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Three used Paperback Books – 1^st World War.

1/ To The Last Man By Jeff Shaara

2/ Regeneration by Pat Barker

3/ True World War 1 Stories. Intro by Jon E. Lewis

1/ To The Last Man By Jeff Shaara

A novel about the Great War.

“Making literature read like history and history read like literature…bringing World War One to pulsating life”

About the story:

Spring 1916, and three great armies - French, British and, on the other side of the wire, German - are locked in a stalemate of mud and blood on Europe's Western Front.

On the ground, young British soldiers lose their innocence in the hell that is No Man's Land, while in the skies above the trenches a new breed of warrior, armed with a devastating new weapon, comes of age.
As the conflict stretches into its third year, a neutral but woefully unprepared and ill-equipped America is slowly goaded into war.

It falls to General John Pershing to galvanise his country's army into readiness and as the first American troops reach the front in 1917, the world waits to see if the tide of a war that has already cost millions of lives can at last be turned.
Combining an historian's eye for detail with a novelist's understanding of man's hopes and fears, Shaara carries the reader into the hearts and minds of some of the war's most memorable characters, from the heroic to the infamous, and vividly brings to life one of the greatest conflagrations in human history.

Condition:

This is a 18 year old well read used book in good condition. No inscriptions, annotations or markings. Clean and complete. Covers showing slight signs of use and shelf wear – a few small creases and slightly curling corners. Slight splay.

Publisher : Bantam Books

Published: 2006

Language: : English

Format: Paperback

Pages: 842 pages

Book size: 19.7 x 12.6 x 4.6 cm

ISBN-10 : 055381740X

ISBN-13 : 978-0553817409

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2/ Regeneration by Pat Barker

“A novel of tremendous power”

About the Story:

Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers’s job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients’ minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front.

Pat Barker’s Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men.

Condition:

This is a 16 year old used book in good readable condition. No inscriptions, annotations or markings. Clean and bright. Only small signs of use and shelf wear; faint smudges, small scuffs etc.

Publisher : Penguin Books

Published: 2008

Language: : English

Format: Paperback

Pages: 252 pages

Book size: 19.7 x 12.6 x 1.7 cm

ISBN-13 : 978-0141030937

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3/ True World War 1 Stories. Intro by Jon E. Lewis

Gripping eyewitness accounts from the days of conflict and pain.

About the Book:

True World War I Stories contains sixty personal accounts from the greatest war the world had ever known. It is a fascinating record of eyewitness accounts of some of the bloodiest battles of the conflict, including Loos, Mons, Ypres and the Somme, from the opening moves to the day peace was signed.

These gripping and moving accounts recall all aspects of the war, on land, sea and air, as well as the important role played by women. But most of the stories are of life in the trenches, of the danger, the discomfort, the fear and the courage shown by men living the hell of life at the front line.

Stories are drawn from all fronts and include: the first gas attack, and the first tank attacks; going over the top and charging the enemy lines; life in the trenches and under bombardment; Gallipoli, Palestine and the Middle East; Zeebrugge and the war at sea; aerial dogfights and the birth of the air force; life as a prisoner of war.

Condition:

This is a 25 year old used book in excellent condition. No inscriptions, annotations or markings. Clean and bright. Only slightest signs of use and shelf wear; faint curling to corners.

Publisher : Robinson Books

Published: 1999

Language: : English

Format: Paperback

Pages: 425 pages

Book size: 19.7 x 12.8 x 3.0 cm

ISBN-13 : 978-1841190952

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