First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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...
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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...
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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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The Name Beneath the Stone by Robert Newcome
Universe Press, 2019, £10.99, pb. Ills. 350pp. ISBN: 9781912690558 In November, 1920, the body of an unknown soldier...
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DH9 From Ruin to Restoration: The Extraord...
By Guy Black Grub St. £20 206 Pages 7 Appendices. ills throughout, bibliog, index ISBN: 9781908117335 As Guy Black...
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Illustrating Armageddon: Fortunino Matania...
By Jim Davies with a forward by Lucinda Gosling Unicorn Press £30.00 hb, 416pp, ills in monochrome and colour, no ind...
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Not Forgotten by Neil Oliver
Accompanied the major Channel Four series on World War I Neil Oliver with a forward by Ian Hislop Hodder & Stough...
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Freedom Struggles. African Americans and W...
Paperback $28.00 £22.95 ISBN 9780674062054 Publication Date 30 September 2011 336 Pages In this influential 2009 Harv...
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Two Colored Women with the American Expedi...
325 pages, 520 including a biography of Adolpheaus Hunton. (1997) Introduction by Adele Logan Alexander GKHall &...
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