"In this, the second volume covering the war on the Western Front, Peter Simkins describes the last great battles of attrition at Arras, on the Aisne and at Passchendaele in 1917. Then he moves on to relate the successive offensives launched by Germany in the spring and summer of 1918 in an effort to achieve victory or a favourable peace before American manpower proved decisive. Again, questioning and correcting several myths and long-held assumptions about the nature and conduct of war on the Western Front, the author also looks at the aftermath and legacy of the 'war to end wars'."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
He was marketed as the 'King of Thrillers' and they gave him the trademark image of a trilby, a cigarette holder and a yellow Rolls Royce.
He was marketed as the 'King of Thrillers' and they gave him the trademark image of a trilby, a cigarette holder and a yellow Rolls Royce.
Newton Baker, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of War, worried that New Yorkers would object to their sons being the only ... Harris, Stephen L., Duffy's War: Fr. Francis Duffy, Wild Bill Donovan, and the Irish Fighting 69thin World WarI ...
"In this seminal work, Ian F. W. Beckett challenges the cliched images of the Great War that have come to dominate popular culture.
Covers the Schlieffen Plan and the main battles of 1914. Covers the revised content for National Curriculum History at Key Stage 3
The Red Cross Barge
Account of the major events of the First World War.
History of the 43rd and 52nd (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) Light Infantry in the Great War, 1914-1918
Uncle Andy's Diary (1916-1919): The War Experiences of Andrew Stewart Dewar
The Kingdom of the Blind