Review as featured in
Gun Mart Magazine

"The Great War Illustrated 1914 - Archive and Colour Photographs of WW I are well worth seeing to gain a broader view of World War I’s first months."
Over the Front

As featured in
Cher Ami, GWSIG Newsletter – International Plastic Modellers Society (UK) – April 2023

Whether you have been to the Western Front, or are about to visit, the series 'Walking the Western Front' continues to serve such a useful purpose of explaining the battlefield. With the continued probing questions of Ed Skelding, and the military expertise of Nigel Cave, this second volume in the series on the First Battle of Ypres, breaks down, sometimes complex military movements, with detailed clear descriptions, alongside views and being on the ground.
Jon Sandison

This book attempts to present a new perspective on the Great War by avoiding the ‘Tommy in the Trenches’ stereotype and instead looking at how the conflict was experienced by all those involved in the education of the nation’s children. Not just the pupils themselves, who as is already well known, volunteered in their thousands, but by the teachers, the governors, and the wider community. Teachers left the profession, not only to join up, but in some cases because working in munitions offered a far better rate of pay. By including information about all kinds of schools, and all kinds of communities, the book attempts to avoid concentrating on the famous public schools like Eton and Harrow but none-the-less celebrates the fact that almost a quarter of all V.C.s awarded during the war were given to former pupils of just such schools. The book is well-written, and the extent of the author’s research is demonstrated by the inclusion of some 26 pages of sources notes and a 13-page bibliography... Read more
Cross and Cockade