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There are 5 items in 1st World War books

An Officer's Manual of the Western Front 1914-1918

by Stephen Bull
Many people have the idea that the ‘Great War’ on the Western Front was simple, if ghastly, to fight – with few tactics, and unbroken, monotonous, trench lines as the main feature of the battlefield.
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Home Front 1914-1918

by Ian F.W. Beckett
Britain's reaction to the First World War and how it invigorated as well as devastated society. Every war has its ‘home front’, but World War I – the ‘Great War’ – was the first to utterly transform civilian life.
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The British Soldier of the First World War

by Peter Doyle
This book explores the life of the average British ‘Tommy' of the Great War, in battle and at rest, in training, and on his return home. The familiar pictures of the First World War show soldiers in their trenches: hellish images of mud.
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The Western Battlefields

Replica book - Even during the war trips, to the Great War battlefields (as to those of the Marne) were organised, and it was not long after hostilities ceased before many impressive guides for the tourist - and particularly the motorist - appeared,
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Tracing Your First World War Ancestors

by Simon Fowler
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are trying to trace family members who fought in the war in order to discover more about their experiences in the 'war to end war'.
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