A Sheet of Iron All Night
/The battle of Passchendaele is remembered as one of the most futile and horrific of the First World War. A new history by Nick Lloyd searches for some method behind the mud and madness.
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The battle of Passchendaele is remembered as one of the most futile and horrific of the First World War. A new history by Nick Lloyd searches for some method behind the mud and madness.
Read MoreLong before Hollywood came calling, the 300,000 soldiers at Dunkirk were just trying to make it home alive. A new history by Joshua Levine retells the story of Britain's most harrowing hour.
Read MoreA century ago this year, the American Expeditionary Force set off for Europe to end all wars. Andrew Carroll's new book looks at the lives of the men who faced the Great War, and the enigmatic general who led them.
Read MoreA gripping new history tells the story of the seized and renamed German luxury liner that became a US troop transport during the First World War.
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