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Forgotten Victory by Professor Gary Sheffield
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Headline Book Publishing, £20.00, 298pp. ISBN 0 74727157 7. Although published last year [2001], lack of a publisher's copy has sadly long delayed the review of Gary Sheffield's Forgotten Victory in Stand To! Fortunately, apart from his 'day job' - Warfare Historian on the Higher Command and Staff Course - he is well known through his regular, an…
A Short History of the First World War by Gary Sheffield
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Oneworld Publications, soft covers, 2014, £8.99. 256pp ISBN: 9–781–780–743–646 Writing a book to cover the first truly global conflict in a concise and meaningful way might seem daunting. Professor Sheffield is not the first to write a ‘short history’, nor will he be the last. He has managed to produce a very clear account of the war; from its ca…
ONLINE: 'The Western Front' by Nick Lloyd
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The presentation will be live and online. Nick Lloyd will talk about his latest book, 'The Western Front', the first of a trilogy on the history of the Great War. Drawing upon the latest scholarship, Nick will re-examine the fighting in France and Belgium between 1914-18, and explain the achievements that have been too long obscured by legends of …
The Great War 1914- 1918 by Ian F.W.Becket
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Modern Wars in Perspective Series Longman, 2001, pb, 508pp, maps, £16.99. ISBN 0 582 32248 0. There have been some important works on the Great War published recently; the first volume of the new history by Hew Strachan is reviewed elsewhere in this issue, and we have a new contribution of great merit from Gary Sheffield. Ian Becket is a great m…
John Terraine : The Smoke and the Fire: Myths and Anti–Myths of War 1861–1945
(London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1980) A reappraisal by Gary Sheffield [This article first appeared in the April 2021 edition of Stand To! No. 122 pp 51-52. Members received Stand To! four times a year, and Bulletin three times a year either digitally or in print.] Of all John Terraine’s many books, The Smoke and the Fire is my favourite. It is no…
ONLINE: 'John Terraine as a Military Historian, Revisited' a presentation by Prof Gary Sheffield
The presentation will be live and online. To mark the centenary year of John Terraine's birth, the President of The Western Front Association, Professor Gary Sheffield, will give a talk that reviews John's career as a historian of the Great War and assesses his significance. In this presentation Gary will look at John Terraine's feud with Bas…
Gallipoli 1915: Muddle & Myths?
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This presentation uses sophisticated graphics, contemporary and present-day photographs to explain the strategic objectives, the military plan and the actual campaign. The speaker then analyses some of the major failings and considers how the campaign has influenced modern thinking in both Turkey and abroad. George Sutherland is a former army offi…