First World War 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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