First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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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‘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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