Book Reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.

The Lost Battalion
Book review by Paul Guthrie. This welcome reprint of a 1938 classic has a new introduction by the most eminent American…
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A Village Goes to War. A History of the Men o…
Western Front Association Development Trustee and Vice-Chairman David Tattersfield has researched the names on the memor…
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The Train Now Standing in No Man's Land
Book Review by Gill Jefferson. Larry Harris has produced another entertaining and exciting story for our younger genera…
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With Snow on Their Boots. The Tragic Odyssey …
Book Review by Christina Holstein. This is an exceedingly interesting book, which covers events whose details may not b…
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Influenza 1918: The Worst Epidemic in America…
Book review by Bill Hanigan. [This review first appeared in the journal of The Western Front Association Stand To! Issu…
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Retreat Hell! We Only Just Got Here! The Amer…
By Martin Marix Evans Published by Osprey Militery, Oxford 1998 Review by Gary Sheffield. I have always thought that …
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At the Eleventh Hour. Reflections, Hopes and …
Book Review by Bob Wyatt. This book deals with the Aftermath as it was being experienced by men and women all over the …
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Eastbourne's Great War 1914-1918
Book Review by Geoff Bridger. Following the success of his previous book, Lewes at War 1939-1945, Bob Elliston - a well…
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British Logistics on the Western Front, 1914-…
Book review by L G Shurtleff. Dr. Brown gives us what we seldom see, but need to understand: the history of how t…
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Private Memorials on the Western Front
Book review by Ann Clayton. The Western Front Association Memorials Officer (who recently stood down from his pos…
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Amiens to the Armistice: The BEF in the Hundr…
Book review by Ann Clayton. Both authors, being Senior Lecturers in the Department of War Studies at Sandhurst, demonst…
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The Virago Book of Women & the Great War
Book review by Ann Clayton. I was gratified to see that this collection of women's experiences of the Great War opens w…
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