First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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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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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