About the Author

Chris Baker is the owner and editor of the Old Barbed Wire. A former Chairman of the Western Front Association, he is a full-time military researcher, historian and tour guide. His first book "The Battle for Flanders: German defeat on the Lys, 1918" is published later this year. Chris, who is also author of The Long, Long Trail website and founder of the Great War Forum, lives in Warwickshire in England.