To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 – A New York Times Bestselling History of WWI Critics and Heroes

by Adam Hochschild

The year 1915 had begun with the Germans occupying some 19,500 square miles of French and Belgian territory. At its end, Allied troops had recaptured exactly eight of those square miles, the British alone suffering more than a quarter-million casualties in the process.