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World War One

World War One, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 1914 to 1918.

WWI changed the course of history and had a profound effect on the world, not just Great Britain.

English Heritage has a vast range of books about the great War for you to enjoy.

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Inspire Me

Warrior: The Amazing Story of a Real War Horse

Unlike the book and film War Horse, Warrior is the true story of the thoroughbred horse Winston Churchill's great heroic friend, Jack Seely, took to France in 1914. They both survived five years o...

£9.99

World War I Replica Pack

This First World War Replica Pack is a collection of high quality reproduced war paper memorabilia, packaged in a clear bag with header card. Contains: Joining the Ranks booklet, Patriotic Pledgeca...

£6.00

The War Poets - An Anthology

A book filled with over 80 moving and powerful war poems. Including works by Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke and W. B. Yeats. Key Features: Hardback Published: 2009 144 pag...

£5.00

Catastrophe

In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century's first terrible act of self-immolation- what was then called The Great War. On the eve of its centenary, Max Hastings seeks to explain both how the c...

£20.00

Legacies Of The First World War

The First World War has been described as the first total war, a conflict in which a country's people and resources were harnessed towards final victory. During 2014-18 Historic England set out to...

£15.00

If England Were Invaded

No fewer than two hundred thousand Germans were already upon English soil! The outlook grew blacker every hour. Eight years before the outbreak of the First World War, when national hysteria over the ...

£5.00

The Last Veteran

This moving and timely book explores the way the First World War has been thought about and commemorated, and how it has affected its own, and later, generations. On 11 November 1920, huge crowds line...

£9.99

Love Letters of the Great War

From the private papers of Winston Churchill to the tender notes of an unknown Tommy in the trenches, Love Letters of the Great War brings together some of the most romantic correspondence ever writte...

£12.99

One Boy's War

Sixteen-year-old Sydney is overwhelmed by the excitement of the 1914 recruitment campaigns and the bravado of men leaving for the Great War. Bursting with enthusiasm, he runs away to join up, but soon...

£7.99

The Sleepwalkers

The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed historian and author Christopher Clark. SUNDAY TIMES and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012. Winn...

£10.99

Tommy's War

The extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly before the G...

£15.99

War Horse

The book that inspired Steven Spielberg's Hollywood blockbuster movie and an internationally acclaimed stage show... it can only be Michael Morpurgo's War Horse. In the deadly chaos of the Fir...

£6.99

Women's War Memorabilia Pack

Bringing history back to life, this Women’s War Memorabilia Pack is a collection of high quality reproduced paper memorabilia from World War 2. In addition to rekindling memories of someone...

£6.00

You Wouldn't Want to be in the Trenches in World War One

It's August 1914. You are 16-year-old Tommy Atkins, living in London. Set against a backdrop of the war just broken out in Europe, find out what your life was like after joining up and being sent ...

£7.99