Subject: World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives (Keywords)

At the beginning of 1918 the great aces seemed invincible, but as the First World War came to a close very few had survived. This epic history of the final year of the air war is both a chronicle of the ways in which 1918 changed aerial combat forever, and a requiem for the pioneers who became vi...

Thomson examines how the Anzac legend was created and looks at the form it has taken since Charles Bean's seminal work. The effects of the legend on those who live under its shadow, especially the survivors of the Great War, are also questioned.

Describing the experiences of 20 ordinary people from around the world, all now known, the author explores the everyday aspects of war: not only the tragedy and horror, but also the absurdity, monotony and even beauty.

When war broke out in 1914, no one was more caught up in the popular tide of patriotism than the young boys who wanted to fight for King and country. This is their untold story - the heroics of boys aged as young as 13 who enlisted for full combat training.

Even 100 years on from the First World War it haunts us still. No other conflict has revealed so dramatically the senselessness of war, and none has shaped the modern world to the same extent, from its impact on the Russian Revolution and the rise of Hitler to the final break-up of the British Em...

The First World War as a living history is to all intents and purposes over. As of February 2005, there are only 12 veterans from 6,000,000 alive who served on the Western Front. In this book, Richard van Emden brings together an extraordinary collection of stories as told to him over the last 20...

In 1912, Norland children's nurse Kate Fox was travelling by train heading to the British military station at Nowshera on the Afghan border to care for the premature baby born to the base's commanding officer. Two years later, Kate was escaping from Germany in the first days of the Great War, lea...