First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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 MoreFriends 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 MoreLoyal 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 MoreFallen 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 MoreYpres 1914: Langemarck
Review by Andy Thompson. The bitter battles in and around the Langemarck during October and November 1914 have long b...
Read MoreKut: 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 MoreThe Chief: Douglas Haig and the British Army
Reviewed by David Filsell. In the last four years three new biographies of Douglas Haig have been published. Each, of...
Read MoreAllied POWs in German Hands 1914 - 1918 (I...
Reviewed by Timothy Heck. Allied POWs in German Hands, 1914-1918 is an engaging collection of short chapters and co...
Read MoreDevil Dogs Chronicle: Voices of the 4th Ma...
Reviewed by Timothy Heck. Works on the American participation in World War I are understandably harder to come by th...
Read MoreForgotten Victory
Book Review by David Filsell. Although published last year, lack of a publisher's copy has sadly long delayed the rev...
Read MoreThe Great War, Memory and Ritual: Commemor...
Book review by James Brazier. This is the latest volume in The Royal Historical Society's Studies in History series....
Read MoreMy Father's Son
Book Review by David Filsell. When Earl Haig died suddenly in 1928, his nine-year-old son succeeded to the title. Su...
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