Summary
A new edition of Richard Holmes’ classic text published to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
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 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 detailed but accessible acco…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846075827 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1846075823 |
| Author: | Richard Holmes |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing |
| Imprint: | BBC Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2009 |
| Weight: | 186g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 126mm x 17mm |
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“Authoritative, concise, wide-ranging and readable… . It is hard to see how Richard Holmes’sThe Western Frontcan be bettered.” -BBC HistoryMagazine
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Authoritative, concise, wide-ranging and readable … it is hard to see how Richard Holmes’ The Western Front can be bettered * BBC History Magazine *
About The Author
Richard Holmes
Richard Holmes is Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield University and the Royal Military College of Science. He has authored over a dozen books on military history, including the highly acclaimed Wellington, Redcoat, and Tommy, and is the general editor of the Oxford Companion to Military History. He presented the BBC television series The Western Front, War Walks, Battlefields, and In the Footsteps of Churchill, and wrote the accompanying books.
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