Newsletter Reviews

The Defence of Jisr Al-Doreaa with E D Swinton's The Defence of Duffer's Drift by Michael L Burgoyne and Albert J Marckwardt

The Junior Officers' Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey

Red Coat, Green Machine. Continuity and Change in the British Army 1700- 2000 by Charles Kirke

Hertfordshire's Army Cadets by J D Sainsbury

War Without Fronts: The USA in Vietnam by Bernd Greiner

Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare by Daniel Marston and Carter Malkasian (eds)

The Home Guard in Hertfordshire 1952-57 by John Sainsbury

To the Last Round by Andrew Salmon

Waging War in Waziristan, The British Struggle in the Land of Bin laden, 1849-1947 by Andrew M. Roe

On Afghanistan's Plain, the Story of Britain's Afghan Wars by Jules Stewart

The Siege of Kustrin 1945: Gateway to Berlin

After D-Day, Operation Cobra and the Normandy Breakout by James J Carafano

Over the Battlefield, Operation Goodwood by Ian Daglish

Breaking the Panzers by Kevin Baverstock

Rudder: From Leader to Legend by Thomas M Hatfield

Poland Alone: Britain, SOE and the Collapse of the Polish Resistance 1944 by Jonathan Walker

The Military Life and Times of General Sir Miles Dempsey by Peter Rostron

Cemeteries and Memories; the Second World War in Tunisia by Lillian Craig Harris

How Bletchley Park Worked during the War by Asa Briggs

The Forgotten Highlander My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East by Alistair Urquhart

Code Wars, How Ultra and Magic led to Allied Victory by John Jackson

Out of the Depths of Hell by John McEwan

Bounden Duty by Alexander Stahlberg

Manstein, Hitler's Greatest General by Mungo Melvin

Skymen, the real story of the Paras by Robert Kershaw

Hitler's Savage Canary: a History of the Danish Resistance in World War II by David Lampe

British Army Establishments in World War Two (two books)

Memories of an SOE Historian by M R D Foot

The Battle of Heligoland Bight, 1939, the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe's Baptism of Fire by Robin Holmes

Stilwell the Patriot by David Rooney

The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force 1935-1945

Swedes at War: Willing Warriors of a Neutral Nation 1914-1945 by Lars Gyllenhall and Lennart Westberg

The Amritsar Massacre by Nick Lloyd

The Battle of Bellicourt Tunnel: Tommies, Diggers and Doughboys on the Hindenburg Line by Dale Blair

The Day We Won the War; Turning Point at Amiens, 8 August 1918 by Charles Messenger

The Battle for Flanders: German Defeat on the Lys 1918 by Chris Baker

Cambrai 1917, the Myth of the Great Tank Battle 1917 by Bryn Hammond

Tank Action in the Great War: B Battalion's Experiences 1917 by Ian Verrinder

The German Army at Cambrai by Jack Sheldon

German Army at Passchendaele by Jack Sheldon

German Army on Vimy Ridge by Jack Sheldon

Three Books that are not Easy Reading - Corps Command in the Great War

If Germany Attacks: The Battle in Depth in the West by Capt G C Wynne

We Hope to get Word Tomorrow: The Garvin Family Letters 1914-1918 by M. Pottle & J. Ledingham

A Very Unimportant Officer, Life and Death on the Somme and at Passchendaele by Alexander Stewart

Bloody Victory; the Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of the Twentieth Century by William Philpott

The Chief: Douglas Haig and the British Army by Gary Sheffield

Eden to Armageddon: World War One in the Middle East by Roger Ford

War is War by ex Private X (A M Burrage)

German Army on the Somme by Jack Sheldon

The British Naval Staff in the First World War by Nicholas Black

Liddell Hart's Western Front by Brian Bond

Artillery in the Great War by Paul Strong and Sanders Marble

Gallipoli: the end of the Myth by Robin Prior

Gallipoli by Peter Hart

The Wandsworth & Battersea Battalions in the Great War by Paul McCue

The Kensington Battalion: Never Lost a Yard of Trench by Geoff Inglis

Edith Cavell by Diana Souhani

The Dardanelles Disaster: Winston Churchill's Greatest Failure by Dan Van Der Vat

Machine Guns and the Great War by Paul Cornish

All Bloody Gentlemen by Jill Knight

Brief but Glorious, a short history of 8th Bn Royal Fusiliers 1914-1918

Shrapnel and Whizzbangs, a Tommy in the Trenches 1914-1918 by Jeremy Mitchell

Lady Under Fire, the letters of Dorothea Feilding edited by Andrew & Nicola Hallam

The 2nd Bedfords in France & Flanders 1914-1918 by Martin Deacon (ed)

The Steel of the DLI: 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry at War 1914-1918 by John Sheen

Private Beatson’s War: Life, Death and Hope on the Western Front by S. Springer & S. Humphreys

Call to Arms by Charles Messenger

To Ypres for a Haircut

Survivors of a Kind, Memoirs of the Western Front by Professor Brian Bond

England's Last Hope, the Territorial Force 1908-1914 by Ken Mitchinson

Great Power Strategy in Asia, Empire, Culture & Trade, 1905-2005 by Jonathan Bailey

King's African Rifles, a History by Malcolm Page

Volunteers on the Veld, Britain's Citizen-Soldiers and the South African War 1899-1902

Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World; Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World 1852-2001 by Peter Padfield

Our Friends beneath the Sands; The Foreign Legion in France's Colonial Conquests 1870-1935 by Martin Windrow

A Nurse at War: The story of Emily Peter 1858-1927 by Joan Woodward and Glenys Mitchell

Doctrine & Reform in the British Cavalry 1880-1918 by Stephen Badsey

Lee, Icon for a Nation by Brian Holden Reid

A Waterloo Hero: The Reminiscences of Friedrich Lindau by James Bogle and Andrew Uffindell

On Wellington: a Critique of Waterloo by Carl von Clausewitz edited by Peter Hofschroer

Chief of Staff, the Principal Officers behind History's Great Commanders by Maj-Gen David T Zabecki (ed)

In Love & War, the Lives of General Sir Harry and Lady Smith by David Rooney & Michael Scott

An Eloquent Soldier, the Journals of Lt Crowe of the Inniskillings 1812-1814 by Gareth Glover

Wellington's Peninsular War Generals and their Battles: a Biographical Dictionary by Tony Heathcote

Peninsular War Atlases by Nick Lipscombe and Ian Robertson

Talavera by Peter Edwards & A Commanding Presence by Ian Robertson

All for the King's Shilling: The British Soldier Under Wellington 1808-1814 by Edward J Coss

The British Army against Napoleon: Facts, Lists and Trivia by Robert Burnham and Ron McGuigan

Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War and the Arts in the British World 1750-1850 by Holger Hoock

Double Review - 'Combat' by Stefan Felleckner & 'The Stress of Battle' by David Rowland

British Napoleonic Field Artillery - The First Complete Illustrated Guide to Equipment and Uniforms by Carl Franklin

British Napoleonic Uniforms: The First Complete Illustrated Guide to Uniforms, Facings and Lace by C.E. Franklin

Hawke, Nelson and British Naval Leadership, 1747-1805 by Ruddock Mackay & Michael Duffy,

The Royal American Regiment, an Atlantic Microcosm 1755-82 by Alexander V Campbell

Highlander: The History of the Legendary Highland Soldier by Tim Newark

The Road to Bosworth Field: A new history of the Wars of the Roses by Trevor Royle

Just Wars and Moral Victories: Surprise, Deception and the Normative Framework of European War in the Later Middle Ages by David Whetham

Bannockburn, the triumph of Robert the Bruce

Amphibious Warfare 1000 - 1700 edited by David Trim and Charles M Fissel

Pyrrhus of Epirus by Jeff Champion