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Dig Hill 80 Project Whitesheet, 2018
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In 2015, during test trenching, a team of archaeologists discovered a well- preserved German strongpoint at a ridge top near the village of Wijtschate (also known as Wytschaete – or ‘Whitesheet’ to the British). What the archaeologists had stumbled upon was unique; a piece of the formidable trench fortress that had remained virtually untouched s…
Fritz and Tommy: Across the Barbed Wire
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By Peter Doyle and Robin Schäfer The History Press 2016, £20.00, 288pp, ills (in page), postscript (voices quoted), bibliog, index. ISBN: 9–780–750–956–840 Review by David Filsell Military historian (and ‘go–to’ television presenter ‘hunk’) Dan Snow’s reputation is now, apparently, such that his view, of Fritz and Tommy as ‘One of the few g…
Stand To! No.1 to No.133 Full Contents Listing
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Stand To! 1-133 Content Stand To 1 Spring 1981 Editorial Notes (Peter T. Scott) Serving members of the Western Front Association Early Days, New Paths and Acknowledgements Inaugural Meeting: John Terraine's Address. Historian John Terraine berates those who indulge in ‘purely tragic pilgrimages to the Western Front’. The Loving Care of the…
109 : June/July 2017 Special Edition
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Letters from a Volunteer by Charles St.G Cook
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[This review first appeared in Stand To! No.12 Winter 1984] Charles St.G Coook 1914 Letters from a Volunteer. Ed. with intro, edited by Don Cook. 40pp., pbk £1.95 (post paid). (Copies can be found for £4 in 2021) Copy 15 of 500 shown here. Despite the huge output of books relating to the Great War there are still many aspects of the confli…
Kitchener's Mob: The New Army to the Somme by Peter Doyle and Chris Foster
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The History Press, 2016, £25.00 224pp, colour and monochrome ills throughout, bibliog., notes and refs. ISBN: 9–780–750–964–951 [This review first appeared in Stand To! No.108 January 2017] This is far from the first book about Kitchener’s 5.7 million strong new armies. The story is old and well known; since the publication of the immensely p…
Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers' War 1914- 1918 by Peter Barton, Peter Doyle and Johan Vandewalle
Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers' War 1914- 1918 Peter Barton, Peter Doyle and Johan Vandewalle Spellmount. 304 pp. £25.00. ISBN 86227 237 9 [This review first appeared in the September 2005 edition of Stand To! No.74] Every so often a book arrives for review which really stands out. It may be the research, the illustrations, the qual…