September 2, 2021 Frontline by Dr Hilary Jones Review by Julie Barham Medical knowledge and techniques were vastly increased during and immediately after the First World War, as the loss of so…
April 20, 2021 Commemorative Modernisms by Alice Kelly Review by Rob Spence Modernism has always resisted precise definition, and in recent years it has been normal in literary-critical circles to use the…
June 11, 2020 Victory For The Slain by Hugh Lofting Review by Rob Spence When we think of First World War poets, it’s safe to say that Hugh Lofting will not be the first…
July 18, 2014 The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman Reviewed by Terence Jagger This is a famous and fascinating book, and I think anyone interested in the Great War, or the wider question…
July 17, 2014 The Lie by Helen Dunmore Reviewed by Susan Osborne. If you spend any time at all perusing reviews, on the internet or otherwise, you can’t have failed to notice…
