First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
The First Great Triumph: How Five Americans M…
Zimmermann analyses America's emergence onto the world stage through the careers of five friends and political allies: T…
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The Sculpture of Eric Kennington by Jonathan …
Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries 2004. Hardback, 112pp., £60. ISBN : 0 85331 823 9 In my tal…
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The Sculpture of Charles Sergeant Jagger by A…
Henry Moore Foundation, in association with Lund Humphries, 2004. Hardback, 144pp., £60. ISBN 0 85331 8646 In 1985,…
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Armenian Genocide: The Great Crime of World W…
Pen & Sword (2019) £12.99. 128pp, pb, ills, map, bibliog. index. ISBN: 978–152–672–901–9 ‘Who, after all, speaks…
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Jamaican Volunteers in the First World War by…
Subtitle: Race, Masculinity and the Development of National Consciousness Publisher: Manchester University Press (2004)…
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The Unknown Soldiers : Black American Troops …
By Arthur E. Barbeau and Florette Henri (1974) Philadelphia Temple University Press ISBN 0-877722-063-8 ‘The Unknow…
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Tony Bradman's Stories of WW1
At first sight, a review of an anthology of short stories written for children about the Great War is not what you might…
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Flesh and Steel during the Great War. The Tra…
£25.00, Pen & Sword, 323pp, index, notes and refs. ISBN: 9781473886964. Michel Goya served in the French Army f…
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William Leslie Wain: VC The Tank Corps at Cam…
£12.99, Y Lolfa, Talybont, 271pp 154 photographs, 6 maps. ISBN 978191263126 1. Every November the fallen of the Tan…
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Drawing from History : The Forgotten Art of F…
Foreword by James Gurney Introduction by Lucinda Gosling Fortunino Matania was a remarkable artist and a product of …
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Rayford W.Logan and the Dilemma of the Africa…
By Kenneth Robert Janken University of Massachusetts Press 1993 319 pages ISBN-10 : 0870238582 ISBN-13 : 978-08702…
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Paris Noir : African Americans in the City of…
Tyler Stovall's motivation to write 'Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light' came from his own grandfather's…
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