Nations go to war in a blare of trumpets and glory for high designs like defence of the smaller nation, democracy, and justice. Behind this rhetoric is the pain and anguish of slaughter, misery, starvation, and death so that rich men grow richer. Beyond Revanche exposes the grotesque injustice of a world war within which a small group of French policemen in the Deuxieme Bureau has to come to terms with the reality of destruction. Stretched to the limit they seek answers to the con...

Uncover the shocking truth behind WWI's extended agony. Did a secret Anglo-American establishment deliberately prolong World War I for their own gain? Prolonging the Agony challenges the accepted history, revealing how a cabal of powerful figures manipulated events, leading to millions of unnecessary deaths.Scouring government papers, suppressed memoirs, and other sources, authors Jim Macgregor and Gerry Docherty expose the hidden agendas and economic inte...

Think you know about British history and the causes of the First World War? Think again. This fascinating and gripping study of events at the turn of the Twentieth Century is a remarkable insight into how political and social factors that we widely accept to be the causes of The Great War, were really just a construct put together by a very small, but powerful, political elite...'Thought-provoking . . . Docherty and Macgregor do not mince their wor...