First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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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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...
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The First World War, Vol.1. The Call to Ar...
Oxford University press, 2001, £30. ISBN: 0-19- 820877-4 Faced with outstanding reviews of Hew Stachan's book in the...
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The Battlefields of the First World War: T...
Constable, 2005, hardback, 376pp, £50. Ills, maps, index, bibliog., 2 CD ROMS, ISBN 1 84119 745 9. Having collaborate...
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Digging the Trenches: The Archaeology of t...
Andy Robertshaw, David Kenyon Pen and Sword, £25.00, 207pp ills throughout, notes, index. ISBN 184415671-0. Since I h...
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The White War: Life and Death on the Itali...
ISBN 10: 0571223346 ISBN 13: 9780571223343 Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2009 This is a well crafted and thoroughly...
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