Book Reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
Lost in France. The Remarkable Life and Death…
Not that familiar or even keen on football I was nonetheless drawn into the intricacies of the game and the intimate lif…
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The Gallipoli Oak by Martin Purdy and Ian Daw…
Paperback: 174 pages Publisher: Moonraker Publishing; 1st edition (2013) ISBN-10: 0955447216 ISBN-13: 978-0955447211 …
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The Indian Corps in France. Lt Col J.W .B.Mer…
The Indian Corps in France. Lt Col J.W .B.Merewether & Sir F. Smith: Reprint of 2nd edition, 1918, Naval & Milit…
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The Sons of John Company: The Indian & Pakist…
1903-1991 Parapress. 1996. Hardback, 379 pp., £19.99. ISBN 1898594 414. [This review first appeared in Stand To! no.51…
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For King and Another Country: Indian Soldiers…
Bloomsbury India, £25.00, 224pp. 41 ills, notes and refs, bibliog, index. ISBN: 978-83-84052-91-1 Shrabani Basu’s work…
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The Indian Corps on the Western Front Handboo…
[These reviews by John Battersby first appeared in Stand To! No. 104 September 2015 Special Edition. Available in the di…
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The Indian Army on the Western Front: India’s…
Cambridge University Press, £60.00, 335pp., bibliog, index. ISBN: 9–781–107–027–466 To subvert a review about a new bo…
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Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 1…
Yale University Press, £18.99 293pp, hb, ills, notes, further reading. ISBN: 978–030–023–338–4 ‘It wasn’t a peace tr…
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The French on the Somme: From Serre to the Ri…
Pen & Sword, £14.99, 234pp., softback, ills, maps, index, appendices, notes and refs, bibliog. ISBN: 978–152–672–24…
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‘Tribute to the Fallen, 1914-1920: Men of Aln…
'Tribute to the Fallen' is thorough and respectful to the men remembered and set out generously across the pages. This …
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Clevedon's Own : The Great War 1914 -1918
ISBN: 1 901 084 41 8 PB 112 pp £9.95 (2008)Published by Clevedon History Publications. Western Front Association membe…
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The Barnetby Boys by Roger Frankish - A north…
Reveille Press (18 Nov. 2014) 322 pages ‘The Barnetby Boys', though non-fiction, you are soon immersed in the drama o…
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