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Lancashire Lads at War
Rome's Great Soldiers
The Ghost Detectives
John Buchan's 1914-The War in the East
Drummond of the 17th Lancers
1815-The March to Waterloo
1815-The Fields of Waterloo
1815-The Retreat to Paris
Fortescue's War of the Austrian Succession and Seven Years War
The Gray Raiders Volume 3
Sir Thomas Picton
The Royal Naval Division
... and many more
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John Buchan was a popular author of historical and adventure fiction whose works remain in print to the present day. He also wrote important works of non-fiction that are less well remembered. Among these was a commissioned, multi-volume history of the First World War that was so well regarded that it became a source-work for other historians. This Leonaur Original, drawn from Buchan’s history, and including many maps, battle plans, photographs and illustrations, has been published to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War on the Western Front as overwhelming German forces swept through Belgium and France. This was a mobile war—much like the wars fought in Europe for hundreds of years—of marching infantry and cavalry armed with lances and swords. The battle at Mons, the dogged retreat of the ‘Contemptible Little Army’ of the B. E. F., the incredible resistance of the out-dated Belgian Forces, the battles of the Marne and Aisne as the tide turned, and the carnage of the First Battle of Ypres as the war became a stalemate of wire, mud and trenches at the close of the year, are all covered in Buchan’s brilliant take on just six months of war in 1914.
