The Boys of Blackhorse Road by Malcolm Doolin

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 by Phil Vasili

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 Coppard

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 Great War by Jonathan Walker

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, Diplomacy and America’s Entry into World War I by Thomas Boghardt

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

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 Gave their Life in the Great War by Mike Reese

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 French Soldier Writes Home by Catherine Labaume-Howards (ed)

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 British Aristocracy 1880-1918 by Angela Lambert

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 Tunnelling Memoirs of Captain H R Dixon MC RE by Phillip Robinson and Nigel Cave (Eds)

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

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 by Peter Doyle and Chris Foster

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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