Hundred Days

Lloyd enters the upper tier of Great War historians with this admirable account of the war's final campaign Publishers Weekly Writing about the last 100 days of the war on the Western Front, Lloyd asks whether the Allies had learnt anything from the previous years of conflict and whether the Germans were really defeated in 1918 Telegraph Lloyd's brisk and thoroughly engrossing book leaves no doubt that the Germans were beaten fair and square where it really mattered - on the battlefield -- Dominic Sandbrook Evening Standard There is a grim fascination to the endgame, as the hopes still nursed by the Germans were finally extinguished and the Allies won a victory that in seemed inevitable in retrospect Metro Gives the reader an insight into the raw emotions of the period and lends immediacy to the more sober narrative The Oxford Times Compelling, very readable Books Monthly As Nick Lloyd's account of the great Allied counter-offensives of summer 1918 convincingly shows, the Allies had learned (if painfully slowly) how to win battles ... the German army was absolutely, totally defeated in the field Express A bracing re-dramatization of the horrors that were most fresh in the minds of all concerned when those days were over Open Letters Very well-researched and well-written. Reminds us just how important this crushing endgame was -- Andrew Roberts A sobering but essential read on the last days of a horrific conflict Washington Post