Gallipoli is well known as one of the great disasters of the Great War. Now for the first time we can see just how bad it really was and why it all went wrong

Thousands of books have been written about the Great War, but perhaps none so vividly evocative as The Soldier's War ... an extraordinary homage to a lost generation Daily Mail on The Soldier's War Excellent and even-handed Daily Telegraph on Boy Soldiers of the Great War Engaging, well-written and balanced The Times on Boy Soldiers of the Great War

Richard van Emden has interviewed more than 270 veterans of the Great War and has written sixteen books on the subject, including The Trench and The Last Fighting Tommy, both of which were top ten bestsellers. He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the First World War, including Prisoners of the Kaiser, Veterans, Britain's Last Tommies, the award-winning Roses of No Man's Land, Britain's Boy Soldiers, A Poem for Harry, War Horse: The Real Story, Teenage Tommies with Fergal Keane, and most recently, Tommy's War. He lives in London. Stephen Chambers has written three battlefield guides, Gully Ravine, Anzac The Landing and most recently Suvla: August Offensive. He is a military historian and a well-known tour guide to the battlefields. His books are currently being translated into Turkish to cater for the growing Turkish market.