The most compelling and comprehensive account ever written of the climax of trench warfare on the Western Front.
Nick Lloyd is Reader in Defence Studies at King's College London, and based at the Joint Services Command & Staff College near Swindon. He specializes in British military and imperial history in the era of the Great War and is the author of three books, Loos 1915 (2006), The Amritsar Massacre- The Untold Story of One Fateful Day (2011) and Hundred Days- The End of the Great War (2013).
A timely re-appraisal . . . a masterpiece
*General Lord Richard Dannatt*
Sweeps aside mythology and provides a rational explanation and cool
description of what took place
*The Sunday Times*
Nick Lloyd has unearthed a mass of new material for this harrowing
account of one of the most infamous engagements of the Great
War
*The Guardian*
Meticulously researched . . . A harrowing and important history
*The Guardian*
With clean, clear and often eviscerating writing, Nick Lloyd
compels us to re-evaluate Passchendaele and all that word
conjures
*Paul Gross, director and star of the film 'Passchendaele'*
Rigorously researched . . . one of the great features of this
excellent book, absent from too many less rigorous histories of
events in the First World War, is a clear account of how things
were on the German side, and how the British attack not only gained
ground, but devastated German morale . . . Lloyd's research is
superb; the book is well-illustrated with photographs and maps; he
brings the battle and its political context vividly to life . . .
this is in almost every respect a model of what a work of military
history should be, and is now perhaps the definitive account of
this phase of the war on the Western Front
*The Telegraph*
I thought it both precise and compassionate - a properly definitive
history, with clear sightlines from the strategic planning, to the
horror of the battle itself from both sides, through to its
consequences for the war as it entered its complex final phase
*Dr Emily Mayhew*
A fresh and thorough examination of the events of July to November
1917 is definitely needed. Dr Nick Lloyd has achieved this in his
book Passchendaele: A New History, an account that is both
scholarly and gripping.
*Glyn Harper, Professor of War Studies, Massey University*
Confirms his position among the best young scholars of WWI in this
comprehensively researched, convincingly presented analysis of the
still-controversial 1917 battle of Passchendaele . . .Lloyd's
thesis is controversial, but his scholarship makes it impossible to
dismiss
*Publishers Weekly*
His narrative of the campaign is superb and written with clarity
and dispassion. He teaches military history at King's College
London and has done his research thoroughly in German and Allied
archives. It is fascinating to know the preoccupations, hopes and
plans of the Kaiser ("The English must be made to grovel") and his
generals, and to hear the voices of German frontline soldiers
*The Times*
'An eloquent retelling of one of the First World War's most
mismanaged battles. Lloyd movingly recounts the ordeal of German
and British infantry in the mud and blood of Passchendaele
*Professor Alexander Watson*
Did Passchendaele mark the moment when German morale collapsed on
the Western Front? Nick Lloyd makes a compelling case . . . both as
narrative and analysis, this book is masterly
*Scotsman*
Masterly . . . He argues convincingly
*The Times Literary Supplement*
Very well-researched and well-written. Reminds us just how
important this crushing endgame was
*Andrew Roberts (on 'Hundred Days')*
'Thoroughly engrossing . . . leaves no doubt that the Germans were
beaten fair and square'
*Dominic Sandbrook on 'Hundred Days'*
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