This book explores Adolf Hitler's career as a soldier in World War I and looks at the influences that led to his fanatical nationalism as a political leader.
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This book explores Adolf Hitler's career as a soldier in World War I and looks at the influences that led to his fanatical nationalism as a political leader.
Using memoirs, military records, regimental, divisional and official war histories as well as Hitler's own words, this book seeks to reconstruct a period in Hitler's life that has been neglected in literature. Also a story of the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry, or List Regiment.…
When the Australians and New Zealanders arrived at the Western Front in 1916, the fighting had been going for a year and a half and there was no end in sight. The men took their place in a line of trenches that spread through Belgium and France from the North Sea to the Swiss Al…
Winner of the NZ Post Children's Book Awards, non-fiction category and shortlisted for the CBCA Children's Book Awards, 2011. The First World War was only meant to last six months. When the Australians and New Zealanders arrived at the Western Front in 1916, the fighting had bee…
Tells the story of the plight of the Anzacs when they joined the fighting on the Western Front during World War I. Suggested level: secondary.
Tells the story of the plight of the Anzacs when they joined the fighting on the Western Front during World War I. Suggested level: secondary.
Bernard Green managed to survive both the First and Second World War - just. In the first global conflict of the Twentieth Century he endured mud, destruction and death in the trenches of the Western Front; suffering serious injury yet serving with distinction, earning the Milit…
28th October 1916. Oh a soldier's life is a beauty in such weather but as soon as we get back into dry billets we forget all the hardships. It's wonerful in what good spirits the boys keep. they laugh & joke over it all, as if it was the fun of the world -- back cover.
Simon Joness graphic history of underground warfare during the Great War uses personal reminiscences to convey the danger and suspense of this unconventional form of conflict. He describes how the underground soldiers of the opposing armies engaged in a ruthless fight for suprem…
