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Scholars in Arms
Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War
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Jonathan Boff
Fortune Favours the Flexible
The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler – How War Made Them, and How They Made War
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Piers Brendon
Wizard of Westminster
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Jonathan Boff
Graveyard of Empires
The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War
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Clare Mulley
For King & Suffrage
Jack and Eve: Two Women in Love and at War
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Richard Overy
Cases of Shell Shock
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Jane Ridley
Prime Ministers & Paupers
Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars
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Alan Allport
Cabinet Table Generals
Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain 1914–1945
By Robin Prior
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Tom Stern
Philosopher in Arms
Private Notebooks, 1914–1916
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Helen Rappaport
Profiles in Courage
The Facemaker: One Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
By Lindsey Fitzharris
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David Crane
Memorials to Doomed Youth
The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War
By Robert Sackville-West
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Simon Heffer
From the Severn to the Somme
Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney
By Kate Kennedy
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David Lough
Immolated on the Altar of Office
Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey
By T G Otte
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Patricia Fara
Suffragettes with Stethoscopes
Endell Street: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran World War One’s Most Remarkable Military Hospital
By Wendy Moore
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Leo McKinstry
A Sorry State
Staring at God: Britain in the Great War
By Simon Heffer
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Adam Zamoyski
They Shall Not Pass
The Fortess: The Great Siege of Przemyśl
By Alexander Watson
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David Crane
They Thought It Was All Over
Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917–1924
By Charles Emmerson
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Thomas Hodgkinson
He Was Not a Coward
Wilfred Owen: A New Biography
By Dominic Hibberd
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Graham Seal
Shamans in Arms
A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War
By Owen Davies
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November 2018 Issue
Simon Heffer
Let the Bells Ring Out
Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918
By Guy Cuthbertson
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