First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
The German Army in the Offensives of 1917:...
By Jack Sheldon Pen and Sword 2015, £25.00, 384pp, 55 ills, 13 maps, notes and refs, 2 appendices (including selectiv...
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Fritz and Tommy: Across the Barbed Wire
By Peter Doyle and Robin Schäfer The History Press 2016, £20.00, 288pp, ills (in page), postscript (voices quoted), b...
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The Somme: The Epic Battle in the Soldiers...
By Richard van Emden Pen and Sword, 2016, £20.00 hb, £11.99 pb and £15.00 e–book, 355pp, fully illustrated throughout...
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Zero Hour Z Day 1st July 1916: XIII Corps...
By Jonathan Porter Self–published, £30.00 hardback, £25.00 soft back, 500pp, ills, photographs and maps in monochrome...
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We are all Flourishing: The Letters and Di...
We are all Flourishing: The Letters and Diary of Captain Walter J J Coats MC 1914–1919 Helion & Co., Solihull, £2...
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Frederick George Scott: The Great War as I...
By F G Scott £16.99 (Amazon price), 327pp, Glossary, 1 map. ISBN: 978–077–354–425–3 Review by David Filsell (This rev...
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Letters from the Trenches – The First Worl...
By Jacqueline Wadsworth Pen & Sword, £ 19.99p, 174pp ISBN: 978–178–159–284–7 Book Review by Louise Gaede In...
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'They Called it Shell Shock: Combat Stress...
Helion, £25.00 (£22.00 direct from publishers) Hardback, 269pp, heavily illustrated, bibliog, indices. ISBN: 978–191–...
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'A Nation in Arms; a social study of the B...
2796pp., casebound. £25. Manchester University Press. [This review, by 'Obturator' first appeared i the Summer 1985 e...
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The First Battle of Britain
The Air Defence of Britain 1914-1918. Putnam/Bodley Head. 486pp. £25. (1984 price). Christopher Cole & E.F. Chees...
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The War Walk: A Journey along the Western...
228 pp., casebound. £11.50 Robert Hale. “And I felt a great longing to be liberated from these few hundred yards of a...
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Billy Congreve. Armageddon Road: A VC’s Di...
A VC’s Record. Major William La Touche Congreve, VC, DOS, MC, was killed by a sniper on 20 July 196. He left behind...
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