Dr Nick Lloyd is Professor of Modern Warfare in the Defence Studies Department. He has published widely on military and imperial history in the era of the Great War and has written five books including the bestselling Passchendaele: A New History (Viking, 2017). This was shortlisted for the British Army Military Book of the Year, the Military History Monthly Book of the Year, and was chosen as one of the Telegraph's '50 Best Books of 2017'.