First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
Stanley Spencer: Journey to Burghclere by...
Sansom & Co., 2006,204 pages with colour and black & white illustrations. Hardback £35 (SBN 1-904537-58-8), s...
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Command and Control on the Western Front:...
Spellmount, Staplehurst, £20, 223pp, maps, illustrations, notes, references, index. ISBN 1-86227-083-X BECKET (Prof I...
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Victory through Coalition: Britain and Fra...
Victory through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War, Cambridge, 2005, $75, xvi, 304 pp, index, m...
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End 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...
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The War Underground. The Tunnellers of the...
Spellmount Ltd, Staplehurst, £14.99, soft back, 272pp, 22ills, 5maps, bibliography, ISBN 1 86227 081 3. Amongst othe...
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Mud, 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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The Sky Their Battlefield by Trevor Hensha...
Fetubi Books, ISBN: 9–780–992–977–115 (softback) £40.00 ISBN: 9–780–992–977–108 (hardback) £50.00 This is the most i...
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A Short History of the First World War by...
Oneworld Publications, soft covers, 2014, £8.99. 256pp ISBN: 9–781–780–743–646 Writing a book to cover the first tru...
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And We Go on by Will R Bird
McGill–Queen’s University Press, Montreal, 2014, soft covers, £16.99, 240pp ISBN: 9–780–773–543–966 Originally publi...
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From Boer War to World War: Tactical Refor...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2012, £22.33, 314pp ISBN: 9–780–806–142–890 Paddy Griffiths said that from the second...
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1914 Days of Hope by Lyn Macdonald
xiv plus 446 pp. Case bound. £15.95. Michael Joseph. In this latest in her series of books on the Great War the autho...
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The US Army of World War I by Mark R Henry
Illustrated by Stephen Walsh, Osprey, Oxford, 2003, $14.95. Order directly from Osprey at www.ospreypublishing.com. 4...
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