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The Great War From the Air: Then and Now – Gail Ramsey

February 2, 2014June 18, 2020 Robert Mitchell 0 Comments 'aerial photography', 'first world war', 'great war', 'western front', ww1

No matter how hard we may try to picture in our minds the devastation wrought by years of almost continual

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To War In A Spitfire: The Diary of an American Spitfire Pilot Lieutenant Colonel H.C. Strawn DFC – Mark Hillier, Dieter Sinanan, and Gregory Percival

February 2, 2014June 18, 2020 Alexander Nicoll 0 Comments spitfire, strawn, wwii

Lieutenant Harry Strawn from Swissvale, Pennsylvania, was a pilot with the 309th Squadron of the 31st Fighter Group, which he

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1914: Voices From The Battlefields – Matthew Richardson

February 2, 2014June 18, 2020 John Grehan 0 Comments 'first world war', 'great war', 'personal account', 1914, Bleom, diary, wwi

This is a fine collection of personal accounts from the opening year of the First World War, a good number

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Christmas in the Trenches – Alan Wakefield

February 2, 2014June 18, 2020 Robert Mitchell 0 Comments 'first world war', 'great war', christmas, wwi

It is perhaps some measure of our humanity that the brief, partial, and entirely unauthorised, Christmas Truce of 1914, has

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Mud and Bodies: The War Diaries and Letters of Captain N.A.C. Weir, 1914-1920

February 2, 2014June 19, 2020 Alexander Nicoll 0 Comments 'great war', 'world war one', diary, flanders, loos, Ploegsteert, somme, vimy, weir, wwi

At just nineteen-years of age, Captain Neil Weir found himself a captain and company commander in the 10th Battalion, Argyll

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Monty’s Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe – John Buckley

February 2, 2014June 19, 2020 John Grehan 0 Comments 'history book review', d-day, monty

The author travels on much trodden ground in discussing the events from D-Day to the end of the war. Nevertheless,

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Steaming to Victory: How Britain’s Railways Won the War – Michael Williams

July 30, 2013June 18, 2020 Philip Curtis 0 Comments 'home front', railways, wwii

Many years ago a former locomotive fireman reminisced to me about wartime duties transporting newly arrived American troops from Liverpool

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Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze – Peter Harmsen

July 30, 2013June 18, 2020 Alexander Nicoll 0 Comments 'Battle of Shanghai', 'Chiang Kai Shek', 'Hasegawa Kiyoshi', 'Imperial Japanese Army', 'Marco Polo Bridge', 'National Revolutionary Army', Manchuria

For the Far East, the fighting which became part of the Second World War began in 1937 and continued until

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The Motherland Calls: Britain’s Black Servicemen & Women 1939-45 – Stephen Bourne

July 30, 2013June 18, 2020 John Grehan 1 Comment 'Babatunde O. Alakija', 'black history', 'coloured servicemen', Deniyi, wwii

During the Second World War volunteers from across the British Empire played their part in fighting Germany and its allies.

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Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War – Gerry Docherty and Jim Macgregor

July 29, 2013June 18, 2020 John Grehan 0 Comments 'conspiracy theory', 'great war', 'origins of wwi', 'secret elite', wwi

The authors of this thought-provoking book make the extraordinary claim that a small group of rich and powerful men sought,

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