- Published: 25 February 2015
- ISBN: 9780241953815
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400
- RRP: $39.99
Hundred Days
The End of the Great War
- Published: 25 February 2015
- ISBN: 9780241953815
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400
- RRP: $39.99
Compelling, very readable
Books Monthly
Conveys the epic sweep of events, as the allied troops relentlessly pushed the German divisions back, with staggering losses . . . Lloyd also gives the worm's eye-view of what it was like for the men on the ground. He is expert at bringing to life, in a few lines, the characters of the top brass
Brandon Robshaw, The Independent
Lloyd enters the upper tier of Great War historians with this admirable account of the war's final campaign
Publishers Weekly
There is a grim fascination to the endgame, as the hopes still nursed by the Germans were finally extinguished and the Allies won a victory that in seemed inevitable in retrospect
Metro
Hundred Days is a bracing re-dramatization of the horrors that were most fresh in the minds of all concerned when those days were over
Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly
As Nick Lloyd's account of the great Allied counter-offensives of summer 1918 convincingly shows, the Allies had learned (if painfully slowly) how to win battles . . . the German army was absolutely, totally defeated in the field
John Lewis-Stempel, The Express
Gives the reader an insight into the raw emotions of the period and lends immediacy to the more sober narrative
The Oxford Times
Lloyd's brisk and thoroughly engrossing book leaves no doubt that the Germans were beaten fair and square where it really mattered - on the battlefield
Dominic Sandbrook, The Evening Standard
This is a powerful and moving book by a rising military historian. Lloyd's depiction of the great battles of July-November provides compelling evidence of the scale of the Allies' victories and the bitter reality of German defeat
Gary Sheffield (Professor of War Studies)
Very well-researched and well-written. Reminds us just how important this crushing endgame was
Andrew Roberts
Writing about the last 100 days of the war on the Western Front, Lloyd asks whether the Allies had learnt anything from the previous years of conflict and whether the Germans were really defeated in 1918
Joanna Bourke, The Telegraph