Death's Men

Millions of British men were involved in the Great War of 1914-1918. But, both during and after the war, the individual voices of the soldiers were lost in the collective picture. Men drew arrows on maps and talked of battles and campaigns, but what it felt like to be in the front line or in a base hospital they did not know. The classic bestselling story of the First World War as told by the soldiers themselves'A raw, haunting read' Guardian Death's Men is the story of the brave, ordinary men who were called on to face the horrors of war. It shows the reality of the First World War the voices of the men who fought. 'An engrossing view of what it was like to live in the trenches' Telegraph Denis Winter read history at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Death's Men was first published in 1978, to critical acclaim, and here is reissued for the 2014 centenary.'Highly readable' Time Out'A compelling account of what the war was like for the ordinary soldier' Professor Trevor Wilson 'A novel and arresting approach to the writing of military history' John Keegan, New Statesman