First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.

Film Review : All Quiet on the Western Front …
[This article first featured in edition No.123 of Bulletin (page 48). Members received this, our in-house magazine three…
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Etched in Memory : The Elevated Art of J.Alph…
Etched in Memory: The Elevated Art of J. Alphege Brewer By Benjamin S. Dunham Peacock Press Mytholmroyd United Kingd…
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Norwood Cemetery and the Great War: Reflectio…
Published by Friends of West Norwood Cemetery, 2022. £15.00 (p&p extra) 400pp Full colour, pb, maps, ISBN: 978 1…
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In the Centennial Footsteps of the Great War …
It is an ambitious author and photographer who states that the aim of his book is to ‘help prevent the Third World War’,…
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A Complete Orchestra of War: A History of the…
Helion & Company Ltd., 1919. £28.00, xxv + 455pp pb, maps, photos, tables, index, notes and refs. ISBN: 978-1-912…
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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 understand …
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Faces from the Front: Harold Gillies, the Que…
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 Second;…
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Brangwyn at War!
The Book: Brangwyn at War! By Dr Libby Horner Horner & Goldmark 1914 ISBN: PB 978-1909167-11-7 £25.00 The DVD: …
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The Mountain War, A Doctor’s Diary of the Ita…
By Dr Isaak A Barash Pen & Sword, 2021 £20.00, 220 pages, photographs and index ISBN 978–1–39909–310–1 [This bo…
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The British War of War by Andrew Lambert
Yale University Press 2021 £25.00, 533 pages ISBN 978–0–300–25073–2 [This book review first appeared in the April 202…
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