First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
In the Centennial Footsteps of the Great W...
Attila Szalay-Berzeviczy, Hungary’s Ambassador to France, ambitiously aims to ‘help prevent the Third World War’ with...
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A Complete Orchestra of War: A History of...
Helion & Company Ltd., 1919. £28.00, xxv + 455pp pb, maps, photos, tables, index, notes and refs. ISBN: 978-1-91...
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Simon Called Peter by Robert Keable
Simon Called Peter by Robert Keable Published 1921 Simon Cape In ‘Flower of Battle’ (reviewed elsewhere) literary h...
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August 1914 by Bruno Cabanes
One of the positive features of modern Great War scholarship is the number of books that allow historians to understa...
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Faces from the Front: Harold Gillies, the...
Helion, £29.95, hb, 212 pp, ills. throughout – some in colour. ISBN: 978–191–151–266–0 This review first appeared in...
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Winged Victory by Victor M. Yeates
I’d heard there was a book written about flying in the First World War that was in great demand by flyers in the Seco...
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Brangwyn at War!
The Book: Brangwyn at War! By Dr Libby Horner Horner & Goldmark 1914 ISBN: PB 978-1909167-11-7 £25.00 The DVD: Ar...
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The Mountain War, A Doctor’s Diary of the...
By Dr Isaak A Barash Pen & Sword, 2021 £20.00, 220 pages, photographs and index ISBN 978–1–39909–310–1 [This boo...
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The British War of War by Andrew Lambert
Yale University Press 2021 £25.00, 533 pages ISBN 978–0–300–25073–2 [This book review first appeared in the April 202...
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The Fear of Invasion Strategy, Politics,...
Oxford University Press, £65.00, vi + 250pp, hb, index, notes and refs. ISBN: 978–019–880–519–9 [2022 Prices: £74 Har...
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Farnham in the Great War by Maurice Hewins
Printed and bound by Print2Demand Ltd. 17cm x 24cm 202 pages When I was asked to read and review Maurice Hewin's Farn...
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Roads to Glory by Richard Aldington
Roads to Glory Hard cover Chatto & Windus, 1934 (Originally published 1930) It took me three books in three step...
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