How and why did Britain become involved in the First World War? Taking into account the scholarship of the last twenty-five years, this second edition of Zara S

Widows of the Great War is the first major account of the experience of women who had to cope with the death of their husbands during the conflict and then rebu

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

The Great War was the first conflict to draw men and women into uniform on a massive scale. From a small regular force of barely 250,000, the British Army rapid