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Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780141184593 Perhaps better known as a poet and writer of historical fiction – notably I Claudius – in 1929 Robert Graves wrote an autobiographical account of the first thirty years or so of his life. Although Goodbye to All That deals with Graves’ early life and the ten years after his demobilisation, these mi…
Wounded: The Long Journey Home From The Great War by Emily Mayhew
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The Great War is endlessly fascinating. One of the principle reasons for this is that the conflict was one of the first examples of total war. So seismic were the changes that this totalisation inflicted, very often organisations or professions were compelled to completely rethink their response. As Emily Mayhew writes in her introduction to Wounde…
The First World War in 100 Objects by Gary Sheffield
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The First World War in 100 Objects: The story of the Great War told through the objects that shaped it by Professor Gary Sheffield Hardback 256pp Approx: 500 words per object Andre Deutsch September 2017 ISBN 9780233005232 In 2010 Neil MacGregor, then Director of the British Museum, brought to BBC Radio 4 his ground-breaking ‘A History of t…
Football in the First World War
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For the the 2021/2022 season, Saturday 14 May marks the playing of the FA Cup final, 150 years on from the first ever final between the Wanderers and the Royal Engineers. Above: The Wanderers v Royal Engineers match programme - 1872 The result of the game will be important, not only to the supporters of Chelsea and Liverpool, but for millions o…
August 1914 by Bruno Cabanes
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One of the positive features of modern Great War scholarship is the number of books that allow historians to understand the conflict from the perspective of another of the combatant nations. Bruno Cabanes’ August 1914 tells the story of France, and French society, in that cataclysmic first month of the war. Cabanes not only draws on government arc…