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The Western Front : a history of the Great War, 1914-1918 / Nick Lloyd.

by Lloyd, Nick.

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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2021.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.

9781631497940 (hc.)

Alternate title:

History of the Great War, 1914-1918

xxiv, 657 p. : ill., maps, portraits ; 25 cm.

"First published in the UK in 2021 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd, under the title The Western Front: A history of the First World War."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [513]-611) and index.

"A panoramic history of the savage combat on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 that came to define modern warfare. The Western Front evokes images of hardship and sacrifice, of young, mud-spattered men in water-logged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts by a few feet of dirt. Long considered the most futile arena of the First World War, the Western Front has persisted in our collective memory as a tragic waste of life. 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 later. His sweeping chronicle reveals that the trenches were, as often as not, sites of dramatic technological and tactical advances, and that superior generalship helped determine the outcome of the war. Brimming with gripping descriptions and insight, The Western Front is a historical account in the tradition of Barbara Tuchman, John Keegan, and Antony Beevor: an authoritative, magisterial portrait of men at war."--From publisher.

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