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Out of all the history books that I have ever read about this point of time, this one shines above them all. It has the facts, the details and the tactical errors, but it also has that little bit more.

I have searched through tonnes of World War 1 history books, and can only find the facts about the battles, but nothing about what the soldiers felt, dealt with and how each and everyone fell. This book has quotes from the soldiers themselves, with all the blood and gore that was in the actual battle.

There are poems at the start of every chapter, not famous ones by Wilfred Owen, or Sassoon. But they are unknown poets, ones that which the world does not know about. These short snippets of dying treasures break your heart just reading the short extracts.

This book has pictures that capture the right feel for what the soldiers had felt. Even though they were smiling, you could see in their eyes the pain that they endured by just doing that. The maps are all really simple, but leave nothing forgotten, all the trenches are there, but with no complications.

Zero Hour is the book you want to use to find about all the hidden details that everyday soldiers lived through as well as the massive battles themselves.