First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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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Wilfred Owen, Poet and Soldier by Helen McPha…
Gliddon Books/Wilfred Owen Association, 1993. Softback, 80pp. £7.95. ISBN 0 9478 93318. This book by Stand To! Poetry …
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Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The Brit…
286pp. Yale University Press 1994. ISBN 0-300-05910-8 This is an important book. In it, Paddy Griffith lays to rest a …
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Defeat at Gallipoli by Nigel Steel and Peter …
xvi 480pp. Hardback. £17.99. Macmillan. 1994. ISBN 0 33 55314 4. Those of us who seek to pass judgement on the conduct…
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My Father's Son, Earl Dawyk Haig
Leo Cooper, 194pp, ills, index, £19.95. ISBN 0 85052 708 2. When Earl Haig died suddenly in 1928, his nine-year-old so…
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The German Offensives of 1918 by Martin Kitch…
Tempus Publishing, 2001, £25, 283pp, index, illus. ISBN 0 7524 1799 1 [This review first appear in the April 2002 e…
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Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Vintage, 1994. Softback, 407pp., £5.99. ISBN 009938791 3. Works of fiction are not often referred to in Stand To !, but…
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Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780141184593 Perhaps better known as a poet and writer of historical fiction – not…
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Her Privates We by Frederick Manning
There is an introduction from the author and poet Edmund Blunden; he describes ‘Her Privates We’ as a ‘new kind of candi…
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The Russian Army and the First World War by N…
The role of Russia and its army in the Great War is both poorly understood in the west and relatively poorly documented …
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War, Journalism and the Shaping of the 20th C…
L B Taurus, London & New York. £29.50. 246 pp. 2 appendices. Notes, bibliog. Index. 3 maps, 16 ills. ISBN 1-84511-08…
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Stanley Spencer: Journey to Burghclere by Pau…
Sansom & Co., 2006,204 pages with colour and black & white illustrations. Hardback £35 (SBN 1-904537-58-8), soft…
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