First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
![Hamel 4th July 1918: The Australian & American Triumph](/media/6133/screenshot-2019-03-04-at-180838.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193005170000)
Hamel 4th July 1918: The Australian & Amer...
By John Hughes-Wilson Uniform Publishing, £12.99, pb, 163pp, 15 ills. ISBN: 978–191–160–442–6 This is a somewhat od...
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With Their Bare Hands: General Pershing, t...
By Gene Fax Osprey, £14.99, softback, 495pp, 55 ills, notes, refs, index. ISBN: 978–147–282–979–5 The title implies...
Read More![The Indian Army in the First World War](/media/6131/screenshot-2019-03-04-at-175930.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193005030000)
The Indian Army in the First World War
Editor Alan Jeffreys Helion, £35.00, 313pp, notes, refs, bibliog, index. ISBN: 978–191–151–278–3 The Indian Army rai...
Read More![Pandora’s Box: A History of the Great War](/media/6130/screenshot-2019-03-04-at-175203.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193004870000)
Pandora’s Box: A History of the Great War
By Jörn Leonhard Harvard University Press, £20.62, 1,104 pp, 10 maps, in page ills, notes and refs, bibliog, index. I...
Read More![Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good–bye to All That, 1895–1929](/media/6129/screenshot-2019-03-04-at-174655.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193004870000)
Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good...
By Jean Moorcroft Wilson Bloomsbury, £12.95, 460pp, 24 ills, list of abbreviations, notes, index. ISBN: 978–147–292–...
Read More![Futile Exercise? The British Army’s Preparations for War 1902–1914](/media/6128/screenshot-2019-03-04-at-174244.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193004700000)
Futile Exercise? The British Army’s Prepar...
By Simon Batten Helion, £35.00, 235pp, hb, 48 ills, 4 maps, notes and refs, bibliog, index. ISBN: 978–191–151–285–1 B...
Read More![Two Sides of the Same Bad Penny? Gallipoli and the Western Front, a Comparison](/media/6127/screenshot-2019-03-04-at-173732.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193004530000)
Two Sides of the Same Bad Penny? Gallipoli...
Editor Michael LoCicero Helion, £26.96, hb, 266pp, 22 ills, 4 maps, notes, refs and index. ISBN: 978–191–109–668–9 Th...
Read More![A Battle too Far: Arras 1917](/media/6126/screenshot-2019-03-04-at-173342.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193004530000)
A Battle too Far: Arras 1917
By Don Farr Helion, £29.95, 352pp. 16 b/w and 12 col. Ills, 24 b/w maps, footnotes, bibliog, appendices, index. ISBN...
Read More![Britain and Victory in the Great War (ed)](/media/6125/screenshot-2019-03-04-at-172854.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193004400000)
Britain and Victory in the Great War (ed)
Edited Peter Liddle Pen & Sword, £25.00, 374pp, 74 b/w ills, 12 maps, notes, refs, bibliog and index. ISBN: 978–1...
Read More![The Verdun Regiment. Into the Furnace: The 151st Infantry Regiment in the Battle of Verdun 1916](/media/6124/screenshot-2019-03-04-at-172429.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193004230000)
The Verdun Regiment. Into the Furnace: The...
By Johnathan Bracken Pen & Sword, £25.00, 269pp, hb, 30 ills, maps, notes, refs, bibliog and index. ISBN: 978–152...
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Defending the Ypres Front 1914 – 1918: Tre...
By Jan Vancoillie & Kristof Blieck Pen & Sword, £25.00 (E–book: £14.40), 294 pp, ills, 34 maps, bibliog., ind...
Read More![Haig’s Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany’s War on the Western Front by Jonathan Boff](/media/6109/screenshot-2019-03-03-at-152850.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355193004070000)
Haig’s Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and G...
By Jonathan Boff Oxford University Press, £25.00, 373pp, maps, ills throughout, index. ISBN: 978–019–967–046–8 (This...
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