First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
The German Offensives of 1918 by Martin Ki...
Tempus Publishing, 2001, £25, 283pp, index, illus. ISBN 0 7524 1799 1 [This review first appear in the April 2002...
Read MoreBirdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Vintage, 1994. Softback, 407pp., £5.99. ISBN 009938791 3. Works of fiction are not often referred to in Stand To !, b...
Read MoreGoodbye to All That by Robert Graves
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780141184593 Perhaps better known as a poet and writer of historical fiction – n...
Read MoreHer Privates We by Frederick Manning
There is an introduction from the author and poet Edmund Blunden; he describes ‘Her Privates We’ as a ‘new kind of ca...
Read MoreThe Russian Army and the First World War b...
The role of Russia and its army in the Great War is both poorly understood in the west and relatively poorly document...
Read MoreWar, Journalism and the Shaping of the 20t...
L B Taurus, London & New York. £29.50. 246 pp. 2 appendices. Notes, bibliog. Index. 3 maps, 16 ills. ISBN 1-84511...
Read MoreStanley Spencer: Journey to Burghclere by...
Sansom & Co., 2006,204 pages with colour and black & white illustrations. Hardback £35 (SBN 1-904537-58-8), s...
Read MoreCommand and Control on the Western Front:...
Spellmount, Staplehurst, £20, 223pp, maps, illustrations, notes, references, index. ISBN 1-86227-083-X BECKET (Prof I...
Read MoreVictory through Coalition: Britain and Fra...
Victory through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War, Cambridge, 2005, $75, xvi, 304 pp, index, m...
Read MoreEnd Game: Britain, Russia and the Final St...
I B Taurus & Co Ltd, London & New York, 2002, 273pp, bibliography, index, ISBN 1 85043 371 2. India's domina...
Read MoreThe War Underground. The Tunnellers of the...
Spellmount Ltd, Staplehurst, £14.99, soft back, 272pp, 22ills, 5maps, bibliography, ISBN 1 86227 081 3. Amongst othe...
Read MoreMud, Blood and Poppycock by Gordon Corrigan
Cassell, 2003, £18.99, 431pp, 24 plates, 9 maps, 7 ills., bibliography, index, ISBN 0 304 35955 6. Gordon Corrigan's...
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