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By: Alan Palmer
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Constable: Jul-17
Seller ID: 466618
ISBN: 1472124804
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace', but in 1914 the town, and the Salient, the 35-mile bulge in the Western Front, of which it is part, saw a 1500-day military campaign of mud and blood at the heart of the First World War that turned it into the devil's nursery.
Distinguished biographer and historian of modern Europe Alan Palmer tells the story of the war in Flanders as a conflict that has left a deep social and political mark on the history of Europe.
Denying Germany possession of the historic town of Ypres and access to the Channel coast was crucial to B...
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By: Charles Emmerson
Price: $6.00
Publisher: PublicAffairs: Jun-14
Seller ID: 456473
ISBN: 1610393805
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
Price: $5.00
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: Jun-15
Seller ID: 466623
ISBN: 393351289
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Diana Preston
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press: May-16
Seller ID: 466620
ISBN: 1620402149
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
Between April 22 and May 31, 1915, Western civilization was shocked. World War I was already appalling in its brutality, but until then it had been fought on the battlefield and by rules long agreed by international convention. Suddenly those rules were abandoned. On April 22, at Ypres, German canisters spewed poison gas over French and Canadian soldiers in their trenches; on May 7, the German submarine U-20, without warning, torpedoed the passenger liner Lusitania; and on May 31, a German zeppelin began the first aerial bombardment of London. Each of these actions violated rules of ...
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By: Douglas Waller
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Free Press: Feb-12
Seller ID: 467460
ISBN: 1416576207
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Ellis, John
Price: $2.50
Seller ID: 468227
ISBN: 801839475
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Ferguson, Niall
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Jan-14
Seller ID: 453424
ISBN: 046505711X
Binding: Hardcover
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By: G. J. Meyer
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Bantam: Feb-18
Seller ID: 455166
ISBN: 553393340
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Geoffrey Wawro
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Basic Books: Apr-15
Seller ID: 456897
ISBN: 465057950
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Geoffrey Wawro
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Basic Books: Apr-15
Seller ID: 486641
ISBN: 465057950
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Holger H. Herwig
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: Feb-11
Seller ID: 467119
ISBN: 812978293
Binding: Trade Paperback
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By: Ian F.W. Beckett
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Yale University Press: Jun-14
Seller ID: 456462
ISBN: 030020664X
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
An original and spellbinding reinterpretation of the most significant events of the Great War
Nearly a century has passed since the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Ferdinand, yet the repercussions of the devastating global conflict that followed echo still. In this provocative book, historian Ian Beckett turns the spotlight on twelve particular events of the First World War that continue to shape the world today. Focusing on episodes both well known and scarcely remembered, Beckett tells the story of the Great War from a new perspective, stressing accident as ...
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By: Jack Beatty
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA: Feb-15
Seller ID: 466614
ISBN: 1632862026
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
Now in paperback, a brilliant history of the year it began--"a year forever memorable," in Woodrow Wilson's words--that examines the war and its causes through new eyes.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks: Feb-20
Seller ID: 481872
ISBN: 62852787
Binding: Trade Paperback
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By: John Keegan
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Vintage: May-00
Seller ID: 466465
ISBN: 375700455
Binding: Trade Paperback
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By: John Keegan
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Vintage Uk: Aug-99
Seller ID: 467626
ISBN: 712666451
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Larson, Erik
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Broadway Books: March 2016
Seller ID: 467488
ISBN: 0307408876
Binding: Trade Paperback
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By: Larson, Erik
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Broadway Books: March 2016
Seller ID: 474028
ISBN: 0307408876
Binding: Trade Paperback
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By: Larson, Erik
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Broadway Books: March 2016
Seller ID: 474802
ISBN: 0307408876
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Larson, Erik
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Broadway Books: March 2016
Seller ID: 481558
ISBN: 0307408876
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good