This is my main book reviews page for books about the First World War:
14.02.2019 Ypres 1914: The Menin Road – Nigel Cave & Jack Sheldon
18.01.2019 Leeds Rifles: The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) 7th & 8th Territorial Battalions 1914-1918 – Andrew Kirk
24.12.2018 1918: The Decisive Year in Soldiers’ Own Words and Photographs – Richard van Emden
26.11.2018 The Kaiser’s Dawn: The Untold Story of Britain’s Secret Mission to Murder the Kaiser in 1918 – John Hughes-Wilson
23.10.2018 In Flanders Fields: The 1917 Campaign – Leon Wolff
21.08.2018 Hamel 4th July 1918: The Australian & American Triumph – John Hughes-Wilson
31.05.2018 Death of a Division – David Martin
26.04.2018 The Man Who Saved Paris: Roger West’s Ride 1914 – Michael Carragher
03.04.2018 High Wood – Michael Harrison
21.02.2018 The Somme 1916: Touring the French Sector – David O’Mara
08.02.2018 Victoria Crosses on the Western Front: Third Ypres 1917 31st July 1917-6th November 1917 – Paul Oldfield
29.01.2018 In the Shadow of Bois Hugo: The 8th Lincolns at the Battle of Loos – Nigel Atter
12.12.2017 Walking Ypres – Paul Reed
16.11.2017 Photographing the Fallen: A War Graves Photographer on the Western Front 1915-1919 – Jeremy Gordon-Smith
03.11.2017 Disputed Earth: Geology & Trench Warfare on the Western Front 1914-18 – Peter Doyle
29.09.2017 Captured Germans: British POW Camps in the First World War – Norman Nicol
22.09.2017 Epitaphs of the Great War: Passchendaele – Sarah Wearne
06.09.2017 The Western Front: Battlefields, Memorials & Cemeteries of the First World War – Marcel Belley
01.08.2017 Fighting the Somme – Jack Sheldon
30.05.2017 Canada’s Dream Shall Be of Them: Canadian Epitaphs of the Great War – Eric McGeer & Steve Douglas
22.05.2017 Doctors in the Great War – Ian Whitehead
30.04.2017 Military Technology of the First World War – Wolfgang Fleischer
27.03.2017 Digging the Trenches: The Archaeology of the Western Front – Andrew Robertshaw & David Kenyon
09.03.17 They Didn’t Want to Die Virgins: Sex & Morale in the British Army on the Western Front 1914-18 – Bruce Cherry
24.02.17 Soldier From the Wars Returning – Charles Carrington
30.01.17 Cambridgeshire Kitcheners: A History of 11th (Service) Battalion (Cambs) Suffolk Regiment – Joanna Costin
12.01.17 Beneath the Killing Fields: Exploring the Subterranean Landscapes of the Western Front – Matthew Leonard
29.12.16 Public Schools and the Great War – Anthony Seldon & David Walsh
29.11.16 The Illustrated War Reports: Ypres 1914-1915 – Bob Carruthers
18.11.16 The Somme Reconsidered – Peter Liddle
28.10.16 The 1915 Campaign – Andrew Rawson
10.10.16 Ghosts on the Somme – Alastair Fraser, Andrew Robertshaw & Steve Roberts
30.09.16 Ypres 1914: Messines – Nigel Cave & Jack Sheldon
19.09.16 Innocence Slaughtered: Gas and the Transformation of Warfare and Society – Jean Pascal Zanders (ed.)
21.08.16 Kitchener Wants You: The Man, the Poster, and the Legacy – Martyn Thatcher & Anthony Quinn
11.08.16 The Somme: The Epic Battle in the Soldiers’ own Words and Photographs – Richard Van Emden
12.07.16 Epitaphs of the Great War: The Somme – Sarah Wearne
04.07.16 A Visitor’s Guide: The First Day of the Somme – Jon Cooksey & Jerry Murland
07.06.16 Private Lord Crawford’s Great War Diaries – Christopher Arnander (ed.)
23.05.16 The 1914 Campaign – Andrew Rawson
06.05.16 Somme 1916: Success and Failure on the First Day – Paul Kendall
25.04.16 From the Somme to Victory – Peter Simkins
05.04.16 Images of War: The British at First and Second Ypres – Bob Carruthers
18.03.16 The Fighting Pioneers – Clive Dunn
03.03.16 The Tangier Archive – Carlos Traspaderne (ed.)
18.02.16 Shadows of the Somme – Paul Coffey
07.02.16 Before Action: William Noel Hodgson and the 9th Devons – Charlotte Zeepvat
25.01.16 Victoria Crosses on the Western Front – Paul Oldfield
04.01.16 Poppyganda – Matthew Leonard
14.12.15 1914: Voices from the Battlefields – Matthew Richardson
30.11.2015 Gott Strafe England: The German Air Assault Against Great Britain Vol.1 – Nigel Parker
20.11.2015 Breaking the Fortress Line 1914 – Clayton Donnell
12.11.2015 Dearest Mother:First World War letters home from a young Sapper officer in France & Salonika – Andrew Baines & Joanna Palmer (eds.)
30.10.2015 Roll of Honour: Schooling and the Great War 1914-1919 – Barry Blades
23.10.2015 Padre, Prisoner and Pen-Pusher – Peter Howson
12.10.2015 Mud, Blood and Determination – Simon Peaple
30.09.2015 Brothers in Arms – Karen Farrington (ed.)
14.09.2015 Subterranean Sappers – Iain McHenry
08.09.2015 1918: The Last Act – Barrie Pitt
17.08.2015 Visiting the Fallen: Arras North – Peter Hughes
26.06.2015 They Were There! 1914 – William Langford (ed.)
18.06.2015 Dorking in the Great War – Kathryn Atherton
19.05.2015 The British Army in Italy 1917-1918 – John & Eileen Wilks
08.05.2015 Command and Morale – Gary Sheffield
30.04.2015 The Home Front in the Great War – David Bilton
30.03.2015 The Great War – Field Marshal von Hindenburg
10.03.2015 Machine Gunner 1914-1918 – C. E. Crutchley
23.02.2015 Haig’s Medical Officer – Eugene P. Ryan (ed.)
28.01.2015 A Motorcycle Courier in the Great War – Captain WHL Watson
19.01.2015 All the Bright Company of Heaven – Renny Richardson
08.01.2015 Herbert Columbine VC – Carole McEntee-Taylor
24.12.2014 The Christmas Match – Pehr Thermaenius
09.12.2014 Great War Railwaymen – Jeremy Higgins
03.12.2014 The Battle Book of Ypres – Beatrix Brice
24.11.2014 Teenage Tommy – Richard van Emden
05.11.2014 Mud and Bodies – Saul David (ed.)
30.10.2014 Londoners on the Western Front – David Martin
19.10.2014 Facts about Fritz – Robin Schäfer & Tim Hardy
13.10.2014 9th Service Battalion The Sherwood Foresters – John Morse
17.09.2014 A Sacrifice of Innocents – Alan Barker
31.08.2014 Major & Mrs Holt’s Battlefield Guide to Western Front – North – Tonie & Valmai Holt
28.07.2014 The Retreat from Mons: North – Jon Cooksey & Jerry Murland
21.07.2014 Ypres 1914: Langemarck – Jack Sheldon & Nigel Cave
07.07.2014 Men, Horses, Mud and Stew – Wilfred Cook, edited by Audrey Larkins
20.06.2014 Ace of the Black Cross – Ernst Udet
02.06.2014 Sailor in the Desert – David Gunn
25.04.2014 Sniping in France – Major H. Hesketh-Prichard
15.04.2014 Sorrow Into Pride – Ken Wayman & Barry Crutchley
07.04.2014 Into Touch – Nigel McCrery
16.03.2014 Above Ypres – Bernard Deneckere
15.02.2014 The Life of Major Lanoe Hawker VC – Tyrrel Hawker
23.01.2014 ‘Til the Boys Come Home – Clare Mayo
09.01.2014 Recollections of the Great War in the Air – James McConnell
02.01.2014 The Great War Handbook – Geoff Bridger
15.12.2013 The Devil’s Carnival – John Sneddon
22.11.2013 17th Manchesters – John Hartley
12.11.2013 Dalwood Great War Memorial 1914-1919 – Alison Morgan
28.10.2013 Somme Intelligence – William Langford
24.09.2013 Accrington’s Pals: The Full Story – Andrew Jackson
16.09.2013 Listening to Ludendorff – Paul Goldschmidt (Brendan Whyte ed.)
09.09.2013 Slaughter on the Somme 1 July 1916 – Martin Mace & John Grehan
02.09.2013 And They Loved Not Their Lives Unto Death – Steve Smith
27.08.2013 Posters of the Great War – Frederick Hadley & Martin Pegler
22.08.2013 The Life & Death of an RFA Subaltern on the Western Front – Keith Brain
13.08.2013 The Final Whistle: The Great War in Fifteen Players – Stephen Cooper
30.07.2013 The Nek: A Gallipoli Tragedy – Peter Burness
09.07.2013 Lander’s War – Charles Lander (Michael Harrison ed.)
02.06.2013 Machine Gunner on the Somme – Eric Bird (Sue Sturley ed.)
28.05.2013 World War One: A Layman’s Guide – Scott Addington
15.03.2013 Halesowen War Memorial – Michael L. Green
26.02.2013 Herbert at War 1914-1918 – Herbert Ewing (John Ewing ed.)
14.01.2013 Killing Time: The Archaeology of the First World War – Nicholas Saunders
06.12.2012 The First Day on the Somme – Martin Middlebrook
13.11.2012 Letters Homes 1914-1919 – John Harker (Rosemary Rainbird ed.)
08.10.2012 The Death of Glory – Robin Neillands
08.08.2012 The Quick and The Dead – Richard Van Emden
18.07.2012 A Village at War – John Callcut
01.07.2012 The Missing of the Somme – Geoff Dyer
14.06.2012 Six Weeks – John Lewis-Stempel
10.06.2012 A Major Soldier – Ted Bailey
18.05.2012 The Somme – A.H. Farrar-Hockley
08.05.2012 A Quartermaster at the Front – Edwin Astill (ed.)
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