First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
![Julian Grenfell, soldier and poet: letters and diaries, 1910-1915](/media/4134/grenfell.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355192999130000)
Julian Grenfell, soldier and poet: letters...
Edited by Kate Thompson ISBN 978-0-9547561-1-6 Hardback, 362 pp, £25 Available from Hertfordshire Record Society (www...
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Old Soldier Sahib
ISBN: 0 9547252 1 12 Hb 269 pp Edited by Krijnen. H J & Langley. D E. In 1933 the first of two books by Frank R...
Read More![Slaughter on the Somme 1st July 1916](/media/4132/somme.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355192998970000)
Slaughter on the Somme 1st July 1916
Slaughter on the Somme 1st July 1916 The Complete War Diaries of the British Army's Worst Day Martin Mace & John...
Read More![Letters From A Lost Generation](/media/4131/letters.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355192998970000)
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...
Read More![My Boy Jack by Tonie and Valmai Holt](/media/4128/my-boy-jack.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355192998800000)
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...
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Songs of the Great War
Songs of the Great War Patricia Hammond is a classically trained mezzo soprano who has a fascination for t...
Read More![The Great War by Field Marshal von Hindenburg](/media/4122/hindenburg.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355192998500000)
The Great War by Field Marshal von Hindenburg
Author: Field Marshal von Hindenburg, Edited by Charles Messenger. Publisher: Frontline Books 2013, 236 pages plus...
Read More![Major & Mrs Holt's Definitive Battlefield Guide: Somme 100th Anniversary](/media/4112/somme-battlefield-guide.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355192998330000)
Major & Mrs Holt's Definitive Battlefield...
Major and Mrs Holt’s Definitive Battlefield Guide Tonie and Valmai Holt Seventh GPS Edition Somme 100th Anniversary...
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The Somme and Beyond: The BEF on the Weste...
The British Army’s Experience on the Western Front 1916-1918 Written by Peter Simkins ISBN 978 1 78159 312 7 254pp....
Read More![Swansea Pals: A History of the 14th (Service) Battalion The Welsh Regiment in the Great War](/media/3802/swansea-book-cover-cropped.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355192998170000)
Swansea Pals: A History of the 14th (Servi...
First reviewed by David Filsell for Stand To! 74 September 2005 The Swansea Pals is the history of a Service Battalio...
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Understanding the Ypres Salient. An Illumi...
Reviewed by Stephen Broomfield. On receiving this book my first thought was ‘Oh – yet another guide to the Ypres Sali...
Read More![Lieutenant Martin’s Letters: F.W.S. Martin, M.M., an Anzac in the Great War](/media/3799/martin-book-cover.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=133355192997870000)
Lieutenant Martin’s Letters: F.W.S. Marti...
Reviewed by R. Buckley, B.A., Ph. D. Cantab. Lieutenant Fred Martin, M.M., the author’s uncle, was born in Queensland...
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