Walter Tull would have been a remarkable individual no matter when he had been born, but to achieve what he did, during the time that he did, makes him even more remarkable.
_Happy Days in France and Flanders_ was written by Benedict Williamson within three years of the end of the First World War. It is a viivid account of his experiences, starting with the trauma of working in a Casualty Clearing Station during the Battle of Messines 1917.
Students from Trinity College Cambridge Who Died During the Great War
by Nigel McCrery
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781399049009
Pub Date: 2025-06-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
600 Pages
How World War I devastated Trinity College, Cambridge, through the biographies of the 600 undergraduates who were killed during the conflict.This is the story of just one Cambridge college and the effect...
From platoon commander at Belleau Wood, through the Pacific War and Korea to becoming the 20th Commandant of the Marine Corps in 1952: Lemuel Shepherd was the consummate Leatherneck.
The Hunting Falcon was written by Hans-Joachim Buddecke, a top German First World War ace. Though his autobiography of his experiences as a combat pilot were published in the Spring of 1918, in the last year of the war, Buddecke did not see his book in print; he was shot down over the Western Front on 10 March 1918.
This memoir of a Royal Flying Corps officer's escape from captivity in the autumn of 1917 was published in the earlier thirties, towards the end of the torrent of personal war accounts that were put into print in the years following the Armistice.
In 1917, Siegfried Sassoon defied military authority by refusing further service and condemning Britain's war aims, risking court-martial.On 13 July 1917 a thirty-year-old junior officer on leave from...
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