New stock added

The following titles are some of the new stock this added this month. Each title is also listed on the appropriate catalogue page.

DOUGLAS HAIG AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR by J P Harris. A definitive new life of the British Army’s controversial Commander-in-Chief during the First World War. Paul Harris decisively answers the contested issue of whether Haig's tactics cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of British soldiers during the First World War or were essential to the Allied victory. From December 1915 until the armistice of November 1918, Sir Douglas Haig was commander-in-chief of the largest army his country had ever put into the field. He has been portrayed as both an incompetent 'butcher and bungler' and a clear-sighted, imperturbable 'architect of victory'. However, in this magisterial new account, J. P. Harris dispels such stereotypes. Hardback. 650 pp. £25 - OUR PRICE £19.99

GERMAN STRATEGY AND THE PATH TO VERDUN – Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition 1970 – 1916 by Robert T. Foley. For almost 90 years, the battle of Verdun has been synonymous with senseless slaughter. By examining the development of German military ideas from the Franco-German War in 1871 to the First World War, this book offers an unprecedented understanding of one of the bloodiest battles of the twentieth century. Softback. 300 pp. £22.99 - OUR PRICE £20.99

ENDURING THE GREAT WAR - Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914–1918 by Alexander Watson. This unique account of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War argues that at the heart of armies' robustness lay natural human resilience. It explains why the British outlasted their opponents by examining and comparing German and British soldiers' motivation, morale and coping mechanisms. An innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War. Hardback. 280 pp. £50 - OUR PRICE £46.99

DIGGING THE TRENCHES – The archaeology of the Western Front by Andrew Robertshaw & David Kenyon. Modern research methods - archaeological, historical, and forensic - have transformed our view of the past. The authors show how archaeology can be used to reveal the position of trenches, dugouts and other battlefield features and to rediscover what life on the Western Front was really like. And they show how individual soldiers are themselves part of the story, for forensic investigation of the war dead is now so highly developed that individuals can be identified and their fate discovered. Hardback £25.00 – OUR PRICE £19.99

SNIPING IN THE GREAT WAR by Martin Pegler. This account follows the development of sniping from the early battles of 1914, through the trench fighting and the attritional offensives of the middle years, to the renewed open warfare of 1918. He concentrates on the continuous British and German sniping war on the Western Front, but he also looks at how snipers operated in other theatres, at Gallipoli and Salonika and on the Eastern Front. Hardback. Published price £19.99 – OUR PRICE £16.99

THE DAY WE WON THE WAR – Turning Point at Amiens 8 August 1918 by Charles Messenger. In this comprehensive history of the battle Charles Messenger explains the complex innovations in weaponry and tactics that made the Allied victory possible. Using sources from Australia, Canada, France, The USA, Britain and Germany, he gauges the mindset of the various armies at the time, and recreates the atmosphere of the battle with numerous eyewitness testimonies. The result is a compelling account of one of the most dramatic events in military history. Illustrated. Hardback £20.00 – OUR PRICE £17.99

DOVER & FOLKESTONE DURING THE GREAT WAR by Michael and Christine George. During the Great War of 1914-1918 these two towns were again vulnerable to enemy action, and they played a vital role in war effort. As this well-researched and highly illustrated book shows, the people of the Channel Ports suffered from bombardment by air and sea. They also played a significant role in the experience of the men who fought in the Great War. Paperback. £10.99 – OUR PRICE £9.49

THE GERMANS AT ARRAS (Images of War) by David Bilton. This highly-illustrated book considers (from the German viewpoint) the Battle of Arras of 1917. In addition to the introduction giving the historical context there are 350 photographs of the villages/towns,the trenches, troop movements, trenches, cemeteries, dealings with civilians. These vividly convey what the area from Lens-Arras-Bullecourt-Havrincourt-Cambrai-Douai was like under German occupation. Softback. £14.99 - OUR PRICE £12.75