Bøger af Alexandra Churchill

In this large volume, historian Alex Churchill and illustrator Steve Smith have gone out to produce the First World War book they wish they had had as kids.Treating the conflict as a truly global one, get ready to go way beyond the Western Front with them, through 400 pages of text, artwork and hundreds of photographs in search of an all round understanding of the conflict.

A remarkable, eyewitness-based, narrative on what actually occurred in the first year of the Great War around the globe.

Revised Edition: 31st May 2016 February 1917. The Germans may not be the only enemy on the Western Front. A young officer is haunted by nightmare recollections of the Battle of the Somme and shackled to a desk at the War Office as he attempts to come to terms with his experiences in France. But trouble has a knack of finding Captain Will Stanley. The last time he was on the Western Front, he was dying. But now one man has been murdered in gruesome fashion, another has vanished into thin air and the actions of Captain Stanley's own former battalion may have grave connotations for the Allied war effort. In the midst of the coldest winter that Europe can remember, Captain Stanley is about to be called back into action. Battling against events he cannot control and against his own mental debilitation, he must attempt to unravel the case, ascertain the extent of the damage to Allied plans and discover the fate of the man who returned to save his life; when all others had left him for dead.

March 1915, the war on the Western Front has ground to a halt. Britain cannot manufacture enough munitions to keep fighting, and yet the Allies must find a way to dislodge the German Army from France and Belgium. So when the bodies start piling up at the Royal Arsenal, Lieutenant Will Stanley is recalled from leave to investigate. The stakes are high, for if he does not get to the bottom of this mystery, it could spell not only defeat for the army, but the end of Great Britain and her Empire.