First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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Lewesians in the Great War by Graham Mayhew
First and foremost, I should state that I have a personal interest in this book. 'Lewesians in the Great War', writte...
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Reclaiming the Salient: Resurrecting the G...
By Roger Steward £19.95 paperback: 240 pages, bibliography, index, photographs ISBN: 978-115113-67-2 Helion, 20...
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'Misfire: The Sarajevo Assassination and...
Oxford University Press, 2022 £22.99 Hardback 194 pages, 32 images, 4 maps. ISBN 9780195331042. It is sometimes sai...
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Film Review : All Quiet on the Western Fro...
[This article first featured in edition No.123 of Bulletin (page 48). Members received this, our in-house magazine th...
Read More![Etched in Memory : The Elevated Art of J.Alphege Brewer](/media/32135/screenshot-2022-12-04-at-055705.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133146070470900000)
Etched in Memory : The Elevated Art of J.A...
Etched in Memory: The Elevated Art of J. Alphege Brewer By Benjamin S. Dunham Peacock Press Mytholmroyd United Kingdo...
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Norwood Cemetery and the Great War: Reflec...
Published by Friends of West Norwood Cemetery, 2022. £15.00 (p&p extra) 400pp Full colour, pb, maps, ISBN: 978 1...
Read More![In the Centennial Footsteps of the Great War from Sarajevo to Versailles VOL I by Attila Szalay-Berzeviczy](/media/31876/screenshot-2022-10-21-at-085111.png?center=0.49076517150395776,0.60670731707317072&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193037100000)
In the Centennial Footsteps of the Great W...
It is an ambitious author and photographer who states that the aim of his book is to ‘help prevent the Third World Wa...
Read More![A Complete Orchestra of War: A History of the 6th Division on the Western Front 1914-1919 by Peter Hodgkinson](/media/31654/peh_cover-jpg.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133078137158130000)
A Complete Orchestra of War: A History of...
Helion & Company Ltd., 1919. £28.00, xxv + 455pp pb, maps, photos, tables, index, notes and refs. ISBN: 978-1-91...
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Simon Called Peter by Robert Keable
Simon Called Peter by Robert Keable Published 1921 Simon Cape In ‘Flower of Battle’ (reviewed elsewhere) literary h...
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August 1914 by Bruno Cabanes
One of the positive features of modern Great War scholarship is the number of books that allow historians to understa...
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Faces from the Front: Harold Gillies, the...
Helion, £29.95, hb, 212 pp, ills. throughout – some in colour. ISBN: 978–191–151–266–0 This review first appeared in...
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Winged Victory by Victor M. Yeates
I’d heard there was a book written about flying in the First World War that was in great demand by flyers in the Seco...
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