Publisher’s Description:’Posterity has not been kind to Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front for much of the First World War. The Good Soldier re-examines Haig’s record and presents his predicament with a fresh eye. More importantly, it re-evaluates Haig himself, exploring the nature of the man.’
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Publisher’s Description:’No conflict better encapsulates all that went wrong on the Western Front than the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Despite this, this book shows the extent to which the Allied armies were in fact able repeatedly to break through the German front lines.’
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Publisher’s Description:’Douglas Haig is the single most controversial general in British history. Drawing on previously unknown private letters and new scholarship eminent First World War historian Gary Sheffield reassesses Haig’s reputation, assessing his critical role in preparing the army for war.’
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For the centenary of Romania’s entry into the Great War, CN contributor William Illsley reviews Liviu Rebreanu’s classic 1922 novel set during the Romanian campaign.
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Publisher’s Description:’Between 1914 and 1918 New Zealand fought the bloodiest and most traumatic campaign in its military history. New Zealand’s Western Front Campaign challenges myths that exist about New Zealand’s effort and throws new light on aspects of the country’s overall involvement in the First World War.’
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‘A story both illuminating and intensely moving’ – CN reviewer Andy Moreton on this collection of the First World War letters of Californian student Clifford Kimber, edited and narrated by Patrick Gregory & Elizabeth Nurser.
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‘Meticulous and enthralling’ – CN Editor Peter Alhadeff on this centenary account of the naval disaster that claimed the lives of Britain’s War Minister Lord Kitchener and most of the crewmen on a Royal Navy cruiser in 1916.
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Publisher’s Description:’At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes’ lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the political instability and violence in the Middle East attributed to it.’
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Centenary News verdict’Belgian marine archaeologist Tomas Termote has amassed a wealth of information, personal stories, and rare photos for this encyclopaedic history of Germany’s U-boat crews on the Flemish coast. The author’s newly-published English edition provides a welcome insight into the German side of the story for an Anglophone readership.’
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Publisher’s Description:’We Die Like Brothers is the first book to tell the story of the Mendi, from both a historical and archaeological perspective, of the men of the South African Native Labour Corps who died in the wreck, and the political aftermath of the tragedy.’
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