On the Dangerous Edge: British and Canadian Trench Raiding on the Western Front 1914-1918

Radley’s study of trench raiding foregrounds the unpredictable, controversial, and intensely human challenges of planning and executing raids, revealing how leadership, discipline, and disciplined imagination shape outcomes amid night-fought, unfamiliar trenches.



The book examines the nature, purposes, mechanics, execution and value of trench raiding. In this it succeeds admirably. It is also unique in three aspects. First, it shares the originality that features so strongly in all of Radley...