Product Description: Antoine Prost's contributions to French history have enabled us to understand the failure of fascism in France and why the Republic survived the humiliation of occupation and collaboration in the Second World War. He is the pre-eminent historian of civil society in France...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Traces the wartime service of the authors, perhaps the greatest British writers of the Great War; identifies actual people and places in their works; and gives biographical detail on their long post-war lives and careers.

Product Description: This account, based on original sources including diaries, memoirs, family records, secret diaries written during the war, vivid memories, and official records, shows how the rich agricultural and industrial areas of northern France were invaded, occupied, and exploited between the summer of 1914 and the Armistice in November 1918...read more

Product Description: Edmund Blunden: On a Poets Trail is the second guide in the Battleground Poet Specials. Following on from the highly successful Wilfred Owen guide, the book follows the war career of this prolific First World War poet. Details of maps, military diaries, photographs and modern roads to guide the visitor through the events, vividly describing the sufferings of battle and trench life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a study of the relationship between religious faith in France and the French experience of World War I. In the early weeks of the war, France underwent a patriotic revival, embodied in the term "Union Sacree", in which an upsurge in religious faith became allied to the national cause...read more

Product Description: This important study examines the politics and social situation of the eight million Frenchmen who served in the Great War.