First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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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Race, War and Nationalism by Glenford Howe
Glenford Howe has produced an important, well researched and thoughtful analysis on the black West Indian population...
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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 Wo...
Texas A&M University Press, College Station, $32.95, 2000 207pp, ills, index. ISBN: 1 58544 118 X. [This review...
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Dear Mrs Jones - The Great War Dead of Cre...
[This review first appeared in Stand To! No. 63 January 2002] Softback, 219pp, 2001. Copies priced £10 may be obtai...
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Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian Corps o...
Hardback, 274pp. Spellmount, 2000, price £24.95 ISBN 1 86227 054 6. [This review first appeared in Stand To! No. 60...
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The Indian Corps in France by Lt Col J W B...
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. wi...
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