First World War book reviews by academics, amateur historians, Western Front Association members and keen readers.
![A Sergeant Major's War. From Hill 60 to the Somme by Ernest Shephard](/media/23349/screenshot-2021-07-07-at-092118.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132701233442170000)
A Sergeant Major's War. From Hill 60 to th...
[This review first appeared in Stand To! No. 22 Spring 1988] 157 pp (inc three maps) and six of illustrations. Case...
Read More![The Coolie’s Great War. Indian Labour in a Global Conflict 1914–1921 by Radhika Singha](/media/21561/the-coolies-great-war.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132672559277870000)
The Coolie’s Great War. Indian Labour in a...
£45.00, Hurst & Company, London, 392 pp, 21 ills, index, notes and refs ISBN 9781787382152 Military labour is a...
Read More![John Terraine : The Smoke and the Fire: Myths and Anti–Myths of War 1861–1945](/media/21560/the-smoke-and-the-fire.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132672211484770000)
John Terraine : The Smoke and the Fire: My...
(London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1980) A reappraisal by Gary Sheffield [This article first appeared in the April 2021 e...
Read More![The African American Experience in World War One](/media/21367/aa-experience-ww1-a.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132669619945600000)
The African American Experience in World W...
History, world war and the aftermath in the US and France Many African Americans felt that the war they fought in 1...
Read More![A Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain](/media/21062/screenshot-2021-05-24-at-045322.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132663056287800000)
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...
Read More![Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms (1929)](/media/21060/screenshot-2021-05-24-at-040628.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132663031968130000)
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....
Read More![Sons of Freedom: The forgotten American Soldiers who defeated Germany in World War One by Geofrey Wawro](/media/19357/screenshot-2021-05-05-at-163418.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132647070396200000)
Sons of Freedom: The forgotten American So...
Basic Books. £13.81 (on Amazon special at the time of the book’s review). HB 596 pp. 14 maps. Ills throughout. Biblio...
Read More![The Great War Dead of Crewe & Nantwich by Mark Potts & Joy Bratherton](/media/19356/screenshot-2021-05-05-at-152939.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132647024524970000)
The Great War Dead of Crewe & Nantwich by...
Softback, 219pp, 2001. Copies priced £10 may be obtained from Joy Bratherton. [Available in 2021 for £7.25 from Abeb...
Read More![Americans All. Foreign-Born Soldiers in World War I by Nancy G Ford](/media/19355/screenshot-2021-05-05-at-152239.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132647020066370000)
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. His is a we...
Read More![The Great War 1914- 1918 by Ian F.W.Becket](/media/19332/screenshot-2021-05-05-at-074920.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132646747254100000)
The Great War 1914- 1918 by Ian F.W.Becket
Modern Wars in Perspective Series Longman, 2001, pb, 508pp, maps, £16.99. ISBN 0 582 32248 0. There have been some im...
Read More![The Lusitania, the Life, Loss and Legacy of an Ocean Legend by Daniel Allen Butler](/media/19331/screenshot-2021-05-05-at-072612.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132646733480030000)
The Lusitania, the Life, Loss and Legacy o...
Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA, 2000, 291 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0 8117 989 2. Even at this late date, the Lusitania...
Read More![Filming All Quiet on the Western Front by Andrew Kelly](/media/19315/screenshot-2021-05-04-at-075328.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=240&height=360&rnd=132646182745200000)
Filming All Quiet on the Western Front by...
I.B. Taurus, 1998. Price unknown. ISBN 86064 000 0. Erich Maria Remarque's extraordinary novel All Quiet on the Wes...
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