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Historians Do Drink Conference: Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig and the Allied Victory of 1918
Five speakers will consider the role played in the Allied Victory of 1918 by Sir Douglas Haig. DETAILS HERE > Historians Do Drink
Stand To! 1 to 122 Full Contents Listing
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Stand To! 1-121 Content Stand To 1 Spring 1981 Editorial Notes (Peter T. Scott) Serving members of the Western Front Association Early Days, New Paths and Acknowledgements Inaugural Meeting: John Terraine's Address. Historian John Terraine berates those who indulge in ‘purely tragic pilgrimages to the Western Front’. The Loving Care of the…
British Military Leadership in the First World War by John Terraine
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(This lecture was given by John Terraine , the then Honorary President of The Western Front Association in 1991. It was later published in a 'Leadership & War' and published by The Western Front Association in 1998). This is a subject subject which has been steeped in misunderstanding, prejudice and pure mythology for over seventy years an…
Postponed : 8th President's Conference - Theme '1915 Revisited'
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Given current situation with spread of coronavirus the President's Conference will be postponed until further notice. The welfare of delegates and speakers is uppermost in our thoughts. Speakers: Aimee Fox : 'To Gallipoli and Back Again: Learning lessons between theatres, Gallipoli and the Western Front, 1915-1916'? Aimee Fox This talk fo…
In Haig’s Shadow: The Letters of Major– General Hugo De Pree and Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (editor) Gary Sheffield
Greenhill Books £19.99, 217 pages, including 2 appendices ISBN 9781784383534 Some might think that there is little left to say about Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. Lionised by his brothers–in–arms in the 1920s, Haig’s reputation was systematically demolished in the 1930s to the point where, for many, he came to represent something of a pantom…
Stand To ! No. 121 Recently Published
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Contents Communication Lines 2–6 A Bridge Too Many on the Oise by Michael Carragher 7–11 A Short Spell on Mudros and Helles by Barbara Meredith 12–18 Another Lonely Anzac 1394 Private H V Meston 9th Battalion AIF by Paul Cobb 19–21 The Camera Returns (102) by Bob Grundy and Steve Wall 22–23 A Fascination for Flora Along the Western …
Stereoscope images from the Western Front and elsewhere
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Having just published the initial batch of stereoscopic images on The Western Front Association's website, it is perhaps a good time to pick out just a handful of these to show the kind of images that are available. There is no 'science' to the selection of the following images, it is merely a selection of some that have caught my eye as being of …