Peter Liddle es un historiador y autor especializado en el estudio de la Primera y Segunda Guerra Mundial. Comenzó a recopilar experiencias personales y memorabilia de la Primera Guerra Mundial para dar vida a la historia de sus alumnos. Esta colección, ahora alojada permanentemente en la Universidad de Leeds, representa un profundo compromiso por hacer vívido el pasado a través de relatos auténticos.
"This book attempts to set out the contemporary evidence of participants in order to reveal that there was something unique about their service, perceived at the times as especial, and which in its separate elements has been recalled by many of them years later with something not far short of relish"--Page ix
Peter Liddle's latest book draws extensively upon diaries, letters, reports, photographs and drawing from the magnificent Liddle Collection of 1914-1918 personal experience material. It also sets out to examine the concept and planning the the Battle of the Somme and then its conduct over the whole four and a half months