WW1 DVD: Mons 1914
The Battle of Mons is an iconic engagement of the Great War when soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) fired the opening shots in the west for the British Army. This 90 minute film follows...
View ArticleExploring The Western Front From End To End
The Western Front, established following the end of the mobile war in 1914, stretched for more than 450 miles from the Belgian coast in north Flanders to the border of Switzerland in the Vosges, in...
View ArticleBook Review: New WW1 Guide Books from Pen & Sword
The Retreat From Mons 1914: North by Jon Cooksey & Jerry Murland (Pen & Sword 2014, ISBN 978 1 78303 038 5, 157pp, paperback, illustrated, £14.99) Jon Cooksey is editor of Stand To! and Jerry...
View ArticleWW1 Book Review: Latest Titles from Pen & Sword
The Home Front In The Great War by David Bilton (Pen & Sword 2014, ISBN 978 1 78346 177 6, paperback, 256pp, fully illustrated, £14.99) During the WW1 Centenary it is all too possible for the...
View ArticleBBC Our World War: Review of Ep1 – Mons
Having read a lot of negative press in the Great war Community about the BBC3 series Our World War, even before it was broadcast and no-one had seen it, I was very interested to finally watch it. With...
View ArticleBook Review: New Edition of Holts Battlefield Guides
Major and Mrs Holt have spent much of the past thirty years building a reputation as battlefield experts first with their battlefield tours and since they left that company, in the form of their...
View ArticleBook Review: Between The Coast & The Western Front
Between The Coast And The Western Front by Sandra Gittins (History Press 2014, ISBN 978 0 7509 5843 1, 96pp, paperback, fully illustrated, £16.99) The recent flood of books about the Great War have...
View ArticleWW1 Book Review: The Retreat From Mons 1914 – South
The Retreat From Mons 1914: South by Jon Cooksey & Jerry Murland (Pen & Sword Books 2015, ISBN 978 1 47382 336 5, 152pp, paperback, illustrations, maps, £14.99) Authors Cooksey and Murland...
View ArticleBook Review: New WW1 Titles From Pen & Sword
Dorking In The Great War by Kathryn Atherton (Pen & Sword 2015, ISBN 9781473825529, 192pp, illustrated, paperback, £12.99) This is in the Pen & Sword series ‘Your Towns & Cities in the...
View ArticleInternational Blacksmithing Event Ypres 2016
A fascinating WW1 Centenary event is scheduled to take place at Ypres in Belgium on 1st-6th September 2016 involving blacksmiths from around the world. The website of the event explains: In September...
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