First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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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Don'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, …
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Above the Trenches - Supplement
Book review by Gary Sheffield. Above the Trenches - A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empi…
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The 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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Kitchener's Army: The Raising of the New Armi…
Book review by Gary Sheffield. Peter Simkins will be well known to many readers of Stand To! As the Historian at the I…
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British Bunglers and Butchers of World War On…
Book review by Gary Sheffield. I should at once declare an interest. In July 1996 the BBC screened a Timewatch document…
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