The Road to Passchendaele: The Heroic Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs, Richard Van Emden

The Road to Passchendaele: The Heroic Year in Soldiers' own Words and Photographs, Richard Van EmdenNew Hardback Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly regarded series of books from the best selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once again, using the winning formula of diaries and memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on illegally held cameras by the soldiers themselves, Richard tells the story of 1917, of life both in and out of the line culminating in perhaps the most dreaded battle of them all, the Battle of

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The commonly-held view of Rome's naval history is that it essentially ended with the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra's fleet at Actium in 31 BC

revealing the war as it was seen by the men involved

the Territorial Army battalions' up to the disbandment of The Royal Leicestershire Regiment (Territorial) in 1971

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as journalists - all of whom

This is the perfect book for the general reader

seems to me beyond dispute

dined and befriended the leading National Socialists between the wars

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In July 1939 Gunter boarded a bus to the border with Luxembourg