First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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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Kitchener’s Army by Ray Westlake
[This review first appeared in Stand To! No. 28 Spring 1990] 176 pp, numerous illustrations. Casebound. £18 (1990 pr...
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The Indian Army in the First World War Edi...
Helion, £35.00, 313pp, Notes, refs, bibliog, index. ISBN: 978–191–151–278–3 Contributors include: Daniel Marston, Ra...
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A Time to Die and a Time to Live by Tom S...
A Disaster to Triumph: groundbreaking developments in care of the wounded on the western front 1914-18 by Tom Scotlan...
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Quentin Roosevelt; A Sketch with Letters (...
Edited by Kermit Roosevelt Illustrated New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1921 (Facsimile) From the start, there is a s...
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When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the F...
Haynes Publishing, Yeovil, £19.99 (price in 2011) 336pp, 87 ills, 3 appendices, bibliog, source notes, index. ISBN 9...
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