Peter Barton is secretary of the All Party War Graves and Battlefield Heritage Group. He produced the critically acclaimed documentary film The Undergound War, and is co-author, with Peter Doyle, of Beneath Flanders Fields.
Peter Doyle is a scientist and military historian specializing in the role of terrain in warfare. In addition to numerous scientific books and papers, he has written: Tommy's War 1914-1918 (Crowood 2008), The Home Front: 1939-45 (Crowood, 2007, with Paul Evans); Beneath Flanders Fields: The Underground War 1914-18 (Spellmount, 2004, with Peter Barton and Johan Vandewalle) and Grasping Gallipoli (Spellmount, 2005, with Peter Chasseaud). He is co-secretary of the All Party Parliamentary War Graves and Battlefield Heritage Group, and is an elected member of the British Commission for Military History. He lives in London.
Prologue: the camera goes to war 1914-18 | p. 19 |
The war begins: early battles and the Belgian coast | p. 61 |
The salient: first and second Ypres and Messines ridge | p. 83 |
Third Ypres | p. 169 |
The forgotten front: Armentieres to Givenchy-les-la Bassee | p. 193 |
Coalfields and grassiers: the Gohelle battlefields | p. 231 |
Vimy ridge and Arras | p. 269 |
The Somme | p. 301 |
Armour and armistice: Cambrai and 1918 | p. 357 |
Epilogue | p. 376 |
Timeline of the First World War | p. 378 |
Bibliography and further reading | p. 380 |
Index | p. 388 |
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