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1561) The Cameliers
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"Oliver Hogue (1880-1919), journalist and soldier, was born on 29 April 1880 in Sydney … He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in Sep. 1914 as a trooper with the 6th Light Horse Regiment. Commissioned second lieutenant in Nov., he sailed for Egypt with the 2nd L.H. Brigade in the Suevic in Dec.. Hogue served on Gallipoli with the Light Horse (dismounted) for five months, then was invalided to England with enteric fever. In May 1915 he was...
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After the cataclysmic events of the First World War officially ended on the Western Front in 1918, the Democratic Western Powers were still faced with the fallout of the struggle for power in Russia. There was a very real chance that the Communist contagion would transfer across the borders of Russia to Eastern Europe, as it would do some two decades later. Viscount Edgar Vincent D'Abernon was head of the Interallied Mission to Poland and was eye-witness...
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Harry de Windt (1856–1933) was a man who, by any standards, was a personality, a marked presence in the world of Victorian and Edwardian literature and social life. He was a member of the literary circle around Oscar Wilde and his friend and lover, Bosie (Lord Alfred Douglas); he was active in the world of the turf; and he travelled he took on dangerous journeys with relish, crossing vast tracts of the British and Russian empires for the sheer...
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A veteran Non-Commissioned Officer tells of his experiences among the shells, wounded and diseases of the Egyptian Campaign of World War One. Includes 32 illustrations. THIS account of the work of the Royal Army Medical Corps in Egypt from the earliest days of the British Occupation in 1883 to the close of the Sinai Desert Campaign at the beginning of 1917, is in no way official, nor must it be regarded as in any sense officially inspired... It is...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale en moins d'une heure !
Alors que les Alliés sont affaiblis par leurs récents échecs, les Allemands, eux, n'ont jamais été aussi féroces qu'en ce début d'année 1918. Grâce à la reddition de la Russie, ils peuvent en effet rappeler les divisions qui se trouvaient à l'est pour frapper un grand coup sur le front occidental. Mais il leur faut agir vite afin...
1566) November 1917 - January 1918 Marine Flyer In France - The Diary Of Captain Alfred A. Cunningham
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During November and December 1917, Captain Alfred A. Cunningham, the first Marine Corps aviator, travelling under orders from Major General Commandant George Barnett, toured the battlefronts and flying fields of France to observe Allied air operations and training. The diary, kept in tiny, neat handwriting in a small pocket notebook, begins on 3 November 1917 with Cunningham's sailing from New York on board the S. S. St. Paul. After a description...
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The Chasseurs Alpins, trained to fight in the mountains that border France, were and are to this day considered among the elite of the French Army. It was in the mountains of the Alsace region during the First World War that Captain Ferdinand Belmont fell prey to German fire. He was a soldier of rare ability fighting, decorated with the Légion d'Honneur and mentioned in despatches three times, but does not truly paint the picture of the man. A doctor...
1568) Beatrice and Alexander
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When Beatrice married Victor Davenport she intended to have his children. He's a wealthy banker, used to getting his own way. Neither of them bargained for one summer's evening and its unexpected guest. Set in London, New York and Oxfordshire in 1911, this new novel explores a British marriage under threat, a family wrecked by infidelity and scandal, and an explosion of forbidden love.
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el desenlace de la Primera Guerra Mundial, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Descubrir el contexto del desenlace de la Gran Guerra, con una victoria aliada potenciada por la entrada en guerra de los Estados Unidos y por el colapso económico de los aliados de los alemanes
• Comprender el estado de...
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Includes 29 maps. The author of this diary is an artillery officer who served on the Western Front from 1 Sep. 1915 till his death in action on 31st March 1918, and it is one of the best, ranking alongside Old Soldiers Never Die and The Journal of Private Fraser. Following two brief spells in 1914/1915 with the BEF during the first of which he was injured when his horse fell on him, he arrived in France on 1st Sep. 1915 as OC 'C' Battery, 108 Brigade...
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"The Riddle of the Sands - A Record of Secret Service Recently Achieved" is a 1903 novel by British-born Irish writer Erskine Childers (1870—1922). "The Riddle of the Sands" is a nautical tale of a two-man sailing trip along the German coast at the beginning of the twentieth century. An accomplished yachtsman, Childers uses this realistic and portentous story to warn Britain of the increasing threat posed by Germany before the First World War. Contents...
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"Trench sketches by well-known Irish nationalist MP Major 'Willie' Redmond. A memorial volume published after his death at Messines in June 1917 . This is much more than a run-of-the mill account of an officer's life in the trenches of the Great War. The author of these sketches, Major Redmond, (1861-1917) was a well-known moderate Irish nationalist politician... 'Willie' Redmond was himself a nationalist MP, but at the outbreak of the war, although...
1574) Contact
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Originally published in 1937, this book is the story of one New Englander's experience in the bombing service during the First World War. He tells of his training and his experiences in France, as well as his friends and of his imprisonment in Germany. Simple and direct in style, this book will appeal to those who served in the air overseas, and those whose background is factual and not theoretical.
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An American eagle with British wings
Readers interested in the personal experiences of the resolute and brave young men who ventured into the air to fight the first aerial combats will discover much to reward them in this book. The author joined the R. F. C in 1914 to fight Germany following its invasion of Belgium and advance into France at the beginning of the First World War. However, he was, in fact an American much taken with the idea of adventure...
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Includes 16 photographs of the author and the planes in which he flew in. Perhaps the most influential journalist of his generation, Ralph Pulitzer was heir to a vast fortune and a publishing empire that rivalled even the Hearst organisation in the early years of the Twentieth Century. As Europe descended into the vicious fighting of the First World War, the American giant across the Atlantic was courted by the Allies to throw off her isolationist...
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Nearly 1.7 million French soldiers died in the First World War fighting for their homeland against the invading German Armies; it is difficult to comprehend that hecatomb. It is indeed difficult to comprehend that many lost lives, perhaps the only way to do so is in representative figures such as the Unknown Soldier or by the many memoirs and diaries that have been left behind. One such diary is that of Captain André Cornet-Auquier, a passionate...
1578) The Strange Case of Dr. Schacht And Mr. Hitler Freemasonry and the Nazi Swastika in the Third Reich
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In the darkest years of the 20th century, Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime cast a long and terrifying shadow over the world. The swastika, the symbol of Nazi power and oppression, became synonymous with hatred and brutality. However, a curious and enigmatic figure was hidden within this sinister regime, occupying a paradoxical position. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, a prominent economist, and financial wizard, emerged as an intriguing character at the heart of the...
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Joe (Corporal Rendinell) at the outbreak of the War was working in the steel mills as an electrician. He joined up with the 6th Marines, and - fought with his regiment through the battle of Belleau Woods. He was wounded and gassed three times, rejoined his regiment and was discharged at the end of the war with three citations for bravery. "Here is the war seen through the eyes of the average young American soldier, disciplined and toughened by it,...
1580) When The Somme Ran Red
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Captain Dugmore stands as a rather strange figure even in the mass of personalities that fought in the Great War: an artist of some standing, a writer, and traveller. When the war broke out in 1914, he visited Belgium as a private citizen; appalled by the damage that the Germans, who were overrunning country in short order at the time, were wreaking he decided to join the British Army. There was only one small problem: at the time he was forty-four,...
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