First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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…
Read MoreArchduke 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 …
Read MoreAll 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreWar Underground by Alexander Barrie
Available in various hardback editions (first edition 1962), paperback 2004. War Underground by Alexander Barrie is a …
Read MoreMr 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…
Read MoreLutyens 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…
Read More1918: 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MorePillars 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…
Read MoreStorm 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 …
Read MoreThe 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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