The Great War From the Air: Then and Now – Gail Ramsey
No matter how hard we may try to picture in our minds the devastation wrought by years of almost continual
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History Book Reviews
To War In A Spitfire: The Diary of an American Spitfire Pilot Lieutenant Colonel H.C. Strawn DFC – Mark Hillier, Dieter Sinanan, and Gregory Percival
Lieutenant Harry Strawn from Swissvale, Pennsylvania, was a pilot with the 309th Squadron of the 31st Fighter Group, which he
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1914: Voices From The Battlefields – Matthew Richardson
This is a fine collection of personal accounts from the opening year of the First World War, a good number
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Christmas in the Trenches – Alan Wakefield
It is perhaps some measure of our humanity that the brief, partial, and entirely unauthorised, Christmas Truce of 1914, has
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Mud and Bodies: The War Diaries and Letters of Captain N.A.C. Weir, 1914-1920
At just nineteen-years of age, Captain Neil Weir found himself a captain and company commander in the 10th Battalion, Argyll
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Monty’s Men: The British Army and the Liberation of Europe – John Buckley
The author travels on much trodden ground in discussing the events from D-Day to the end of the war. Nevertheless,
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Steaming to Victory: How Britain’s Railways Won the War – Michael Williams
Many years ago a former locomotive fireman reminisced to me about wartime duties transporting newly arrived American troops from Liverpool
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Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze – Peter Harmsen
For the Far East, the fighting which became part of the Second World War began in 1937 and continued until
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The Motherland Calls: Britain’s Black Servicemen & Women 1939-45 – Stephen Bourne
During the Second World War volunteers from across the British Empire played their part in fighting Germany and its allies.
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Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War – Gerry Docherty and Jim Macgregor
The authors of this thought-provoking book make the extraordinary claim that a small group of rich and powerful men sought,
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