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1.		Kitchener's Last Volunteer: The Life of Henry Allingham, Britain's Oldest Man and the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Great War from Mainstream Publishing Price: £10.00 Customer Review: What amazes me the most about Henry Allingham's fascinating and inspiring life story is that for 30 years he lived a quiet life in his Eastbourne flat, and hadn't spoken about the War since it ended. Then, after reaching 100, his life changed completely and he's now had up to 47 event appearances in... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception, 1914-1945 from Faber and Faber Price: £16.25 Customer Review: I must start by saying that 'Churchill's Wizards' is first and foremost a great read. Nicholas Rankin has managed to turn what at first sight may seem like a forbiddingly esoteric subject into a thoroughly accessible and engaging narrative full of intrigue and incident. This is in no small part down... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		Soldier's War: The Great War Through Veterans' Eyes from Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Price: £10.42 Customer Review: The Soldiers' War is genuinely exceptional. There are other Great War anthologies around, but this one stands out by a country mile. The book claims to contain primarily unpublished stories from 1914-1918 and whilst I do not know enough about the period to comment, I do not recognise any accounts... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (Virago classic non-fiction) from Virago Press Ltd Price: £9.09 Customer Review: My mother having pressed me to read this book, I finally got round to it early this year. Thank God I did. I cannot begin to put into words how much this book touched me. Vera Brittan must be an inspiration to all women; a strong and determined character who, despite losing almost everything to... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		Tommy's War: A First World War Diary 1913-1918 from HarperPress Price: £9.99 Customer Review: I don't usually read diaries but this caught my eye and I decided to give it a go as I generally read war books. From page one it became a treasure trove of snippets from a bygone era. How a family strove to make ends meet through severe hardship during ww1. Thomas makes light of it all with wit,... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		Shots from the Front: The British Soldier 1914-18 from HarperPress Price: £9.99 Customer Review: Richard Holmes is well known as a military historian who can not only make the details of military campaigns intelligible, but can recognise the human stories beneath. There is little in terms of campaign detail. There is not that much that is especially original, either. But these are trivial... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		Forgotten Voices of the Somme: The Most Devastating Battle of the Great War in the Words of Those Who Survived from Ebury Press Price: £10.20 Customer Review: I was given this book and found it very frustrating and massively disappointing. It is basically a compendium of quotes from the IWM Sound Archive. Those in the know will be aware that the IWM Oral Historian is Peter Hart, author of a superb book on the Somme. Please buy his book or any of Martin... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 from Faber and Faber Price: £12.49 Customer Review: I fully agree with what the other reviewers have said about this book, which is a marvellous overview of the Italian front during 1915-18. Not only a military history - though it is that, of course, but also a political and cultural history. And not only of the Italian experience, even though that... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		A Very Unimportant Officer: Life and Death on the Somme and at Passchendaele from Hodder & Stoughton General Customer Review: what was the great war like from the perspective of the officer in the trenches, well here you have got the chance to find out for yourselves, the entries are only rough and brief but they tell an incredible story of courage and bravery, the diary includes commentry written by the author it wasn't... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		Somme Mud from Bantam Books Price: £5.18 Customer Review: I was interested when I saw this book as my grandfather was at the Somme but would never speak of it. I had heard about it in history and seen a few television programs but I was interested to learn about it from the mind and voice of one who was there. Once started the book is very hard to put... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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