First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
![In Haig’s Shadow: The Letters of Major– General Hugo De Pree and Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig (editor) Gary Sheffield](/media/13763/screenshot-2021-01-17-at-080237.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193031300000)
In Haig’s Shadow: The Letters of Major– Ge...
Greenhill Books £19.99, 217 pages, including 2 appendices ISBN 9781784383534 Some might think that there is little...
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Belgium in the Great War by Jean-Michel Ve...
Belgium in the Great War Pen & Sword (2018), £25.00 hb, 226pp, 47 ills and maps. ISBN: 978–152–671–660–6 As the...
Read More![WWI Crusaders: A band of Yanks in German by Jeffrey B Miller](/media/13727/screenshot-2021-01-15-at-045139.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193031000000)
WWI Crusaders: A band of Yanks in German b...
WWI Crusaders: A band of Yanks in German – occupied Belgium help save millions from starvation as civilians resist th...
Read More![Torchbearers of Democracy. African American Soldiers in the World War I Era by Chad L.Williams](/media/13726/screenshot-2021-01-13-at-095819.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193031000000)
Torchbearers of Democracy. African America...
472 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 18 halftones, notes, bibl., index PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4696-0985-0Published: August 2013 The...
Read More![More Deadly Than War: the hidden history of the Spanish flu and the First World War by Kenneth Davis.](/media/13678/screenshot-2021-01-08-at-141733.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193030830000)
More Deadly Than War: the hidden history o...
Henry Holt & Co 304 pages Reading age 12 -18 years Walt Disney. Age 16 in 1918 Walt Disney had an older brother...
Read More!['Too Black, Too White' by Ely Green](/media/13599/screenshot-2021-01-01-at-164740.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193029900000)
'Too Black, Too White' by Ely Green
‘Too Black, Too White’ is the fascinating autobiography of a smart, orphaned, unschooled boy of mixed ethnicity born...
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In Flanders Fields by Leon Wolff
In the history of the Great War, are there two names more freighted with the encumbrance of ‘mud, blood and futility’...
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Great War Barcombe News from a Sussex Vill...
Publisher: Country BooksISBN: 9781910489611 Edited by Ian Hilder Five years in post as the Digital Editor for The Wes...
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Major Tom's War by Vee Walker
The weave of Major Tom's War is such that at least two other books, possibly three, intertwine between its pages - th...
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Children at War 1914–1918 by Vivien Newman
£14.99, Pen and Sword, Barnsley 2019. 176pp, soft covers, 50 ills. incl. endnotes, bibliography and index. Also ava...
Read More![The World’s War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire by David Olusoga](/media/13462/screenshot-2020-12-27-at-090842.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193028630000)
The World’s War: Forgotten Soldiers of Emp...
Listening to The World’s War by David Olusoga narrated by Nigel Carrington is a joy. With a subtle change of accent t...
Read More![Keeping the Old Flag Flying: The World War I Memoir of Kenneth Basil Foyster - Canadian, Prisoner and Internee.](/media/12899/screenshot-2020-11-09-at-132430.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193026600000)
Keeping the Old Flag Flying: The World War...
By Mike Richardson Book Printing UK (2019), £12.99 (Amazon), 328pp, pb, 28 in page ills, 3 maps, sources, ISBN: 978–...
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