It was to be the war to end all wars & it began at 11.15 on the morning of June 28 1914 in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would end officially almost five years later. Unoffically it has never ended: The horrors we live with today were born in the First World War. It left millions
- civilians & soldiers
- maimed or dead. & it left us with new technologies of death: tanks planes & submarines; reliable rapid-fire machine guns poison gas & chemical warfare. It introduced us to unrestricted war on civilians & mistreatment of prisoners. Most of all it changed our world. In its wake empires toppled monarchies fell whole populations lost their national indentities as political systems & geographic boundaries relaligned. Instabilities were institutionalised enmities enshrined. Manners mores codes of behaviour literature education & class distinctions
- all underwent a vast sea change. In all these ways the twentieth century can be said to have been born on the morning of June 28 1914.


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In 1914 the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand sparked off the most destructive conflict the world had ever seen. This is the story of the First World War & the people who lived & died fighting in it. Told for children ready to tackle longer & more complex subjects this title is part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts from the University of Roehampton. ...

The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unparalleled ferocity far beyond its European epicentre it broke the century of relative peace & prosperity which we associate with the Victorian era. It unleashed both the demons of the twenieth century
- pestilence military destruction & mass death
- & the ideas which continue to shape our world today
- modernism in the arts new approaches to psychology & medicine & radical ideas about economics & society. An event of this scale & complexity needs a great historian to portray it & in his new book John Keegan fulfils a life-long ambition to write the definitive book on the war. It was of course foremost a fascinating new interpretations of the military events. But the war also acted as a formidable engine for social change throughout the world & this too is brilliantly conveyed in Keegans fascinating & magisterial work.


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This is a great addition to this exciting sticker book series for boys. It is packed with historically accurate uniforms & scenes from the Great War from brave young privates in the trenches & German commanders in their steel-pointed helmets to fighters in the Arab revolt in their long flowing desert robes. It comes with over 150 stickers to choose from including uniforms weapons carrier pigeons & even an army dog in a gas mask. ...

This is a great addition to this exciting sticker book series for boys. It is packed with historically accurate uniforms & scenes from the Great War from brave young privates in the trenches & German commanders in their steel-pointed helmets to fighters in the Arab revolt in their long flowing desert robes. It comes with over 150 stickers to choose from including uniforms weapons carrier pigeons & even an army dog in a gas mask. ...

The First World War produced some of the most haunting & memorable poetry of our age. In this compelling anthology the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion guides us through both the horror & the pity of that conflict from the trenches of the Western Front to reflections from our own age. With a generous selection of our best-loved war poets First World War Poems also returns lesser known pieces to the light. This mesmerizing book reminds us how the poetry of that time has more than any art form come to stand testament to the grief & outrage occasioned by World War I. ...

A collection of biographical anecdotal & literary essays on Britains consuming passion for rugby this account describes the exploits of the peoples heroes from Gould to Gareth Edwards. The beauty & exhilaration of the game is vividly recaptured in classic prose as are the emotions & expectations of the most passionate rugby aficionados in the world. From the humorous to the erudite this selection features work from the likes of Richard Burton Frank Keating John Morgan Dylan Thomas Alan Watkins & Harry Webb. ...

Why wont my baby stop crying? Will I ever lose this baby weight? How can I get a decent nights sleep? Who am I
- Help?! A new baby
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Forget unrealistic childcare manuals
- this is the book you really need to help you cope brilliantly with those first chaotic days
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This title features 200 brilliant & bizarre curiosities highlighting the First Last & Onlys that have occurred during the illustrious history of this sport
- from the determined cricketers fined for playing on the Sabbath to the only virtuoso to score a century & take all ten wickets in a single innings. This absorbing collection of stories is guaranteed to enthral &

Includes:: some of the greatest gentleman to have graced the field of play such as: the first player to bat on all 5 days of a test match; the last incidence of under-armed bowling in an international match; & the only father & son to score centuries in the same First Class innings. Delight in a myriad of facts that you never knew about this glorious game.


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