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Marjorie's War

by Reginald and Charles Fair
Using the Fair family archive of diaries, over 800 letters and 400 photographs telling of love and loss, this provides a rare insight into female and Home Front experiences and war’s impact on Edwardian England.
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Murderous Tommies

by Julian Putkowski & Mark Dunning
This book provides for a full account of the cases involving twelve soldiers and one officer whose homicidal misdeeds were committed in France and Flanders while hostilities were in progress.
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My Boy Jack

by Tonie Hart
This is the full account of the tragic life of John 'Jack' Kipling. On 27th September 1915 John Kipling, the only son of Britain's best loved poet, disappeared during the Battle of Loos. The body lay undiscovered for 77 years.
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Now All Roads Lead to France

by Matthew Hollis
An account of the final five years of First World War poet Edward Thomas, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas' fatal decision to fight in the war.
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Plough and Scatter

by J Ivor Hanson
Imperial War Museum historian Alan Wakefield has edited the diaries and provides engaging explanatory narratives for each chapter to set them within the context of the First World War.
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Quick & the Dead

by Richard Van Emden
Through a unique collection of over fifty interviews, private diaries and a remarkable collection of unpublished letters written by the soldiers to their families back home, The Quick and the Dead is a history of families of the fallen.
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Remembering Fromelles

by Julie Summers
In May 2009 archaeologists began to excavate the remains of 250 British and Australian soldiers, buried behind German lines after the Battle of Fromelles in July 1916 - undiscovered, for nearly a century until an Australian historian convinced milita
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Retreat & Rearguard

by Jerry Murland
Extensive use of primary source material, including first-hand accounts, letters, diaries and official unit records, brings alive this informative account of an historic, if not victorious, chapter in our Nation’s military history.
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Roses of No Man's Land

by Lyn Macdonald
'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War...
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Scrimgeour's Small Scribbling Diary 1914-1916

by Alexander Scrimgeour
Unique insight in to a bygone age. Alexander Scrimgeour's diaries cover six years up until the Battle of Jultland in 1916 and reveal his personal and naval life.
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