Author: Andrew Robertshaw

An army marches on its stomach and it fights on its stomach too yet have you ever wondered how hundreds of men on the frontline are fed amidst hai...

One of the bloodiest conflicts in military history, the Battle of the Somme raged from 1 July to 18 November 1916. It has come to signify for many ...

The trench was the frontline Tommys home. He lived, ate, slept, and sometimes died in this narrow passage amongst the slime of mud and blood on the...

How much can you really find out about the Trenches of the First World War in five minutes? This handy little history book will surpass all your ex...

'The book is an excellent introduction to the subject, covering how archaeology is carried out, what it can tell us about the conditions in the fro...

I found to my delight that I had stumbled across a kind of soup kitchen. The Tommy in charge was stirring a copperful of Shackles (soup made from t...

Ten million military personnel died during the Great War. Many millions of them experienced horrendous enemy attacks on entrenched positions that s...