First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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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Storm Troop Tactics - Innovation in the Ge...
1914-1918, 210 pp. Casebound, £30.95 in UK (through Eurospan books). Praeger, New York. 1989. ISBN 0275 93328 8. It i...
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The Worst Ordeal - Britons Home and Abroad...
Published by Leo Cooper, 1994. Casebound, 232 pp. £18.99. ISBN 0850524172. If I am right in believing that most WFA...
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Wilfred Owen, Poet and Soldier by Helen Mc...
Gliddon Books/Wilfred Owen Association, 1993. Softback, 80pp. £7.95. ISBN 0 9478 93318. This book by Stand To! Poetr...
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Battle Tactics of the Western Front: The B...
286pp. Yale University Press 1994. ISBN 0-300-05910-8 This is an important book. In it, Paddy Griffith lays to rest...
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Defeat at Gallipoli by Nigel Steel and Pet...
xvi 480pp. Hardback. £17.99. Macmillan. 1994. ISBN 0 33 55314 4. Those of us who seek to pass judgement on the condu...
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