A Maclean's Best Read of 2014 "A sobering but essential read on the last days of a horrific conflict. The American role in the final victory has been downplayed by Eurocentric historians. Now we have an esteemed British historian.giving America's soon-famed "doughboys" their just due." -- The Washington Times "A brilliantly enlightening approach to war and men's lives. Lloyd has provided an accessible overview of how strategic and tactical shifts--like the surge in Iraq and the associated urban outposts--can help alter the course of a war and indeed end it. But much more importantly.he explores how those strategic and tactical shifts affected the lives of soldiers.

As history progresses, it is their lives and experiences that are often most at risk of fading. There are no living veterans of the Great War, making it all the more essential that not only the tactics, tools, and economy of war, but also the soldiers themselves, remain the important pieces of history. At its best, Hundred Days does just this." --Daily Beast "Lloyd's narrative is first-rate. With clarity and genuine sympathy for the combatants, Lloyd tells the story of the summer fighting that led to the long and increasingly rapid retreat of the German armies in the fall. Ten million soldiers died fighting in World War I, and perhaps as many as 20 million more were wounded. Their stories deserve to be told. Professor Lloyd has done so very well indeed.

" -- Army Magazine "One of the few truly noteworthy WWI books to issue in the centennial flood from the presses of the Western world in observance of anniversary of the war's beginning. 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." --Open Letters Monthly "Brisk and thoroughly engrossing. Far from being a pointless stalemate in the mud, the last hundred days of [World War I] saw the Allied armies push their adversaries back from the Paris commuter belt all the way to the German border itself." --Evening Standard (London) "A readable, instructive, and compelling narrative of Allied successes and German failures. Hundred Days succeeds in its ambition of covering all the major combatants on the Western Front in the final campaign of World War I. Lloyd adroitly combines sweeping historical scope with the perspectives of the men who did the fighting on the ground. All this in a history that taps the latest relevant scholarship without sidetracking the narrative.

" --Michigan War Studies Review "His accounts of each battle are both lively and clear.the real strength of Lloyd's work is his treatment of the experience of the war from an individual perspective. He paints vivid portraits of the character and motivations of the various commanders and draws on a variety of first hand accounts from men at all levels on both sides of the front" --History in the Margins "Lloyd. enters the upper tier of Great War historians with this admirable account of the war's final campaign. Lloyd's unfailing eye for telling anecdotes vitalize his narrative. The text brims with archival research." --Publishers Weekly "A fine account of the Allies' dramatic but ultimately unsatisfying victory in World War I." -- Kirkus Reviews "Lloyd effectively proves his thesis that Allied military might and leadership, with four hard years of strategic and tactical lessons learned, were what brought the war to a close.

While most of the new books commemorating the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the war will focus on its causes and origin, Lloyd's analysis of the final campaigns brings a new perspective to the terrible conflict." --Library Journal "This culmination of four years of bloodshed has been largely forgotten. [Lloyd] gives the reader an insight into the raw emotions of the period." --The Oxford Times "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, University of Wolverhampton.