I know it’s quite a common thing for some writer to make their books available free or heavily discounted for a short period of time. It’s never something I’ve agreed with or indeed done.
Whilst checking on some on something else I found out my WW1 history book Lest We Forget which was published by Endeavour Press (now Lume Books) in 2015 is currently available for free on Kindle or for Kindle apps.
One of the differences with having a book published rather than self-published is that unless you are JK Rowling, you give up a lot of control over certain aspects of your book and this is a good example.
However now that I know it is on offer, I thought I’d tell you all so you can treat yourself to a great freebie… if I say so myself.
Lest We Forget is an easy to read guide to WW1 and is only 122 pages long. Those 122 pages, however, cover pretty much the entire war as you can see from the chapter titles below.
1 Introduction
2 The Road to War
3 Over By Christmas
4 The Pals Battalions
5 The Race To The Sea
6 The Christmas Truce
7 Life In The Trenches
8 WW1 Literature & Poetry
9 Verdun
10 Battle Of The Somme
11 The War At Sea
12 The Home Front
13 Women And The War
14 New Weapons Of War
15 Desert Campaigns
16 War In The Air
17 Gallipoli
18 World War One Legends
19 They Called It Passchendaele
20 The War Around The World
21 Armenia
22 The Russian Revolution
23 The Americans Are Coming!
24 The Hundred Day Offensive
25 The Armistice
26 Aftermath
27 Remembering The Great War
28 Maps and Photographs
From Finland to New Zealand, India to Canada, Lawrence of Arabia to the Red Baron, the horrors of Verdun to the musings of the poets, this book gives a great introduction to the war for casual readers and those wanting a new insight into WW1.
Recently we remembered a succession of 100th anniversaries relating to the war such as the Christmas Truce football matches, the sinking of the Lusitania, Gallipoli and the awful first day of The Somme. Lest We Forget covers each one of these epochal events and many more.
I’ve also included the run up to the war itself, insights into how it affects the modern world and how we remember the war today.
Not many people today realise that Britain was bombed by Zeppelins in WW1 and that the east coast was attacked by the German navy. Or that the American entry into WW1 was very much delayed and that British grew so bewildered that their contacts in Washington fed the American government lies about German school children having parties to celebrate the sinking of American civilian ships.
Everyone knows about the Nazi holocaust in WW2, but very few know their allies in WW1, the Turkish Ottomans carried out their own holocaust of Christian Armenians. Or that progress on the western front was so slight that the first and last British soldier killed in the trenches are buried precisely six feet but nearly 1 million men apart.
Think the French are cheese-eating surrender monkeys, read about Verdun. Think the British generals were bad on the treatment of their men at The Somme, learn about the final day of the war and an American commander who cost countless lives just so he could have a hot bath.
Of course, it is called WW1 for a reason, and this book deals with campaigns in Africa, Asia and the South Pacific as well as less remembered campaigns than those we all talk about.
Learn about the various advances in areas such as tanks and poison gas and some low-tech solutions like urine soaked clothes.
Stephen Liddell 
I will look it up. Thank you!
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