Jonathan Boff is a Senior Lecturer in History and War Studies at the University of Birmingham, where he teaches courses on conflict from Homer to Helmand. He specializes in the First World War and his book, Winning and Losing on the Western Front: The British Third Army and the Defeat of Germany in 1918 was short-listed for the Templer Medal and for the British Army Book of the Year award.
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During the First World War, the British army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the Imperial German Army, he held off the attacks of the Brit... SEE MORE