Subject: World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front (Keywords)

Allan Mallinson has written a new history of the origins - and the opening first few weeks fighting - of what would become known as 'the war to end all wars'. He explains the grand strategic shift that occurred in the century before the war, the British Army's regeneration after its drubbings in ...

The opening battles on the Western Front marked a watershed in military history. A dramatic, almost Napoleonic war of movement quickly gave way to static, attritional warfare in which modern weaponry had forced the combatants to take to the earth. Some of the last cavalry charges took place in th...

This story is told by a young soldier in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see the realities of war. Incidents are vividly described, but there is no sense of adventure, only the feeling of youth betrayed.

This story is told by a young soldier in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see the realities of war. Incidents are vividly described, but there is no sense of adventure, only the feeling of youth betrayed.

Drawing from diaries, letters, memoirs and regimental records, Ian Passingham provides an illustrated insight into the daily life of the German troops facing the British and French between 1914 and 1918 and fills a significant gap in the historiography of World War I.

It's 1917, and the trenches are deep with mud and rotting corpses. Amid the chaos, a weak, proud and ignorant major is murdered - his father, a general, demands that the killer be brought to justice. It is the task of chaplain Joseph Reavley to round up the suspects - all his friends - to uncover...

The First World War as a living history is to all intents and purposes over. As of February 2005, there are only 12 veterans from 6,000,000 alive who served on the Western Front. In this book, Richard van Emden brings together an extraordinary collection of stories as told to him over the last 20...

This guide to Britain's Army covers the 'Old Contemptibles' - the professionals who stemmed the German advance at the beginning of the war - to the Territorials, Kitchener's 'New Army' and 'Derby's Men', the conscripts who eventually defeated the Kaiser's armies five years later.

Based on years of research by best-selling historian Adrian Gilbert, this is a magisterial account of the British Army at war in 1914.

A detailed analysis and narrative of the Battle of the Sambre 4 November 1918, the British Army's last large-scale, set-piece battle of the Great War.