The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on the greatest battle of World War One - with groundbreaking new material on the soldiers' experiences.
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's best-selling books are Enigma- The Battle for the Code, Dunkirk- Fight to the Last Man and Somme, a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. He lives in north London with his wife and three children.
Magisterial, exemplary, heartbreaking. So original is the material,
and so inventive is Sebag-Montefiore's approach . . . that this
well-known tale is rendered strange again. Written with great style
and sensitivity, superbly illustrated with many original plates and
beautifully drawn maps, Sebag-Montefiore's brilliant new study will
set the benchmark for a generation
*David Telegraph*
Sebag-Montefiore tells it with gusto, a remarkable attention to
detail . . . The sense of confusion, anxiety, uncertainty, and
intrepid courage which characterized this disastrous campaign is
captured more successfully than any other existing account
*Daily Telegraph*
A beautifully crafted, blow-by-blow account with deep insight into
the lives of these diverse young men
*Kirkus Reviews*
In his previous book, Dunkirk, one of Sebag-Montefiore's talents as
a historian is never to lose sight of the variety of individual
experience. It is impossible to read this book without being stuck
afresh by the ripples of mourning and anxiety spreading out from
the battlefield in France
*The Financial Times*
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's heroes are the junior officers and the
ordinary soldiers. Their voices emerge loud and clear in his pages
. . . The best historians of the war have always made good use of
the words written by the participants themselves, but few have done
so as effectively as here
*Daily Mail*
The author's combination of thoughtful analysis with first-hand
testimony from army soldiers, cameramen and diarists lends a gritty
immediacy
*Observer*
Comprehensive, authoritative and meticulously researched... [Of
recent publications] it is the weightiest and best written
*Mail on Sunday*
Having read almost everything that has been written on this battle,
I can vouch this is the best account yet.
*The Times*
Comprehensive, authoritative and meticulously researched... [Of
recent publications] it is the weightiest and best written.
*Mail on Sunday*
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