The centenary of the First World War presents historians with an opportunity to reflect anew upon South African participation in that war and particularly the r

State war histories: an atom of interest in an ocean of apathy -- War memoirs: they pour from the presses daily -- War stories: fiction cannot ignore the greate

Was the First World War really 'For King and Country'? This is the first full history of the monarchy's role.

A spectacular history of the hundreds of thousands of unacknowledged Indian laborers who kept the Allied supply lines flowing in the First World War.

When Robert Keable’s First World War novel Simon Called Peter was published, critics called it ‘offensive’, ‘a libel’ and reeking of ‘drink and lust