This book examines what motivated the ordinary British man to go to France in 1914, especially in the early years when Britain relied on the voluntary system to

Historian Jacques Pauwels applies a critical, revisionist lens to the First World War, offering readers a fresh interpretation that challenges mainstream thinki

This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the National War Aims Committee, providing detailed discussion of the establishment, activities and recept

The First World War appears as a fault line in Britain’s twentieth-century history. Between August 1914 and November 1918 the titanic struggle against Imperia

The First World War has left its imprint on British society and the popular imagination to an extent almost unparalleled in modern history. Its legacy of mass d