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The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914-1918, Vol. 1 of 3

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By Frederick Ponsonby
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A regimental account traces the actions and experiences of the Grenadier Guards during the 1914–1918 European conflict, focusing on battalion, company and platoon-level operations. It synthesizes officers' letters, diaries and battalion records to reconstruct engagements from the Retreat from Mons through the Marne, the Aisne and the First Battle of Ypres. The author explains the difficulties of contemporary military history—contradictory eyewitness reports, uneven documentation and scarce information about the enemy. Extended trench life, the impact of gas and high explosives, and heavy casualty lists are recorded alongside maps and administrative detail. The narrative deliberately emphasizes granular regimental experience rather than grand tactical analysis.

A SELECTION OF NEW BOOKS

3 Vols. With Portraits and Plans. 8vo. £2:12:6 net.

THE LIFE OF

LORD KITCHENER

BY

Sir GEORGE ARTHUR, BT., M.V.O.

Private Secretary to Lord Kitchener, 1914-16

WITH PREFACES BY

THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY and EARL HAIG

LETTERS OF TRAVEL. By Rudyard Kipling.

Edition de Luxe. 8vo. 10s. 6d. net.

Uniform Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. net.

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DEMOCRACY. By the Right Hon. Viscount Bryce, O.M., P.C., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. 8vo.

THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PEACE. By John Maynard Keynes, C.B., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Nineteenth Thousand. 8vo. 8s. 6d. net.

INDUSTRY AND TRADE: A Study of Industrial Technique and Business Organisation; and of their Influences on the Conditions of various Classes and Nations. By Alfred Marshall, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy in the University of Cambridge. Second edition. 8vo. 18s. net.

A PRIVATE IN THE GUARDS. By Stephen Graham, Author of "With the Russian Pilgrims to Jerusalem," etc. 8vo. 10s. net.

FROM LIBERTY TO BREST-LITOVSK: The First Year of the Russian Revolution. By Ariadna Tyrkóva-Williams (Mrs. Harold Williams). 8vo. 16s. net.

EUROPE IN THE MELTING-POT. By R. W. Seton-Watson, D.Litt. With maps. Crown 8vo. 4s. 6d. net.

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