Product Description: The collected stories of the Canadian recipients of the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration. As Canada came into its own as a nation during the First World War, proving itself capable of standing alongside Britain on the world stage, scores of Canadians were awarded the Commonwealth’s highest award for pre-eminent acts of valour, self-sacrifice, or extreme devotion to duty, the Victoria Cross...read more

Product Description: This is the latest volume in the series covering the Victoria Crosses won in World War I, away from the Western Front and Gallipoli. The book opens with the stories of four VC-winners who took part in the prolonged struggle to drive the Germans out of Africa...read more

The latest volume in the series covering the final days of the war on the Western Front from the Allied Armies being poised to capture the Hindenburg Line to the Armistice on 11 November 1918. The book opens with the stories of seven VC-winners who took part in the Battle of the Canal du Nord on 27 September 1918. Despite enemy resistance, the British First and Third Armies advanced six miles, leading eventually to the successful capture of Cambrai. The last period of the war became a series of battles to capture a series of river lines. From the Battle of the Canal du Nord until Armistice Day, a period of just under six weeks, a total of 56 VCs were won in the victorious Allied advance. The VC-winners came from France and Canada as well.

Product Description: By August 1918, fortune was on the side of the Allies: America was increasing its contribution of troops and equipment substantially; the morale of the German Army was sinking as it failed to deliver the desired "knock out blow;" and Haig found a new confidence, firmly believing that the Allies could at last push the Germans out of France and Belgium...read more

Product Description: This text covers the fifty days of the Allied Advance from 8 August to 26 September 1918. Arranged chronologically, the author's narrative tells the stories of sixty-four VC-winners serving during this period.

Product Description: The only series that offers full biographies of all the VC winners of the First World War—a must-have for any military historian or genealogistCambrai is the battle famous as the birth of tank warfare and is commemorated annually on Cambrai Day by the Royal Tank Regiment...read more

Product Description: Although covering the period January to July 1917, much of this book concentrates on the events of April—the month of the Battle of Arras, including the capture of Vimy Ridge by the Canadian Expeditionary Force and the fighting for possession of the fortified villages of Monchy le Preux and Gavrelle...read more

Product Description: The Battle of the Somme, which lasted from 1 July to 18 November 1916, is remembered as one of the most horrific and tragic battles of World War I. On the first day alone nearly 19,000 British troops were killed—the greatest one-day loss in the history of the British Army...read more

Product Description: During the opening four months of the First World War no fewer than 46 soldiers from the British and Commonwealth armies were awarded Britain's highest award for gallantry, the Victoria Cross. In a series of mini-biographies, Gerald Gliddon examines the men and the dramatic events that led to the award of this most coveted of medals...read more

On the Western Front during the First World War, 490 men won the British Empire's highest award for gallantry, the Victoria Cross. A companion for any visitor to the First World War battlefields in France and Flanders, this reference book lists every VC recipient from 1914 to 1918 in alphabetical order.

Product Description: The Battle of the Somme is widely regarded as one of the bloodiest and most controversial land battles ever fought. The first British troops went over the top on July 1st 1916 and by the day's end some 19,000 had been killed in the greatest one-day loss the British Army has ever known...read more

Product Description: Covering the period January to July 1917, much of this book concentrates on the events of April - the month of the Battle of Arras. By the end of July, a total of 50 Victoria Crosses had been awarded. This text records the life and military career of each of the recipients.

Product Description: Remembered as one of the most brutal and devastating conflicts in history, the Battle of the Somme killed one million Allied and German soldiers. This book, profusely illustrated with 250 photographs, maps, and illustrations, tells the stories of the 51 men from the British and Empire Forces who were awarded the Victoria Cross during the conflict, the lives they led before the war, and if they survived (one-third did not) how they lived afterwards...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: At the end of 1917, after three years of trench warfare on the Western Front, the Allied armies of Britain and France and those of their main opponent Germany had reached a point of exhaustion and hibernation. With this in mind the Germans planned an all-out offensive, Operation "Michael," which overwhelmed the Allies and overstretched the Germans...read more

Product Description: Originally published in 1994 and now available in paperback, an illustrated account of forty-six members of the British Army who were awarded the Victoria Cross in 1914, which provides details of their backgrounds, achievements in war, and the fates of those who survived.

Product Description: Profiles of the fifty-one men who won the Victoria Cross during the infamous Somme Offensive.

Product Description: "The New Yorker" is unique, a magazine that has become an institution, the idiosyncratic haven for writers and artists of style and wit and excellence. Owned for over 60 years by Harold Ross and then the very private, highly revered editor William Shawn, always known as Mr Shawn to his intensely loyal staff, the magazine flourished under his guidance...read more