Month: July 2024

Book Review – Claud V. Burder, Hell on Earth: My Life in the Trenches 1914 – 1918 (John Burder Ed.) (London: Big Ben Books, 2010).

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This memoir remained hidden until it was unearthed from a trunk of manuscripts in 2009, nearly 50 years after the author’s death. Before the war, […]

Book review – Bryant Lillywhite (ed Linda Synge), The World War 1 Diary of Bryant Lillywhite, A Man Reprieved to Go (Privately published: Linda Synge, 2017)

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This book covers the wartime service of Bryant Lillywhite, who served in the 1/16th Battalion, London Regiment (Queen Westminster Rifles) before transferring to the Royal […]

My latest book review

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My review of Antonio Garcia and Ian Van Der Waag’s excellent book on Botha, Smuts and the Great War in this month’s Stand To!

Book Review – Douglas Hall, In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica, 1750-86 (University of West Indies Press, 1999)

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by Douglas H “In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica” by Douglas Hall is a thorough and harrowing examination of the life and practices of a […]

Book Review – Nathan Wise, Anzac Labour: Workplace Cultures in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)

2024-07-11 admin 0

Anzac Labour by Nathan Wise is a fascinating exploration of the role of Australian and New Zealand soldiers during World War I not only as […]