Sternest of Tests Author:Charles Messenger This is a comprehensive account of how the British Army coped with and adapted to the enormous challenges and pressures of the First World War - the first major continental war that the army had had to fight for almost a hundred years. Following the course of the War, both on the Western Front and in other theatres, Charles Messenger tells the ... more »story of how the British Army managed the challenges of command, training, technology and new weapons of war, the heavy casualties of trench warfare and the need to maintain morale - as the course of the war transformed the Army in all its aspects.« less