Book Reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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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Hitler’s First War. Adolf Hitler, the Men of …
Oxford University Press. 2010 (paperback 2011 £10.99), 450pp Illustrations Bibliography ISBN 978 0199226382 The recent t…
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Six Weeks. The Short and Gallant Life of the …
Orion Publishing £20, 358pp, 23 ills (2 in colour), bibliog, index ISBN 978-0-297-86006-8 John Lewis-Stemple’s title de…
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Influenza 1918. PBS Home Video and complement…
This documentary, freely available online from The American Experience is a harrowing though watchable introduction to …
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The Great War: Myth and Memory by Dan Todman
Hambledon £19.99. The Great War: Myth and Memory is based on Dan Todman’s PhD thesis and looks at the changing percep…
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A Military Atlas of the First World War by Ar…
Leo Cooper, 2001, softback, 338pp., £14.95. ISBN 0 85052 791 0. As editor of this journal (Ann Clayton writing in 2002…
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Menin Gate and Last Post by Dominiek Dendoove…
De Klaproos Editons, Hostenstraat 4, 8670 Koksijde, Belgium, 2001. 160pp, soft covers, 13.95 Euros. This year, 2002, t…
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Forgotten Victory by Professor Gary Sheffield…
Headline Book Publishing, £20.00, 298pp. ISBN 0 74727157 7. Although published last year [2001], lack of a publisher's…
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