Biography

Book cover for The Assassination of the Archduke by Greg King and Sue Woolmans, featuring a historical family portrait of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, his wife, and their three children.

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The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World

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The book cover depicts Lady Dorothie Feilding in WWI attire against a battlefield backdrop on the Western Front. The title, "Lady Under Fire," stands bold with an ambulance prominent in the foreground, hinting at her courageous role in ambulance driving amidst the chaos.

$30.00

Lady Under Fire on the Western Front

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Book cover for The Silent Services First Hero by Ryan C Walker, depicting a naval officer in uniform with a submarine and ocean background overlaid with white text.

$43.00

The Silent Service’s First Hero: The First Submariner to Receive the Medal of Honor

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Book cover of Diary of a Dead Officer with a poppy and barbed wire, featuring an introduction by Nigel Jones.

$16.50

Diary of a Dead Officer: Being the Posthumous Papers of Arthur Graeme West

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$15.00

World War One Experiences of Robert Parel Parker

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$34.00

Eddie Rickenbacker

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The cover's background is pastel yellow and pink. At the top of the image is a sketch of Mary King Waddington from the shoulder up. She is wearing two jeweled necklaces and drop earrings. Below is a photograph of a horse and buggy loaded down with supplies and a large group of people flowing behind.

$25.00

My War Diary: A Lady's Experience of the Great War in Europe 1914-1918

Illustrated book cover of Sagittarius Rising, Cecil Lewiss memoir, featuring WWI biplanes in aerial combat above a landscape, with bold colors and dynamic composition, capturing the early days of flight.

$24.00

Sagittarius Rising (Penguin Classics)

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Cover of The Burning of the World by Béla Zombory-Moldován, an NYRB Classics edition, features a sepia-toned photo capturing people gathered outdoors during the First World War.

$18.00

The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914 (New York Review Books Classics)

Cover of Muse of Fire by Michael Korda. Features soldier in uniform helping each other on a battlefield overlaid with white and brown or black text.

$20.50

Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen through the Lives of the Soldier Poets

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The cover for "Something Has Gone Crack" is a brown and beige background with two illustrations of men one is younger and in uniform and the other is of an older aged man. Both men are smoking a pipe.

$43.00

"Something Has Gone Crack": New Perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien in the Great War

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Book cover of Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson with an image of a desert landscape overlaid with a white subtitle that reads: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East.

$21.50

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

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$31.00

The Uncrowned King & the Desert Queen

$24.00

The Commander: Fawzi al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948

$32.00

Breaking the Heart of the World

The book cover is dark with a black and white photograph of J.R.R. Tolkien lighting a pipe. The book title is imposed over the image in a pale yellow.

$35.00

The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation

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Black and white book cover of Years of Endurance by John R. Muir, featuring a historic World War I memoir scene with ships in rough seas, and the subtitle Life Aboard the Royal Navy Battlecruiser HMS Tiger 1914-16.

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Years of Endurance: Life Aboard the Battlecruiser Tiger 1914-16

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The dark cover for Till We Meet Again is mostly black as it fades into a black and white image of a small group of soldiers. The lounge against the muddy ground and some of them are wearing bandages. All of them wear their doughboy helmets.

$30.00

Till We Meet Again: A Canadian in the First World War

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The bright green cover for Tolkien in East Yorkshire presents a photograph of a shaded glen with sunlight streaming through the tree canopy.

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Tolkien in East Yorkshire 1917 - 1918

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The cover for From War Hero to Peace Promoter is a colored photo of Siegfred Sasson in uniform with a battlefield seen in the distance.

$43.00

From War Hero to Peace Promoter: The True Story of Siegfried Sassoon

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$26.00

Alamo Doughboy

Book cover for Jack and Hopit by Serena Merton, featuring a man in vintage attire and a horse, with a historical photograph of soldiers from the Great War’s 9th Lancers in the background.

$40.00

Jack and Hopit: An Officer of the 9th Lancers in the Great War and his War Horse

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$30.00

Commanding Fire

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The cover for Always with Honor is a illustrated portrait of General Wrangel wearing a traditional Russian military uniform. The background of his portrait is a yellow, blue, and red flag.

$19.50

Always with Honor: The Memoirs of General Wrangel

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