Book Reviews by academics, amateur historians, WFA members and keen readers.
Public Schools and the Great War- The Generat…
By Anthony Seldon and David Walsh Published by Pen and Sword 317 pages, including appendix, notes, bibliography and ind…
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The Illusion of Victory - America in World Wa…
By Thomas Flemming ISBN 0-465-02467-X. H/B, 543 pagesIn his inimitable style, Thomas Fleming has written a dramatic sto…
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The Barnetby Boys by Roger Frankish
Reveille Press (18 Nov. 2014) 322 pages ‘The Barnetby Boys', though non-fiction, you are soon immersed in the drama…
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A Touch of Paradise in Hell
A Touch of Paradise in Hell Talbot House, Poperinge – Every-Man’s Sanctuary from the Trenches Jan Louagie (Helion…
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Doctors in the Great War
Ian R WhiteheadPen & Sword 2013, Pen & Sword Ltd, Barnsley South Yorkshire (Previously 1999) £14.99, 309 pp, il…
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The Home Front: Derbyshire in the First World…
Author: Scott Lomax Pen and Sword Books Ltd, Barnsley, 2016 When the servicemen were demobilised in 1919 they retur…
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Brighton in the Great War
Douglas d’Enno (Pen & Sword Military, 2016) Softback £14.99 272 pp, including various b/w photos placed within th…
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Allied POWs in German Hands 1914 - 1918 (Imag…
Bilton, David. Pen and Sword. ISBN: 1473867010. Allied POWs in German Hands, 1914-1918 is an engaging collecti…
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Railwaymen of Cumbria Remembered : A roll of …
By Peter Robinson and Micheel Peascod 48 pages illustrated, A4 format. Available from CRA Book Sales 50 Tattershall …
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The Kaiser’s Reluctant Conscript: My Experien…
Barnsley, South Yorkshire Pen & Sword Military, 2012. Born in 1893, Dominick Richert had completed less than a …
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Shell Shocked Britain The First World War’s L…
Suzie Grogan Pen and Sword History £19.99 First published 2014 168pp 8pp photographs Suzie Grogan’s interest…
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The Bloody Hand by Blaise Cendrars
This limited edition hardback has been produced with crafts skills with considerable thought given to the design, the la…
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