First World War

The Decisive Year in Soldiers’ Own Words and Photographs

Author: Richard van Emden.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 373pp. 16x24x3.2cm.

ISBN: 9781526735553

Weight: 1.1kg.

Original Price: £25.00

July to September 1918

This is the story of the British Expeditionary Force’s part in the opening days of the Advance to Victory. It starts with the contribution to the Battle of Fère-en-Tardenois in July; the counter-offensive which pushed the Germans back to the River Marne.

Author: Andrew Rawson.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 213pp. 16x24x2cm.

ISBN: 9781526723406

Weight: 650g.

Original Price: £19.99

In this first fully illustrated history of the Kaiser's unwanted guests, the author looks at the lives of the thousands of Allied men who became PoWs during the Great War.

Author: David Bilton

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 208pp. 18.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781473867017

Weight: 590g

Original Price: £14.99

Thirty years in the writing, Amiens is the first book to study the battle in minute detail. Using eyewitness accounts from numerous survivors, the authors take us into the trenches, the tanks and the cockpits.

Author: James McWilliams & R. James Steel

Publisher: History Press

Paperback. 320pp. 13x20x2.5cm.

ISBN: 9780752444260

Weight: 387g

Original Price: £11.99

The BEF and the Birth of the Western Front.

Author: Jerry Murland

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 256gpp. 16cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781399074544

Weight: 453g

Original Price: £14.99

From the Belgian coast, across the fields of Flanders, over the valley of the Somme and down the line to the Argonne: all the major battlefields of the First World War, Ypres, Arras, Cambrai, Amiens, St Quentin, Mons, Le Cateau, Reims, Verdun and St Mihiel, are criss-crossed in this book over more than thirty different routes, each clearly shown on a Michelin map.

Author: Rose E B Coombs MBE.

Publisher: After the Battle.

Paperback. 248pp. 21cm by 29.7cm.

ISBN: 9781870067621

Weight: 1052g.

Original Price: £25.00

After the outbreak of the Great War, boys as young as twelve were caught up in a national wave of patriotism and, in huge numbers, volunteered to serve their country. The press, recruiting offices and the Government all contributed to the enlistment of hundreds of thousands of under-age soldiers in both Britain and the Empire. On joining up, these lads falsified their ages, often aided by parents who believed their sons’ obvious youth would make overseas service unlikely.

Author: Richard Van Emden

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 467pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781399011631

Weight. 0.963Kg

Original Price: £25.00

This is the first detailed account of the rearguard action that took place between 25 and 29 May 1940 at Cassel and Hazebrouck on the western perimeter of the Dunkirk Corridor.

Author: Jerry Murland

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 168pp. 13.3cm by 21cm.

ISBN: 9781473852655

Weight: 311g

Original Price: £12.99

Unlike the famous Christmas truce of 1914, the Christmas experiences in other years of the war and on other fronts have received scant attention. Alan Wakefield has trawled the archives to provide a fascinating selection of first-hand accounts of the six wartime Christmases of the First World War.

Author: Alan Wakefield

Publisher: History Press

Paperback. 211pp. 13x20x2cm.

ISBN: 9780750954648

Weight: 274g

Original Price: £12.99

During the First World War, British soldiers were renowned for their chirpy songs and plucky sayings. Indeed, nothing would lift the spirits of the often exhausted and weary troops more than a hearty singalong.

Author: John Brophy & Eric Partridge

Publisher: Frontline Books

Hardback. 238pp. 15.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9781526760661

Weight. 0.415 kg

Original Price: £14.99

The history of the Royal Bucks Hussars 1914-18.

Author: E.J. Hounslow.

Publisher: Spelmont.

Paperback. 192pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9780752498997

Original Price: £14.99

This is the story of two Sheffield from very different social backgrounds who both volunteered in early September 1914.

Author: John Cornwell.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Hardback. 224pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781526762245

Original Price: £25.00

This is the story of two Sheffield from very different social backgrounds who both volunteered in early September 1914.

Author: John Cornwell.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 224pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9781526767363

Weight: 560

Original Price: £14.99

Scenes from Saxony's War in Flanders 1914-1918.

Author: Andrew Lucas, Jurgen Schmieschek

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 256pp. 19cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781526748645

Weight: 932g

Original Price: £25.00

Gallipoli. Virtually unheard of prior to 1915, the very name of the Turkish peninsula bordering the Dardanelles now conjures up visions of privation and hardship and death which even surpass the horrors of the trench warfare on the Western Front.

Author: Steve Newman.

Publisher: After the Battle.

Hardback. 232pp. cm by cm.

ISBN: 9781870067294

Weight:

Original Price: £24.95

For the Central Powers, 1916 was a year of trail and error, of successes and failures, of innovation and of drastic changes.

Author: Joshua Bilton

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 152pp. 19cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781473876897

Weight: 692g

Original Price: £19.99

Krithia was a key objective in the land offensives; a killing ground greater than Anzac or Suvla.

Author: Stephen Chambers

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 192pp. 14cm by 21.6cm.

ISBN: 9781473875470

Weight: 467g

Original Price: £14.99

In Kut 1916, Patrick Crowley recounts this dramatic battle story of blunders, sacrifice, imprisonment and escape. 

Author: Patrick Crowley, Gary Sheffield (Foreword)

Publisher: History Press

Paperback. 320pp. 15.5x23.3x2.5cm.

ISBN: 9780750966061

Weight: 579g

Original Price: £18.99

From Mutiny to Scapa Flow

Author: Nicholas Jellicoe.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 351pp. 16x24x3cm.

ISBN: 9781526754585

Weight: 750g.

Original Price: £25.00

The Rise of Motor Transport with the BEF on the Western Front

Author: Michael Harrison.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 182pp. 16x24x1.6cm.

ISBN: 9781526750433

Weight: 550g.

Original Price: £19.99

Author: Gary Staff

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 288pp. 16cm by 22cm.

ISBN: 9781399077163

Weight: 501g

Original Price: £14.99

Stanley Spencer enlisted with the Royal Fusiliers as a private in 1915 and was commissioned in 1917 and thereafter served with the West Yorkshire Regiment until demobilised in 1919. He saw almost continuous active service from 1915 to the end of the War. 

Author: Stanley Spencer.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 176pp. 15.5x23.3x1.4cm.

ISBN: 9781399074629

Weight: 300g.

Original Price: £14.99

Napoleon famously said that an army marches on its stomach, but it also marches in its boots and its uniforms, carrying or driving its weapons and other equipment, and all this material has to be ordered from headquarters, produced and delivered. Janet Macdonald's detailed and scholarly new study explains how this enormously complex task of organization and labour was carried out by the British Army during the First World War.

Author: Janet Macdonald

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781526725370

Weight.558g

Original Price: £25.00

To the bitter end, September 1917 to 11 November 1918

Author: Ralph J Whitehead

Publisher: Helion

Hardback. 550pp. 21cm by 30cm.

ISBN: 9781912390885

Weight: 1.36kg

Original Price: £55.00

Martinpuich and the Butte de Warlencourt

This book is concerned with fighting south of the famous Albert-Bapaume road from mid September to the official end of the battle. 

Author: Bob Paterson.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 202pp. 13.8x21.5x1.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526764461

Weight: 400g.

Original Price: £14.99

The French Army on the Western Front 1914-1918.

Author: Ian Sumner.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 248pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9781526721822

Original Price: £14.99

A remarkably vivid and frank account of the British soldier in the trenches.

Author: Malcolm Brown.

Publisher: Greenhill Books.

Paperback. 240pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9781784383299

Original Price: £14.99

Author: Peter Doyle

Publisher: The Crowood Press

Paperback. 208pp. 21cm by 29.7cm.

ISBN: 9781785007637

Weight: 805g

Original Price: £25.00

The German-Ottoman Alliance in the First World War

Author: Klaus Wolf

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 384pp. 18cm by 25cm.

ISBN: 9781526768162

Weight: 1.258kg

Original Price: £30.00

Profusely illustrated and with excellent mapping, a hallmark of Christina Holstein's books, a visitor who follows the walks in this book will be left with a far clearer idea of the men who fought and died here and of the features of the battlefield and their significance in this battle that so challenged the endurance of the armies of two nations.

Author: Christina Holstein.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 186pp. 14cm by 21cm.

ISBN: 9781526717047

Weight: 391g

Original Price: £14.99

The grinding war: The Somme & Arras.

Author: Steven John.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 312pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN 9781526700315

Original Price: £25.00

Author: Michael Renshaw

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 176pp. 14.6cm by 22.2cm.

ISBN: 9781473832695

Weight: 321g

Original Price: £12.99