Dr. Michael Senior, known for his Western Front Association journal articles and books on World War I, explains the challenges of reducing the wartime 3.7 million-man British Army to 890,000 by the first year after the Armistice...recommended highly.

Over the Front, Winter 2020

"This is a well-written and well-researched book."

RUSI Victoria

Much has been written on the massive expansion of the British Army during the Great War but relatively little on how it reverted to a small regular force after the end of hostilities. This is therefore an important book.

Michael Senior is to be much congratulated on this well-researched account, which also embraces what happened to the army's massive numbers of horses, mules and amounts of military hardware.
The Soldiers' Peace does much to round off the story of the British Army 1914-1918 and it is very highly recommended.

Stand To! Journal of the Western Front Association

The book also has some interesting annexes, covering strike actions, disabled officers’ gratuities, and the questions asked to determine where someone came in the demobilisation order. The citation of statistics is well done and makes you appreciate the scale of the undertaking, in a way that it would be impossible to understand otherwise and the competing pressures on those in power.
Michael Senior’s book is well researched, well-written and both highlights things that the reader is unlikely to know, but, like with all the best books, encourages the reader to think differently.

Society of Friends of the National Army Museum

Informative volume with a myriad of facts and figures.

Army Rumour Service (ARRSE)

The book describes in detail the challenge of the demobilization of men and disposal of the huge stock piles of warlike stores, including ammunition, horses and equipment which remained when hostilities ended. The complex terms for retired pay, pensions and gratuities for the men being demobilized, drawn from documents in TNA, make interesting reading and highlight the stark contrast between the way in which officers and other ranks were treated. Largely excluding the social, political and economic factors, The Soldiers’ Peace tackles a subject which has previously received little attention.

Military Historical Society

Michael Senior has researched his topic well and he writes authoritatively about it. It's a fascinating subject too, dealing with the demobilization of the British Army at the end of the First World War. As the dustwrapper informs us, "In November 1918... the British Army numbered 3.75 million. One year later that number was reduced to 890,000." The Soldiers' Peace tells you how that was achieved.

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Army Ancestry Research, Paul Nixon

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