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Animals in the Great War by Stephen Wynn; Tanya Wynn
Category: Military
Animals in the Great War looks at the use of animals by all sides in the Great War and to what effect. In the main, it focuses greatly on horses, dogs and pigeons but also addresses the war efforts of other animals.In the early years of the war horses were, to a large extent, the only form of transport ...Show more
Churchill's Flawed Decisions - Errors in Office of the Greatest Briton by Stephen Wynn
Category: Biography
Winston Churchill is undoubtedly one of the most respected and best-loved characters the nation has ever known. However, much of how people view him is based on his leadership during the bleak and dire times of the Second World War. If it wasn't for him, Britain would almost definitely have lost the war ...Show more
City of London in the Great War by Stephen John Wynn
Category: Military
Throughout the First World War, London played a major part in Great Britain's war effort, both at home and abroad. A far as Germany was concerned, the city was their ultimate goal - the ultimate target that would bring them the sought-after victory they so desired. With the British Royal Family at Bucki ...Show more
DOVER IN THE GREAT WAR by WYNN STEPHEN
Category: Military | Series: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War Ser.
Situated on the south coast of England, geographically and strategically, Dover more than played its part in the First World War. It was from its harbor that the many vessels of the Dover Patrol set about preventing German ships from using the English Channel. It was undoubtedly one of the most importan ...Show more
DURHAM CITY IN THE GREAT WAR by WYNN STEPHEN
Category: Military | Series: Towns and Cities in the Great War Ser.
Durham was, and still is, one of the country's oldest and best-loved cites. The very name was synonymous with dedication, dependability and determination. Men from the city answered the call to arms with an eerie normality, no matter what their age or social class. Many had been miners before the war an ...Show more
Holocaust - The Nazis' Wartime Jewish Atrocities by Stephen Wynn
Category: History
The Holocaust is without doubt one of the most abhorrent and despicable events not only of the Second World War, but of the twentieth century. What makes it even more staggering is that it was not perpetrated by just one individual, but by thousands of men and women who had become part of the Nazi ideol ...Show more
Maidstone in the Great War by Stephen Wynn
Category: Military | Series: Towns and Cities Ser.
Maidstone in the Great War tells the remarkable story of this Kent county town's immense contribution to the Great War effort from the outbreak of war in 1914, to the long-awaited Allied victory in 1918. Maidstone has a long and illustrious military history #65533;e" it even had its own Civil War battle ...Show more
Poole in the Great War by Stephen Wynn
Category: Military | Series: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War Ser.
On 13 August, with the war only a matter of days old, the German cargo vessel, Herbert Fischer, was on its way from Russia to deliver timber to J T Sydenhams in Poole. It was challenged and stopped by Royal Naval vessels in the English Channel, but somewhat remarkably, it was allowed to continue its jou ...Show more
Target Rommel - The Allied Attempts to Assassinate Hitler's General by Stephen Wynn
Category: History
From a German perspective, the highly decorated and well respected General Erwin Rommel was one of their biggest and brightest assets: a military strategist who thought 'outside of the box', a tactic which more than once either brought him an unexpected victory, or saved him from almost certain defeat. ...Show more
The Shetland 'Bus' by Stephen Wynn
Category: Military
The Shetland Bus was not a bus, but the nickname of a special operations group that set up a route across the North Sea between Norway and the Shetland Islands, north-east of mainland Scotland. The first voyage was made by Norwegian sailors to help their compatriots in occupied Norway, but soon the Secr ...Show more
Women in the Great War by Stephen Wynn
Category: Military
The First World War was fought on two fronts. In a military sense it was fought on the battlefields throughout Europe, the Gallipoli peninsular and other such theatres of war, but on the Home Front it was the arduous efforts of women that kept the country running. Before the war women in the workplace w ...Show more
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