First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
![William Leslie Wain: VC The Tank Corps at Cambrai 1917 by Dr Jonathan Hicks](/media/18768/screenshot-2021-04-20-at-061702.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132633731405470000)
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...
Read More![In the Trenches: A Russian Woman Soldier’s Story of World War 1 by Tatiana Dubinskaya](/media/14594/screenshot-2021-02-14-at-103025.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193034100000)
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...
Read More![Haig’s Tower of Strength. General Sir Edward Bulfin – Forgotten General by John Powell](/media/14593/screenshot-2021-02-14-at-095954.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193033970000)
Haig’s Tower of Strength. General Sir Edwa...
£25, Pen & Sword, 294pp, 37 photographs, 10 maps. ISBN 1526722607. What a pleasure it is to say that this is a...
Read More![Victory at Gallipoli: The German–Ottoman Alliance in the First World War by Klaus Wolf](/media/14592/screenshot-2021-02-14-at-093950.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193033800000)
Victory at Gallipoli: The German–Ottoman A...
Translation from the German by Tim Iredal £30, Pen & Sword Military, illustrations. ISBN 9781526768162. There has...
Read More![For what we have done: The first attack on Bellewaarde, 16 June 1915](/media/14006/screenshot-2021-02-02-at-084326.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193033030000)
For what we have done: The first attack on...
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 Ro...
£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...
The First World War in 100 Objects: The story of the Great War told through the objects that shaped it by Professor G...
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Staring at God: Britain in the Great War b...
Penguin Random House £30 914pp, bibliog, ills, notes and refs, index. ISBN: 9781847948311 By Simon Heffer Before o...
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