A comprehensive new history of the shaping and performance of the British army during the First World War.

Millions of men volunteered to leave home, hearth and family to go to a foreign land to fight in 1914, the start of the biggest war in British history. It was a

The National Archives' celebrated First World War holdings include personal files of officers and other ranks, campaign medals, gallantry and meritorious servic

This is a major new history of the British army during the Great War written by three leading military historians. Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman and Mark Connelly

The Medical War describes the role of medicine in the British Army during the First World War. It argues that medicine played a vital part in the war, helping t