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...

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

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 Western Front 1916-1918

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....

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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 (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 Illuminating Battlefield Guide

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...

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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. 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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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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