Above the Trenches - Supplement

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

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 Armies 1914-1916

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 One

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

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 Harrison VC

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

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

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 Experienced

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 Recipes from Bully Beef Stew to Trench Tea

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 in the Tunnelling Companies on the Western Front

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 VC CB CMG DSO: From Captain to Major-General 1914-18

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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