Hundred Days

Compelling, very readable

Books Monthly

Conveys the epic sweep of events, as the allied troops relentlessly pushed the German divisions back, with staggering losses . . . Lloyd also gives the worm's eye-view of what it was like for the men on the ground. He is expert at bringing to life, in a few lines, the characters of the top brass

Brandon Robshaw, The Independent

Lloyd enters the upper tier of Great War historians with this admirable account of the war's final campaign

Publishers Weekly

There is a grim fascination to the endgame, as the hopes still nursed by the Germans were finally extinguished and the Allies won a victory that in seemed inevitable in retrospect

Metro

Hundred Days is a bracing re-dramatization of the horrors that were most fresh in the minds of all concerned when those days were over

Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly

As Nick Lloyd's account of the great Allied counter-offensives of summer 1918 convincingly shows, the Allies had learned (if painfully slowly) how to win battles . . . the German army was absolutely, totally defeated in the field

John Lewis-Stempel, The Express

Gives the reader an insight into the raw emotions of the period and lends immediacy to the more sober narrative

The Oxford Times

Lloyd's brisk and thoroughly engrossing book leaves no doubt that the Germans were beaten fair and square where it really mattered - on the battlefield

Dominic Sandbrook, The Evening Standard

This is a powerful and moving book by a rising military historian. Lloyd's depiction of the great battles of July-November provides compelling evidence of the scale of the Allies' victories and the bitter reality of German defeat

Gary Sheffield (Professor of War Studies)

Very well-researched and well-written. Reminds us just how important this crushing endgame was

Andrew Roberts

Writing about the last 100 days of the war on the Western Front, Lloyd asks whether the Allies had learnt anything from the previous years of conflict and whether the Germans were really defeated in 1918

Joanna Bourke, The Telegraph