About the Author

Dr Peter Liddle is a leading historian of the First World War and has written on the Second. He has concentrated on the personal experience of the men and women who took part in these conflicts. He founded the Liddle Collection, a repository of documents and memorabilia connected to the First World War, housed in the Brotherton Library, the University of Leeds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Leeds), and his archival work on the 1939-45 war is incorporated in the Second World War Experience Centre at Walton, near Wetherby. His many books include The 1916 Battle of the Somme, The Great War 1914-1945: Lightning Strikes Twice (joint editor), Captured Memories 1900-1918, Captured Memories 1930-1945 and The Soldier's War 1914-1918.