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ISBN: 9781851243938
Published by Bodleian Library on September 15th 2014
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: Eyewitness accounts from British soldiers and civilians.
Remembering World War I: An Engineer’s Diary of the War
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ISBN: 9780692028612
Published by Juliet Publishing on August 27th 2014
Pages: 192
Len's Summary: A volunteer AEF engineer sergeant tells his story.
The Embattled Self: French Soldiers’ Testimony of the Great War
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ISBN: 9780801445231
Published by Cornell University Press on June 7th 2007
Pages: 214
Len's Summary: An examination of fiction and non-fiction writings by French war veterans reveals how they viewed their service and suffering. The author is Professor of History at Oberlin and the author or co-author of several prize-winning works on French society during WWI.
Sapper Martin: The Secret Great War Diary of Jack Martin
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ISBN: 1408802678
on November 2nd 2009
Pages: 272
Len's Summary: The diary of a Royal Engineer on the Western. Available from Amazon.co.uk.
Captured at Kut, Prisoner of the Turks
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ISBN: 184415873X
Published by Pen & Sword Books on May 1st 2009
Pages: 206
Len's Summary: The edited diary of a British Indian Army doctor.
Drawing Fire: The Diary of a Great War Soldier and Artist
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ISBN: 9780007313846
Published by Collins on October 1st 2009
Pages: 383
Len's Summary: The diary of an infantrymen sniper and artist who carried both a rifle and a sketchbook to war.
Letters from Verdun: Frontline Experiences of an American Volunteer in World War I France
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ISBN: 1932033947
Published by Casemate Publishers on December 2009
Pages: 240
Len's Summary: The diary and letters of Avery Royce Wolfe recounting his service as a volunteer ambulance driver with the American Field Service near Verdun and with French occupation forces in the Rhineland from June 1917 to April 1919. Excellent photos taken by Avery Wolfe illustrate this volume. // Letters of a volunteer ambulance driver in the French army at Verdun and during the Ludendorff offensives of 1918. // Letters of an American volunteer ambulance driver in the French Army.
We Hope to Get Word Tomorrow: The Garvin Family Letters, 1914-1916
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ISBN: 9781848325456
Published by Casemate Publishers on 2009
Genres: History, Europe, Great Britain, Military, World War I, Veterans, Personal Accounts
Pages: 280
Len's Summary: Collection of letters from a young British subaltern to his mother and father at home. // Exchanges of letters between a young subaltern and his family in England.
Tanks and Trenches: First Hand Accounts of Tank Warfare in the First World War
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ISBN: 9780752449364
on May 1st 2009
Genres: History, Military, Weapons, World War I, Personal Accounts
Pages: 192
Len's Summary: Reprint of the Bovington Tank Museum curator’s 1994 book filled with accounts from wartime tankers.
The Story of the Great War
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on March 30th 2011
Pages: 471
Len's Summary: First published in 1916-1920, this reprint offers contemporary first-hand accounts, biographies and narratives. Available from the publisher Weider History Group, Box 664, Holmes, PA 19043-9956. Weider publishes MHQ and several other military history magazines.
The Riddles of Wipers: An Appreciation of the Trench Journal “The Wipers Times”
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ISBN: 9781848841918
Published by Pen & Sword Books on March 2010
Genres: History, Military, World War I, Great Britain, Personal Accounts
Pages: 204
Len's Summary: Written by trench soldiers of the BEF and distributed all along the Ypres front, this newspaper bears witness of the realities of trench warfare.
Blood and Iron: Letters from the Western Front
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ISBN: 184884297X
on November 19th 2011
Pages: 234
Len's Summary: The letters of Hugh Butterworth of the 9th Rifle Brigade.
Voices from the Great War
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ISBN: 0531098117
Published by Franklin Watts on January 1st 1984
Genres: World War I, Diplomacy and Politics, Personal Accounts, Youth-accessible
Pages: 303
Len's Summary: Tells the story of the war with an eclectic compilation of literary and political quotes, headlines, and statistics.
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry: Revised Edition
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ISBN: 0141180099
Published by Penguin Classics on May 1st 1997
Genres: World War I, Personal Accounts, Youth-accessible, Poetry
Pages: 320
Len's Summary: An extensive anthology containing the works of numerous poets of most combatant nations.
All Quiet on the Western Front
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ISBN: 0449213943
Published by Ballantine on March 12th 1987
Genres: World War I, Personal Accounts, Historical Fiction
Pages: 296
Len's Summary: Classic anti-war novel which was made into a classic movie.
Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I
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ISBN: 067472593X
Published by Belknap Press on October 14th 2013
Genres: World War I, Diplomacy and Politics, Personal Accounts
Pages: 292
Len's Summary: A fresh look at how the outbreak of war was experienced the citizens of all the participating nations. -- Nobody wanted war, but Neiberg shows how it came to pass drawing on the writings of European and American diplomats, politicians and informed observers. The author is a winner of the WFA’s Tomlinson Book Prize.