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Pen & Sword Shooting the Somme Bob Carruthers
Ghosts on the Somme
Palestine
Filming the Battle – June–July 1916
Edward J. Erickson
The Ottoman Campaigns of 1914–1918
Alastair Fraser, Andrew Robertshaw and Steve Roberts $34.95 / 196 pages / 6.5 x 9.5 / 24 Illustrations / November 2016 / hardback / 978-1-4738-6868-7 / eISBN: 978-1-4738-6870-0
$24.95 / 224 pages / 6.75 x 5.25 / 200 illustrations / June 2016 / paperback / 978-1-4738-7821-1
This new book takes a look into the iconic British documentary The Battle of the Somme (1916). It explores how the film was made and how certain scenes were faked.
The Battle of the Somme is one of the most famous films of war ever made. It records the most disastrous day in the history of the British army and had a huge impact when it was shown. The authors explore the film in fascinating detail.
Bob Carruthers is an Emmy Award winning author and historian, who has written extensively on the Great War. A graduate of Edinburgh University, he is the author of a number of military history titles.
Alastair Fraser has worked as researcher in a number of Great War documentaries. Steve Roberts is a retired police officer and an ex-soldier. Andrew Robertshaw appears on television as a commentator on battlefield archaeology.
$39.95 / 256 pages / 6.5 x 9.5 / 30 illustrations / September 2016 / hardback / 978-1-4738-2737-0 / eISBN: 978-1-4738-8007-8
The campaigns fought by the Ottomans against the British in Palestine are often neglected in accounts of the Great War. Edward Erickson’s account of the struggle for control of Palestine between 1914 and 1918 opens up this little-understood aspect of the global conflict. Edward J. Erickson was born in Norwich, NY and is professor of military history at the US Marine Corps University.
Betrayal of an Army
Railway Guns
Mesopotamia 1914–1916
British and German Guns at War
Deborah and the War of the Tanks
John Goodwin
John Taylor
$49.95 / 160 pages / 6.75 x 9.75 / 80 illustrations including maps, drawings and photographs / October 2016 / hardback / 978-1-4738-5411-6 / eISBN: 978-1-4738-5412-3
$44.95 / 320 pages / 6.5 x 9.5 / 30 illustrations / November 2016 / hardback / 978-1-4738-4834-4 / eISBN: 978-1-4738-4835-1
N S Nash
$44.95 / 320 pages / 6.5 x 9.5 / Integrated / June 2016 / hardback / 978-1-4738-4376-9 / eISBN: 9781-4738-4377-6
The British invasion of Mesopotamia was successful. Despite evidence of Turkish resistance, the Expeditionary Force was ordered to advance on Baghdad. Such was the loss of life that the British Parliament ordered a Mesopotamia Commission to be set up. This book reexamines the circumstances that brought about a disastrous outcome.
The only way to move longer-range guns, weighing up to 250 tons, was to mount them on railway trucks towed by locomotives. This book concentrates on the realities of the time, the type of gun, the locomotives, and what it was like when firing took place.
Deborah is a British First World War tank that rose from the grave after taking part in one of the most momentous battles in history. In November 1917 she played a leading role in the first successful tank attack at Cambrai. Eighty years later, the tank’s buried remains were rediscovered and excavated.
NA ‘Tank’ Nash CBE was a member of the Army Catering Corps for thirty years.
Born into a railway family, the author spent the early years of the Second World War on Sussex Coast, armed with a rifle and awaiting a German invasion.
John Taylor studied history at Cambridge University and has a lifelong interest in the First World War.
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