Anthony Clayton is an acknowledged expert on the French military, and his book is a major contribution to the study and understanding of the First World War. He

This graphic collection of first-hand accounts sheds new light on the experiences of the French army during the Great War. It reveals in authentic detail the pe

The French army of the First World War withstood the main force of the German onslaught on the Western Front, but often it is neglected in English histories of

In four and a half years of fighting on the Western Front during the First World War a few battles stand out from the rest. They had a decisive impact on the co

Initially the strongest of all the Allied armies, France's metropolitan and colonial units bore the greatest burden during the first two years of the Great War,