First-Person Accounts

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Intimate Voices from the First World War

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Vintage book cover of Love & Death in the Great War by Andrew J. Huebner, set against the backdrop of the First World War, featuring a soldier and a woman embracing.

$74.00

Love and Death in the Great War

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The Little Lead Soldier

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Revolt in the Desert: The Abridged Edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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Recollections of an Airman

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

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

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Book cover for Nursing Through Shot and Spell: A great war nurse's story edited by Dr. Vivien Newman featuring images of a nurse and wounded soldiers overlaid with white and orange text at the bottom.

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Nursing Through Shot and Shell: A Great War Nurse's Story

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World War One Experiences of Robert Parel Parker

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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.

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Lady Under Fire on the Western Front

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Cover of Toward the Flame: A Combat Memoir of the First World War by Hervey Allen, featuring soldiers in uniform marching, with a blue border and white text.

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Toward the Flame: A Memoir of World War I

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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

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.

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

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.

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Sagittarius Rising (Penguin Classics)

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Petrograd, 1917: Witnesses to the Russian Revolution

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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 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.

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Always with Honor: The Memoirs of General Wrangel

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Commanding Fire

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The cover features a black and white photograph of an older man seated at a wooden desk, holding a pen, with bookshelves in the background. He is wearing a jacket and tie and looks calmly toward the camera. The title appears in gold lettering across the image, with a large gold signature style script for the author’s name.

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The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition―Revealing Insights into the Life of Middle-Earth's Creator

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The deep blue background of The World Crisis 1911-1914 includes an illustration in black of soldiers going over the top of a trench. The cover also shows a black and white photograph of Churchill.

$41.00

The World Crisis, 1911-1918

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The red cover for Yashka My Life as Peasant, Officer, and Exile also shows two black and white photographs. The first is of Yashka in a WWI Uniform and the second is of female soldiers of the Russian Death Battalion standing at attention.

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Yashka My Life as Peasant, Officer and Exile: the Recollections of the Founder and Commander of the Russian Women's Battalion of Death During the First World War

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Book cover for Herbert Corey's Great War featuring a sepia toned photograph of a man lookin through binoculars over a trench with white text.

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Herbert Corey’s Great War: A Memoir of World War I by the American Reporter Who Saw It All

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Book cover of Diary of a Ypres Nun by Linda Palfreeman featuring a historical image of an ambulance in front of ruins and white or black text on a yellow background.

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Diary of a Ypres Nun: October 1914-May 1915

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Love Letters of the Great War

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The Great War As I Saw It

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