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Tommy's Ark

by Richard Van Emden
Tommy's Ark looks at the war through the eyes of the soldiers who were there, and examines their relationship with a strange and unexpected range of animal life, from horses, dogs and cats to monkeys and birds - even in one case a golden eagle.
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Tracing British Battalions on the Somme

by Ray Westlake
A comprehensive compendium of the exact movements of every battalion involved in the Battle of the Somme. This book is invaluable not only to researchers but to all those visiting the battlefield and anxious to trace the movements of their forbears.
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Tracing Great War Ancestors

by Tim Saunders & Richard Hone
Using the details of his great uncle William Pye’s service between 1914 and 1918, this film shows how with the help of battlefield historian, Tim Saunders, Richard Hone attempts to ‘Find Uncle Bill’ and trace his war on the Western Front.
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Tracing Your Prisoner of War Ancestors : The First World War

by Sarah Paterson
An essential introduction for readers who are keen to get an insight into the experience of a POW or an internee during the First World War, and an invaluable guide for anyone who is trying to trace an ancestor who was captured.
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Trench Talk

by Peter Doyle
For lexographers everywhere this book looks at how the experience of the First World War changed the English language, adding words that were both in slang and standard military use, and modifying the usage and connotations of existing words and phra
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Underground War

by Phillip Robinson & Nigel Cave
This is the first part of a planned four-volume series focusing on a hitherto largely neglected aspect of the First World War on the Western Front - the war underground.
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War Horses

by Simon Butler
Draws upon over 200 photographs and eye-witness accounts to illustrate the actuality of war and the vital role played by the horse on the Western Front.
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Warrior

by General Jack Seely
The story of Warrior, the war horse, and how a combination of both the horse's extraordinary character and some unbelievable twists of fate, helped him survive a war which claimed the lives of 8 million horses.
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We Will Not Go To War

by Felicity Goodall
During the First and Second World Wars thousands of men and women refused the call to arms. Reviled, starved and beaten, theirs was a battle of conscience.
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When I Join The Ranks

by The Major
Small replica booklet giving information to recruits signing up to fight in the First World War. Includes chapters


  • The first Day
  • Where I shall live
  • How I shall be paid
  • How I play
  • Military Hospitals
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