First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African-Americ...
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 o...
Collins, 398pp, 15 plates, 2 maps, £20. ISBN -00-711952-6. Take it or hate it, The Lord of the Rings remains a fascin...
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France and the Great War, 1914-1918. Leona...
Cambridge University Press, 2003, 218 pp, index, illustrations, maps, bibliography. (New Approaches to European Histo...
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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...
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Learning to Fight: Military Innovation and...
Cambridge University Press, £ 27.20, e–book: £20.28, 290pp, bibliog, index. ISBN: 978–110–719–079–5 Based on the aut...
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Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western...
Harper Collins, 2004. Hardback, 716pp., £ 20.00. Also available as a two volume Folio Society edition. Few, whateve...
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Hitler’s First War. Adolf Hitler, the Men...
Oxford University Press. 2010 (paperback 2011 £10.99), 450pp Illustrations Bibliography ISBN 978 0199226382 The recen...
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Six Weeks. The Short and Gallant Life of t...
Orion Publishing £20, 358pp, 23 ills (2 in colour), bibliog, index ISBN 978-0-297-86006-8 John Lewis-Stemple’s title...
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Influenza 1918. PBS Home Video and complem...
This documentary, freely available online from The American Experience is a harrowing though watchable introduction...
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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 perc...
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A Military Atlas of the First World War by...
Leo Cooper, 2001, softback, 338pp., £14.95. ISBN 0 85052 791 0. As editor of this journal (Ann Clayton writing in 20...
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Menin Gate and Last Post by Dominiek Dendo...
De Klaproos Editons, Hostenstraat 4, 8670 Koksijde, Belgium, 2001. 160pp, soft covers, 13.95 Euros. This year, 2002,...
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