First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
The Sculpture of Charles Sergeant Jagger b...
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 Worl...
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...
Subtitle: Race, Masculinity and the Development of National Consciousness Publisher: Manchester University Press (200...
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The Unknown Soldiers : Black American Troo...
By Arthur E. Barbeau and Florette Henri (1974) Philadelphia Temple University Press ISBN 0-877722-063-8 ‘The Unknown...
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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 mi...
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Flesh and Steel during the Great War. The...
£25.00, Pen & Sword, 323pp, index, notes and refs. ISBN: 9781473886964. Michel Goya served in the French Army...
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William Leslie Wain: VC The Tank Corps at...
£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 o...
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 Afr...
By Kenneth Robert Janken University of Massachusetts Press 1993 319 pages ISBN-10 : 0870238582 ISBN-13 : 978-0870238...
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Paris Noir : African Americans in the City...
Tyler Stovall's motivation to write 'Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light' came from his own grandfathe...
Read More![Scotts Official History of the American Negro in the World War [1] by Mr Emmett J Scott (1919)](/media/34741/screenshot-2023-10-05-at-075209.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133409659901800000)
Scotts Official History of the American Ne...
Mr Emmett J Scott was Special Assistant to Hon, Newton D.Baker, Secretary of War - so he had to be circumspect. Thi...
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In the Trenches: A Russian Woman Soldier’s...
£20.00, Potomac Books: University of Nebraska Press, 192pp, pb, maps, notes, index, Introduction by Lawrence M Kapl...
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