Stand To! Online

5 June 2018

In 1982 a survey went out with Issue. No.5 of Stand To! It asked members what they were interested in. This list of ‘requests’ immediately fed into the content for the following decade and represents the exceptional broad range of material readers and researchers can enjoy. These are the items that interested readers then:

Artillery
War Artists
Hand Grenades
War Pensions
Previously unpublished first-hand accounts of the war on the Western Front
RFC & RAF
Tunnelling
Views from ‘the other side’
Tanks
Life Behind the Lines
Clearing up Army
Trench routine and weapons
The Generals
Medical Service
Military Prisons
French Army Mutinies
The Machine Gun Corps
Ireland during the war
The Use of Cavalry!
The work of the Salvation Army and other civilian organisations on the Western Front
A guide to the Public Record Office

There are 1,249 articles and 1,910 book reviews here. This comes to around 8 million words in total.

Discover articles to by John Terraine, John Giles, Corelli Barnett and Malcolm Brown and regular contributions from David Cohen, Terry Cave, Bob Wyatt and David Filsell.

John Terraine, a highly active WFA Honorary President in his time, addressed members each year (his address was transcribed and published in Stand To!). His ‘Letters to the Editor’ are published, as well as articles and reviews of his books. ‘The Final Offensive’ was his 1993 Presidential Address.

Since the editorship of Jon Cooksey over ten years ago, each edition of Stand To! - has been a book-sized publications of 100,000 words (standard edition) or 150,000 to 160,000 (specials).

David Filsell, now Tzar of Book Reviews for the magazine, first wrote for Stand To! - in 1986. He personally has contributed several hundred books himself.

There are 68 articles related to America's role in the war and another 38 each on Canada and Australia, and 10 on Ireland.