First World War

NOTES ON PACK TRANSPORT - Issued, with amendments 1916 During the Great War, animals - specifically horses - were needed to transport heavy l...

One of the rare books about the First World War that visually explores the efforts of the major combatants to remember the fallen along the entir...

This is a rare chance to re-discover a contemporary account of a military conflict which took place a Century ago. The Agony of Belgium, written in...

Moving and inspired book ... An evocative and deeply affecting requiem for what might have been.' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin and Former Pe...

On 13 August, with the war only a matter of days old, the German cargo vessel, Herbert Fischer, was on its way from Russia to deliver timber to J T...

Oswald Boelcke was Germanys first ace in World War One with a total of forty victories. His character, inspirational leadership, organisational gen...

When the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service merged on 1 April 1918, to form the Royal Air Force, the new command needed to have its...

The year 1919 has often been ignored in historians dizzy haste to enter the world of the Roaring Twenties but it was a year of enormous challenges ...

An account of Falmouth during World War One, based on first-hand accounts and contemporary material held in the Falmouth History and Royal Polytech...

Examining the origins of the First World War has been called the ultimate who dunnit. In his book, published on the anniversary of the assassinatio...

Why did the Germans brutally and illegally execute a group of British soldiers who had been trapped behind the lines during the retreat to the Marn...

Geology controls the outcome of battle and no more so than during the trench warfare of the Great War; this new book by expert Peter Doyle takes u...