William Philpott is a professor of the history of warfare in the Department of War Studies at King's College, London. A specialist in the operations on the Western Front, he has published extensively on the subject and is the author of the award-winning Three Armies on the Somme, Bloody Victory, and Anglo-French Relations and Strategy on the Western Front, 1914-1918.
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The Great War of 1914–1918 was the first mass conflict to fully mobilize the resources of industrial powers against one another, resulting in a brutal, bloody, protracted war of attrition between the world's great economies. Now, one hundred years after... SEE MORE