First class . . . a book that helps the reader to understand just what the ordinary soldier thought about his lot in the Great War. The Western Front Association This is a most unusual chronicle of the events of one man during the Great War. A professional soldier at... Lees meer.

For nearly eight years Francesca has worked hard to build her companies into something strong creative and successful. Upon the advice of her heart Francesca plans a vacation to Paris France where she really needs to unwind. Once her vacation starts she accidently... Lees meer.

Following a passionate and troubled love affair with a pretty widow named Jane Holdsworth Jury finds himself unaccountably a suspect in a murder investigation. Detained in London Jury sends his friend Melrose Plant former Earl of Caverness to the Holdsworth family... Lees meer.

It was the opinion of the wise Pythagoras and of some other philosophers that the souls of men women and children after their death are sent into other human bodies and sometimes into those of beasts and birds or even insects and that they hereby change their r... Lees meer.

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A Highland Regimental Scout recounts his experience of the Retreat from Mons. This is a superb account of the early stages of the First World War in Europe. Its author was a infantryman of the British Army who had been a serving soldier for seven years before the outbre... Lees meer.

When the lady he had hoped to marry is murdered not even Richard Jury is above suspicion and so Jury s friend Melrose Plant must probe the mystery of her death in his stead... Lees meer.

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos An Old Contemptible recounts the campaign of 1914. At the outbreak of the First World War units of the British regular army-the B. E. F-were despatched to the continent... Lees meer.

The British entered World War I convinced of victory. Many even predicted an end to hostilities by Christmas. For the British Expeditionary Force which was instead obliterated by 1915 this proved a costly assumption. In his robust re-examination of the onset of war R... Lees meer.

The days from 24 May to 28 May 1940 altered the course of history in the 20th century as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue the war. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacs s stu... Lees meer.

Impressed with the tactical lessons of the Boer War the British Army reformed its doctrine and training from 1899 to 1914 deploying a combat ready force the Old Contemptibles of the British Expeditionary Force BEF in 1914. Because of these changes the BEF playe... Lees meer.

Osprey s overview of the First Battle of Ypres of World War I 1914-1918 . In the autumn of 1914 the original British Expeditionary Force faced a heavily reinforced German drive. Field Marshal Sir John French the British Commander-in-Chief had sent his men north in an... Lees meer.

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