astating trench warfare and astonishing human loss: of the nearly one million Allied soldiers who died during the war, 750,000 perished here. In The Western Front, renowned historian Richard Holmes presents the personal human dilemmas of this bitter and bloody war. In the spirit of Niall Ferguson's The Pity of War, Holmes, the host of The History Channel documentary on the subject, describes the major and most costly battles of the Western Front -- including Verdun, the Somme, and Passchendaele -- many of which were dubious ...
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astating trench warfare and astonishing human loss: of the nearly one million Allied soldiers who died during the war, 750,000 perished here. In The Western Front, renowned historian Richard Holmes presents the personal human dilemmas of this bitter and bloody war. In the spirit of Niall Ferguson's The Pity of War, Holmes, the host of The History Channel documentary on the subject, describes the major and most costly battles of the Western Front -- including Verdun, the Somme, and Passchendaele -- many of which were dubious gains at best, and all of which were won only with great human sacrifice. In telling this larger story, Holmes draws on the stories of the surviving soldiers themselves, making vivid the human experience of war -- how the men endured the indiscriminate slaughter and incomprehensible brutality that surrounded them. Illustrated with photographs, artwork, and battlefield diagrams, this is the story of many of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers and a perceptive and powerful account of world history.
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New York. 2000. TV Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1575001470. 224 pages. hardcover. keywords: World War I History Military. FROM THE PUBLISHER-It was on the Western Front, the trench line stretching from the Swiss Frontier to the North Sea, that the majority of nearly nine million British and Dominion soldiers who enlisted for service during the First World War served, and where most of the 947, 000 who were killed met their deaths. This detailed but accessible account covers everything from how the front was created and the experiences of the British Army in France, to the battle of Verdun and the last hundred days of the war. Holmes's concise and heartfelt narrative is illustrated with photographs, diagrams, maps and quotations that bring that inhuman four years of history to life. Richard Holmes is Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield University and the Royal Military College of Science. He presented the BBC television series The Western Front; War Walks; Battlefields; and In the Footsteps of Churchill, and wrote the accompanying books. inventory #29821.
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