First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
Black Poppies by Stephen Bourne
The History Press (2019) Second Edition 256 pages ISBN-10 : 0750990821 ISBN-13 : 978-0750990820 If you are in...
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Britain's Railways in the First World War...
Publisher : Pen & Sword Transport (2 July 2021) Hardcover : 280 pages, Appendices, glossary, index, photo...
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The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
Edited by David Killingray and Howard Phillips Routledge (2003) 390 pages ISBN 9780415510790 There is so much to le...
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Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbre...
336 pages Belknap Press Publication Date: 10/14/2013 ISBN 9780674725935 ‘Dance of the Furies’ by Michael S Neiberg is...
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Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis
Published by Published by Peter Davies Ltd. First Edition June 1936 Sagittarius Rising covers Cecil Lewis’s life as a...
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War Books by David Filsell 2005
War Books: A reflection on some contemporary views by David J. Filsell, for Stand To! No.74 September 2005 'Frightene...
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Empires at War 1911 - 1923 Edited by Prof....
OU Press 17 August 2015 pp.243 ISBN 9780198734932 When I sit down to read about the First World War, I usually grab a...
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War i...
Penguin London 2013 pp.736 ill ISBN 9780141027821 Clark is an Australian historian and the Regius Professor of histor...
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Riding the Retreat: Mons to Marne 1914 Rev...
Jonathan Cape, 1995. Hardback, 280 pages £20. ISBN 0224037625 [This review first appeared in the 1996 edition of...
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Animals in the Great War
Pages: 117Illustrations: 32ISBN: 9781473838048Published by Pen & Sword: 17th June 2019 There is room for a book o...
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Great Sacrifice. The Old Boys of Barnsley...
720 pages Helion & Company (2016) ‘A memorial book like no other.’ ‘Great Sacrifice. The Old Boys of Barnsley Hol...
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The Boys of Blackhorse Road by Malcolm Doolin
More than simply a collection of personal, short life and service histories of the boys who as men served and died du...
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