It is a task which no man in the world, to my knowledge, has ever attempted before, and I hope that no other man will ever have to attempt it, ' he once wrote.

Dunes, sandstorms, freezing crags and searing heat; these are not the usual images of World War I. For many men from all over the British Empire, this was the e

A comprehensive new history of the shaping and performance of the British army during the First World War.

This book integrates strategy, technology and economics and presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain's decline as a great