First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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 MoreVictory at Gallipoli: The German–Ottoman A...
Translation from the German by Tim Iredal £30, Pen & Sword Military, illustrations. ISBN 9781526768162. There has...
Read MoreFor 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....
Read MoreNovember 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreStaring 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...
Read MoreIn 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...
Read MoreBelgium 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 MoreWWI 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 MoreTorchbearers 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 MoreMore 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
‘Too Black, Too White’ is the fascinating autobiography of a smart, orphaned, unschooled boy of mixed ethnicity born...
Read More