I was intrigued by Black Poppies by Stephen Bourne because it deals, as the subtitle mentions, with Britain’s Black Community and the Great War. It was interesting to see how they were seen by the rest of population. Black soldiers were included in the regular…
Lady Under Fire on the Western Front by Andrew and Nicola Hallam is a collection of letters written by Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding, Earl of Denbigh’s daughter. When the First World War broke out she volunteered from 1914 as an ambulance driver for the…
We Also Served by Vivien Newman* – The Forgotten Women of the First World War is the latest book I finished on the war. I’ve been very busy with a home front essay and I’ve been reading lots on the war, this is the 8th…
The book Menus, Munitions and Keeping the Peace by Avalon Weston* – The Home Front Diaries of Gabrielle West 1914 – 1917 – has a fascinating story. Avalon Weston watched a BBC Series on war diaries and her cousin asked if this one was not…
Britain and World War One by Alan Simmonds is a very good book on life on the home front during WWI. The book flows nicely making it a delight to read. I finished it in 2 days because it was so lovely to read and…
I had no idea that there were POW camps in Britain. I knew that there were some POWs here, but not that barracks were built for this purpose. Obviously I was very curious to read German Prisoners of the Great War by Anne Buckley*. It…
I was excited to read Posters of the Great War by Frederick Hadley, Martin Pegler* and I’m so glad I did. It is an amazing book. I was expecting to see posters from Britain, but the book is so much more than that. It contains…
I enjoyed reading Women in the Great War by Stephen Wynn, Tanya Wynn*. I expected to read about canary girls, but it was so much more than that. There are spies and nurses and the book was so much more interesting than I imagined it…
Great War Britain by Pamela Russell. Liverpool – Remembering 1914-18. I took this book from the library because I was curious about it. I like the way it was made, with lots of relevant pictures and beautiful decorated pages. Despite this I didn’t have high…