First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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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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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Bir...
If a forensic analysis of the combat performance of the 1st Battalion, The Blankshires Regiment, during the Battle o...
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A Visitor’s Guide, the Battles of Arras: N...
Pen & Sword, 2019, £14.99, 192pp, b/w ills, maps, appendices, index. ISBN: 978–147–389–303–0 As all Western Front...
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Manfred Von Richthofen. The Red Air Fighter
Manfred Von Richthofen. The Red Air Fighter ISBN 1 85367 079 0 199 pp. Illustrated. Casebound. £14.95. First Publis...
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Blasting and Bombardiering by Wyndham Lewis
1992 facsimile reprint of 1937 work xvi 312pp. Hardback. Imperial War Museum. £22.50 post free. (1992 facsimile rep...
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Trial by Friendship. Anglo-American Relati...
1993 University Press of Kentucky [This review first appeared in Stand To! No.43 April 1995. Members of The Western...
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The Story of the Unknown Warrior by Michae...
M & L Publications, c/o Livesey-Scott Solicitors, Derby House, Fulwood, Preston, Lancs. PR2 8JF, 1995. Hardback,...
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