Book Club Choice September 2023 It was the war to end all wars. It began at 11.15 on 28 June,1914 in Sarajevo. It ended – officially – almost five years later. Unofficially, it has never ended: the horrors we live with today were born in the First World War. It…
Read more about this book >>The Routledge Atlas of the First World War: Fourth Edition
From its origins to its terrible legacy, the course of the First World War is vividly set out in a series of 196 maps. Together, these maps form a comprehensive and compelling picture of the war that devastated large parts of Europe, destroying three Empires; these maps illustrate the military,…
Read more about this book >>The Somme: The Heroism and Horror of War
The battle of the Somme was one of the most costly battles in the history of warfare. On the first day alone, 19,240 British soldiers were killed and more than 36,000 wounded. Between 1 July 1916, when it began at the height of summer, and 19 November 1916, when it…
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