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178 Siege Battery R.G.A.
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 11.49The battery was raised at Forth in June 1916, equipped with four 6in Howitzers. The book describes the origin of the battery and opens with the nominal roll of the original battery, six officers and 128 men, with a group photo. To this roll are added, separately, the names of 14 officers who joined later. At the end is the nominal roll at the start... more...
1789
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009; US$ 7.99The world in 1789 stood on the edge of a unique transformation. At the end of an unprecedented century of progress, the fates of three nations?France; the nascent United States; and their common enemy, Britain?lay interlocked. France, a nation bankrupted by its support for the American Revolution, wrestled to seize the prize of citizenship from... more...
The 18th Division in the Great War
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 25.49The 18th (Eastern) Division was formed in mid-September 1914, part of Kitcheners Second New Army. It was lucky in its first GOC, Ivor Maxse, who had been brought home from commanding the 1st (Guards) Brigade, an officer well known for his ability in training skills and for demanding the highest standards. He was to be their GOC until January... more...
1915 Campaign in France
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 10.99This account is primarily intended for officers studying the 1915 campaign and considers the battles in relation to the Field Service Regulations to which there are many references. It is the result of a very great deal of study and also of personal experience on the Western front. It comprises appreciations of the situation at various dates, diaries... more...
1918 Year of Victory
Exisle Publishing 2010; US$ 9.99World War I, ?The Great War? involved the mobilisation of some 70 million soldiers worldwide. It produced images of such pervasive horror on the Western Front that it defined warfare in human memory long into the twentieth century. The war also left a grim legacy: 13 million people died, 9 million of them combatants. Over one-third of those who died... more...
20th Hussars in the Great War
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 16.99When war broke out, the 20th Hussars were in Colchester, where they had been since 1911. They were one of the three regiments making up the 5th Cavalry Brigade commanded by Brig-Gen Sir Philip Chetwode, who rose to the command of XX Corps, and after the war became C-in-C India and Field Marshal. The regiment arrived in France on 18th August (A... more...
The 25th Division in France and Flanders
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 20.99The 25th Division (74th, 75th and 76th Brigades) was formed in September 1914, one of Kitcheners Third New Army divisions, under the command of Major-General F.Ventris (late Essex), who had retired some five years earlier. He was replaced at the end of May 1915 by B.J.C Doran (late R Irish Regt), a regular, promoted from command of the 68th Brigade;... more...
The 54th Infantry Brigade: 1914-1918
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 17.49This book has a subtitle: 'Some Records of Battle and Laughter in France' which sets the tone of this history, the history of one of the most remarkable brigades that fought on the Western Front, part of one of the most remarkable divisions. The 18th (Eastern) Division became an elite formation, one of Kitcheners Second New Army divisions,... more...
The 56th Division: 1914-1918
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 26.49This is the history of a pre-war TF division, the 1st London Division. It had the unhappy experience of being broken up right at the beginning of the war to provide reinforcements elsewhere. By the beginning of 1915 the division had ceased to exist, but in January 1916 it was reconstituted in France and numbered 56th. Its first major engagement... more...









