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1918 was probably the most dramatic and decisive year in British military history. In the spring there was a fear that Britain might have to evacuate her troops from the continent and lose the war. In the summer came the great turnaround, and by autumn the German armies began to retreat. In November 1918 the First World War was over. Drawing on rare material from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, this book tells the story of an amazing year through the authentic voice of the British soldier, a year in which, remarkably, the casualty rates were even higher than those of 1916 and 1917, the years of the Somme and Passchendaele. 'Absorbingly readable . . . a vivid acount.' Army Quaterly and Defence Journal

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Brown, who has edited several similar volumes, here collects raw material from the Imperial War Museum's unrivalled collection of officers' and soldiers' memories. He welds them into a riveting account of the impact on the British army in France of the great German attacks of March 1918. Then he shows how the Allied armies moved over to a still more effective offensive of their own, which broke the German army in the field; the War stopped, and an epidemic of deadly influenza took on the task of killing. He carries through to the problems of demobilization, and to the war's political aftermath: a book provoking plenty of thought. (Kirkus UK)

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Malcolm Brown has been a television documentary-maker and is the author of many books on military history, including Tommy Goes to War, the IWM Book of the Somme, and the IWM Book of 1918. He is a freelance historian at the Imperial War Museum.

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