An important insight into the latter stages of the war, from Messines in June 1917 to the Armistice.

These three Battleground Europe books on Ypres 1914 mark the centenary of the final major battle ...

Beaumont Hamel was the Somme sector assigned as an objective to the independent-minded profession...

The shell-ravaged landscape of Hill 60, some three miles to the south east of Ypres, conceals ben...

This is the first part of a planned four-volume series focusing on a hitherto largely neglected a...

In a new departure in the Battleground Europe series, this book is a guide to both sides of a maj...

Personal memoir of a tunnelling officer on the Western Front, by a staff officer at GHQ, with num...

The planning for the raising of what was to be come16th (Service) Battalion, Northumberland Fusil...

This book gives the visitor a balanced view of the fighting that took place, through a recounting...

The tiny French hamlet of Serre is the subject of this guide. It covers four battles for the high...

Designed to act as a diversion to the 'big push', Gommecourt was an attempt to force the Germans ...

Le Cateau (26-27 August 1914) was the second major action fought by the BEF in the Great War. His...

After the initial anticipation of great results for the Allied offensive that opened on 1 July, t...

Starting at the most visited part of the Ypres Salient, the museum at Sanctuary Wood, this book c...

The British offensive, which became known as Passchendaele, got underway on 31 July, 1917 with th...

These three Battleground Europe books on Ypres 1914 mark the centenary of the final major battle ...

The two most notorious massacres of British troops by the SS, at Le Paradis and at Wormhout, in n...