First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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 we...
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British Logistics on the Western Front, 19...
Book review by L G Shurtleff. Dr. Brown gives us what we seldom see, but need to understand: the history of how th...
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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 post...
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Amiens to the Armistice: The BEF in the Hu...
Book review by Ann Clayton. Both authors, being Senior Lecturers in the Department of War Studies at Sandhurst, demon...
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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...
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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 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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