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The cover of The Outbreak of the First World War by Hew Strachan highlights the causes of the First World War, featuring a historic photo of soldiers waving from a train, set against red and beige tones.

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First World War: The Outbreak of the First World War

The cover for Hidden History is made to look like a document that has been redacted with the only visible text being the authors' names and title of the book. At the bottom of the cover are 3 photographs of 3 different men. The redacted document and photographs are on fire with flames at the bottom of the book cover.

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Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War

Book cover titled Hundred Days by Nick Lloyd, featuring silhouettes of soldiers with rifles against a cloudy sky, capturing the intensity of the World War I Hundred Days Campaign on the Western Front.

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Hundred Days: The Campaign That Ended World War I

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Cover of In the Centennial Footsteps of the Great War depicting four soldiers in uniform, standing resolutely with an American flag in the background.

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In the Centennial Footsteps of the Great War, Volume 2

Cover of a book titled In the Centennial Footsteps of the Great War, depicting soldiers in historical uniforms from 1914-1915.

$90.00

In the Centennial Footsteps of the Great War, Volume I

Cover of Itll All Be Over By Christmas by John Wilton, featuring an array of World War I postcards in the background, capturing poignant glimpses of the war effort.

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It'll All be Over by Christmas: The First World War in Postcards

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July 1914: Countdown to War

$40.00

Keeping the Home Fires Burning

Cover of Misfire by Paul Miller-Melamed, featuring a historic black-and-white photograph and a bold red background. The subtitle reads: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I Origins.

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Misfire: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I

Book cover of Myth of the Great War by John Mosier, featuring a black-and-white image of an American soldier on the Western Front, holding a rifle.

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Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I

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Of Little Comfort

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Book cover of On a Knife Edge by Holger Afflerbach, featuring silhouettes of soldiers against an orange-red sky. Subtext: How Germany's wartime politics and strategy led to losing the First World War.

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On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War

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Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War

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Cover of Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan, featuring a historical black-and-white photo capturing five formally dressed men walking together.

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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

A historic photo captures people joyously celebrating in a car on Armistice Day, waving flags. The text reads: Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day by Guy Cuthbertson, marking the end of World War I.

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Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918

The cover for Picture the Past World War I Historical Coloring Book shows colored illustrations of three soldiers in unform standing in a trench.

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Picture the Past: World War I: Historical Coloring Book (Picture the Past Historical Coloring Books)

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Children in uniforms wave various national flags on the cover of Playing Soldier, a visual history by Richard Cheek. Text is red, green, black and yellow on a light teal or gray background.

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Playing Soldier: The Books and Toys That Prepared Children for War, 1871–1918

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Prelude to the First World War: The Balkan Wars 1912-1913

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Rites of Spring

Book cover titled Secrets in a Dead Fish by Melanie King. Orange background with an illustration of a fish eating some papers. Subtitle reads The Spying Game in the First World War.

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Secrets in a Dead Fish: The Spying Game in the First World War

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A book cover titled Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson showcases four women walking in 1920s-style dresses and hats. The subtitle, How Two Million War Spinsters Survived Without Men after the First World War, captures their resilience and independence.

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Singled Out: How Two Million British Women Survived Without Men After the First World War

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Book cover of Stealing Horses to Great Applause by Paul W. Schroeder is a plain white background with simple blue text telling the book's title. There is smaller red text that reads, The origins of the first world war reconsidered.

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Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered

Cover of "Stumbling Towards Victory" features soldiers trudging through a trench during the final year of World War I. Subtitled "The Final Year of the Great War," it includes Royal Armouries photographs and is edited by Martyn Lawrence.

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Stumbling Towards Victory: The Final Year of the Great War

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Teachers at the Front, 1914–1919

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