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Writing about the last 100 days of the war on the Western Front, Lloyd asks whether the Allies had learnt anything from the previous years of conflict and whether the Germans were really defeated in 1918

Lloyd's brisk and thoroughly engrossing book leaves no doubt that the Germans were beaten fair and square where it really mattered - on the battlefield

There is a grim fascination to the endgame, as the hopes still nursed by the Germans were finally extinguished and the Allies won a victory that in seemed inevitable in retrospect

Gives the reader an insight into the raw emotions of the period and lends immediacy to the more sober narrative

Conveys the epic sweep of events, as the allied troops relentlessly pushed the German divisions back, with staggering losses . . . Lloyd also gives the worm's eye-view of what it was like for the men on the ground. He is expert at bringing to life, in a few lines, the characters of the top brass

The End of the Great War

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent. 
 
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, Hundred Days traces the epic story of the next four months, which included some of the bloodiest battles of the war.

An unmissable book that explores the brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World War 
 
 On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent. 
 
 The Armistice, which brought the Great War to an end, marked a seminal moment in European and World history. Yet the story of how the war ended remains little-known. In this compelling and ground-breaking 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, Hundred Days traces the epic story of the next four months, which included some of the bloodiest battles of the war. 
 
Using unpublished archive material from five countries, this new account reveals how the Allies - British, French, American and Commonwealth - managed to beat the German Army, and force her leaders to seek peace. 
 
THE WESTERN FRONT BY NICK LLOYD IS AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK NOW 
 
 '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' Gary Sheffield (Professor of War Studies) 
 
 'Lloyd enters the upper tier of Great War historians with this admirable account of the war's final campaign' Publishers Weekly

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent. 
 
The Armistice, which brought the Great War to a standstill, signalled an end to the greatest tragedy in European history. Beginning at the heralded turning-point on the Marne in July 1918, Hundred Days traces the epic narrative of the next four months, which saw some of the bloodiest battles of the war. Casualties were nothing short of catastrophic - over 700,000 Allied soldiers died or were wounded while the Germans lost another 785,000 men. Nick Lloyd reveals how the Allies - British, French, American and Commonwealth soldiers - managed to beat the German Army, by now crippled by indiscipline and ravaged by influenza, and force her leaders to seek peace. 
 
The brutal, heroic and extraordinary final Hundred Days is an astonishing tale of shot and shell, of battles on a scale unimaginable, of Tommies who fell within sight of the finishing line. In this compelling and groundbreaking new book, utilizing archive material from five countries, Nick Lloyd examines the last days of the war and asks the question: how did it end?

Nick Lloyd is Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies at King's College London, based at the Joint Services Command &amp; Staff College in Shrivenham, Wiltshire. He specialises in British military and imperial history in the era of the Great War and is the author of two books, Loos 1915 (2006), and The Amritsar Massacre: The Untold Story of One Fateful Day (2011).

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Writing about the last 100 days of the war on the Western Front, Lloyd asks whether the Allies had learnt anything from the previous years of conflict and whether the Germans were really defeated in 1918

Lloyd's brisk and thoroughly engrossing book leaves no doubt that the Germans were beaten fair and square where it really mattered - on the battlefield

There is a grim fascination to the endgame, as the hopes still nursed by the Germans were finally extinguished and the Allies won a victory that in seemed inevitable in retrospect

Gives the reader an insight into the raw emotions of the period and lends immediacy to the more sober narrative

Compelling, very readable

Conveys the epic sweep of events, as the allied troops relentlessly pushed the German divisions back, with staggering losses . . . Lloyd also gives the worm's eye-view of what it was like for the men on the ground. He is expert at bringing to life, in a few lines, the characters of the top brass

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