First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
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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Against All Odds: Walter Tull – The Black...
Pen and Sword, £16.99 hb, 8pp plate section, index. ISBN: 978–152–670–404–7 [First reviewed in Stand To! No.112 Jun...
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