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

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. This volume looks at the causes of World War I.

September, 1919. 20-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver some letters to Marian Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during the Great War but in 1917, Will laid down his guns on the battlefield, declared himself a conscientious objector and w...

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.

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.

Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France's German enemies whenever the whistle blows, until Mademba is mortally wounded, and dies in a shell hole with his belly torn open. Without his m...

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

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...