By Hugh Cecil and Dr Peter Liddle
First published by Leo Cooper in 1996, New edition edition (April 2003)
£60 hardback 2003 edition. £10 - £13 second hand.
ISBN-10: 1844680029
ISBN-13: 978-1844680023
New Edition 3 November 2016
£16.99 softback or £4.99 Kindle from Pen & Sword
Pen & Sword, 936p, Ills, detialed notess & refs, bibliog, index.
ISBN: 9781783461691
Book review by Dennis Williams
Pen & Sword deserve high praise for producing a new edition of the now judged classic of. It is the work of ‘proven’ historians, including John Terraine, Gary Sheffield, Martin Gilbert, Richard Holmes, Peter Simkins and John Bourne as well as international contributors from countries where the battles were fought and foreign occupation was the wartime experience.
Contributions cover the Great War in all its breadth and scope: from the commanders to soldiers, resistance movements, medicine and the arts, propaganda and post war experience.
The opening page states - This book is dedicated to the memory of all the known and unknown warriors, the willing and unwilling participants in the First World War – it is a fitting tribute.
At £16.99, and despite somewhat small print this is a work which deserves a place in the shelves of every reader of books on the Great War. It can also be purchased in Kindle edition for £4.99.