HOLMES Richard

The Western Front - London: BBC Worldwide, 1999 - 224p.

Accompanying text for a BBC series of the same title. Examines the course of the First World War fought on the Western Front, focusing on themes such as creation of the front and trench warfare; difficulties of supplying the front with men and munitions; the French army and the battle of Verdun; commanders' views on the Somme; how the men coped with living and fighting on the front; and the great Allied offensives of the last hundred days of war.

056338493X (hbk.): 17.99 UK


FIRST WORLD WAR
WESTERN FRONT