First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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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Centenary of the Last Charges of the 9th/1...
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 978-1-47386-7...
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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 978-1-47386-71...
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Why 1914? The causes of the Great War. A n...
By Derek Robinson Book Review by Barbara Taylor Whistle Books, 2014, £8, 200pp, soft covers; index. Also available as...
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Last Stand at Zandvoorde 1914: Lord Hugh G...
By Mike McBride Pen and Sword Barnsley £19.99, 234pp, ills in page throughout, bibliog, ISBN 1473891574. Review by Da...
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