First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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...
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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...
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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...
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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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African American Doctors of World War I –...
McFarland and Co., 2016, $45 US, 277pp, (2016 price, also available for Kindle £17.28 in 2021) illustrated, bibliog.,...
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The Great War and the French People by Jea...
343pp. Hardback £25 (1986 price) Paperback £8.95 Berg Publishers Ltd. The effect of modern war on civil populations...
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With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and de...
Publisher: Allen Lane (2011) Hardcover: 688 pages, Glossary, index, maps, photographs ISBN: 978-0713998405 I...
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Great War to Race Riots by Madeline Henegh...
Madeline Heneghan and Emy Onuora Writing on the Wall Toxteth Library Windsor Street Liverpool L8 1XF Published by Wri...
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Tommy French: How British First World War...
£19.99, Pen & Sword, 2021, 224 pp 30 b/w illustrations ISBN: 9781526765925 [This review by Rachel Duffett first...
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Animal War Heroes (1933) by Peter Shaw Baker
Though published nearly 90 years ago, Animal War Heroes is as much a delight to read today as I’m sure it was in the...
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