Hundred Days

Lloyd enters the upper tier of Great War historians with this admirable account of the war's final campaign

Publishers Weekly

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

Joanna Bourke, The Telegraph

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

Dominic Sandbrook, The Evening Standard

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

Metro

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

The Oxford Times

Compelling, very readable

Books Monthly

As Nick Lloyd's account of the great Allied counter-offensives of summer 1918 convincingly shows, the Allies had learned (if painfully slowly) how to win battles . . . the German army was absolutely, totally defeated in the field

John Lewis-Stempel, The Express

Hundred Days is a bracing re-dramatization of the horrors that were most fresh in the minds of all concerned when those days were over

Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly

Very well-researched and well-written. Reminds us just how important this crushing endgame was

Andrew Roberts