First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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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Prisoners & Escape: Those Who Were There
Rachel Bilton (Ed.) Pen & Sword, 2017, £12.99, paperback, 175 pp, ills, short index, no refs, ISBN 978-1-47386-70…
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In the Trenches: Those Who Were There
Rachel Bilton (Ed.) Pen & Sword, 2016, £12.99, paperback, 195 pp, ills, short index, no refs, ISBN 978-1-47386-713-…
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