Book description
Spring 1916, and three great armies - French, British and, on the
other side of the wire, German - are locked in a stalemate of mud and
blood on Europe's Western Front. On the ground, young British soldiers
lose their innocence in the hell that is No Man's Land, while in the
skies above the trenches a new breed of warrior, armed with a
devastating new weapon, comes of age.
As the conflict stretches into its third year, a neutral but
woefully unprepared and ill-equipped America is slowly goaded into
war. It falls to General John Pershing to galvanise his country's army
into readiness and as the first American troops reach the front in
1917, the world waits to see if the tide of a war that has already
cost millions of lives can at last be turned.
Combining an historian's eye for detail with a novelist's
understanding of man's hopes and fears, Shaara carries the reader into
the hearts and minds of some of the war's most memorable characters,
from the heroic to the infamous, and vividly brings to life one of the
greatest conflagrations in human history.
Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of
The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion and Gone for
Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full
Measure - two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that
began with his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Killer
Angels. Shaara was born in 1952 into a family of Italian
immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He grew up in Tallahassee,
Florida, and graduated from Florida State University. He lives in
Missoula, Montana.
Visit the author online at www. JeffShaara. com
