Centre for First World War Studies

Reviews of the following books will appear in the next edition of the eJournal of the Centre for First World War Studies:

Sebastian Barry, A Long, Long Way (London: Faber & Faber
p/b, 2005), ISBN 0-571-21800-8 REVIEWER: Michael Carragher

Ian F. W. Beckett & Steven J. Corvi (eds), Haig's Generals (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2006) Price: £19.99 REVIEWER: John Lethbridge

Ben Elton, The First Casualty (Black Swan, 2006 – paperback, Bantam Press, 2005 – hardback) REVIEWER: Dennis Williams

Malcolm K. Johnson, Saturday Soldiers. The Territorial Battalions of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1908 – 1919 (Doncaster Museum Services, 2004) ISBN: 0-903524-30-9. 229pp. including 61 photographs and 29 maps / sketches. Price: £16.00 REVIEWER: Derek Clayton

Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel (London: Allen Lane h/b 2003, Penguin p/b 2004), ISBN 0-141-18691-7, 289pp REVIEWER: Michael Carragher

Jean-Yves Le Naour, The Living Unknown Soldier: A Story of Grief and the Great War (translated by Penny Allen) (London: William Heinemann, 2005); ISBN 0 434 01319 6 hdbk. pp. 234 with illustrations (£16.99) REVIEWER: Stephen Gower

Bernard Lewis, Swansea Pals: A History of the 14^th (Service) Battalion, The Welsh Regiment in the Great War (Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2004) REVIEWER: Mark Cook

Christopher Martin, War Poetry (London: Collins, 1990; 2^nd edn 2004) ISBN 0007177401 REVIEWER: Bob Bushaway

S.J. McLaren (ed.), Somewhere in Flanders: A Norfolk Padre in the Great War (Dereham: The Larks Press, 2005) ISBN: 1904006256, 112 pp., £6.95 REVIEWER: Michael Snape

Charles Messenger, Call To Arms: The British Army 1914-18 by (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005) ISBN 0-297-84695-7 REVIEWER: Andy Lonergan

Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful (Harper Collins Children’s Books, hb 2003; pb 2004) REVIEWER: Dennis Williams

Anne Perry, Angels In The Gloom (Headline Review, 2006 – paperback, Headline Book Publishing, 2005 - hardback) REVIEWER: Dennis Williams

Robert Pois & Philip Langer, Command Failure in War – Psychology and Leadership (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004) 282 pp. ISBN 0-253-34378-X REVIEWER: Peter Hodgkinson


Reviewer	Publication	Author


Dennis Williams	The First Casualty	Ben Elton
	Angels In The Gloom	Anne Perry

Bob Bushaway	War Poetry	Christopher Martin
Michael Carragher	A Long Long Way	Sebastian Barry
Michael Carragher	Storm of Steel	Ernst Jünger
Stephen Gower	The Living Unknown Soldier: A Story of Grief and the Great War	Jean-Yves
Peter Hodgkinson	Command Failure in War - Psychology and Leadership	Robert Pois
Michael Snape	Somewhere in Flanders: A Norfolk Padre in the Great War	S.J. McLaren
Dennis Williams	Private Peaceful	Michael Morpurgo



	2005 Reviews
Reviewer	Publication	Author
Sonia Batten	Remembrance British War Memorials	Mark Quinlan
Sonia Batten	Trench Art: Lost Worlds of the Great War. The Trench Art Collection of the In Flanders Fields Museum	Nicholas J Saunders
Sonia Batten	Ypres as Holy Ground: Menin Gate and Last Post	Dominiek Dendooven
Sonia Batten	All Roads Lead to France: Bath and the Great War	Andrew Swift
Sonia Batten	The Memory of Catastrophe	Peter Gray & Kendrick Oliver (eds)
Sonia Batten	Matters of Conflict: Material Culture, Memory and the First World War	Nicholas J. Saunders (ed)
Bob Bushaway	Horseman, Pass By: The Australian Light Horse in World War I Reconsidering Gallipoli	Lindsay Baly Jenny Macleod
Geoff Clarke	Doctrine Under Fire: American Artillery Employment in World War I	Mark Grotelueschen
Derek Clayton	Most Unfavourable Ground: The Battle of Loos 1915	Niall Cherry
Nigel Dorrington	Major and Mrs Holt's Concise Illustrated Battlefield Guide: The Western Front - North	Tonie & Valmai Holt
Stephen Gower	All Quiet on the Home Front	Richard van Emden & Steve Humphries
Bryn Hammond	Amiens: 1918	James McWilliams & R. James Steel
Major Changboo Kang	The Shiny Seventh: The 7th (Service) Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment at war 1915-1918	M.G. Deacon (ed)
John Lee	From Pontefract to Picardy: The 9th King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in the First World War	Derek Clayton
Nick Lloyd	A History of Chemical Warfare	Kim Coleman
Nick Lloyd	The Somme	Robin Prior & Trevor Wilson
Sanders Marble	The German Offensives of 1918	Martin Kitchen
Anthony Richards	Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front 1914-1918	Richard Holmes
Krisztina Robert	The Home Front in the Great War: Aspects of the Conflict 1914-1018	David Bilton
Peter Simkins	Defending Albion: Britain's Home Army, 1908-1919	K W Mitchinson
Peter Simkins	The Civil Service rifles in the Great War: 'All Bloody Gentlemen'	Jill Knight
Peter Simkins	The Civil Service rifles in the Great War: 'All Bloody Gentlemen'	Jill Knight
Mike Taylor	The Great War in History: Debates & Controversies 1914 to the Present	Jay Winter & Antoine Prost

To submit a book for review, please contact Sonia Batten, the Reviews Editor at:

The Centre for First World War Studies
Department of Modern History
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham
B15 2TT.


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