Letters From A Lost Generation

Letters From A Lost Generation

ISBN: 0-316-64664-4  Hardback 427 pp  £18.99 Published by Little, Brown.  In these days of emails and texts, letters ar…

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My Boy Jack by Tonie and Valmai Holt

My Boy Jack by Tonie and Valmai Holt

A novel, if good, you may read cover to cover never putting it down; when you do put it down you are unlikely to read it…

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Songs of the Great War

Songs of the Great War

Songs of the Great War    Patricia Hammond is a classically trained mezzo soprano who has a fascination…

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The Great War by Field Marshal von Hindenburg

The Great War by Field Marshal von Hindenburg…

Author: Field Marshal von Hindenburg, Edited by Charles Messenger. Publisher: Frontline Books 2013,  236 pages plus f…

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Major & Mrs Holt's Definitive Battlefield Guide: Somme 100th Anniversary

Major & Mrs Holt's Definitive Battlefield Gui…

Major and Mrs Holt’s Definitive Battlefield Guide Tonie and Valmai Holt Seventh GPS Edition Somme 100th Anniversary P…

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The Somme and Beyond: The BEF on the Western Front 1916-1918

The Somme and Beyond: The BEF on the Western …

The British Army’s Experience on the Western Front 1916-1918 Written by Peter Simkins ISBN 978 1 78159 312 7 254pp. M…

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Swansea Pals: A History of the 14th (Service) Battalion The Welsh Regiment in the Great War

Swansea Pals: A History of the 14th (Service)…

First reviewed by David Filsell for Stand To! 74 September 2005 The Swansea Pals is the history of a Service Battalion …

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Understanding the Ypres Salient. An Illuminating Battlefield Guide

Understanding the Ypres Salient. An Illuminat…

Reviewed by Stephen Broomfield. On receiving this book my first thought was ‘Oh – yet another guide to the Ypres Salien…

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Lieutenant Martin’s Letters:  F.W.S. Martin, M.M., an Anzac in the Great War

Lieutenant Martin’s Letters:  F.W.S. Martin, …

Reviewed by R. Buckley, B.A., Ph. D. Cantab. Lieutenant Fred Martin, M.M., the author’s uncle, was born in Queensland i…

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Nobody of any importance: a Foot Soldier’s Memoir of World War I

Nobody of any importance: a Foot Soldier’s Me…

Reviewed by Michael Lucas. Nobody of any Importance is a lengthy and detailed account, written from memory, in the 1970…

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A Soldier of the 6th Division, incorporating Recollections of the Machine Gun Corps & Following My Father’s Footsteps

A Soldier of the 6th Division, incorporating …

Reviewed by Michael Lucas. A Soldier of the 6th Division includes an account, written from memory in 1976, by Thomas Br…

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I Embarked for France: The War Diaries and letters of an English family in the Great War: Evelyn Ansell, 19th King’s Liverpool Regiment

I Embarked for France: The War Diaries and le…

Reviewed by Linda Parker. Although this narrative of a family’s journey and the mixed fortunes of war is focused on Eve…

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