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Centenary Website: Pas de Calais Remembrance Tourism
I will be reviewing some of the new sites coming online getting ready for the WW1 Centenary in 2014 over the next few weeks and months. This site, entitled Remembrance Tourism : Pas de Calais. is a...
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Centenary Website: French Government Portal To WW1 Centenary
In the past couple of weeks the French official Government website which will act as their portal into the WW1 Centenary went live. Mission Centenaire 14-18 is a well designed and slick site, with...
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Antiques Roadshow WW1 Speicial
A recent One Show on BBC1 indicated that there will be a Great War special of the popular BBC Sunday evening show Antiques Roadshow. It is planned to film this on the Somme over the summer of 2013 for...
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WW1 Books: Marne 1914 – A Battlefield Guide
The Marne 1914: A Battlefield Guide by Andrew Uffindell (Pen & Sword Books 2013, ISBN 978-1-84884-801-6, 215pp, Illustrated throughout, maps, £15.99) The Battle of the Marne was the first decisive...
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France May Pardon Executed WW1 Poilus
French Executions Memorial, Suippes (©Paul Reed) During the Great War France is reported to have executed more than 600 soldiers for military crimes on and off the battlefield. A number were shot in...
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WW1 Books: The Chinese Labour Corps 1916-20
The Chinese Labour Corps 1916-1920 by Gregory James (Bayview Educational Publishing 2013, ISBN 978-988-12686-0-0, 1285pp, illustrated, £30.99+postage) The Chinese Labour Corps was recruited from 1916...
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WW1 Centenary Battlefield Trek by Mark Banning
The Royal Star & Garter Battlefield Trek Guest WW1 Centenary Blog Post by Battlefield Guide Mark Banning The Royal Star & Garter Homes provide excellent nursing and care within a friendly,...
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New French IGN WW1 Map
The Institut Géographique Nationale, the French company that produces high quality maps of the whole of France, has produced a new map for the WW1 Centenary. The map covers a major portion of the...
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WW1 DVD: Somme – 1st July 1916
The First Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916, in many ways dominates our popular understanding of the Great War. Eager volunteers walk into machine-gun hell in No Man’s Land with huge...
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Exploring 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...
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New WW1 Books from Pen & Sword
This months new releases from prolific military publisher Pen & Sword books. Spirits of the Somme edited by Bob Carruthers (Pen & Sword Military 2014, ISBN 9781473822757, 141pp, illustrated,...
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New WW1 Titles from Amberley Publishing
Somewhere in France: A Tommy’s Guide To Life On The Western Front by William & Geoffrey Whittaker (Amberley 2014, ISBN 978-1-4456-3671-9, 256pp, paperback, £9.99) This fascinating little book is a...
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WW1 Book Review: Armageddon’s Walls
Armageddon’s Walls: British Pillboxes 1914-1918 by Peter Oldham (Pen & Sword 2014, ISBN 978 1 78303 300 3, 286pp, hardbound, £25.00) The pillboxes of the Great War stand in large numbers across the...
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WW1 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...
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The Vosges & Alsace Battlefields: New French Magazines Review
Guest Post by Gwyneth Roberts : www.thebluelinefrontier.wordpress.com Two magazines currently on sale in hypermarkets and bookshops in Alsace are very useful for anyone who is considering visiting this...
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Book 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...
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New Somme Books from Pen & Sword
Pen & Sword have been busy releasing a lot of Great War titles in recent weeks and this latest batch includes a number relating to the Somme both in 1916 and 1918. The Somme Campaign by Andrew...
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Book 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...
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WW1 Book Review: Understanding The Somme 1916
In the introduction to this book the authors state “This is a battlefield guide with a difference. It is not the usual itinerary of memorials and cemeteries.” It is a shame that this is the opening...
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WW1 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...
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