'They Called it Shell Shock: Combat Stress in the First World War' by Stefanie Linden

'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 British Army in the First World War'  by Ian F W Beckett and Keith Simpson.

'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 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 Front.  Nigel H Jones.

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 Diary, 1914-1916. Ed Terry Norman.

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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White Heat: The New Warfare 1914

White Heat: The New Warfare 1914

  The appearance of a new book from our President is always an exciting event and the publications of White Heat is n...

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Battle: Passchendaele 1917: Evidence of War’s Reality.

Battle: Passchendaele 1917: Evidence of Wa...

Battle: Passchendaele 1917: Evidence of War’s Reality. 144 pages. (Travelling Light Ltd, 62 West Hill, London SW18. P...

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The Half Shilling Curate: A Personal Account of War and Faith 1914-1918 by Sarah Reay

The Half Shilling Curate: A Personal Accou...

Foreword by Hugh Pym Helion & Co., £25.00, 194pp, many ills, 2 maps, short biographies of war-time colleagues, tr...

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Last Man Standing: the memoirs, letters and photographs of a teenage officer

Last Man Standing: the memoirs, letters an...

Last Man Standing: the memoirs, letters and photographs of a teenage officer, Norman Collins.   Pen and Sword Milita...

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The Vest Pocket Kodak & The First World War by Jon Cooksey

The Vest Pocket Kodak & The First World Wa...

Ammonite PRess, £7.99, hardback, 96pp, ills throughout, index. ISBN: 978-178-145-279-0 Jon Cooksey's evaluation of th...

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Hamilton Fish: Memoir of an American Patriot

Hamilton Fish: Memoir of an American Patriot

Hamilton Fish: Memoir of an American Patriot by Hamilton Fish jr.   This review by 'Gunner' first appeared in the Wes...

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The War to End all Wars. The American military experience in World War I

The War to End all Wars. The American mili...

By Edward Coffman. Published by University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI (1986) ISBN 10: 029910964XISBN 13: 9780299...

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