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Verdun, 1916, painted in 1917 by Felix Vallotton
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Of the 764,000 British soldiers who died in the Great War, 85 per cent fell on the Western Front, the line of trenches that ran from the North Sea coast of Belgium to the Swiss border. In this authoritative and fast-paced book, Nick Lloyd, whose 2017 Passchendaele established him at the forefront of the younger generation of military historians, deals with the 51 months during which the Germans fought the Allied powers there, in a predominantly flat land that is recalled as a sea of mud but is now peppered with the white stones and crosses that are the many Allied war cemeteries, as well as the granite ones of our defeated enemy.