First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
British Prisoners of War in First World War G…
Cambridge University Press, £66.99 hb (Amazon 2018), 322pp, 25 ills, incl. abbreviations, bibliog., index. Also avail…
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The Coast Guard in World War I, An Untold Sto…
[This review first appeared in Stand To! No. 73 April 2005] Naval Institute Press, Maryland,2003,326pp, photos, append…
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Bushmills Heroes 1914 -1918 by Robert Thomps…
204pp, ills. £10.00 (2005 pricing) (Copies available from the author) ISBN 0- 9537583-3-8 by Robert Thompson [This re…
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The Devil’s Chariots. The Birth and Secret Ba…
[This review first appeared in Stand To! No.81 January 2008] The Devil’s Chariots was published to great acclaim by Sut…
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Steady the Buffs! A Regiment, a Region & the …
OUP, 2006, £55 (Price in 2006) 267pp, ills, bibliography, index (ISBN 0 19 9278601) Mark Connelly [This review first a…
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On the Western Front. Soldiers' stories from …
Anthology of Anecdotes from France and Flanders 1914-1918 277pp casebound. £11.95. (1986 price) Alan Sutton Publishin…
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A Sergeant Major's War. From Hill 60 to the S…
[This review first appeared in Stand To! No. 22 Spring 1988] 157 pp (inc three maps) and six of illustrations. Case …
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The Coolie’s Great War. Indian Labour in a Gl…
£45.00, Hurst & Company, London, 392 pp, 21 ills, index, notes and refs ISBN 9781787382152 Military labour is a…
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John Terraine : The Smoke and the Fire: Myths…
(London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1980) A reappraisal by Gary Sheffield [This article first appeared in the April 2021 ed…
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The African American Experience in World War …
History, world war and the aftermath in the US and France Many African Americans felt that the war they fought in 191…
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A Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
Feminism of the First Hour? Released in 1933 as Germany faced the beginnings of the rise of fascism, A Testament of Yo…
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Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Considered to be the high priest of modernism, it could be argued that Hemingway transformed the face of literature. Pri…
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