NICHOLAS MURRAY is an associate professor of history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He obtained his undergraduate degree in war studies at King’s College London and both his master’s and doctoral degrees in history from the University of Oxford. He was vice president and secretary of the Oxford University Strategic Studies Group and has taught at Middlebury College and the State University of New York–Adirondack. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
"Rocky Road is an excellent account of the technical and
theoretical evolution of trench warfare. It is essential to the
history of WWI because it illustrates that the combatants did not
merely burrow into the ground in the fall of 1914. Instead they
took advantage of what they had learned by observation or by
experience in the years before the war."--Col. Gregory Fornenot
(ret.), Military Review
"[I]nvaluable in contextualizing the use of trench warfare in World
War I."--Army Magazine
"Murray has delivered an important work, taking us beyond the usual
stereotypical treatments of the run-up to Armageddon. The volume is
an important addition to a growing body of scholarship that
contextualizes the Great War."--Gary P. Cox, Journal of Military
History
"This is essential reading for those interested in the events of
the early weeks of World War I."--A. A. Nofi, StrategyPage
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