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War Memoirs
War Memoirs
War and military, warfare worldwide, soldiers and regiments, battlefields and war zones. Historical overviews of world conflicts over the centuries through the eyes and words of those who were there.
| MORIZ SCHEYER Book Number: 84197 |
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Written in 1944 while the author was hiding from the Nazis in a French convent, this survivor's account of the persecution and genocide of the Jews has an immediate quality which is fuelled by his ...
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| FORD MADOX FORD Book Number: 84226 |
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Ford Madox Ford chose his name in honour of his grandfather, the pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown and he founded two influential journals, The English Review in 1908 and The Transatlantic Re...
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| RAYNES MINNS Book Number: 84539 |
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Packed with photos, cartoons, advertisements and posters, this fascinating book documents women's lives in wartime. The story starts with "A woman's chronology of the war", including the July 1940 ...
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| ELENA LAPPIN Book Number: 84440 |
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A multiple émigré, Elena's decision to write in English was the result of many wanderings. Russian, Czech, German, Hebrew and finally English, each language is a link to a different piece of her r...
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| LOUISE MURPHY Book Number: 84930 |
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A Penguin paperback edition with reader's guide inside, here is the poignant and suspenseful retelling of a famous fairy tale set in a war-torn world. In the last months of the Nazi occupation of ...
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| JOHN BROOM Book Number: 85165 |
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'My son, cast thy heart firmly on the Lord, and fear not the judgement of men, when conscience testifieth of thy dutifulness and innocencey.' - Edith Cavell. A toxic mix of nationalism and militar...
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| JIM MAULTSAID Book Number: 85179 |
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Jim Maultsaid's superbly illustrated Great War diaries covers his experiences from 1916 until mid 1918. On 1st July 1916, the first day of the Somme, Sergeant Maultsaid was seriously wounded. Des...
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| STEPHEN JOHN Book Number: 85180 |
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A history of the 24th (Pembroke & Glamorgan Yeomanry) Battalion, The Welsh Regiment sheds new light on the battalion's almost forgotten campaign in Palestine. It saw many of its troops killed and ...
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| A.L.F. SCHAUMANN Book Number: 85257 |
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George III was not just the ruler of the UK, he was also King of Hanover, so when Napoleon's forces overran Hanover in 1803 many patriots fled to Britain where they formed the King's German Regimen...
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| JOHN MULGAN Book Number: 85043 |
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First published posthumously in 1947 in an expurgated form (some criticisms of his army superiors were originally deleted) this captivating memoir traces the Allies' path in the second world war an...
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| FIONA FORD Book Number: 85638 |
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Wartime fiction which sweeps us back in time nostalgically to rationing, gas masks, military Nissen huts and polishing buttons. A knock on the door early one morning wouldn't normally be cause for...
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| HECTOR BYWATER & H. C. FERRABY Book Number: 85772 |
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Originally written up in 1930 as a series of thrilling articles in the Daily Telegraph, Hector C. Bywater's experiences were soon turned into a book with the help of Daily Express journalist H. C. ...
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| DAVID MILLICHOPE Book Number: 85920 |
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Halifax's experience of the Great War was different to that of many other large towns and cities. A garrison town (home of the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment), within days the public moo...
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| EDIT. BY D. HAWKINS & M. JONES Book Number: 86035 |
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War Report was first broadcast from the beaches of Normandy in June 1944. It was a landmark for the BBC and for combat reporting and gave millions of listeners daily updates on the Armed Forces' p...
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| JULIE SUMMERS Book Number: 85892 |
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In a heartfelt tribute to the ordinary country women who were at the core of the village Women's Institutes, a researcher and historian draws on interviews with many WI members and uses hitherto un...
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| IAN BURUMA Book Number: 85900 |
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A moving account of what it meant to be Jewish and English in one of the most troubled times of the last century. Throughout a devoted 60 year marriage that spanned the terror and separation of tw...
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| JACK LOVE & BARRY LOVE Book Number: 86075 |
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Sub-titled 'A Bomber Command Story of Ops and Evasion, Captivity and Friendship.' Here is Jack Love's personal account of the experiences he went through joining up for the RAF, training for and t...
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| RUSSELL MILLER Book Number: 81384 |
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After a spell in the militia in India and then Africa, where, after recovering from a serious injury received in the Boer War, he was seconded to the West African Frontier Force, Trenchard was beco...
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| WILLIAM ANDREW FLETCHER Book Number: 86257 |
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The memoirs of a Confederate soldier written at the time in April 1861 when war was declared between the Union and the Confederacy in America. When the news came, it made W. A. Fletcher nervous as...
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| J. H. M. STANIFORTH Book Number: 86352 |
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Staniforth enlisted as a private soldier and went through the training of the ordinary recruit before rising through the ranks. His letters are among the most perceptive, graphic and evocative per...
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| VALDEMAR LANGLET Book Number: 86385 |
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Born in Stockholm in 1872, Langlet was a gifted linguist and early supporter of Esperanto. He worked as a journalist for a leading newspaper, visiting the new Soviet Union in 1923. In 1931 he mov...
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| DANIEL ANSELME Book Number: 86413 |
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Daniel Rabinovitch was born in 1927 and adopted the name Anselme while serving in the French Resistance and this novel was first published in Paris in 1957. France's engagement in Algeria was beco...
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| WILL WAINEWRIGHT Book Number: 86418 |
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Allegedly the only person capable of holding Hitler's intense gaze, Rothay Reynolds was a leading foreign correspondent between the wars, running the Daily Mail's Berlin bureau throughout the 1920s...
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| ELSABÉ BRITS Book Number: 86658 |
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During the Anglo-Boer War, it is estimated that over 27,000 Boer women and children died. Although Emily Hobhouse has been little celebrated in her own country, she is still lauded in South Africa ...
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| FRANK JASTRZEMBSKI Book Number: 86717 |
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Colonel Valentine Baker's name is attached to one of the most notorious scandals of 19th century Victorian Britain. His name next surfaces as a soldier-of-fortune serving in Egypt during the 1880s...
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| MARK FELDMAN Book Number: 86476 |
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Sub-titled 'Escape from Mussolini's Colditz', here is the astonishing story of 24 British prisoners who used tunnels to break out of a highly fortified Italian castle-turned-prison. In March 1943 ...
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| VOLKER WEIDERMANN Book Number: 86493 |
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Capturing beautifully the feeling of departure, here is a meeting of the crème de la crème of exiled German writers during a summer of farewells. It is the summer of 1936 and the writer Stefan Zwe...
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| PETER JACKSON & DAVID HAYSOM Book Number: 87012 |
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Sub-titled 'The Secret Career of Eric Ackermann', here is the career of a man who became a leading figure in the world of signals and electronic intelligence. As a Junior Scientific Officer at the...
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| JOSEPH SINCLAIR Book Number: 87020 |
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"The work of a man of superior education, who had enlisted in a moment of pique and humiliation to avoid facing at home the consequences of his own conceit and folly. The author wrote from the ran...
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| DONALD JACK Book Number: 87055 |
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With the blackest of black comedy and seat-of-the-pants escapades, this series about a young pilot makes the War to End All Wars come roaring to life. Descriptive and full of air combats and writt...
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