Author: Richard Van Emden

What greater pride might a young man feel than to serve shoulder to shoulder with his friends in time of war? To enlist into the army with his pals...

How long would you look for a missing son, even if you knew he was dead? How long could you justify such a search? Two years? Five years? A lifetim...

In May 1918, Angela and Leopold Mond received a knock on the front door. It was the postman and he was delivering the letter every family in the Un...

At the end of the First World War more than 192,000 wives had lost their husbands, and nearly 400,000 children had lost their fathers. Few people r...

On the centenary of the Great War, there are now no longer any veterans alive of the six million men who served on the Western Front. Although thi...

Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly-regarded series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once aga...

Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly-regarded series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once aga...

An extraordinary biography by the very last witness of a devastating four years in British history Daily Mail On 17 June 2009, Harry Patch celebra...

The offensive on the Somme took place between July and November 1916 and is perhaps the most iconic battle of the Great War. It was there that Kitc...

For soldiers in the Great War, going over the top was a comparatively rare event; much more frequently, they were bored and lonely and missing thei...

Presenting more than 150 never-before-published photographs of the campaign, many taken by the soldiers themselves, together with unpublished writt...

The truth about the sacrifice and suffering on the home front during World War I is rarely discussed. In this book, some of the oldest men and wome...

1918 proved to be the Allies year of victory, but what a monumental effort it was! From the moment Germany launched its all-out Spring offensive to...

1918: The Fight for Victory. The Decisive Year in Soldiers' Own Words and Photographs is the next volume in the remarkable series of books from the...