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

Nobody of any importance: a Foot Soldier’s...

Reviewed by Michael Lucas. Nobody of any Importance is a lengthy and detailed account, written from memory, in the 19...

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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, incorporati...

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

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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...

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

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The Brothers Two: The War Letters of William & Bright Fraser

The Brothers Two: The War Letters of Willi...

Reviewed by Phil Curme. The letters of Private Bright Fraser, Artists Rifles, and his brother Signalman William Frase...

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Best Love to All: The letters and diaries of Captain Eric-Rigby Jones, MC and Bar and his Experiences as a Young Officer with the Liverpool Pals on the Western Front in 1917 and 1918

Best Love to All: The letters and diaries...

Reviewed by Phil Curme. The soldier’s experience during the First World War is far from neglected. The number of biog...

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Betrayed Ally: China in the Great War by Frances Wood and Christopher Arnander

Betrayed Ally: China in the Great War by F...

Reviewed by Phil Curme. Although Chinese labourers were active on the Western Front throughout WW1 - and afterwards -...

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The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the road to World War One by Miranda Carter

The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three E...

Penguin Books, 2010, £10.99 (2010 pricing) 498pp, soft covers; illustrated plus notes, bibliography and index. Also a...

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The Emperors: How Europe’s Rulers were destroyed by The First World War by Gareth Russell

The Emperors: How Europe’s Rulers were des...

Reviewed by Barbara Taylor. To understand how and why the First World War started it essential to understand how the...

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Britain’s Quest for Oil, The First World War and the Peace Conferences

Britain’s Quest for Oil, The First World W...

Reviewed by Chris Robinson. Britain’s Quest for Oil, charts the awakening and development of Britain’s military, dipl...

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The Siege of Tsingtao: The German-Japanese War 1914

The Siege of Tsingtao: The German-Japanese...

Reviewed by Phil Curme. Tsingtao beer is ubiquitous in Chinese restaurants in the UK and throughout world. However, i...

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Stoker’s Submarine; Australia’s Daring Raid on the Dardanelles on the Day of the Gallipoli Landing

Stoker’s Submarine; Australia’s Daring Rai...

Reviewed by Robin Broadhurst. Most naval historians know that the first two submarines through the Dardanelles were c...

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When the Navy Took to the Air: The Experimental Seaplane Stations of the Royal Naval Air Service

When the Navy Took to the Air: The Experim...

Reviewed by Niall Ferguson. Those hoping to read of the exploits of the RNAS on the Western Front will be disappointe...

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