This book looks at the Battle of the Somme, which was planned as "The Big Push" that would at last break the long stalemate on the Western Front in World War I. However the 18 divisions that went over the top between Arras and St-Quentin on the morning of 1 July 1916, walked into a battle that has gone down in the annals of human conflict as the slaughterhouse of a generation. The author has written other books about the history of World War I, including, "They Called it Passchendaele" and "The Roses of No Man's Land".

• They Called it Passchendaele: The Story of the Battle of Ypres and of the Men Who Fought in it
• 1915: The Death of Innocence: The Death of Innocence
• The Roses of No Man's Land
• The First Day on the Somme: 1 July 1916 (Penguin History)
• Forgotten Voices of the Somme: The Most Devastating Battle of the Great War in the Words of Those Who Survived