First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
My Father's Son, Earl Dawyk Haig
Leo Cooper, 194pp, ills, index, £19.95. ISBN 0 85052 708 2. When Earl Haig died suddenly in 1928, his nine-year-old...
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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...
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Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Vintage, 1994. Softback, 407pp., £5.99. ISBN 009938791 3. Works of fiction are not often referred to in Stand To !, b...
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Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780141184593 Perhaps better known as a poet and writer of historical fiction – n...
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Her 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...
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The 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...
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War, 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...
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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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