First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Head of Zeus Ltd

Copyright © 2015 James Hamilton-Paterson

Jacket design: Ben Anslow
Author photograph: Danny Lau

Front cover and endpaper: ‘Panorama of the Western Front’, William Lionel Wyllie. Images courtesy of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom

The right of James Hamilton-Paterson to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

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ISBN (HB) 9781784970390

ISBN (E) 9781784970383

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