First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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‘The Life and Last Words of Wilfrid Ewart’...
Wilfrid Ewart, journalist and author, served in the Scots Guards 1915-1919. A prolific writer, he kept a notebook wit...
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Way of Revelation (1921) by Wilfred Ewart
Wilfred Herbert as portrayed in Graham Stephen's 'The Life and Last Words of Wilfred Ewart' (1924) At the time of hi...
Read More![Chronicle of the First World War Vol I & Vol II by Ronald Gray and Christopher Argyle](/media/28914/screenshot-2022-01-23-at-074450.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132873975260530000)
Chronicle of the First World War Vol I &...
Chronicle of the First World War Vol I 356 pp. Casebound. £20. Facts on File. 1990. ISBN 0 8160 2139 2. [This rev...
Read More![Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers' War 1914- 1918 by Peter Barton, Peter Doyle and Johan Vandewalle](/media/28222/beneath-flanders-fields.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132852473285400000)
Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers' W...
Beneath Flanders Fields: The Tunnellers' War 1914- 1918 Peter Barton, Peter Doyle and Johan Vandewalle Spellmount. 30...
Read More![The Kinmel Park Camp Riots 1919 by J Putkowski](/media/27456/kinmel-park-camp-riots.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132830732348230000)
The Kinmel Park Camp Riots 1919 by J Putko...
55pp. Illustrated. Card covers. Flintshire Historical Society. £2.50. £3.50 by post from Clwyd County Record Office...
Read More![First World War Photographers by Jane Carmichael](/media/27542/screenshot-2021-12-05-at-155555.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132831933700230000)
First World War Photographers by Jane Carm...
167pp, many illustrations. Casebound. Routledge. £16.95. (1989 pricing) Second hand copies available for under £5 (2...
Read More![The Flower of Battle - British Fiction Writers of the First World War by Hugh Cecil](/media/27412/screenshot-2021-11-30-at-093638.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132827398815330000)
The Flower of Battle - British Fiction Wri...
Secker & Warburg 1995 Hardback, 415pp £25.00 ISBN 0 436 202905 [This review first appeared in the October 1996 e...
Read More![Battlebags-British Airship of the First World War by CES Mowthorpe](/media/27411/battlebags-bk.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132827365998500000)
Battlebags-British Airship of the First Wo...
Published by Alan Sutton 1995 Hardback 194pp ISBN 0 7509 0989 7 [This review first appeared in the September 1996 edi...
Read More![Durham Men in the Great War by John Davison](/media/27386/screenshot-2021-11-29-at-100602.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132826540958930000)
Durham Men in the Great War by John Davison
School of Education Durham University 2001, card covers 129pp. ISBN 1 870268 26 1. Obtainable from the University Sc...
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Battleship Texas by Hugh Power
Texas A&M Press College Station TX, (1993, reissued 2000), pb 161pp, index. £15.95. ISBN 0 89096 516 1. [This re...
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Newcastle Commercials by Ian Johnson
Newcastle’s Very First Volunteer Battalion of the Great War [This review first appeared in the October 2016 edition o...
Read More![The Evolution of Victory - British Battles on the Western Front 1914-1918 by Andy Simpson](/media/27309/screenshot-2021-11-24-at-043907.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132822028072800000)
The Evolution of Victory - British Battles...
1995 Hardback Publisher T.Donovan 152pp £17.95 ISBN 1 87108519 5 [This review first appeared in the September 1996 ed...
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