FOR THE FALLEN – Review by Mark Barnes
We are inching close to Armistice Day and the poppies will soon be on sale again. Like tens of thousands of others I wear mine…
BILLY CONGREVE DIARY – Review by Wayne Osborne
This is yet another diary from the Great War and it is a very good read for either the casual reader or the historian. Billy…
THE OLD FRONT LINE – Review by Mark Barnes
Back in the 1980s when it was still possible to walk areas of the Western Front and find a considerable amount of the debris of…
EMBERS OF WAR – Review by Mark Barnes
In June 1919 when the victorious powers met at Versailles to flay the defeated Central Powers other stuff was going on that would have ramifications…
10 Uncommon WWI Facts
In honor of the one-hundred-year-old war, here are ten uncommon WWI facts — some seemingly weird writers did not include them when writing down the…
Haileybury School Built Great War Trench in Commemoration of Its Staff and Pupils Who Perished in It
The Haileybury school in Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire built an authentic replica of a Great War trench within its campus grounds in commemoration of the 589…
How Everyday Citizens Viewed the Great War
The First World War, also known as the Great War, affected more or less everyone in the world. Even far from the battlefields, people found…
WW1 ATLAS – Review by Mark Barnes
This large-scale book has the essence of the look of one produced under the banner of The Times newspaper, but don’t be fooled into thinking…
WW1 Fighter Aces – Review by Mark Barnes
In a corner of a foreign field just north of Ypres rests a young man named Edwin Benbow. He is no relation to me and…
The ‘Sweepers’ of Unexploded WWI Ordnance
The two-men team of Guy Momper and Raoul Weber are just part of the handful men who are tasked to be the ‘sweepers’ of unexploded…
Tugboat Perth Amboy Involved in WWI Attack
The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company owned the Perth Amboy during one of the tugboat’s most important years. The year in question was 1918, which…
WWI Hero Capt. Edward Bradbury Honored at Last
WWI hero Capt. Edward Bradbury finally gets the recognition he deserved. A plaque that will forever immortalize his bravery during the Great War was unveiled…