First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
‘Wisht Lads: Washington in the Great War b...
Pen & Sword, 2014, £12.99, 172pp ISBN: 9–781–783–463–855 [This review by Peter Hart first appears in Issue 103 o...
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Wounded: The Long Journey Home From The Gr...
The Great War is endlessly fascinating. One of the principle reasons for this is that the conflict was one of the fir...
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The Tanks at Flers : An Account of the Fir...
Fairmile Books 1995. Hardback 2 volumes vol 1 contains 257pp with 106b/w and 40 colour illus vol 2 contains 12 trenc...
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Archduke Ferdinand and the Era of Assassin...
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 Ma...
'This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an advent...
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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...
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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...
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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 propa...
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Lutyens and the Great War by Gerald Gliddo...
Frances Lincoln Ltd Publishers, 2008, £30, 224pp, illus, index. ISBN 978-0-7112-2678-8 This coffee-table size book,...
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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...
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The German Offensives of 1918: The Last De...
Pen and Sword, £19.99, 181pp, 43 ills, 3 mps, 8appendices, notes, bilio, index. ISBN 184415762-8 Whilst Ian Passingh...
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Pillars of Fire - the Battles of Messines...
Sutton Publishing 1998. Hardback, 223pp„ £19.99. ISBN 0 7509 1704 0. In his foreword to this book, Peter Simkins of...
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