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Archduke Ferdinand and the Era of Assassination by Lisa Traynor
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Royal Armouries Talking Points (2018) £14.99, 71pp, 39 ills, notes and refs, bibliog, index. ISBN: 978–094–809–288–6 There has been no shortage of books since the ‘shot that rang around the world’ was fired, although the raging torrent of print of a few years ago has begun to slow to a trickle as non– specialist publishers hammer the final nai…
Armenian Genocide: The Great Crime of World War 1 by David Charlwood
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Pen & Sword (2019) £12.99. 128pp, pb, ills, map, bibliog. index. ISBN: 978–152–672–901–9 ‘Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?’ Hitler asked in August 1939, while planning his Polish massacres. A hundred years after the Turkish Holocaust event, and Turkish denials, people do speak of it and Genocide: The Great …
The Flower of Battle - British Fiction Writers of the First World War by Hugh Cecil
Secker & Warburg 1995 Hardback, 415pp £25.00 ISBN 0 436 202905 [This review first appeared in the October 1996 edition of Stand To! No.49] Dr. Hugh Cecil, an historian at the University of Leeds, points out in the first chapter of this book that more than 400 British authors, who had firsthand experience of the Great War, used their memor…
Winged Victory by Victor M. Yeates
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I’d heard there was a book written about flying in the First World War that was in great demand by flyers in the Second; this was ‘Winged Victory’ by Victor Yeates who had died of TB in 1934. Out of print, rare copies were going for £5 each in 1941 (over £200 today). Its rarity is part of the story: published in 1931 the interest in novelisations o…
Reclaiming the Salient: Resurrecting the Great War Battlegrounds of Flanders Fields
By Roger Steward £19.95 paperback: 240 pages, bibliography, index, photographs ISBN: 978-115113-67-2 Helion, 2023 On any visit to the battlefield sites on the Western Front two features are unavoidable. Firstly, a countryside filled with cemeteries and secondly the large amount of munitions which are either stacked neatly by the road awai…