First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
The Kaiser’s Reluctant Conscript: My Exper...
Barnsley, South Yorkshire Pen & Sword Military, 2012. Born in 1893, Dominick Richert had completed less than a...
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Shell Shocked Britain The First World War’...
Suzie Grogan Pen and Sword History £19.99 First published 2014 168pp 8pp photographs Suzie Grogan’s interest in ‘...
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The Bloody Hand by Blaise Cendrars
Éditions Vagamundo 2015. Published with the support of Brittany Council. First published 1946 under the title La Main...
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Brothers In War by Michael Walsh
ISBN: 978 0 09 190884 3 SB426pp £7.99 Published by Elbury Press. Edited by Michael WalshThis book follows the live...
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Battle Lines: Ypres - Nieupoort to Ploegst...
Authors: Jon Cooksey and Jerry Murland ISBN 978 1 84884 783 4 Publisher: Pen and Sword 31 March 2013 240 pages includ...
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American Armies And Battlefields In Europe
Some Remarks About "American Armies And Battlefields In Europe," 1927, 1938, and 1992 by The American Battle Monument...
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Aces Falling, War Above The Trenches, 1918
By Peter Hart ISBN: 978 0 297 84653 6 HB 386 £22.50 Published by Weidenfield & Nicholson. Peter Hart, as one ha...
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A Sergeant Major’s War. From Hill 60 to th...
Ernest Shephard. Edited by Bruce Rossor Published by The Crowood Press ISBN 1 85223 200 5 PB 157 pages £10 to £20 Whe...
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'Tig's Boys - Letters to Sir from the Tren...
Edited by David Hilliam ISBN: 978 0 7524 6331 5 188pp with illustrations David Hilliam has edited a remarkable collec...
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'If You're Reading This: Last Letters from...
Written by Sian Price ISBN: 978-1-84832-610-1 Frontline Books, Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2011, £19.99, 292pp, ills,...
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'Dear Mother Great War letters From A Bris...
ISBN: 1 904537 07 3 SB 144 pp £7.99 Published by RedcliffePress Ltd, 81g Pemroke Rd, Bristol BS83EA. ”Dear Mother”...
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Diary of an Old Contemptible by Edward Roe
ISBN: 1 84415 135 2 HB 329 pages £25.00Published by Pen & Sword Military Books Over the years numerous veterans h...
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