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Publisher: Osprey
ISBN: 978-1-4728-2933-7
Hardback & eBook, 304 pages
RRP: £25
INSPIRED BY his work with the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and The Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research (the British Army’s Think Tank), the resourceful Dr Matthias Strohn has curated and edited an important and thoughtprovoking collection of essays about 1918 written by ten of the world’s leading historians. Indeed, the contributions to this book are acutely aimed at each theatre of conflict during the last year of the First World War, a conflict which Dr Strohn believes cast a long, long shadow over Europe for decades to come.
While most of the focus is on the Western Front and the defining results of decisions made by military leaders on both sides, the efforts of those men fighting on the land, in the air and on the seas along the Eastern Fronts, Africa and the Middle East are also examined in depth.
In a foreword of hearty recommendation General Sir Nicholas Carter KCB CBE DSO ADC, former Chief of General Staff writes: “Thankfully a generation of dedicated scholarship has freed us from a tendency to dismiss the First World War as p…
