First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
A Sergeant Major’s War. From Hill 60 to th...
Ernest Shephard. Edited by Bruce Rossor Published by The Crowood Press ISBN 1 85223 200 5 PB 157 pages £10 to £20 Whe...
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'Tig's Boys - Letters to Sir from the Tren...
Edited by David Hilliam ISBN: 978 0 7524 6331 5 188pp with illustrations David Hilliam has edited a remarkable collec...
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'If You're Reading This: Last Letters from...
Written by Sian Price ISBN: 978-1-84832-610-1 Frontline Books, Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2011, £19.99, 292pp, ills,...
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'Dear Mother Great War letters From A Bris...
ISBN: 1 904537 07 3 SB 144 pp £7.99 Published by RedcliffePress Ltd, 81g Pemroke Rd, Bristol BS83EA. ”Dear Mother”...
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Diary of an Old Contemptible by Edward Roe
ISBN: 1 84415 135 2 HB 329 pages £25.00Published by Pen & Sword Military Books Over the years numerous veterans h...
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‘The Pity of War’ (1998) Niall Ferguson
The title ‘The Pity of War’ says little about the book’s contents. The words are not those of the author, but rather...
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The Illusion of Victory - America in World...
ISBN 0-465-02467-X. H/B, 543 pagesIn his inimitable style, Thomas Fleming has written a dramatic story of Presidentia...
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Outline. An Autobiography. Paul Nash.
Hardback, 280 pages 14 Colour illustrations 9 Black and White illustrations Published 16 October 2016 Edited by David...
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'Lady Under Fire On The Western Front : La...
ISBN: 978 1 84884 322 6 Publisher: Pen and Sword Books Ltd. Lady Dorothie Feilding was the first British woman to rec...
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Cambridgeshire Kitcheners: A History of th...
By Joanna Costin Pen and Sword (2016) £25.00 ISBN 9-781-47386-900-4 319pp 163 b/w photos Following the outbreak of wa...
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Douglas Haig War Diaries and Letters 1914-...
ISBN: 0 297 84702 3 HB 550 pages £25.00 Published by Weindenfeld & Nicholson. Edited by Gary Sheffield & J...
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National Myth and the First World War in M...
By Peter Grant Hardback 303 pages 22 b/w illustrations (several in colour) Palgrave Macmillan (2017) Palgrave Studi...
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