Two Wheels to War. A tale of twelve bright young men who volunteered own motorcycles for the British Expeditionary Force 1914 at War

Two Wheels to War. A tale of twelve bright...

My only experience of motor-cycling is as pillion passenger on a trip to Ypres 20 years ago. Since, as a mode of trav...

Read More
Givenchy in the Great War – a Village on the Front Line

Givenchy in the Great War – a Village on t...

Reviewed Stephen Broomfield. I am sure many reading this review will have visited Givenchy - lying as it does in a ce...

Read More
Joseph 1917

Joseph 1917

Reviewed by Peter Powderham. Joseph 1917 examines a neglected aspect of the First World War: British wartime tribunal...

Read More
Roll of Honour: Schooling and the Great War 1914-1919

Roll of Honour: Schooling and the Great Wa...

Reviewed by Barbara Taylor. Roll of Honour marks the contribution of schools and the pupils and teachers who went off...

Read More
1917 The Passchendaele Year: The Diary of Achiel van Walleghem

1917 The Passchendaele Year: The Diary of...

Reviewed by Stephen Broomfield. In 1913, Achiel van Walleghem was appointed curate to the village of Dickebusch. Afte...

Read More
The Lion and The Rose: The 1/5th Battalion The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1919

The Lion and The Rose: The 1/5th Battalion...

Reviewed by Bob Wyatt. The 1st/5th Battalion The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1919, is impressive. The ma...

Read More
Crossing No Man’s Land. Experience and Learning with The Northumberland Fusiliers in the Great War

Crossing No Man’s Land. Experience and Lea...

Reviewed by Bob Wyatt. Crossing No Man’s Land is the 17th in Helion’s acclaimed series of Wolverhampton Military Stud...

Read More
Friends are Good on the Day of Battle: The 51st (Highland) Division During the First World War

Friends are Good on the Day of Battle: The...

Review by Bob Wyatt. Friends are Good on the Day of Battle, an important evaluation of the 51st (Highland) Division,...

Read More
Loyal Gunners:  3rd Field Artillery Regiment (The Loyal Company) and the History of New Brunswick’s Artillery, 1893 to 2012.

Loyal Gunners:  3rd Field Artillery Regime...

Review by Charles Messenger. This is Volume 2 of the Loyal Company’s History, the first, covering its initial hundred...

Read More
Fallen Eagles: Airmen Who Survived the Great War Only to Die in Peacetime

Fallen Eagles: Airmen Who Survived the Gre...

In his introduction, Norman Franks states that he came across a list of RAF officers who died between the end of the...

Read More
Ypres 1914: Langemarck

Ypres 1914: Langemarck

Review by Andy Thompson. The bitter battles in and around the Langemarck during October and November 1914 have long b...

Read More
Kut: The Death of an Army.

Kut: The Death of an Army.

Review by Timothy Heck. Kut’s tragedy rings out as “the most abject capitulation in Britain's military history."  Giv...

Read More