Hundred Days Av Nick Lloyd

<p><b>An unmissable book that</b> <b>explores the brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World War</b><br><br>On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent.<br><br>The Armistice, which brought the Great War to an end, marked a seminal moment in modern European and World history. Yet the story of how the war ended remains little-known. In this compelling and ground-breaking new study, Nick Lloyd examines the last days of the war and asks the question: how did it end? Beginning at the heralded turning-point on the Marne in July 1918, <i>Hundred Days</i> traces the epic story of the next four months, which included some of the bloodiest battles of the war.<br><br>Using unpublished archive material from five countries, this new account reveals how the Allies - British, French, American and Commonwealth - managed to beat the German Army, by now crippled by indiscipline and ravaged by influenza, and force her leaders to seek peace.<br><br><b><i>THE WESTERN FRONT </i>BY NICK LLOYD IS AVAILABLE NOW</b><br><br><b>''This is a powerful and moving book by a rising military historian. Lloyd''s depiction of the great battles of July-November provides compelling evidence of the scale of the Allies'' victories and the bitter reality of German defeat'' </b>Gary Sheffield (Professor of War Studies)<br><br><b>''Lloyd enters the upper tier of Great War historians with this admirable account of the war''s final campaign''</b> <i>Publishers Weekly</i></p>