The Tanks at Flers : An Account of the First Use of the Tanks in War at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, the Somme, 15th September 1916 by Trevor Pidgeon

The Tanks at Flers : An Account of the First …

Fairmile Books 1995.  Hardback 2 volumes vol 1 contains 257pp with 106b/w and 40 colour illus vol 2 contains 12 trenc…

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Archduke Ferdinand and the Era of Assassination by Lisa Traynor

Archduke Ferdinand and the Era of Assassinati…

Royal Armouries Talking Points (2018) £14.99, 71pp, 39 ills, notes and refs, bibliog, index.  ISBN: 978–094–809–288–6 …

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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria…

'This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure…

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The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman

The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman

‘Never judge a book by its cover’ or so the old adage goes. However, the cover of my edition of Barbara Tuchman’s The Gu…

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War Underground by Alexander Barrie

War Underground by Alexander Barrie

Available in various hardback editions (first edition 1962), paperback 2004.  War Underground by Alexander Barrie is a …

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Mr Standfast by John Buchan

Mr Standfast by John Buchan

Whilst John Buchan was not a combatant in the Great War, he was a significant figure in the nascent business of propagan…

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Lutyens and the Great War by Gerald Gliddon & Tim Skelton

Lutyens and the Great War by Gerald Gliddon &…

Frances Lincoln Ltd Publishers, 2008, £30, 224pp, illus, index. ISBN 978-0-7112-2678-8  This coffee-table size book, pu…

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1918: A Very British Victory by Peter Hart

1918: A Very British Victory by Peter Hart

Weidenfeld & Nicholson, £20, 552pp 15 maps, 30 ills, notes, index. ISBN 978 0 297 84652 9  As a recent thread on th…

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The German Offensives of 1918: The Last Desperate Gamble by Ian Passingham

The German Offensives of 1918: The Last Despe…

Pen and Sword, £19.99, 181pp, 43 ills, 3 mps, 8appendices, notes, bilio, index. ISBN 184415762-8  Whilst Ian Passingham…

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Pillars of Fire - the Battles of Messines Ridge 1917 by Ian Passingham

Pillars of Fire - the Battles of Messines Rid…

Sutton Publishing 1998. Hardback, 223pp„ £19.99. ISBN 0 7509 1704 0.  In his foreword to this book, Peter Simkins of th…

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Storm Troop Tactics - Innovation in the German Army by Bruce I Gudundsson

Storm Troop Tactics - Innovation in the Germa…

1914-1918, 210 pp. Casebound, £30.95 in UK (through Eurospan books). Praeger, New York. 1989. ISBN 0275 93328 8. It is …

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The Worst Ordeal - Britons Home and Abroad 1914-1918 by Peter Liddle

The Worst Ordeal - Britons Home and Abroad 19…

Published by Leo Cooper, 1994. Casebound, 232 pp. £18.99. ISBN 0850524172.  If I am right in believing that most WFA me…

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