First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1…
Penguin London 2013 pp.736 ill ISBN 9780141027821 Clark is an Australian historian and the Regius Professor of hist…
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Riding the Retreat: Mons to Marne 1914 Revisi…
Jonathan Cape, 1995. Hardback, 280 pages £20. ISBN 0224037625 [This review first appeared in the 1996 edition of…
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Animals in the Great War
Pages: 117Illustrations: 32ISBN: 9781473838048Published by Pen & Sword: 17th June 2019 There is room for a book on …
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Great Sacrifice. The Old Boys of Barnsley Hol…
720 pages Helion & Company (2016) ‘A memorial book like no other.’ ‘Great Sacrifice. The Old Boys of Barnsley Hol…
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The Boys of Blackhorse Road by Malcolm Doolin…
More than simply a collection of personal, short life and service histories of the boys who as men served and died durin…
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Walter Tull, 1888-1918 Officer, Footballer by…
Paperback 256 Pages Published: 11/11/2009 Publisher: Raw Press ISBN: 9780956395405 I'n diving this review of 'Walt…
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With a Machine Gun to Cambrai by George Coppa…
188pp., paperback. £3.95. Macmillan/Papermac. [This 'review' first appeared in Stand To! No.17 Summer 1986] Original…
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The Blue Beast: Power and Passion in the Grea…
The History Press, Gloucs, 2013, £18.99, 224pp, 67 ills, notes, bibliog., index. ISBN: 9‒780‒752‒465‒97‒5 [This revie…
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The Zimmermann Telegram : Intelligence, Diplo…
US Naval Institute Press, 2012, $36.95, xii pages, 319pp, illustrations, bibliography, index. ISBN: 9‒781‒612‒511‒48‒1…
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Jackie Was a Hero by Lawrence Harris
1996 Paperback, 147 pp. £6.99 incl. postage from The Cartoon Cave P.O.Box 9138 London W3 7WQ. ISBN 0 9526834 0 7 …
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Men who Played the Game – Sportsmen who Gave …
Seren Books, £17.99 268pp, 18 ills. ISBN: 978–178–172–286–2 [This review first appeared in Stand To! 109 June 2017 (S…
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From the Western Front to Salonika: A French …
Helion & Co., £19.95 (£19.75 direct from publisher), soft back, 182pp, ills in page throughout, 6 appendices, indi…
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