First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
![Empires at War 1911 - 1923 Edited by Prof. Robert Gerwarth & Erez Manela](/media/25311/screenshot-2021-08-30-at-130750.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132748024921170000)
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...
Read More![The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark](/media/25291/the-sleepwalkers.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132746211375630000)
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...
Read More![Riding the Retreat: Mons to Marne 1914 Revisited by Richard Holmes](/media/25258/retreat-from-mons.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132744370799400000)
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...
Read More![Animals in the Great War](/media/25165/animals-in-ww1.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132740349130500000)
Animals in the Great War
Pages: 117Illustrations: 32ISBN: 9781473838048Published by Pen & Sword: 17th June 2019 There is room for a book o...
Read More![Great Sacrifice. The Old Boys of Barnsley Holgate Grammar School in the First World War by Jane Ainsworth](/media/25132/great-sacrifice.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132739349877700000)
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...
Read More![The Boys of Blackhorse Road by Malcolm Doolin](/media/25133/boys-of-blackhorse-road.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132739350394000000)
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...
Read More![Walter Tull, 1888-1918 Officer, Footballer by Phil Vasili](/media/25040/walter-tull-cover.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132737796151570000)
Walter Tull, 1888-1918 Officer, Footballer...
Paperback 256 Pages Published: 11/11/2009 Publisher: Raw Press ISBN: 9780956395405 I'n diving this review of 'Walte...
Read More![With a Machine Gun to Cambrai by George Coppard](/media/24782/screenshot-2021-08-10-at-055804.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132730487645670000)
With a Machine Gun to Cambrai by George Co...
188pp., paperback. £3.95. Macmillan/Papermac. [This 'review' first appeared in Stand To! No.17 Summer 1986] Original...
Read More![The Blue Beast: Power and Passion in the Great War by Jonathan Walker](/media/24780/screenshot-2021-08-09-at-172815.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132730040280100000)
The Blue Beast: Power and Passion in the G...
The History Press, Gloucs, 2013, £18.99, 224pp, 67 ills, notes, bibliog., index. ISBN: 9‒780‒752‒465‒97‒5 [This revie...
Read More![The Zimmermann Telegram : Intelligence, Diplomacy and America’s Entry into World War I by Thomas Boghardt](/media/24779/screenshot-2021-08-09-at-171736.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132730032463330000)
The Zimmermann Telegram : Intelligence, Di...
US Naval Institute Press, 2012, $36.95, xii pages, 319pp, illustrations, bibliography, index. ISBN: 9‒781‒612‒511‒48‒...
Read More![Jackie Was a Hero by Lawrence Harris](/media/24778/jackie-was-a-hero.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132729946917170000)
Jackie Was a Hero by Lawrence Harris
1996 Paperback, 147 pp. £6.99 incl. postage from The Cartoon Cave P.O.Box 9138 London W3 7WQ. ISBN 0 9526834 0 7 [Th...
Read More![Men who Played the Game – Sportsmen who Gave their Life in the Great War by Mike Reese](/media/24761/screenshot-2021-08-09-at-100537.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132729786418000000)
Men who Played the Game – Sportsmen who Ga...
Seren Books, £17.99 268pp, 18 ills. ISBN: 978–178–172–286–2 [This review first appeared in Stand To! 109 June 2017 (S...
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