The notion of battles as the irreducible building blocks of war demands a single verdict of each campaign—victory, defeat, stalemate. But this kind of account

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The authors have drawn together, for the first time ever, all the War Diary entries for 171 British Regiments that went "over the top" on the first day of the B

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The Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance—and completely, unabashedly, unlike any other book about the First World War. Thro