First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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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 Em...
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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, aftera...
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Kitchener's Army: The Raising of the New A...
Book review by Gary Sheffield. Peter Simkins will be well known to many readers of Stand To! As the Historian at the...
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British Bunglers and Butchers of World War...
Book review by Gary Sheffield. I should at once declare an interest. In July 1996 the BBC screened a Timewatch docume...
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Passchendaele - The Untold Story
Book review by Gary Sheffield. With the publication in 1992 of Command on the Western Front, Robin Prior and Trevor W...
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The Heroic Johnsman: The story of Jack Har...
By Patrick H A Neal Enthusiasms are an itch that demand scratching. In Patrick J A Neal’s case the itch triggered a t...
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US Marine in World War I
By Ed and Catherine Colbert (Eds.) (ills by Jonny Shumate) 64 page Osprey Publishing’s Warrior series US Marine in W...
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Kitchener’s New Army: Your Country Needs You
By Edgar Wallace Book reviewe by David J Filsell Kitchener’s New Army: Your Country Needs You was republished by Amb...
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Facing Armageddon: The First World War Exp...
By Hugh Cecil and Dr Peter Liddle First published by Leo Cooper in 1996, New edition edition (April 2003) £60 hardbac...
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The Trench Cook Book 1917. Western Front R...
By Hannah Holman (Ed) Book Review by Barbara Taylor The Trench Cook Book 1917 is rather a fun book. Drawn from War Of...
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Miners at War 1914-18: South Wales Miners...
By Ritchie Wood Helion, £35.00, 320pp Hardback, 107 illustrations within text., 29 tables, index, notes and refs. ISB...
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Major General Price-Davies The Letters of...
Peter Robison (Ed) The History Press, Gloucs, £14.99, 255pp, 18 ills, detailed notes & refs, bibliog, index ISBN...
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