Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front Magnets on a muddy

on a muddy

one led by the companies of young American engineers-turned-soldiers who would soon become known as the "Hellfire Boys

including Wilfred Owen

as Peter Hart shows in this gripping and revisionary look at the war's first year

Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front Magnets on a muddyDescription by Richard Holmes Paperback The first history of World War I to place center stage the British soldier who fought in the trenches, this superb and important book tells the story of an epic and terrible war through the letters, diaries and memories of those who fought it. Of the six million men who served in the British army, nearly one million lost their lives and over two million were wounded. This is the story of these men epitomized by