Policing The Home Front 1914-1918 Av Mary Fraser

This book provides a thorough examination of the relations between the men in the British, French and American armies on the Western Front of the First World War. The Allied victory in 1918 was built on the backs of British, French, and American soldiers...

* A selection of Gary Sheffield's most important essays on the British army in the Great War * An original perspective on the organization and experience of war on the Western Front

In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass violence. The war that followed had global repercussions, destroying four empires and costing millions of lives. This title re-examines the causes, course and impact of this 'war to end...

It was close to the small southern Belgian town of Mons that the shooting war began on the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914, it was close to the same town that it ended for them over 1,500 days later. Neither the BEF nor the German Army planned...