First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
Rayford W.Logan and the Dilemma of the Africa…
By Kenneth Robert Janken University of Massachusetts Press 1993 319 pages ISBN-10 : 0870238582 ISBN-13 : 978-08702…
Read MoreParis Noir : African Americans in the City of…
Tyler Stovall's motivation to write 'Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light' came from his own grandfather's…
Read MoreScotts Official History of the American Negro…
Mr Emmett J Scott was Special Assistant to Hon, Newton D.Baker, Secretary of War - so he had to be circumspect. This…
Read MoreIn the Trenches: A Russian Woman Soldier’s St…
£20.00, Potomac Books: University of Nebraska Press, 192pp, pb, maps, notes, index, Introduction by Lawrence M Kapla…
Read MoreHaig’s Tower of Strength. General Sir Edward …
£25, Pen & Sword, 294pp, 37 photographs, 10 maps. ISBN 1526722607. What a pleasure it is to say that this is a …
Read MoreVictory at Gallipoli: The German–Ottoman Alli…
Translation from the German by Tim Iredal £30, Pen & Sword Military, illustrations. ISBN 9781526768162. There has…
Read MoreFor what we have done: The first attack on Be…
By Michael R B Mclaren £35.00 (Pb), Helion, 480pp, 107 b/w photos and illustrations, 16 maps. ISBN 978191239083 0. …
Read MoreNovember 1918: The German Revolution by Rober…
£20.00, 368pp, maps and black and white illustrations. ISBN 978019954647 3. What a delight – a serious, deeply res…
Read MoreThe First World War in 100 Objects by Gary Sh…
The First World War in 100 Objects: The story of the Great War told through the objects that shaped it by Professor Gary…
Read MoreStaring at God: Britain in the Great War by S…
Penguin Random House £30 914pp, bibliog, ills, notes and refs, index. ISBN: 9781847948311 By Simon Heffer Before …
Read MoreIn Haig’s Shadow: The Letters of Major– Gener…
Greenhill Books £19.99, 217 pages, including 2 appendices ISBN 9781784383534 Some might think that there is little …
Read MoreBelgium in the Great War by Jean-Michel Veran…
Belgium in the Great War Pen & Sword (2018), £25.00 hb, 226pp, 47 ills and maps. ISBN: 978–152–671–660–6 As the …
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