No Man’s Land is the story of 1918, the climactic final year of WW1. As 1918 began, millions of war-weary soldiers in the freezing trenches of the Western Front were subjected to the heaviest bombardment the great nations could deliver, while far behind the lines their generals planned ever more costly and destructive offensives in an attempt to break the seemingly endless stalemate.
The German General Staff were confident that their next big push would finish the Allies before American armies could shift the balance of power. But the year’s end saw the Germans suing for peace as the Kaiser went into exile in Holland.
John Toland’s epic work reads with the narrative drive and immediacy of a novel but has all the authority of the great study that it is. Ranging across all theatres of the war, it embraces the collapse of empires, top-secret confrontations among the high commands and the vividly told individual acts of heroism and despair of the ordinary soldiers.
