Full name: To the Last Man: Spring 1918

Author: Lyn MacDonald Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780786707973 9780786706631 0786707976 0786706635

As poignant as Niall Fregusson's The Pity of War, as powerful as John Keegan's The First World War, this is an engrossing eye-witness history of World War I. From the trenches to the battle lines, in bold advances and fighting retreats and courageous stands, this oral chronicle of World War I by award-winning historian Lyn Macdonald brings to life the massive German offensive of Spring 1918 that became the Second Battle of Somme. As moving as it is monumental, the volume recounts the devastating assault in the words of the men who survived it -- from the commanders to the war-weary British Tommies, the eager German foot soldiers, and the as-yet-untested doughboys fresh from the U.S. Unforgettably, To the Last Man puts a human face on the armies in the field as it gives voice to the soldiers who together held their position against the foe-resisting, as the Allied command had ordered, "to the last round and the last man." Similar books: Eye-Deep In Hell by John Ellis To Conquer Hell by Edward G. Lengel The Somme by Robin Prior They Called it Passchendaele by Lyn MacDonald The Somme by Peter Hart Death's Men by Denis Winter The Myth of the Great War by John Mosier The Kaiser's Battle by Martin Middlebrook Somme by Lyn MacDonald 1915 by Lyn MacDonald The Great War by Peter Hart 1914 by Lyn MacDonald The Somme by Martin Gilbert The Road to Verdun by Ian Ousby No Man's Land by John Toland Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Go Like Hell by A. J. Baime