Nick Lloyd is a professor of modern warfare at King’s College London and the author of four books on World War I, including Passchendaele and The Western Front. He lives in Cheltenham, England.
"This is a bold book. Nick Lloyd has written a tour de force of
scholarship, analysis and narration… If this volume is anything to
go by, Lloyd is well on the way to writing a definitive history of
the First World War."
*Laurence James - The Times*
"An admirably clear and judicious narrative of the battlefield
course of events…Lloyd’s book will be cherished by military history
buffs."
*Max Hastings - The Sunday Times*
"Distinguished by its trenchant observations and massive level of
detail marshaled into a fluid narrative, this is a sterling record
of WWI’s most consequential theater."
*Publishers Weekly, starred review*
"Lloyd’s keen insights and engaging prose make the book a valuable
addition to the literature."
*Kirkus Reviews*
"This well-researched, well-written and cogently argued new
analysis overturns all our assumptions and received wisdom about
the fighting on the most important front of the Great War. Nick
Lloyd deserves congratulation for having written what will
undoubtedly now take its rightful place as the standard account of
this vital theatre of the conflict."
*Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking With Destiny*
"Although a non-specialist in the history of World War I, I have
sought to learn as much as possible about that epochal calamity
that cast a dark shadow over the subsequent century. At the core of
a generation's agony was the Western Front, which I never fully
understood until I read Nick Lloyd's comprehensive, lucid, and
evocative narrative that made starkly clear what had previously
been a confusing jumble."
*James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Battle
Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era*
"An enthralling read. Lloyd deftly guides us through a labyrinth of
military detail while never allowing the pace of his narrative to
slacken. His account of France’s role on the Western Front, often
less well documented in Anglo-Saxon accounts, is particularly
revealing. Most of us are familiar with the names of the generals
involved, but Lloyd brings them sharply to life with his sensitive
portrayal of their personalities, idiosyncrasies and relationships
with one another. This is an endlessly complex subject to which
Lloyd has brought welcome lucidity while never for one moment
allowing us to forget the enormity of its tragedy."
*Julia Boyd, author of Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of
Fascism Through The Eyes of Everyday People*
"There were many fronts in World War I, but the Western Front,
where the industrialized great powers massed their men and
resources, was the crucial one. Nick Lloyd has given us the most
up-to-date account of the fighting there. He brings the key
statesmen and generals to life, as well as the brutal combat from
the first battles to the last. Lloyd crisply details the tactical
and technological innovation that brought victory, as well as the
coalition strategy, economic warfare, and home front management
that boosted the Allies and disintegrated the Central Powers."
*Geoffrey Wawro, author of Sons of Freedom and director of the
University of North Texas Military History Center*
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