First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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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1914-1918 The History of the First World W...
Allen Lane (Penguin Books), 2004, £25, 729pp, index, bibliography. 1914-1918 is the product of the author's success...
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The Indian Empire at War: From Jihad to Vi...
Little, Brown, £25.00, 582pp. hb, 27 ills, 7 maps, endnotes (guide to sources), glossary, list of dramatis personae,...
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The Indian Corps on the Western Front by S...
Richly illustrated throughout, with clear maps and explanatory plans, many contemporary black and white photographs a...
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Matron at War. The story of Katy Beaufoy (...
An extraordinary life revealed through a diary of a nurse at the centre of efforts to save and comfort the sick and s...
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The Killing of the Iron Twelve by Hedley M...
This compelling read begins by establishing the context whereby the German Army of occupation in 1914/1915 could exec...
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'Captain Professor - a life in war and pea...
You will rarely find an autobiography that is this detailed and self-effacing. We learn 2/3rds into ‘Captain Professo...
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Fortunino Matania's Vision of the First Wo...
Fortunino Matania's work is magnificent. It does for scenes of the First World War that only a Technicolor Movie coul...
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