![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nick Lloyd’s The Western Front is the opening volume of a planned trilogy on the First World War. Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 France, now the Third Republic, lost the eastern province of Alsace and most of Lorraine and was forced to pay a vast indemnity…But France never forgot her ‘lost provinces,’ and the call to recover them was a persistent refrain in the years leading up to 1914…” When the German Empire was proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles in January 1871, uniting the German states under Prussian leadership, it marked a sea change in the European balance of power. Germany would use the war as an opportunity to knock out a dangerous and implacable rival, while France was committed to avenging the humiliation of 1870, when Prussian forces had defeated the armies of Napoleon III’s Second Empire in a series of bloody set-piece battles. “The war may have originated in the Balkans, but a sense of unfinished business hung over the main participants in the west. Conveying the visceral assault of the battlefield with vivid detail, Lloyd ultimately redefines our understanding of a crucial theatre in this monumental tragedy. Lloyd examines the most decisive campaigns of the Great War and explains the unprecedented innovation, adaptation and tactical development that have been too long obscured by legends of mud, blood and futility, drawing upon the latest scholarship on the war, wrongly overlooked first-person accounts, and archival material from every angle. With a cast of hundreds and a huge canvas of places and events, Lloyd reveals what really happened in France and Belgium between August 1914 and November 1918 from the perspective of all the main combatants - including French, British, Belgian, US and, most importantly, German forces. However, as bestselling military historian Nick Lloyd reveals in this highly-praised history - the first of an epic trilogy - the story is not one of pointlessness and stupidity, but rather a heroic triumph against the odds. In the annals of military history, the Western Front stands as an enduring symbol of the folly and futility of war. ![]()
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