World War I Articles | The Western Front Association

Articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. Some are were first published in Stand To! or Bulletin, others have been researched and written for the web. If you would like to contribute an article please get in touch.

'The Western Front. A Plea for Understanding' by John Terraine

John Terraine’s 1983 Address to the Western Front Association. 1984 [This article first appeared...

Evidence in Camera. A cautionary tale by Dr A J Peacock

[The following article first appeared in the third edition of Stand To! December 1981 pp3-6. West...

Visiting and Revisiting the battlefields, 1919-1938

Throughout the Great War the battlefields and the hinterland behind them held a fascination for...

Did Kitchener’s decision to raise his ‘New Armies’ carelessly wreck the...

The Liberal Party, which had been in power since the General Election of 1906, was nervous of G...

Here come the girls! The women volunteers at the Army Pay Office Woolwic...

Abstract August 2014 will witness the centenary of the start of the First World War. It is consid...

The War To End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I

The War to End All Wars, The American Military Experience in World War I by Edward M. Coffman Thi...