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August 2004 New Title Information Highlights: |
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Secrets of Rue St. Roch |
The Boys Crusade |
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One Fourteenth of an Elephant |
The Old Contemptibles |
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Spring
1917 on the Western Front: how were the Allies to discover where the
Germans were going to make their next push, which parts of the line they
were reinforcing? In this first full account of an Allied spying operation
behind enemy lines during the First World War, Morgan describes how
British military intelligence set up its Paris office in 1917.
A
superbly graphic account of the chaos and errors, the terror and misery
which faced the American soldier in Europe in 1944-45.
Narrated
in the present tense and written with clarity, passion and a remarkable
eye for detail, Denys Peek has vividly recreated not just the hardships
and horrors of the Burma Thailand Railway and the daily struggle for
survival but also the comradeship, spirit and humour of the men who worked
on it. It stands as a haunting, evocative and deeply moving testimony to
the suffering of those who lived and died there.
The
British entered World War I convinced of victory. As tradition has it,
most even predicted an end to hostilities by Christmas. For the British
Expeditionary Force, which was expected to prevail easily and was instead
obliterated by 1915, this proved a costly assumption. In his robust
re-examination of the onset of war, Robin Neillands reviews the exploits
and character of the BEF.