WW1
In Falling Snow
Readers are spoiled for choice with new historical novels set during WWI. Most offer similar themes: navigating the era’s shifting…
Unmentionables
In August 1917, the traveling Chautauqua assembly is filling tents all over the Midwest with programs designed to edify and…
The Flower Book
This is one of the first in the inevitable tsunami of novels soon to hit the bookshops on the centenary…
Great Britain’s Great War
With the anniversary of the beginning of the First World War rapidly approaching it is no surprise that further publications…
1914: Fight the Good Fight — Britain, the Army and the Coming of the First World War
There have been many histories of the First World War, and the centenary of its outbreak will no doubt see…
Hundred Days: The End of the Great War
Hundred Days tells the story of the last four months of combat on the western front. It concentrates on the…
Unravelled
Editors' choice
The opening of this debut novel is set in the 1930s. Edward and Ann are a happily married Canadian couple.…
Sebastian
Sebastian is the second novel of a trilogy about central and Eastern Europe during the first half of the last…
The Unreturning Army: A Field Gunner in Flanders 1917-1918
This is a memoir and series of letters, edited by his son, that Huntly Gordon sent from the Allied front-line…
Two Trees
Two Trees by G.J. Greenhough is a thoughtful reflection on friendships and enemies in war time. 20-year-old John sets out…
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