Further Resources and Web Links

All those books and websites listed below are either directly referenced in this work or were vital research works for the author. I would highly recommend each and every one of them to you:

Guide Books

Coombs R, Before Endeavours Fade, After the Battle, Essex, 2006.

Holt T and Holt V, Major and Mrs Holt’s Battlefield Guide to the Somme, Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, 2008.

Holt T and Holt V, Major and Mrs Holt’s Battlefield Guide to the Western Front - North, Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, 2007.

Holt T and Holt V, Major and Mrs Holt’s Battlefield Guide to the Ypres Salient & Passchendaele, Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, 2008.

Horsfall J and CaveHorsfall J and Cave Horsfall J and Cave N, Battleground Europe: Mons 1914, Leo Cooper, Barnsley, 2000.

Rawson A, Battleground Europe: Loos-Hohenzollern Redoubt, Leo Cooper, Barnsley, 2003.

Reed P, Battleground Europe: Walking the Salient, Leo Cooper, Barnsley, 2008.

Reed P, Battleground Europe: Walking Arras, Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, 2007.

Histories, Biographies and general reference

Black J, The Great War and the Making of the Modern World, Continuum, London, 2011.

Brown M, The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front, Pan Books, London, 2001.

Clark A, The Donkeys, Pimlico, London, 1991.

Clark C, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, Penguin, London, 2013.

Corrigan G, Mud, Blood and Poppycock, Cassell, London, 2004.

Ferguson N, The Pity of War: 1914-1918, Penguin, London, 2009.

Fussell P, The Great War and Modern Memory, Oxford Paperbacks, Oxford, 2000.

Groom W, A Storm in Flanders: Triumph and Tragedy on the Western Front, Cassell, London, 2003.

Hastings M, Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914, William Collins, London, 2013.

Holmes R, Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front 1914-1918, Harper Perennial, London, 2005.

Holt T and Holt V, My Boy Jack?: the Search for Kipling’s Only Son, Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, 2007.

Jones N, The War Walk: A Journey Along the Western Front, Cassell, London, 2004.

Macdonald L, Somme, Penguin Books, London, 1993.

Marix Evans M, Over The Top: Great Battles of the First World War, Index, London, 2005.

Masefield J, The Old Front Line, Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, 2006. Middlebrook M, The First Day on the Somme, Allen Lane, London, 1983.

Sheffield G, Forgotten Victory – The First World War: Myths and Realities, Headline Book Publishing, London, 2002.

Strachan H, The First World War, Free Press, London, 2006.

Van Emden R, Britain’s Last Tommies, Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, 2005.

Vaughan E, Some Desperate Glory: The Diary of a Young Officer, 1917, Leo Cooper, London, 1982.