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  • "And They Thought We Wouldn't Fight"

    by Floyd Phillips Gibbons ...
    "And They Thought We Wouldn't Fight" by Floyd Phillips Gibbons is a compelling narrative that delves into the experiences of soldiers during World War I. Gibbons, a war correspondent, captures the raw emotions and realities faced by those on the front lines. Through vivid storytelling, he brings to life the camaraderie, bravery, and struggles of the men who fought in the trenches. The book serves ... Read more

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  • The Red Knight Of Germany - The Story Of Baron Von Richthofen, Germany's Great War Bird [Illustrated Edition]

    by Floyd Gibbons ...
    [16 Illustrations, portraits of the author, author's unit and plane.]In the small city of Wiesbaden in southwest Germany, a small headstone proclaims that the incumbent of its grave is Rittmeister Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen. Small fanfare and panoply for the far-famed and feared Red Baron; a hunter even during his childhood, he took to the skies above France and Flanders in 1915 following ... Read more

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  • The Red Knight of Germany: The Story of Baron von Richthofen, Germany's Great War Bird

    by Floyd Gibbons ...
    Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte) during the First World War. He is considered the ace-of-aces of the war, being officially credited with 80 air combat victories.Originally a cavalryman, Richthofen transferred to the Air Service in 1915, becoming one of the first ... Read more

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  • The Red Knight of Germany

    The Story of Baron Von Richthofen

    by Floyd Gibbons ...
    Officially credited with 80 air combat victories, Manfred von Richthofen was considered the Ace of Aces of WWI.Richthofen transferred into the Imperial German Flying Corps in 1915. Just a year later, in November 1916, he claimed his greatest victory: that of the British Ace Lanoe Hawker. Afterwards, Hawker’s machine-gun rested above Richthofen’s bedroom door.While a distinguished fighter pilot, ... Read more

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  • "And they thought we wouldn't fight"

    Enriched edition. Forgotten Bravery: African American Soldiers in WWI

    by Floyd Phillips Gibbons, Quentin Walton ...
    Floyd Phillips Gibbons' "And They Thought We Wouldn't Fight" presents a compelling narrative that intertwines personal testimony with broader themes of patriotism and the human experience during World War I. Written in an accessible yet poignant literary style, the book offers a candid exploration of the struggles faced by soldiers, capturing the grit and determination of those who fought against ... Read more

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  • "And they thought we wouldn't fight"

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Floyd Gibbons ...
    Series series
    Marshal Foch, the commander of eleven million bayonets, has written that no man is more qualified than Gibbons to tell the true story of the Western Front. General Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces, has said that it was Gibbons' great opportunity to give the people in America a life-like picture of the work of the American soldier in France. The key to the book is ... Read more

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  • Blood and Ink

    An Italo-Ethiopian War Diary

    by W. W. Chaplin ...
    In the history books, the Italo-Ethiopian War will doubtless be entered as one of the strangest wars ever waged. History will record the spectacle of a primitive people—haphazardly armed and lacking in modern military technique—seeking to resist Mussolini's modern war machine by tribal cunning on the battlefield and up-to-date intrigue in the diplomatic councils of Europe.But what the history ... Read more

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    by Herbert Wes McBride ...
    This vintage book contains the fascinating treatise on being a rifleman, with information on the use of a rifle in war, what makes a rifleman, what a rifleman needs to know... and more. This text offers its readers a unique insight into what it means to be a rifleman, based upon the author's extensive experience from his childhood spent near the hunting grounds of Indiana to the time he spent on ... Read more

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  • A Rifleman Goes To War [Illustrated Edition]

    by Captain Herbert W. McBride ...
    Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosThe classic account of sniping on the Western Front."Herbert Wesley McBride was a Captain in the Twenty-first Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, during the First World War. He was a sniper and commander of a machine gun unit known as the "Emma Gees." He was also the author of two books on the war: "A ... Read more

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  • Adventures Of A Motorcycle Despatch Rider During The First World War [Illustrated Edition]

    by Major William Henry Lowe Watson D.S.O. D.C.M. ...
    Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos"A young British soldier who went to war on two wheels"When the Great War broke out, the author of this book decided to leave his university studies and join the struggle. What attracted him immediately was the potential to combine his military service with his love of motorcycles and so it was that he ... Read more

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  • The Mammoth Book of How it Happened: World War I

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 378 - Mammoth Books
    The spectre of the Great War still haunts us. No other conflict so dramatically illustrates the waste of life, and the slaughter of innocents, as that of 1914-18. And none has so dramatically shaped the modern world: the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the break-up of Empire, the supremacy of America and World War II all stem from the four years of the 'war to end all wars'.Here is the eye ... Read more

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  • Letters from Verdun

    Frontline Experiences of an American Volunteer in World War I France

    by William C Harvey, Eric T Harvey ...
    The dramatic experiences of an ambulance driver in the Great War, told through personal correspondence and photographs.Though the United States was late to enter the Great War, a number of idealistic young Americans wished to take part from the beginning. One of these was Avery Royce Wolf, a highly educated scion of a family in America's burgeoning industrial heartland.Volunteering as an ambulance ... Read more

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