Covers the Schlieffen Plan and the main battles of 1914. Covers the revised content for National Curriculum History at Key Stage 3
John J. Pershing. Commander-in-Chief American Expeditionary Forces (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1919) Watson, A., Enduring the Great War. Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914–1918 (Cambridge: ...
For the first time this book brings together the three strands of heritage, landscape and tourism to provide a fresh understanding of the multi-layered nature of the Western Front.
In this epic narrative history, the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy on the Great War, acclaimed military historian Nick Lloyd captures the horrific fighting on the Western Front beginning with the surprise German invasion of ...
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration . . . Lloyd is well on the...
In this epic narrative history, Nick Lloyd brings together the latest research from America, France, Britain, and Germany, telling the full story of the war in France and Belgium from the German invasion in 1914 to the armistice four years ...
However, as bestselling military historian Nick Lloyd reveals in this highly-praised history -- the first of an epic trilogy -- the story is not one of pointlessness and stupidity, but rather a heroic triumph against the odds.
This is one of a series of topic books to support the depth studies for Britain 1750-1900 and the Twentieth Century World required by the revised National Curriculum.
A thorough reexamination of the Great War has been underway since the 1970s and this book draws on enormously rich primary and secondary sources to synthesize a complex event, rethinking the patterns of war, society, culture, and governance ...
The book is both chronological and thematic, following the story of the Western Front whilst picking out particular episodes in its history to highlight more general themes.
astating trench warfare and astonishing human loss: of the nearly one million Allied soldiers who died during the war, 750,000 perished here. In The Western Front, renowned historian Richard Holmes...
The Western Front, where New Zealand fought its deadliest military campaign, contains some of the most significant sites in the story of New Zealand's First World War - the Somme, Messines, Passchendaele and Le Quesnoy.
The Western Front, where New Zealand fought its deadliest military campaign, contains some of the most significant sites in the story of New Zealand's First World War – the Somme, Messines, Passchendaele and Le Quesnoy.