First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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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Passchendaele - The Untold Story
Book review by Gary Sheffield. With the publication in 1992 of Command on the Western Front, Robin Prior and Trevor Wil…
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The Heroic Johnsman: The story of Jack Harris…
By Patrick H A Neal Enthusiasms are an itch that demand scratching. In Patrick J A Neal’s case the itch triggered a thr…
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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 Wo…
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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 Ambe…
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Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experi…
By Hugh Cecil and Dr Peter Liddle First published by Leo Cooper in 1996, New edition edition (April 2003) £60 hardback…
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The Trench Cook Book 1917. Western Front Reci…
By Hannah Holman (Ed) Book Review by Barbara Taylor The Trench Cook Book 1917 is rather a fun book. Drawn from War Off…
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Miners at War 1914-18: South Wales Miners in …
By Ritchie Wood Helion, £35.00, 320pp Hardback, 107 illustrations within text., 29 tables, index, notes and refs. ISBN:…
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Major General Price-Davies The Letters of VC …
Peter Robison (Ed) The History Press, Gloucs, £14.99, 255pp, 18 ills, detailed notes & refs, bibliog, index ISBN 97…
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Centenary of the Last Charges of the 9th/12th…
By Philip Watson Crest Publications, Kettering, 2016, £12.99, 136pp, many ills, index ISBN: 078-0-9935977-0-1 Book re…
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