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Public Schools and the Great War- The Generation Lost

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By Anthony Seldon and David Walsh Published by Pen and Sword 317 pages, including appendix, notes, bibliography and index and 34 photographs. I remember in the 1960s, how it became very fashionable to denigrate the public schools as out of touch, elitist institutions. As for their contribution towards the Great War, their boys were seen as dim a...


Debts without redemption, Cultural differences in First World War Finance

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Debts without redemption, Cultural differences in First World War finance, £23.70 (Waterstones), Aspekt Publishers, Netherlands, 402pp, some black and white ills and diagrams in text, index, notes and refs, ISBN 978-94-6338-189-5 Aris Gaaff The human cost of the War is well known: the financial cost much less so. I was reluctant to read this, be...


Cyril Keepfer, 1894-1918 a Denbigh boy and the Great War

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Cyril Keepfer, 1894-1918 a Denbigh Boy and the Great War Bridge Books, Wrexham 48 pp, 20 pp photographs, 4 maps notes and references no index ISBN 978-1-84494-111-7. Christopher Keepfer Roberts £15 incl. P&P UK, £20 incl. P&P non U Proceeds less P&P to British Legion, from the author - email chris.k.roberts@btinternet.com)   2nd Lieu...


A talk by Michael Lucas 'The Real General Mitford'

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Bertram Mitford (1863-1936), like many in authority, attracted wildly different opinions: Kitchener, and 'The Wipers Times' thought highly of him: Sir John French and Hubert Gough did not. With distinguished service in the Sudan and South Africa, but some failures in peacetime, he was 'dug out' of early retirement in 1914. Mitford trained an...


Of No Earthly Use. The 2nd Line Territorial Force Divisions and the Western Front 1914–18 by K W Mitchinson

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(Helion, 2021) £29.95, paperback, 301 pages inc maps, index, notes and refs. plus 18 pages full colour photographs. ISBN 978–1–914059–95–7 Buy a copy now > https://bit.ly/3OpHctp  Since 1995, Bill Mitchinson has been producing meticulously researched books on some of the less fashionable units of the British Army in the early 20th century, es...