BOOK REVIEWS

A roundup of recent books on wargaming, or of special interest to the wargamer.

IAN BEAL

The Darkest Year: The British Army on the Western Front 1917 Edited by Spencer Jones ISBN: 978-1804513859 (Helion & Company, 2023) - £35.00 This recent book collates the work of several preeminent and up-and-coming historians, being the fourth in a five-volume series on the British Army in the Great War. As the title suggests, the focus of this volume is on 1917. Included are sixteen essays that range in focus from intelligence operations, tactical development, and the work of the Royal Engineers. These studies continue the valuable historiographical work being done by scholars over the last twenty years to overcome the still ingrained myth that the British Army on the Western Front was tactically inept, inflexible, and did not learn from its experiences. It is important to note that these…

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