Fatal Avenue

Enthralling information on everything from archery to fortification, and from strategy to ecology... Holmes presents each battle plan, its weapons, its fighting techniques, its architecture in the shape of forts, redoubts, trenches, its management, its results, and then takes the reader through the terrain as it exists today. He is economical with emotion, and rightly so. The bare statement of what happened and where it happened is enough to touch the heart... It could scarcely be bettered

Ronald Blythe

Exceedingly well written... triumphantly succeeds... Richard Holmes is equally sure-footed when dealing with the human element, writing with equal conviction about Joan of Arc, Malborough, Napoleon, Haig, Foch, Ludendorff, Montgomery, Eisenhower, and many others. His book is an outstanding recruit to the shelves of military history

Martin Fagge