Pilgrimage to the Western Front: By the Men Who Went Back to the Old Frontline

In the years after the First World War, thousands of men who had fought on the battlefields were drawn back to the Western Front. For the former soldier, these journeys of remembrance offered a chance to pay homage to their past and to see what peace looked like in those places where they had only known war.

Pilgrimage to the Western Front gathers together the first—hand accounts of veterans as they retrace their wartime footsteps and stand again at the scenes where they lived through one of...