Author: HOLMES, RICHARD
Title: The Western Front
Description: London, BBC Worldwide. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 056338493X). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 224 pages. Profusely illustrated with photographs and maps. 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. Professor Richard Holmes, the military historian, focuses on Making the Front, Feeding the Front,Holding the Front, Commandin the Front, Enduring the Front, Breaking the Front. In a richly detailed and authoritative book, he skilfully clarifies the complexities of the Western Front, highlighting the political, military and human dilemmas of this the most bitter and bloody of wars. B2D. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: First World War, Western Front, Verdun, Somme, Passchendale, Cambrai 056338493x


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