First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
DH9 From Ruin to Restoration: The Extraordina…
By Guy Black Grub St. £20 206 Pages 7 Appendices. ills throughout, bibliog, index ISBN: 9781908117335 As Guy Bla…
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Illustrating Armageddon: Fortunino Matania an…
By Jim Davies with a forward by Lucinda Gosling Unicorn Press £30.00 hb, 416pp, ills in monochrome and colour, no ind…
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Not Forgotten by Neil Oliver
Accompanied the major Channel Four series on World War I Neil Oliver with a forward by Ian Hislop Hodder & Stought…
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Freedom Struggles. African Americans and Worl…
Paperback $28.00 £22.95 ISBN 9780674062054 Publication Date 30 September 2011 336 Pages In this influential 2009 Ha…
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Two Colored Women with the American Expeditio…
325 pages, 520 including a biography of Adolpheaus Hunton. (1997) Introduction by Adele Logan Alexander GKHall & C…
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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth …
If a forensic analysis of the combat performance of the 1st Battalion, The Blankshires Regiment, during the Battle of t…
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A Visitor’s Guide, the Battles of Arras: Nort…
Pen & Sword, 2019, £14.99, 192pp, b/w ills, maps, appendices, index. ISBN: 978–147–389–303–0 As all Western Front A…
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Manfred Von Richthofen. The Red Air Fighter
Manfred Von Richthofen. The Red Air Fighter ISBN 1 85367 079 0 199 pp. Illustrated. Casebound. £14.95. First Publis…
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Blasting and Bombardiering by Wyndham Lewis
1992 facsimile reprint of 1937 work xvi 312pp. Hardback. Imperial War Museum. £22.50 post free. (1992 facsimile repr…
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Trial by Friendship. Anglo-American Relations…
1993 University Press of Kentucky [This review first appeared in Stand To! No.43 April 1995. Members of The Western Fr…
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The Story of the Unknown Warrior by Michael G…
M & L Publications, c/o Livesey-Scott Solicitors, Derby House, Fulwood, Preston, Lancs. PR2 8JF, 1995. Hardback, 88p…
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‘Wisht Lads: Washington in the Great War by P…
Pen & Sword, 2014, £12.99, 172pp ISBN: 9–781–783–463–855 [This review by Peter Hart first appears in Issue 103 of…
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