First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
Joffrey's War: A Sherwood Forester in the...
This book is probably one of the most valuable personal accounts of life as an infantryman in the Great War to have e...
Read MoreBad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder...
Bad Characters is a very important new book. Not only is it scholarly, but it is also highly entertaining. It looks i...
Read MoreGallipoli : The Dardanelles Disaster in So...
An insight into the book's origins by one of its authors, Stephen Chambers: During research for our recent book on Ga...
Read MoreJack and Hopit: A Cavalryman and his War H...
Jack and Hopit: A Cavalryman and his War Horse in the Great War (Helion and Company) £16.95 Serena Merton This wa...
Read MoreThe Zeppelins: An Illustrated History by P...
This does exactly what it says in the title. It offers a concise history of the development of the Zeppelin airship f...
Read MoreWalking Ypres
Walking Ypres Pen & Sword Barnsley 2017 £15.99, 296 pp, pb ills & maps throughout. ISBN: 0-17815-900-3 Paul...
Read MoreAfrican Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vo...
African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa £20, Hurst Publishing, 448pp, no ills, 3...
Read MorePublishers, Readers and the Great War: Lit...
Publishers, Readers and the Great War: Literature and Memory since 1918 £84, Bloomsbury Academic, 272pp, 15 ills -in...
Read MoreRats Alley: Trench Names of the Western Fr...
Rats Alley: Trench Names of the Western Front, 1914 – 1918 The History Press £40.00, 767pp, 25 ills,24 1 bibliog., in...
Read MoreCyril Keepfer, 1894-1918 a Denbigh boy and...
Cyril Keepfer, 1894-1918 a Denbigh Boy and the Great War Bridge Books, Wrexham 48 pp, 20 pp photographs, 4 maps notes...
Read MoreWhat did you do in the Great War Grandfath...
What did you do in the Great War Grandfather? The Life and Times of AN Edwardian Horse Artillery Officer. Helion, £1...
Read MoreDawn of Victory – Thank You China! – Star...
Dawn of Victory – Thank You China! – Star Shell Reflections 1918-1919: The illustrated diaries of Jim Maultsaid £25.0...
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