About the Author

Professor Gary Sheffield is the foremost authority on World War I and his books have been published in Canada, the U.S., France, Germany, and Japan, as well as being bestsellers in the U.K. He frequently leads parties to historic battlefields, specialising in the Western Front and Gallipoli, and the World War II battlefields of France and Italy. His books include Forgotten Victory: The First World War – Myths and Realities (2001), The Somme (2003), and Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914–18 (2005), edited with John Bourne.