First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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…
Read MoreInfluenza 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…
Read MoreRetreat 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 …
Read MoreAt 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 …
Read MoreEastbourne'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…
Read MoreBritish 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…
Read MorePrivate Memorials on the Western Front
Book review by Ann Clayton. The Western Front Association Memorials Officer (who recently stood down from his pos…
Read MoreAmiens 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreDon't Shout at the Guns
Book Review by Fiona Bratherton. This is Laurence Harris's third children's book, being a sequel to Jackie was a Hero, …
Read MoreAbove the Trenches - Supplement
Book review by Gary Sheffield. Above the Trenches - A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empi…
Read MoreThe Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme
Book Review by Bob Butcher. It was with a certain feeling of 'We've been here before' that I opened this book, afterall…
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