Essays on Ceredigion at the Time of the First World War
by Gwyn Jenkins
Price: $14.99
ISBN: 9781784619695
Pub Date: 2021-10-22
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Y Lolfa
176 Pages
This book is not a military history of horror in the trenches, but a social and cultural history of life in one county in west Wales during the First World War.
Captain Richard William Leslie Wain V.C. - The Tank Corps at Cambrai, 1917
by Jonathan Hicks
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 9781912631261
Pub Date: 2020-11-23
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Y Lolfa
272 Pages
Biography of Richard Wain from Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales, who won the Victoria Cross for his heroic actions at the Battle of Cambrai in the First World War, aged only 20. Also traces in detail the history of the British Army Tank Corps and its contribution to the winning of the war, looking at personnel training and the development of early tanks.
IRELAND’S FORGOTTEN LEGACY In 1914-1918, two hundred thousand Irishmen from all religions and backgrounds went to war. At least thirty-five thousand never came home. An award-winning collection of veterans’ stories as told by the families, with military records, surviving documents and letters.
When the call went out in 1917 for volunteers willing to serve both at home and on the Western Front in a newly founded Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, young women from every province of Ireland responded just as eagerly as those from homes in Scotland, England and Wales.
Shell Shock and Its Treatment at Dublin's Richmond War Hospital, 1916
by Brendan Kelly
Price: $29.00
ISBN: 9781908308634
Pub Date: 2015-07-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: The Liffey Press
172 Pages
This book examines the largely forgotten group of Irish soldiers who suffered from shell shock and other mental troubles as a result of World War I. In 1916, just two months after the Easter Rising, the Richmond War Hospital was established at Grang
Based on first-hand accounts of the First World War, The Glorious Madness brings to life the hopes, fears, and ambitions that defined Ireland's lost generation. From the dramatic story of the nuns of Ypres and their escape to Ireland to found Kylemor
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