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McCrae
McCrae's Battalion
    McCrae's Own was the
    'Heart of Midlothian
    Battalion' mentioned all
    too briefly in Martin
    Middlebrook's classic
    book The First Day on the
    Somme. Raised in
    Edinburgh shortly after
    the start of the Great
    War, it was perhaps the
    finest unit in Lord
    Kitchener's volunteer
    army - a brotherhood of
    sportsmen, bound
    together by their
    extraordinary colonel and
    their loyalty to a
    quaintly named
    Association Football
    club, the famous Gorgie
    'Hearts'. McCrae's were
    blooded in the Battle of
    the Somme, losing
    three-quarters of their
    strength on the first day
    alone. The Colonel
    himself was invalided
    home. In time the
    battalion recovered. It
    came of age at Arras,
    endured the muddy horror
    of Passchendaele, and
    held the line unbroken in
    the face of furious
    German attacks on the Lys
    in 1918. For almost a
    century their story
    remained untold. It was
    all but lost forever.
    Now, after 12 years of
    exacting historical
    detective work, Jack
    Alexander has reclaimed
    the 16th Royal Scots for
    posterity. In this
    stirring book he draws
    upon interviews with
    veterans and a unique
    archive of letters,
    diaries and photographs,
    assembled from the
    families of more than 1,
    000 of Sir George
    McCrae's men.
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McCrae
McCrae's Battalion
    McCrae's Own was the
    'Heart of Midlothian
    Battalion' mentioned all
    too briefly in Martin
    Middlebrook's classic
    book THE FIRST DAY OF THE
    SOMME. Raised in
    Edinburgh shortly after
    the start of the Great
    War, it was perhaps the
    finest unit in Lord
    Kitchener's volunteer
    army - a brotherhood of
    sportsmen, bound
    together by their
    extraordinary colonel and
    their loyalty to a
    quaintly named
    Association Football
    club, the famous Gorgie
    'Hearts'. McCrae's were
    blooded in the Battle of
    the Somme, losing
    three-quarters of their
    strength on the first day
    alone. The Colonel
    himself was invalided
    home. In time the
    battalion recovered. It
    came of age at Arras,
    endured the muddy horror
    of Passchendaele, and
    held the line unbroken in
    the face of furious
    German attacks on the Lys
    in 1918. For almost a
    century their story has
    remained untold. It was
    all but lost forever.
    Now, after 12 years of
    exacting historical
    detective work, Jack
    Alexander has reclaimed
    the 16th Royal Scots for
    posterity. In this
    stirring book he draws
    upon interviews with
    veterans and a unique
    archive of letters,
    diaries and photographs,
    assembled from the
    families of more than 1,
    000 of Sir George
    McCrae's men. Who was the
    Colonel? How did the
    players come to enlist?
    Where did they fight?
    Where did they die? What
    became of the survivors?
    Why were they forgotten?
    Who was the handsomest
    man in the world?
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Thirteen Days: The Road to the First World War
Thirteen Days: The Road To The
First World War
    At the end of the First
    World War, Germany was
    demonised. The Treaty of
    Versailles contained a
    'war guilt' clause
    pinning the blame on the
    aggression of Germany and
    accusing her of 'supreme
    offence against
    international morality'.
    Thirteen Days rejects
    this verdict. Clive
    Ponting also rejects the
    thesis that Europe in
    1914 had reached such a
    boiling point that war
    was bound to erupt and
    the theory that the
    origins of the War lay in
    a mighty arms race. He
    argues that the War
    occurred primarily
    because of the situation
    in the Balkans, while he
    gives full weight to
    Austria-Hungary's desire
    to cripple Serbia instead
    of negotiating, and to
    Russia's militaristic
    programme of expansion.
    Clive Ponting begins with
    a dramatic recreation of
    the assassination in
    Sarajevo on 28 June. He
    then examines how things
    spiralled out of control
    during the weeks that led
    to war. The tension
    builds as his story
    criss-crosses the capital
    cities of Europe and
    describes developments
    day by day, and,
    latterly, hour by hour.
    The First World War
    destroyed the old Europe.
    Nearly nine million
    soldiers were killed and
    twenty-one million
    wounded; over ten million
    civilians died. By the
    end of the War, three
    great European empires -
    Germany, Austria-Hungary
    and Russia - had
    disintegrated. Why did
    the War happen? In 1914,
    the states of Europe had
    been at peace for forty
    years, and every
    diplomatic dispute had
    been resolved peacefully.
    Thirteen Days describes
    failures of
    communication, fateful
    decisions and escalating
    military moves; it is an
    extraordinary narrative
    of personalities and
    diplomacy in the dying
    weeks of an era in which
    telephone networks were
    in their infancy and
    governments relied on
    telegrams in code and
    face-to-face meetings of
    ambassadors.
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£11.25
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Thirteen Days: The Road to the First World War
Thirteen Days: The Road To The
First World War
    At the end of the First
    World War, Germany was
    demonised. The Treaty of
    Versailles contained a
    'war guilt' clause
    pinning the blame on the
    aggression of Germany and
    accusing her of 'supreme
    offence against
    international morality'.
    Thirteen Days rejects
    this verdict. Clive
    Ponting also rejects the
    thesis that Europe in
    1914 had reached such a
    boiling point that war
    was bound to erupt and
    the theory that the
    origins of the War lay in
    a mighty arms race. He
    argues that the War
    occurred primarily
    because of the situation
    in the Balkans, while he
    gives full weight to
    Austria-Hungary's desire
    to cripple Serbia instead
    of negotiating, and to
    Russia's militaristic
    programme of expansion.
    Clive Ponting begins with
    a dramatic recreation of
    the assassination in
    Sarajevo on 28 June. He
    then examines how things
    spiralled out of control
    during the weeks that led
    to war. The tension
    builds as his story
    criss-crosses the capital
    cities of Europe and
    describes developments
    day by day, and,
    latterly, hour by hour.
    The First World War
    destroyed the old Europe.
    Nearly nine million
    soldiers were killed and
    twenty-one million
    wounded; over ten million
    civilians died. By the
    end of the War, three
    great European empires -
    Germany, Austria-Hungary
    and Russia - had
    disintegrated. Why did
    the War happen? In 1914,
    the states of Europe had
    been at peace for forty
    years, and every
    diplomatic dispute had
    been resolved peacefully.
    Thirteen Days describes
    failures of
    communication, fateful
    decisions and escalating
    military moves; it is an
    extraordinary narrative
    of personalities and
    diplomacy in the dying
    weeks of an era in which
    telephone networks were
    in their infancy and
    governments relied on
    telegrams in code and
    face-to-face meetings of
    ambassadors.
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Voices From the Great War
Voices From The Great War
    Bringing together Sigmund
    Freud, Osip Mandelstam,
    Lloyd George, Bertrand
    Russell, Isaac
    Rosenberg, Sigfried
    Sassoon, Vera Brittain
    -voices famous and
    unknown - Peter
    Vansittart takes us
    through the course of the
    Great War, juxtaposing
    letters from the trenches
    with music-hall songs,
    and the words of poets
    and politicians. Linking
    the public and the
    personal, the history
    with the myth, his rich
    and unorthodox anthology
    forms a moving image of
    everything that went into
    the War, and culminated
    in its 'scalding waste of
    spirit'.
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£9.00
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