A massively illustrated account of a joint British-Canadian-French assault in World War I. Previous books on the 1917 offensives have concentrated on a single sector of the front: the British at Arras, the Canadians at Vimy, or the French at Chemin des Dames. However, the offensive was truly an Allied effort, an aspect fully covered by the author. Buffetaut's detailed narrative is supported by an extraordinary collection of 300 rare or hitherto unpublished photographs from government archives and private collections. You won't buy this book for the text. However, what you will buy it for are the hundreds of photo's of the early days of 1917. It's the kind of book WWII fans have enjoyed for years, but are just not available for WWI, with this exception. Trouble is, you are left wanting to buy another book in the series as soon as possible and there aren't any... Hopefully they will eventually publish another on Verdun and the Somme or on 1918, but I don't hold out much hope.... If you are interested in the Western Front in WWI this book is one to get, for the photos, just get another for the background. --Bindon Blood This excellent book is mostly a pictorial coverage rather than a narative. As such it exceeds most books on WW1 that I have seen. The choice of photographs is excellent and I could only spot one that I was sure I had seen before. The size of the book enables the photographs to be shown clearly and in large format. For once a book of the period gives a good coverage of the French army, who seem to get little attention paid to their huge efforts by most authors. It is an impressive and large book for the price. For those who love modelling or wargaming the era they will find a rich reward in the ideas they will find on these pages as photograph after photograph unfolds to show how the fields of combat and the participants really looked. A few of the artillery weapons shown are misidentified, but this is very minor and the mistakes forgivable as they are usually declared as weapons they look very much like. Highly recommended. Mal. Wright. --Mal Wright This illustrated book gave us a great idea of what happen in the Spring Offensive,in some photos you can see the destructuion of the Great War in many towns. The only illustrated account of the Great joint British-Canadian-French assault in World War I. Other books on the 1917 offensives try to concentrated on a single sector of the frontlike the British at Arras, the Canadians at Vimy, or the French at Chemin des Dames but now we can see that the offensive was a truly an Allied effort, this was the only way to stop the Germans. The detailed narrative is supported by an extraordinary collection of 300 rare or unpublished photographs from government archives and private collections which could help us study in detail the equipment of the soldiers or the famous world war Tanks and the amazing destruction of the artillery. Marvelous photos, especially of French infantry. --By Eduardo J. Tellez A Yves Buffetaut is an internationally respected French military historian and editor of Histoire & Collections major magazine, Militaria. He lives in France. Used Book in Good Condition