To The Last Man

Spring 1916, and three great armies - French, British and, on the other side of the wire, German - are locked in a stalemate of mud and blood on Europes Western Front. On the ground, young British soldiers lose their innocence in the hell that is No Mans Land, while in the skies above the trenches a new breed of warrior, armed with a devastating new weapon, comes of age.
As the conflict stretches into its third year, a neutral but woefully unprepared and ill-equipped America is slowly goaded into war. It falls to General John Pershing to galvanise his countrys army into readiness and as the first American troops reach the front in 1917, the world waits to see if the tide of a war that has already cost millions of lives can at last be turned.
Combining an historians eye for detail with a novelists understanding of mans hopes and fears, Shaara carries the reader into the hearts and minds of some of the wars most memorable characters, from the heroic to the infamous, and vividly brings to life one of the greatest conflagrations in human history.