Editor’s Introduction

  • Indian cavalry units attack towards Longueval and High Wood 14 July 1916
  • The power of culture

Communication Lines (Letters to the Editor)

  • Major Ralph Kent
  • Casualty Statistics
  • Fate of the Zeppelins

Ghosts on the Somme. New Techniques in the Analysis of Documentary Film by Alastair H Fraser

'Dear Robert' - The Letters of Frank Richards DCM MM to Robert Graves - Part II by David Langley

‘Tactically naive schoolboys’? An analysis of the performance of infantry officers of the 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment on the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Chris Baker

War Art: Claggett Wilson by Michael Barton

Rudyard Kipling and King George V: The 1922 Pilgrimage to the Flanders Cemeteries by Michael Aiden

Army Cyclists - Not Glamorous But There by Kieth Tebutt

Saving the Lives and Limbs of Soldiers with Gunshot Fractures of the Femur in the Great War by Roger Austin FRCS Ed

Undefeated in the Field - Some German Reflectons - Part II by David Filsell

Remembering that Great War at Liverpool Station by Ray Westlake

The Camera Returns (67): Colaertplein (sqaure), Ypres by Bob Grundy and Steve Wall

British Medical Casualties on the Western Front in the Great War

British Medical Casualties on the Western Front in the Great War - Part 3 & 4 - Dentistry for Solders and the Problems of the Clearance and Treatment of Battlefield by Dr David Payne

The Hackney Synagogue First World War Memorial (Brenthouse Road, London, E9)  A Project of Remembrance by Martin Sugarman

D51 'Deborah' The Flesquieres Tank by Rob Kirk

Garrison Library (First World War books reviewed) 

  • Survivors of a Kind: Memoirs of the Western Front by Brian Bond
  • The Military Cross to Flying Personnel of Great Britain and the Empire 1914-1919 by Hal Giblin and Norman Franks
  • Fromelles 1916 by Paul Cobb
  • Tracing Yours First World War Ancestors by Simon Fowler
  • 1918: A Very British Victory by Peter Hart
  • Lancashire's Forgotten Heroes: 8th (Service) Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment by Stephen Border and Christopher Boardman 
  • The National Archives British Trench Map Atlas: The Western Front 1914-1918 by Peter Chasseaud
  • Famous 1914-1918 by Richard van Emden and Victor Piuk
  • Lutyens and the Great War by Gerald Gliddon and Tim Skelton 
  • The German Offensives of 1918: The Last Desperate Gamble by Ian Passingham
  • Springboks on the Somme: South Africa in the Great War, 1914-1918 by Bill Nasson
  • Doctrine and Reform in the British Cavalry 1880-1918 by Stephen Badsey
  • The Diary and Letters of a World War I Fighter Pilot by Christopher M Burgess
  • Digging the Trenches: The Archaeology of the Western Front by Andrew Robertshaw and David Kenyon
  • The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson

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