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We Will Not Go to War: Conscientious Objection During the World Wars - by Felicity Goodall

£11.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780752458571 | ISBN 10: 0752458574

During the First and Second World Wars thousands of men and women refused the call to arms. Reviled, starved and beaten, theirs was a battle of conscience. In the First World War, seventy-three conscientious objectors died as a result o ... more
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The Ghost Road - by Pat Barker

£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780141030951 | ISBN 10: 014103095x

1918, the closing months of the war. Army psychiatrist William Rivers is increasingly concerned for the men who have been in his care � particularly Billy Prior, who is about to return to combat in France with young poet Wilfred Owen. As Rivers tries ... more
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Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War - by Alan Kramer

£24.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199543779 | ISBN 10: 0199543771

On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops. The international community reacted in horror - 'Holocaust at Louvain' proclaimed the Daily Mail - and the behaviour of th ... more
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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War - by Michelle Barrett

£14.99 hardback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844672301 | ISBN 10: 1844672301

Casualty Figures is not about the millions who died in the First World War; it is about the countless thousands of men who lived as long-term casualties - not of shrapnel and gas, but of the bleak trauma of the slaughter they escaped. In this p ... more
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Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War - by Martin Gilbert

£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780719568909 | ISBN 10: 0719568900

The definitive story of the First World War's bloodiest conflict. The Battle of the Somme, fought between July and November 1916, was among the bloodiest conflicts of all time. The aim was to end the stalemate on the Western Front - the resu ... more
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Wilfred Owen - by Wilfred Owen, poems Selected by Jon Stallworthy

£7.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780571207251 | ISBN 10: 0571207251

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an ... more
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The Best Christmas Present in the World - by Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman

£5.99 hardback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781405215183 | ISBN 10: 1405215186

Echoes of Christmas 1914 in the trenches call to the present day when a letter found by chance in an antique desk brings one soldier's experience hauntingly to life. Writing home from the front, the soldier has an extraordinary story to tell... &nbs ... more
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Women, Men and the Great War: An Anthology of Stories - by Various authors

£15.99 paperback (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780719045981 | ISBN 10: 0719045983

"A wide ranging, challenging and constantly surprising collection ... focusing on the divisions the war created between men and women."(Pat Barker) This is an anthology of short stories of World War I from 25 classic writers. � Gertrude Stein, ... more
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Oh What a Lovely War (Play Script) - by Joan Littlewood (Editor)

£9.99 paperback (1967) - ISBN 13: 9780413302106 | ISBN 10: 0413302105

Oh What a Lovely War is a theatrical chronicle of the First World War, told through the songs and documents of the period. Devised and first performed by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London in 1963, it rece ... more
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