"What men will fight for seems to be worth looking into," H. L. Mencken noted shortly after the close of the First World War. Prior to that war, although many m

Explains the motivation of ordinary soldiers to enlist, serve and fight in the armies of eighteenth-century Europe.

General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. G

This book is an innovative comparative history of how German and British soldiers endured the horror of the First World War. Unlike existing literature, which e