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

The Sky Their Battlefield by Trevor Henshaw (…
Fetubi Books, ISBN: 9–780–992–977–115 (softback) £40.00 ISBN: 9–780–992–977–108 (hardback) £50.00 This is the most imp…
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A Short History of the First World War by Gar…
Oneworld Publications, soft covers, 2014, £8.99. 256pp ISBN: 9–781–780–743–646 Writing a book to cover the first truly…
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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 publish…
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From Boer War to World War: Tactical Reform o…
University of Oklahoma Press, 2012, £22.33, 314pp ISBN: 9–780–806–142–890 Paddy Griffiths said that from the second da…
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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 author …
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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. 48pp…
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Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African-American …
Brassey's Inc., Washington, DC 2003 301pp, photos, maps, bibliography, index Foreword by Rod Paschall ISBN 1 57488 38…
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Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of M…
Collins, 398pp, 15 plates, 2 maps, £20. ISBN -00-711952-6. Take it or hate it, The Lord of the Rings remains a fascinat…
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France and the Great War, 1914-1918. Leonard …
Cambridge University Press, 2003, 218 pp, index, illustrations, maps, bibliography. (New Approaches to European History…
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Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
Translated by Michael Hofmann, Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 2003, £ 14.99, 289pp. ISBN 0 71399 594 7. Although Basil C…
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Learning to Fight: Military Innovation and Ch…
Cambridge University Press, £ 27.20, e–book: £20.28, 290pp, bibliog, index. ISBN: 978–110–719–079–5 Based on the autho…
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Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Fro…
Harper Collins, 2004. Hardback, 716pp., £ 20.00. Also available as a two volume Folio Society edition. Few, whatever…
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