First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
Archduke Ferdinand and the Era of Assassinati…
Royal Armouries Talking Points (2018) £14.99, 71pp, 39 ills, notes and refs, bibliog, index. ISBN: 978–094–809–288–6 …
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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria…
'This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure…
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The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
‘Never judge a book by its cover’ or so the old adage goes. However, the cover of my edition of Barbara Tuchman’s The Gu…
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War Underground by Alexander Barrie
Available in various hardback editions (first edition 1962), paperback 2004. War Underground by Alexander Barrie is a …
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Mr Standfast by John Buchan
Whilst John Buchan was not a combatant in the Great War, he was a significant figure in the nascent business of propagan…
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Lutyens and the Great War by Gerald Gliddon &…
Frances Lincoln Ltd Publishers, 2008, £30, 224pp, illus, index. ISBN 978-0-7112-2678-8 This coffee-table size book, pu…
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1918: A Very British Victory by Peter Hart
Weidenfeld & Nicholson, £20, 552pp 15 maps, 30 ills, notes, index. ISBN 978 0 297 84652 9 As a recent thread on th…
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The German Offensives of 1918: The Last Despe…
Pen and Sword, £19.99, 181pp, 43 ills, 3 mps, 8appendices, notes, bilio, index. ISBN 184415762-8 Whilst Ian Passingham…
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Pillars of Fire - the Battles of Messines Rid…
Sutton Publishing 1998. Hardback, 223pp„ £19.99. ISBN 0 7509 1704 0. In his foreword to this book, Peter Simkins of th…
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Storm Troop Tactics - Innovation in the Germa…
1914-1918, 210 pp. Casebound, £30.95 in UK (through Eurospan books). Praeger, New York. 1989. ISBN 0275 93328 8. It is …
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The Worst Ordeal - Britons Home and Abroad 19…
Published by Leo Cooper, 1994. Casebound, 232 pp. £18.99. ISBN 0850524172. If I am right in believing that most WFA me…
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Wilfred Owen, Poet and Soldier by Helen McPha…
Gliddon Books/Wilfred Owen Association, 1993. Softback, 80pp. £7.95. ISBN 0 9478 93318. This book by Stand To! Poetry …
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