Book Reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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…
Read More![Scotts Official History of the American Negro in the World War [1] by Mr Emmett J Scott (1919)](/media/15206/screenshot-2021-02-14-at-160455.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132577923140000000)
Scotts Official History of the American Negro…
Mr Emmett J Scott was Special Assistant to Hon, Newton D.Baker, Secretary of War - so he had to be circumspect. This …
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In the Trenches: A Russian Woman Soldier’s St…
£20.00, Potomac Books: University of Nebraska Press, 192pp, pb, maps, notes, index, Introduction by Lawrence M Kapla…
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Haig’s Tower of Strength. General Sir Edward …
£25, Pen & Sword, 294pp, 37 photographs, 10 maps. ISBN 1526722607. What a pleasure it is to say that this is a …
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Victory at Gallipoli: The German–Ottoman Alli…
Translation from the German by Tim Iredal £30, Pen & Sword Military, illustrations. ISBN 9781526768162. There has…
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For what we have done: The first attack on Be…
By Michael R B Mclaren £35.00 (Pb), Helion, 480pp, 107 b/w photos and illustrations, 16 maps. ISBN 978191239083 0. …
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November 1918: The German Revolution by Rober…
£20.00, 368pp, maps and black and white illustrations. ISBN 978019954647 3. What a delight – a serious, deeply res…
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The First World War in 100 Objects by Gary Sh…
The First World War in 100 Objects: The story of the Great War told through the objects that shaped it by Professor Gary…
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Staring at God: Britain in the Great War by S…
Penguin Random House £30 914pp, bibliog, ills, notes and refs, index. ISBN: 9781847948311 By Simon Heffer Before …
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In Haig’s Shadow: The Letters of Major– Gener…
Greenhill Books £19.99, 217 pages, including 2 appendices ISBN 9781784383534 Some might think that there is little …
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