First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
The Coolie’s Great War. Indian Labour in a Gl…
£45.00, Hurst & Company, London, 392 pp, 21 ills, index, notes and refs ISBN 9781787382152 Military labour is a…
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John Terraine : The Smoke and the Fire: Myths…
(London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1980) A reappraisal by Gary Sheffield [This article first appeared in the April 2021 ed…
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The African American Experience in World War …
History, world war and the aftermath in the US and France Many African Americans felt that the war they fought in 191…
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A Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
Feminism of the First Hour? Released in 1933 as Germany faced the beginnings of the rise of fascism, A Testament of Yo…
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Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Considered to be the high priest of modernism, it could be argued that Hemingway transformed the face of literature. Pri…
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Sons of Freedom: The forgotten American Soldi…
Basic Books. £13.81 (on Amazon special at the time of the book’s review). HB 596 pp. 14 maps. Ills throughout. Bibliog…
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The Great War Dead of Crewe & Nantwich by Mar…
Softback, 219pp, 2001. Copies priced £10 may be obtained from Joy Bratherton. [Available in 2021 for £7.25 from Abebo…
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Americans All. Foreign-Born Soldiers in World…
Texas A&M University Press, College Station, $32.95, 2000, 207pp, ills, index. ISBN: 1 58544 118 X. His is a wel…
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The Great War 1914- 1918 by Ian F.W.Becket
Modern Wars in Perspective Series Longman, 2001, pb, 508pp, maps, £16.99. ISBN 0 582 32248 0. There have been some im…
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The Lusitania, the Life, Loss and Legacy of a…
Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA, 2000, 291 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0 8117 989 2. Even at this late date, the Lusitania…
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Filming All Quiet on the Western Front by And…
I.B. Taurus, 1998. Price unknown. ISBN 86064 000 0. Erich Maria Remarque's extraordinary novel All Quiet on the West…
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Kitchener by John Pollock
Constable, 2001, 598pp., £20. ISBN 0 09 480340 4 Earl Kitchener of Khartoum remains a source of fascination for hist…
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