For most British people, the First World War was the Western Front, the trench line stretching from the Swiss Frontier to the North Sea. It was there that the majority of the nearly nine million British and Dominion soldiers who enlisted during the war served and where most of the 947,000 who were killed met their deaths.
This richly detailed and authoritative book skilfully clarifies the complexities of the Western Front, highlighting the political, military and human dilemmas of this, the most bitter and bloody of wars.
