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An era-defining conflict that toppled empires and ushered in the modern world, the First World War is richly documented in copious volumes of military history. From the complexity of its causes to the carnage of trench warfare on the Western Front and the drama of revolt in the Middle East, get to grips with these seismic events our wide-ranging selection.

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Our Best Books on the First World War

The Confidence Men
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The Confidence Men
Margalit Fox
£9.99
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The Path of Peace
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The Path of Peace
Anthony Seldon
£20.00   £17.99
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Storm of Steel
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Storm of Steel
Ernst Junger
£9.99
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The Facemaker
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The Facemaker
Lindsey Fitzharris
£20.00   £17.99
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The Searchers
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The Searchers
Robert Sackville-West
£12.99
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The Guns of August
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The Guns of August
Barbara Tuchman
£10.99
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The Western Front
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The Western Front
Nick Lloyd
£12.99
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The Great War: 1914-1918
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The Great War: 1914-1918
Peter Hart
£12.99
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T. E. Lawrence
£10.99
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Catastrophe
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Catastrophe
Max Hastings
£12.99
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Passchendaele
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Passchendaele
Paul Ham
£12.99
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Where Poppies Blow
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Where Poppies Blow
John Lewis-Stempel
£9.99
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1914-1918
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1914-1918
David Stevenson
£16.99
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Ring of Steel
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Ring of Steel
Alexander Watson
£18.99
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On a Knife Edge
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On a Knife Edge
Holger Afflerbach
£25.00
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Marked for Death
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Marked for Death
James Hamilton-Paterson
£9.99
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The Sleepwalkers
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The Sleepwalkers
Christopher Clark
£16.99
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As We Were: The First World War
As We Were: The First World War
David Hargreaves, Margaret-Louise O'Keeffe
£100.00
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Bringing together stories and first-hand accounts of thousands of soldiers and civilians, As We Were is a ground-breaking work that exposes the individual experience of the First World War in four remarkably readable volumes.
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Our Best New & Coming Soon Books on the First World War 

The Path of Peace
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The Path of Peace
Anthony Seldon
£20.00   £17.99
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The Searchers
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The Searchers
Robert Sackville-West
£12.99
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On a Knife Edge
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On a Knife Edge
Holger Afflerbach
£25.00
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Tannenberg 1914
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Tannenberg 1914
Michael McNally
£15.99
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Peace at Last
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Peace at Last
Guy Cuthbertson
£10.99
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Bloody April 1917
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Bloody April 1917
James S. Corum
£15.99
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1914
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1914
Matthew Richardson
£18.99
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Raiding on the Western Front
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Raiding on the Western Front
Anthony Saunders
£14.99
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North Sea Battleground
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North Sea Battleground
Bryan Perrett
£14.99
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Flanders: Then and Now
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Flanders: Then and Now
John Giles
£22.95
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Miners in the Great War
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Miners in the Great War
Brian Elliott
£19.99
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Armistice and After
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Armistice and After
Roland Wales
£25.00
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Against All Odds
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Against All Odds
Stephen Wynn
£14.99
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Journey to the Western Front
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Journey to the Western Front
R. H. Mottram
£25.00
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Into Touch
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Into Touch
Nigel McCrery
£17.99
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Tank Battles of World War I
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Tank Battles of World War I
Bryan Cooper
£14.99
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Writing the Great War
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Writing the Great War
Christoph Cornelissen
£36.00
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Armageddon Road
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Armageddon Road
Billy Congreave
£14.99
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Great Books You Must Read

Our selection of classic paperbacks

Storm of Steel
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Storm of Steel
Ernst Junger
£9.99
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The Guns of August
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The Guns of August
Barbara Tuchman
£10.99
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The First World War
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The First World War
Professor A J P Taylor
£12.99
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Gallipoli
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Gallipoli
Peter Hart
£12.99
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Testament Of Youth
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Testament Of Youth
Vera Brittain
£14.99
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1914-1918
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1914-1918
David Stevenson
£16.99
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Ring of Steel
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Ring of Steel
Alexander Watson
£18.99
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Goodbye to All That
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Goodbye to All That
Robert Graves
£9.99
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The Sleepwalkers
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The Sleepwalkers
Christopher Clark
£16.99
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World War One
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World War One
Norman Stone
£10.99
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The Fall of the Ottomans
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The Fall of the Ottomans
Eugene Rogan
£12.99
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Somme
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Somme
Lyn MacDonald
£12.99
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The World's War
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The World's War
David Olusoga
£10.99
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Somme Mud
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Somme Mud
E P F Lynch
£10.99
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Tommy
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Tommy
Richard Holmes
£16.99
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The Pity of War
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The Pity of War
Niall Ferguson
£14.99
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The First World War
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The First World War
Sir Martin Gilbert
£19.99
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1917
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1917
David Stevenson
£14.99
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Luxury Editions & Giftbooks

Illustrating Armageddon
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Illustrating Armageddon
Jim Davies
£30.00
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MAPPING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
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MAPPING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
£30.00
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World War I
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World War I
HP Willmott
£16.99
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The Wipers Times
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The Wipers Times
Christopher Westhorp
£11.99
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Goodbye to all that
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Goodbye to all that
Robert Graves
£12.99
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1918
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1918
Richard van Emden
£25.00
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It'll All be Over by Christmas
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It'll All be Over by Christmas
John Wilton
£20.00
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The World War I Aviator's Pocket Manual
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The World War I Aviator's Pocket Manual
Chris McNab
£8.99
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As We Were: The First World War
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As We Were: The First World War
David Hargreaves
£100.00
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The Times Great War Letters
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The Times Great War Letters
James Owen
£20.00
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Somme
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Somme
Richard van Emden
£25.00
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Peace and War
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Peace and War
Nigel Jones
£25.00
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The Great War Seen from the Air
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The Great War Seen from the Air
Birger Stichelbaut
£45.00
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Words of War: Fiction & Poetry of the First World War

All Quiet on the Western Front
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
£9.99
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Regeneration
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Regeneration
Pat Barker
£8.99
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Birdsong
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Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
£9.99
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Fall of Giants
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Fall of Giants
Ken Follett
£10.99
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The Way Back
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The Way Back
Erich Maria Remarque
£9.99
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Ashenden
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Ashenden
W. Somerset Maugham
£9.99
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Poems
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Poems
Wilfred Owen
£12.99
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The War Poems
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The War Poems
Siegfried Sassoon
£12.99
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The Winter Soldier
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The Winter Soldier
Daniel Mason
£9.99
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The Good Soldier Svejk
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The Good Soldier Svejk
Jaroslav Hasek
£10.99
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Poetry of the First World War
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Poetry of the First World War
Marcus Clapham
£10.99
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A Long Long Way
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A Long Long Way
Sebastian Barry
£9.99
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Johnny Got His Gun
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Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo
£9.99
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The Return Of The Soldier
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The Return Of The Soldier
Rebecca West
£9.99
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Parade's End
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Parade's End
Ford Madox Ford
£12.99
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The General
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The General
C. S. Forester
£9.99
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