Articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. All are examples of the kind of work featured in Stand To!
MA Dissertations
The WFA is pleased to showcase here MA Dissertations written on First World War related subjects.
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1914 The Memoirs of a Volunteer by Harry Fellows
[This article first appeared in Stand To! No 11 Summer 1984 pp.34-35. At this time, there were more than 170 members of …
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'The Western Front. A Plea for Understanding' by John Terraine
John Terraine’s 1983 Address to the Western Front Association. 1984 [This article first appeared in the journal of the…
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Evidence in Camera. A cautionary tale by Dr A J Peacock
[The following article first appeared in the third edition of Stand To! December 1981 pp3-6. Western Front Association M…
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Visiting and Revisiting the battlefields, 1919-1938 by Prof. Mark Connelly
Throughout the Great War the battlefields and the hinterland behind them held a fascination for people. Trying to unders…
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Did Kitchener’s decision to raise his ‘New Armies’ carelessly wreck the pre-war plans…
Image: Grimsby Pals (copyright IWM) Did Kitchener's decision to raise his ‘New Armies’ carelessly wreck the pre-wa…
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Here come the girls! The women volunteers at the Army Pay Office Woolwich from August…
Abstract August 2014 will witness the centenary of the start of the First World War. It is considered that much of the …
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The War To End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I
The War to End All Wars, The American Military Experience in World War I by Edward M. Coffman This work, first pu…
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