First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
Unquiet Souls: The Indian Summer of the Briti…
Macmillan, £14.95 [This short review first appeared in Stand To! No.12 Winter 1984] Required reading for all those wh…
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Directing the Tunnellers’ War: The Tunnelling…
Pen & Sword, £19.99 HB, 207pp, Ills, maps & diagrams throughout, references and further reading, appendices a…
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Kitchener’s Army by Peter Simkins
359 pp. Casebound. £37.50. Manchester University Press 1988 19 Photos ISBN 0 7190 2637 7 [This review by Gary S…
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Kitchener's Mob: The New Army to the Somme by…
The History Press, 2016, £25.00 224pp, colour and monochrome ills throughout, bibliog., notes and refs. ISBN: 9–780–…
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Race, War and Nationalism by Glenford Howe
Glenford Howe has produced an important, well researched and thoughtful analysis on the black West Indian population of …
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In Which They Served by Richard Cullen
£25.00, Unicorn, London, 2020, 336pp hardback, ills throughout, 9 maps. Notes sources and index. ISBN 978 1 9134 910…
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Americans All. Foreign-Born Soldiers in World…
Texas A&M University Press, College Station, $32.95, 2000 207pp, ills, index. ISBN: 1 58544 118 X. [This revie…
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Dear Mrs Jones - The Great War Dead of Crewe …
[This review first appeared in Stand To! No. 63 January 2002] Softback, 219pp, 2001. Copies priced £10 may be obtain…
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Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on t…
Hardback, 274pp. Spellmount, 2000, price £24.95 ISBN 1 86227 054 6. [This review first appeared in Stand To! No. 6…
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The Indian Corps in France by Lt Col J W B Me…
Reprint of 2nd edition, 1918, Naval & Military Press 1996. £29.95, 550pp. ISBN 1-84342-038-4 [This review first …
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Letters from a Volunteer by Charles St.G Cook…
[This review first appeared in Stand To! No.12 Winter 1984] Charles St.G Coook 1914 Letters from a Volunteer. Ed. wit…
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Kitchener’s Army by Ray Westlake
[This review first appeared in Stand To! No. 28 Spring 1990] 176 pp, numerous illustrations. Casebound. £18 (1990 pri…
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