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The First World War The First World War, Personal memoirs of soldiers of all nations on all fronts, anthologies, literature and fiction, history and analysis   1051 Books
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Littoral Belge - Belgian Coast - Belgische Cust 1914-1918. Orig. printed wraps., 15 col. drawings on 12pp., oblong 8vo (235x158mm). Bruxelles: Collection Marcovici. nd (1920s)  #67561
[HLMainPic] Series of fifteen appealing coloured views (based on photos.) of locations on the Belgian coast at La Panne, Coxyde, Nieuport-Bains, Lombartzyde &c., showing war damage & wartime emplacements, ordnance &c. VG. See illustrations on our website.   £35
Ypres 1914: An Official Account Published by Order of the German General Staff. Translated by G.C.W[ynne]. 1st Eng. Ed., xxiv+136pp., 7 sketch maps. Constable. 1919  #61010
[HLMainPic] Translation of the German official account of 1st Ypres. Intro. & notes by the Historical Section (Military Branch), Committee of Imperial Defence. Orig. blue cloth, little marked, VG. See illustration on our website.   £45
The War Work of the G.E.C. 1st Ed., 83pp., 4to, photos. throughout. Published by the G.E.C. Publicity Organisation. nd (c.1920)  #67866
[HLMainPic] A high quality, profusely illustrated record of the war work of the General Electric Co. Ltd. at its factories in Birmingham, Kent, Coventry, &c., where shells, aerial bombs & many other warlike supplies were manufactured. Also contains a list of honours & awards gained by members of staff while on active service. Orig. blue cushioned morocco, gilt design & title to front, light rubbing to edges o/w VG with an oval stamp of a works library to front blank. See illustrations on our website.   £125
The German Forces in the Field. 6th Revision, April, 1918. Compiled by the General Staff, War Office. Facsimile Reprint, iv+270pp. General Staff, April 1918  #66744
[HLMainPic] Full Order of Battle of German divisions &c. Orig. brown printed canvas covd. boards, rather serviceworn & stained, neat tape rerpair to front inner joint, tp worn with loss (but not affecting text), sound & rare. See illustrations on our website.   £145
Battle of The Marne 8th-10th September, 1914. Tour of the Battlefield. 1st Ed., orig. printed card wrappers with map pocket, 50pp., 3 fldg. maps. HMSO (By Command of the Army Council). 1935  #69489
[HLMainPic] Detailed & useful study published for instruction of officers, including: Events Leading up to the Battle of the Marne; Notes on the 1914 Training Manuals; Summary of the Battle; Tour of the Battlefield; Principal Lessons of the Battle; Orders of Battle of Troops Engaged (British, French & German). Orig. printed card wraps., VG & scarce.   £145
The Letters of Major Henry Bentinck, Coldstream Guards. 1st Ed., vi+138pp., portrait frontis., 3 plates. VG in sl. chipped dw. Robert Scott. 1919  #65201
[HLMainPic] Henry Duncan Bentinck was ed. at Harrow & Trinity College, Cambridge. Commissioned Coldstream Guards in 1903, served in Egypt/Sudan 1903-1911 & 1913-1915 (with XII Sudanese). He joined the 2nd Coldstream in France in April 1915 & Died of Wounds on 2/10/1916, of wounds received on the Somme. Contains a memoir & his letters including those from France April 1915-Sept. 1916. Of interest for life in trenches, Guards characters, &c. Orig. red cloth, VG in sl. chipped dw & scarce, especially in dw. See illustrations on our website.   £175
A Beloved Memory. Raven Cozens-Hardy, 4th Norfolks and Cley Hall, Norfolk. Born April 3rd, 1886. Fell in Action at Polderhoek on October 9th, 1917. 1st Ed., [56]pp., 187x138mm. Fletcher & Son, Printers, Norwich. 1918  #70240
[HLMainPic] Raven Cozens-Hardy was Ed. at Kendal Grammar School, Marcon's Hall and Exeter College, Oxford, before joining a firm of city stockbrokers. He enlisted in the Inns of Court O.T.C. in September 1914 and received a commission in the 4th Bn. Norfolk Regiment (Territorial Force) a month later; he spent a considerable time on training duties in England with the 11th (Reserve) Bn. but was eventually attached to the 1st Bn. in France in 1917 and fell in action at Polderhoek during the Third Battle of Ypres. He was thirty-one, has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. This memorial consists almost entirely of extracts from letters of condolence, local press notices and so forth, including accounts of his death in action ("It was a dull October morning when at dawn our Battalion went over the top, and it was whilst gallantly leading his company against one of Fritz's pill boxes that he, like the true soldier that he was, met his death."). Orig. white paper covered boards, gilt to front, VG & rare.   £125
Frederick Goodyear: Letters & Remains 1887-1917. 1st Ed., xv+193pp., portrait frontis. McBride Nast & Co. 1920  #64882
[HLMainPic] Memorial volume including letters from the Front. UCS & Brasenose College Oxford (where he was regarded as "unambitious & dilatory"); became Assistant Manager of the Oxford Univ. Press at Bombay, but came home in 1914 to enlist in the ranks of the Artist's Rifles: served with them in France from May-Sept. 1915 when he transferred to the RE (Meteorological Dept.) then commissioned in the Essex Regt. in Feb. 1917, joined the 2nd Essex on 16th March 1917, wounded at Fampoux during Battle of Arras, 12th May 1917 & Died of Wounds on the 23rd May inst. Contents include letters from India & around 45pp. letters from France 1915-17. These are followed by a selection of poetry & prose compositions. Blue cloth, gilt to spine, some splitting to sp., generally VG with neat ink presentation inscription: "Miss Wood 'Rita' From F. Goodyear 1922." See illustration on our website.   £125
The Tenedos Times: A Monthly Journal of the Mediterranean Destroyer Flotilla during the early part of the War. Originally Printed on Board H.M.S. Blenheim. 1st Ed. in volume form, 144pp., 4to, 17 tipped-in col. illus., also b/w plates & sketches. VG in worn dw. A&U. 1917  #66881
[HLMainPic] Vol. I-VII of the humorous journal originally printed on board HMS "Blenheim." Many amusing poetical & prose pieces, plus fine sketches & cartoons relating to early events of the war at sea, including in some appealing tipped-in colour artwork & many amusing sketches. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, leading edges stained o/w VG in worn dw. See illustration on our website.   £35
From Bordon to Loos with the 6th Service Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers. By C.W. [i.e. Capt. F.C. Waller]. 1st Ed., [vii]+74pp. Printed for Private Circulation by Warren & Sons, Winchester. 1917  #69369
[HLMainPic] Very rare, atmospheric personal account by an officer (who had formerly served in the Malay States Volunteers) of training 1914-15 then active service in France from May 1915 with 9th [Scottish] Div. until wounded at Loos in the battalion's attack on Mad Point, serving with 'D' Coy. Orig. blue cloth, gilt to front, white cloth backstrip & corners, little marked o/w VG. See illustration on our website.   £145

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