Back to the Front : An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I Adam Lewis Schroeder Acclaimed military historian Mark Zuehlke

Acclaimed military historian Mark Zuehlke recreated the pivotal day of World War II from planning through attack

Their destination: a thousand-year-old Buddhist monastery in the remote Zanskar valley

From 1919 to 1948 he occasionally lorded over the Liberal Party

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Back to the Front : An Accidental Historian Walks the Trenches of World War I Adam Lewis Schroeder Acclaimed military historian Mark ZuehlkeDescription The Western Front, the sinuous, deadly line of trenches that stretched from the English Channel to Switzerland during the First World War, also formed a scar on the imaginative landscape of our century. On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, armed only with a backpack, a compass and a silver hip flask, Stephen O'Shea set out to walk the trenches of the Western Front. In this account of his 750 kilometre trek, he brings a refreshing