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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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