First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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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Walter Tull, 1888-1918 Officer, Footballer...
Paperback 256 Pages Published: 11/11/2009 Publisher: Raw Press ISBN: 9780956395405 I'm dividing this review of 'Wal...
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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...
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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...
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The Zimmermann Telegram : Intelligence, Di...
US Naval Institute Press, 2012, $36.95, xii pages, 319pp, illustrations, bibliography, index. ISBN: 9‒781‒612‒511‒48‒...
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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...
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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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From the Western Front to Salonika: A Fren...
Helion & Co., £19.95 (£19.75 direct from publisher), soft back, 182pp, ills in page throughout, 6 appendices, in...
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Unquiet Souls: The Indian Summer of the Br...
Macmillan, £14.95 [This short review first appeared in Stand To! No.12 Winter 1984] Required reading for all those w...
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Directing the Tunnellers’ War: The Tunnell...
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 She...
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Kitchener's Mob: The New Army to the Somme...
The History Press, 2016, £25.00 224pp, colour and monochrome ills throughout, bibliog., notes and refs. ISBN: 9–780–...
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