First World War

Lost Tommies brings together stunning never-before-seen images of Western Front tommies and their amazing stories in a beautiful collection that is...

One hundred years after Jutland, the first and largest engagement of Dreadnoughts in the twentieth century,historians are still fighting this contr...

The Western Front has become, once again, and after 100 years, an important and increasingly popular tourist destination. The Centenary is already ...

This book will provide an entirely fresh way of looking at the Battle of the Somme 1916. It will not be a rehashed narrative history of the battle....

When Gabrielle West wrote diaries about her war to send to her much missed favourite brother in India she had no idea that a hundred years later th...

Marshal Foch, the Generalissimo of the Allied Armies during the last stages of the First World War, commenting on the victories won during the Hund...

Few towns equalled Colchester in their role in the Great War. In this expert account, Colchester historian Andrew Phillips records four of the most...

When news of the war broke out in 1914, nothing could prepare the citizens of Aberdeen for the changes that would envelop their city over the next ...

Warwick in the Great War is a detailed account of how the experiences of war impacted on the garrison town from the outbreak of the Great War in 19...

The village of Givenchy-les-la-Bassee sits on a small rise in the Pas de Calais Department in northern France. One hundred years ago it was overtak...

A hundred years ago, on 15 September 1916, on the Western Front during the Battle of the Somme, the tank made its debut on the battlefield. The fir...

Beneath the Killing Fields of the Western Front still lies a hidden landscape of industrialised conflict virtually untouched since 1918. This subte...

Durham was, and still is, one of the country's oldest and best-loved cites. The very name was synonymous with dedication, dependability and determi...

In March 1917, the first women to be enrolled into the British Army joined the newly formed Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC). The women substitu...

At 11.00 hours on 11 November 1918, the guns fell silent across the battlefields of Europe. After the deadliest conflict the world had ever seen, p...

Using original personal and military diaries, with hundreds of carefully selected newspaper extracts, letters and photographs, this book traces ind...

Following the declaration of war by the United States, more than 200 American men, unwilling to wait until US squadrons could be raised, volunteere...

Windermere and Grasmere in the Great War is an expert account of these Lake District communities' fascinating contributions to the Great War effort...

The French air force of the First World War developed as fast as the British and German air forces, yet its history, and the enormous contribution ...

This is an account of the British Expeditionary Force s defensive battle on the Somme in March and April of 1918. It starts with the huge German of...

Wars affect everyone. Whether it is fought on the battlefields or on the Home Front, by the armed forces or civilians, sacrifices have to be made a...