Richard HOLMES
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The First World War was the largest single event in British history, and almost two million British soldiers were serving on the Western Front in mid-1917. Richard Holmes explains how this huge citizen army was raised and trained; how its officers and men lived, fought and died; what sustained them in their endeavours, and the way they looked back upon their experiences. His concern is with individuals, not events, and he tries to let 'the legions who have suffered and are lost' tell their own story.