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Stanley Spencer enlisted with the Royal Fusiliers as a private in 1915 and was commissioned in 1917 and thereafter served with the West Yorkshire Regiment until demobilised in …

Spain (1936-9), China (1937 onwards), Mongolia (1939), Finland (1939-40) and France (1939-40) were a testing ground for a new approach to air tactics with western democracies and …

Hiver 1939, mon grand-p re repose son journal sur la table basse qui nous s pare, son visage refl te une sorte de lassitude et de col re contenue, que je ne lui connais pas. …

En roman om mod, förnedring och överlevnad i skuggan av WW1. Den franska ubåten Q47 Topaze beger sig ut på ett uppdrag i Dardanellerna i januari 1915. De ska ta sig förbi de …

The Sojourn, finalist for the National Book Award and winner of both the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and inaugural Chautauqua Prize, is the story of Jozef Vinich, who was uprooted …

Published in a new edition on the centenary of the seismic battle, this book provides the definitive account of the Somme and assigns responsibility to military and political …

Barely a decade passed from the Wright Brothers' first powered flight to aircraft becoming lethal instruments of war. The Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service took off in …

Jim McConnell was one of the first Americans to serve with the French during WWI, first as an ambulance driver and then as a pilot. On the University of Virginia campus, one …

A highly illustrated look at the desperate race for resources between Britain, Germany, Turkey, Russia and local forces in Azerbaijan.Against the background of the …