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Newcastle, 1918. It seems like the war could last forever. John’s an ordinary Tyneside lad and he’s desperate for peace. His dad is fighting in the trenches and his mam works in the town’s munitions factory, the biggest in the world. John meets a German boy, Jan, who is just like himself; they play war games in the woods beyond the town, and see the ugliness of weapons contrasting with the beauty of the world around them. John dreams of a better, more beautiful world. His dreams will speak to all of us, and his questions resonate with children of today. Is war ever really over? Why do children see the truths from which adults seem to hide? Why do we need wars at all?
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Edvard grows up on a remote mountain farmstead in Norway with his taciturn grandfather, Sverre. The death of his parents, when he was three years old, has always been shrouded in mystery – he has never been told how or where it took place and has only a distant memory of his mother. But he knows that the fate of his grandfather’s brother, Einar, is somehow bound up with this mystery. One day a coffin is delivered for his grandfather long before his death – a meticulous, beautiful piece of craftsmanship. Perhaps Einar is not dead after all. Edvard’s desperate quest to unlock the family’s tragic secrets takes him on a long journey – from Norway to the Shetlands, and to the battlefields of France – to the discovery of a very unusual inheritance.
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A moving selection of some of the finest poetry to come out of the Great War.
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General Erich Ludendorff was one of the most important military individuals of the last century, yet today, one of the least known. One of the top two German generals of World War I, he dominated not only his superior – General Paul von Hindenburg – but also Germany’s head of state, Kaiser Wilhelm II. For years, Ludendorff was the military dictator of Germany. Not only dictating all aspects of World War I, he refused all opportunities to make peace, he antagonised the Americans until they declared war, he sent Lenin into Russia to forge a revolution in order to shut down the Russian front, and then he pushed for total military victory in 1918, in a rabid slaughter known as the Ludendorff Offensive. This is the true story of the man who lost World War I, blamed the Jews for his follies and then went on to inspire and form an alliance with Hitler.
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Acclaimed historian Douglas Smith’s riveting – and revisionist – biography of Rasputin.
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‘Queen Bees’ looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor, who went on to become the first female MP, and Mrs Greville, who cultivated relationships with Edward VII, as well as Lady Londonderry, Lady Cunard, Laura Corrigan and Lady Colefax. Written with wit, verve and heart, it is the story of a form of societal revolution, and the extraordinary women who helped it happen.
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Born in Taunton in 1873, Trenchard struggled at school and was greatly affected by his solicitor-father’s bankruptcy when he was 16. He failed entrance examinations to both the Royal Navy and the Army several times, but he found his destiny when he joined the fledgling Royal Flying Corps in 1912. Although he was an indifferent pilot, he was quick to recognise the huge potential aircraft offered in future conflict. His rapid rise to commander of the RFC in France after the outbreak of the First World War was marked by a series of bitter disagreements with other senior officers he either didn’t like or didn’t trust. Through persistence and hard work he led his political masters by the nose to secure the future of the RAF as an independent force after the war, in the teeth of fierce opposition from both the Admirality and the War Office, and eventually became the first Marshal of the Royal Air Force.
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1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Two soldiers are forced together and their friendship continues in civilian life as they piece together their lives and devise a money-making scam that could make them a fortune.
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From the acclaimed author of Former People, a definitive biography of Rasputin, published to coincide with the centenary of his murder.
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The First World War Diaries of Manchester Pals Captain Charlie May – written and kept in secret and published now for the first time. A born storyteller, Charlie May’s vivid eye for detail and warm good humour brings his experience in the trenches (and the experience of millions of ordinary men like him) to life for a 21st-century readership.
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A Downing Street diary with a difference; offering a unique record and a fascinating insight into the British government during WWI, written by Margot Asquith, the wife of the prime minister, H. H. Asquith.
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‘Goodbye to all That’ is Robert Graves’ marvellously candid self-portrait of his childhood and his experiences as a young officer in the First World War.
