"If you add Nick Lloyd's Hundred Days: The Campaign that Ended World War I to the six Great War-related books recently reviewed by R.J.W. Evans in The New York Review of Books, you end up with a page count of just slightly under four thousand.
Six months before the centenary of the war's beginning in August 1914, we are already in the midst of an extended World War I book season with substantial works by Christopher Clark, Margaret Macmillan, and Max Hastings, among others. Clark's has quickly joined the pantheon of classic books on the Great War, stretching back to Barbara Tuchman's Guns of August and, more recently, the first volume of Hew Strachan's The First World War. Clark, as many reviewers have noted, has provided a WWI history for our time, replete with acts of terror and non-state actors.
With Hundred Days, Nick Lloyd, Senior Lecturer in Defense Studies at King's College London, has skipped the queue and gone right to the war's conclusion. The "Hundred Days" is the British term of reference to the period between the Second Battle of Amiens on August 8, and the armistice on November 11. After years of bloody and costly stalemate, and having weathered the German Spring Offensive, the Allies threw a remarkable force of men, machines, and ammunition at increasingly weakened German forces in the summer of 1918
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