'This excellently researched and compulsively readable book' Malcolm Brown, Guardian 'This searching revisionist history...excellent contribution' John Crossland, Sunday Times 'This excellent book...unprecedented...compelling reading' Max Hastings, Evening Standard 'This impressive and impassioned book' Dr Joanna Bourke, Independent 'A persuasive and powerful book' Trevor Grove, Daily Mail 'A dispassionate analysis...a welcome sense of perspective' Dr Gary Sheffield, Mail on Sunday 'A grimly fascinating read...the book is exactingly researched and closely argued' Daily Telegraph
'This excellently researched and compulsively readable book' Malcolm Brown, Guardian 'This searching revisionist history...excellent contribution' John Crossland, Sunday Times 'This excellent book...unprecedented...compelling reading' Max Hastings, Evening Standard 'This impressive and impassioned book' Dr Joanna Bourke, Independent 'A persuasive and powerful book' Trevor Grove, Daily Mail 'A dispassionate analysis...a welcome sense of perspective' Dr Gary Sheffield, Mail on Sunday 'A grimly fascinating read...the book is exactingly researched and closely argued' Daily Telegraph
John Hughes-Wilson (author of MILITARY INTELLIGENCE BLUNDERS) and Cathryn Corns lead 'Shot at Dawn' battlefield tours through France and Flanders.
Meticulous research backed by eloquent and elegant writing which
accommodates the pressures and values of the time, disproving the
First World War myth which had terrified conscripts forced 'over
the top' by uncaring officers, and rear-echelon generals handing
out death sentences to any who shied away.
*BBC History Magazine*
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